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- From: pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr. Vincent Vaugn)
- Subject: Re: REGARDING: Transformers come-back! Finally!
- References: <1992Dec24.025237.3480@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec30.012606.19139@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:54:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.012606.19139@wam.umd.edu> vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell)) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec24.025237.3480@midway.uchicago.edu> ttak@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>
- >>The problem that I think EVERYBODY had with the animated series
- >>is that HOW THE HELL does Megatron and Soundwave shrink when
- >>they are in desguise mode?
- >
- >Okay. One more time. I'm not gonna repeat my entire previous post, but...
- >
- >Don't bother rubbing your eyes. *YES* --- Megatron and Soundwave and various
- >other Tranformers *DO* change size! This is not meant to be some kind of
- >subtle trick that the show is trying to pull on you.
- >
- >The reason it seems so damn silly that a two-ton robot can change into a
- >two-pound hand-held device is that you think to yourself that these are
- >"robots." They're *not* "robots" in the sense of those two-arms-and-two-legs
- >metal things that people build on earth. They are Transformers --- and com-
- >paring them to a robot built by earthlings is like comparing a carbon-based
- >life form to a lump of coal. Same ingredients, but a decidedly different
- >degree of complexity.
- >Megatron has an anti-matter weapon, which he rarely used. It links up to
- >a black hole, INTERDIMENSIONALLY. That's right, interdimensionally. This
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- You are taking this directly from the Transformer's Universe, right? I was
- never able to find any instances of Megatron using this anti-matter hook
- up, either in the comic or the TV show.
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- >ability, if present in some other Transformers (and why shouldn't it be?)
- >would easily explain changes in mass, as well as where Prime's trailer
- >goes when he leaves vehicle mode (unless he keeps it around for fighting).
- >It would even explain where all the weapons go, and how they seem to just
- >appear when needed. Ever watch the commercial "bumper" with Autobot Blurr?
- >It shows his gun materializing in his hand.
- >
- >The reason Transformers are able to change size is because their internal
- >workings are way, *way* beyond anything Earth has achieved. Period.
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