#Alt modes

[scribe-of-hael]

I think part of liking a bot, I also liking their alt mode. Maybe not sensually, but that is STILL their body. That is STILL your bot.

To love, admire, to caress, help clean and take care of. Help wash them, buff them, or even just sit in if you can.

To love them, is to love all of them

[mychlapci]

Been thinking about domesticated cybertronians lately. Knowing humans, I honestly could see us trying to domestic and breed these guys if given the chance. Especially if they never converted to speaking our languages.

Like the type of scenarios and stuff would be golden. No more war. Just people talking about their cybertronians, their diets, and if their friends want to breed theirs to make cool new hybrids to sell later on.

Or like with cats where someone's car goes missing for the night and a few weeks later there are eggs in the yard and it's like "now why the fuck would you go do that!?"

OOUh that’s so interesting, actually.... AU where cybertron is fully gone and cybertronians have to remain on earth, where they slowly integrate into the society by simply spending most of their time in alt-mode. humans take care of them like... prized horses, kind of.

of course, make sure to give your cybertronian plenty of entertaintment or a partner, otherwise they’ll come back and lay eggs all over the driveway. Or, you’ll have to pay someone’s damage costs because your beloved car went and pumped their non-sentient, regular car full of eggs. keep a leash on that thing!

[theangrycomet]

I found the perfect earth alt mode for G1 Moonracer

Seriously, if she ever got to earth she would've been an 1985 Ferrari 308 GTS.

[weirdlookingsnakewithlegs]

I may be getting ahead of myself. i might lose interest, no promises. But. I’ve been learning blender, and I want to animate a fly by of him in an Antarctic glacial field then hopefully a loop de loop through a glacial arch.

Easiest will be rendering the scene itself (and downloading Starscream bc I found a good model of his jet online… as well as Starscream himself lol).

Year end project likely. or at least summer.

Initially, I considered Skyfire in it (bc Antarctic), but I'll need to model his shuttle itself and I'm too much of a beginner for that.

A massive IF but if i were to somehow add Skyfire, or heck his trinemates (2yr project lol) then what IRL jet modes do you think they would be?

Again NO PROMISES!! But it’s something I want to try

A lot of people have different opinions on what the trine’s alts are and different continuities have different alts as well. For example, the original G1 cartoon had Starscream’s alt mode as the F-15 Eagle, the F-16 Fighting Falcon in Prime, and the F-22 Raptor in Bayverse. It’s common though that they’re all some sort of fighter, aka a multi-role military jet more specifically used in dog fights.

When is comes to Thundercracker and Skywarp however, they never really specify their alts but I’ve seen several theories.

Personally, I like to believe that Thundercracker is an F-35 Lightning. The F-35 Lightning is a supersonic aircraft capable of electronic warfare and while it’s fantastic in dog fights it’s good for reconnaissance too. It also failed its landing tests eight times during its development and in early development testing showed it developed premature cracks(of which these issues have since been ironed out of course), which aids my reasoning to assign this to Thundercracker.

However! For Skywarp I like to take a twist and make him an MiG-25 Foxbat, one of the faster fighter jets. The MiG-25 Foxbat is capable of reaching speeds up to Mach 3.2, only limited by the possibility of over heating engines, however it does hold the record for highest altitude reached.

I’ve never thought about Skyfire’s alt, of which I’m assuming he would stay a cybertronian shuttle, but let’s say he did have an Earth variant alt mode. The only logical choice would probably be a An-225 Mriya(also known as the An-225 Dream). This is an outsize cargo aircraft, developed during the 1980’s. Only one was ever built and it was sadly dismantled and destroyed in 2022 on February 27th.

But that’s my take on alt their alt modes, you may not find the correct models for your project but then again we all take creative liberties when it comes to the wildfire of transformers. Just make sure you’re still having fun with the project! :D

Also I didn’t mean to ramble lol I could’ve just given you a list but I love aircrafts <3

[gillywillys]

I love how Starscream is trusted with so many people in alt mode, like most murderous and backstabbing bitch you know is also the one who holds and uses you during battle. if your alt mode needs to be hand held your going to him at some point.

[ask-uts-earthspark-au]

Hey Jawbreaker if you want to see something really funny about alt modes check out this *Shows him pictures of when Soundwave was a cassette player*

Alt Mode pix

Root Mode pix + gifs

«—-–-—»

Jawbreaker: 😧😮🤩

Megatron: Ah yes. My beloved third in command.

Jawbreaker: That was your third in command?

Megatron: yes, indeed, Soundwave is. I was quite fond of his cute little tape deck mode, but I hardly mind how he’s altered his frame a bit, so he can fly easier. Used to struggle with his anti-gravity, so he upgraded a little. It’s not a half bad look.

Jawbreaker: Oh, so he got it wrong the first time?

Megatron: Hardly, little spark.

Megatron: He was always a tape deck of sorts, and his Earth alt is still a form he uses. He just took on some flier parts to help him. There was never a sense of wrongness.

Jawbreaker: Oh.

Megatron: Though, admittedly, he’s a little more intimidating now. Back then he was cuter. Cuter yet still, in the earliest days I first met him.

Jawbreaker: So he changed, just because he felt like it?

Megatron: Yes, in a way.

Megatron: Regardless, Soundwave is my third in command, and my amica. And those shots there are what he originally looked like when we first came to Earth.

«—-–-—»

If anyone has that gif of Soundwave running really weird and running into a net from that one episode, please god reblog or send it, I am begging.

[thunderwetter]

TF Alt Mode Headcanon!

Been a while since I just put an HC out here hehe

Transformers have different sensitivities in their different modes. When they transform, their sensory systems get rerouted, so a part that might have been sensitive before will not be anymore and vice versa.

For example a mech with doorwings would usually have no issue moving them, like sure some parts are a bit sensitive to the touch, but generally if they hit them against a wall it's not gonna hurt much and be a very local sensation. Imagine hitting your shoulder on a door frame. However if they are in alt mode and someone slams their door shut, they will feel that through their whole body. Imagine someone punching your sternum, you'd feel that in your whole ribcage bc of the way your bones connect. Same for that bot.

I imagine their heads are less sensitive while they are tucked away inside their machinery to prevent the vibrations etc from maneuvering in their alt mode to be painful.

For triple changers like Blitzwing, I can imagine this to be really useful and crucial to their functionality, in jet mode he'd have to be sensitive to stuff like airflow, while as a tank he would have to be pretty resilient and pain-resistant.

[knight-says-rollout]

“Never get between a Tug and it’s tow” -the navigation safety video from the boating license course

New transformers lore: tug boat alts = protective (not clickbait)!?!???? 👀

[xpurplepiex]

when i started watching g1 for the first time, i was NOT prepared for whatever the fuck its doing with Megatron's transformation😭😭

it gave me so much psychic damage

[slutwheels]

GUYS!

DON'T FORGET THESE GOLDIES! I mean, a mini tank that is the size of a car or even smaller?? This could be cuteness potential :D my self insert is a triple changer minicon that has it as his alt mode, aswell as machine gun. But seriously, I love these baby tanks. I fell in love when I first learned of their existence 💝

Also:

I hope the quality is good enough- but here's what I also found. Might be stuff that's been already posted and I hope I didn't mess up the original post's intent but I thought I could be helpful 👉🏼👈🏼 I love tanks

Trying to find the oddest possible alt forms for my new ocs here are some favourites I’ve come across:

And some cars too:

I found so many more but alas, 10 photo limit

[dailymothanon]

For my lovely wife I made her a little thing of Soundwave and Thundercracker (her favorite fella) 💙 I have seen TC x Soundwave when I was younger I remember 🤔 the idea of the ship is cute I think! Both relatively quiet mechs (at least compared to the other seekers) yet the loudest in their sound abilities 😌 and. Two of the few sane ones imo. Ik TC wants him to read his screenplay so bad

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[mychlapci]

Imagine if you will that transformers communicate sexual desires by the sounds of horns and alarms that we humans use for our vehicles.

So like let's use my favorite at the moment Ratchet. He's in disguise for the time being and stuck in traffic for whatever reason. And next thing he knows is someone starts honking their horn in frustration and he's also growing frustrated for a different reason.

He has to find a way to get out of this before he loses his cool and starts presenting himself to whomever else is honking their car horns.

ouhh I love that actually. A little bit of honking, a little bit of engine revving, some sirens get a mech all hot and bothered. Those are the sounds mecha usually make uncontrollably during interfacing, so when you want to flirt you make some sound to assure the other bot you're all ready to get frisky. 

Ratchet getting stuck in traffic and getting so horny he can barely think is so funny and hot. All around him, it's just cars going Fuck Me! Fuck me! Fuck me! and he's tempted to give into the call… Maybe he starts running his sirens, not even to make the cars make way for him, his frame is just automatically making mating calls right back…

[peculiar-potato]

I can't be the only one thinking it

[ryuki-draws]

You know the autonomous train to the surface in TF One? What if they only wanted you to think it was autonomous...

[yuukirita]

Depends which generation.