Re: transformers of all sorts of sizes, shapes and use
@M7S; Did they ever bother to rationalise how Megatron (the Decepticon leader, several times the height of a human) could transform from something the size of a handgun when (e.g.) Optimus Prime- a lorry- appeared to remain on roughly the same scale as the original lorry would have been? (#)
Ditto the ones that were a ghetto blaster and a cassette. (I think the latter was "Soundwave").
It was only recently that I found out- via Wikipedia, obviously- that the Transformers toys were actually derived from several different, pre-existing Japanese toy lines with the "Transformers" brand and concept slapped on for the US. That probably (in real-life terms) explains some of the discrepancies and inconsistencies such as that above.
Damn, I'm really overthinking some 30-year-old toy line, amn't I?
(#) I'm not actually that bothered about whatever silly reason they made up, just curious as to whether they could even be arsed making one up in the first place. :-)
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