Two more Transformers join the War for Cybertron

Yeah! Hobo-bot, transform!

Hawking-bot. He transforms into a wheel chair.


Ok that might be a little mean.

I'm going to create an Autobit that transforms into a deisel-powered pogo stick with wings and name it Spazz.

You just dredged up a sad moment in my childhood ;_;

It really made me sad how easily the Autobots died in the movie.

Skywarp is by far my fav out of the 3 seekers. he has the biggest over power and i like it.

Yes, count me in.

They still transformed before coming to earth, just into Cybertonian vehicles. That's why these guys don't look like modern day cars or planes we know of. Even in the toon, it showed some of their alt-modes before coming to earth. The seekers were all triangle shaped planes on Cybertron.

Some bots never took an earth mode, hence Blurr and his crazy hover car mode and Kup and his weird pick-up mode from the original movie and season 3. They kept their original alt-modes.

They cound already transform before coming to Earth. They just transformed into vehicles that were similar in design to what their Earthen counterparts would end up being. For example, Bumblebee didn't transform into a VW Beetle on Cybertron, but it looked an awful lot like one.

Ah, okay. The Transformers wiki doesn't even mention anything about that aspect other than the fact that on Cybertron there were production bots (who later became the Autobots) and military bots (who later became the Decpticons). I guess it's safe to assume that their creators (the Quintessons) originally had vehicle designs for them.

Thanks for clearing that up! I'm looking forward to revisiting a childhood favorite. Hopefully it will be up to snuff.

Yup, no problem.

TF history is actually pretty deep, it is millions of years after all. The Quints sold one line of robots as slaves, and one as a military line. The slaves were the autobots, and the autobot symbol was referred to as a slave brand even. I always thought it was interesting that if you looked at the autobot symbol closely you could actually see it was crying.

Anyway, eventually the robots became self aware, and they ran out the Quints from cybertron. Afterward though, the Decepticons wanted to keep their campaign of conquest going (as that's what they were designed for) but the Autobots just wanted peace.

Since the Autobots couldn't compete with the Decepticons on a military level, they developed the ability to transform and hide from them. The Decepticons eventually learned this and then also gained the ability to fly. Admiration of their flying ability is eventually what lead to the downfall of an autobot named Orian Pax, who was then rebuilt into Optimus Prime. This stuff was mostly told in flashbacks.

Eventually this war drained Cybertron of all it's energy resources, so the Autobots left their planet to find new sources of energy. While doing so,they were attacked by the Decepticons and they crash landed on earth where they remained dormant for something like 4 million years. This is where the cartoon picks up.