Yeah...My hubby was annoyed that Megatron was not a Gun in the movie. But How can a gun get around. I told him to piss off....It was still a great movie!
perhaps this might explain why he wasnt a gun
The Problem with Mass-Shifting -
Transformers
Mass-shifting, also called size-shifting, is when a Transformer shrinks or grows in size from one mode to the next. The most familiar example of this is Soundwave shrinking down from giant robot to human-sized boombox (along with his cassettes). Similarly, Megatron shrinks when he changes to gun mode to fit in the palm of another Transformer (as in the cartoon) or, perhaps more appropriately, into the hand of a human (as in the comic).
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Now, even if I wasn't one of those Transformers fans who rabidly wants to view his giant robots in a more hardcore sci-fi light, I would still think that mass-shifting conceptually has a lot of problems with it. In short: if some Transformers can mass-shift, why can't all of them? What prevents them all from being able to shrink down to insect size, or grow to mountainous size? Once the mass-shifting genie is out of the bottle, what's stopping everyone from making a wish?
Mass-shifting, or at least the appearance of it, is actually really pervasive in Transformers. First there's the disparity in height between the Autobot minibots (Bumblebee, Huffer, etc) and their taller counterparts (Sideswipe, Sunstreaker). Even though Huffer transforms to a tractor trailer cab and Sunstreaker becomes a Lamborghini, Sunstreaker is twice as tall as Huffer in robot mode. Another common size conceit involves the height of the gestalts: in the cartoon (and occasionally though notably not always in the comic), when the gestalts formed they were gigantic, usually two or three times as big as they would be if their component parts had not grown when they combined.
I know this all stems from the different size ratios of the toys, and it's all taken with a grain of salt, a suspension of disbelief, a tongue innocently in the cheek. But the thing is, all of this mass-shifting is done to accommodate the
transformation. OK, fine. But why don't they use it without mode-changing as well?
Why can't Soundwave or Megatron shrink down without transforming? If someone can give me a really good answer for that, I might be satisfied. And "because it wouldn't be as cool" is not a good answer. Indeed, Soundwave and the cassettes have been shown to transform without shrinking, but never to shrink without transforming.
Really, my only other big gripe is when they make the gestalts grow two or three times as big when they form. I really hate this. For me, it steals away some of that clunky, awkward, crazy-quilt nature of several robots mashing together into one. I think I recall reading that when someone at a convention asked Pat Lee why he drew Devastator and Superion so incredibly big, he answer that he wanted them to look cool. What an asshole! Devastator
is cool at 100 ft tall, he doesn't have to be fucking Godzilla-sized. (But then, I have always thought Pat Lee was a overrated egomaniac.) I liked US issue 10 when Devastator was only as tall as you would expect six combined robots to stand. I liked in UK 152-153 when Piranacon stands only a little taller than Galvatron, because Galvy had towered above the individual Seacons.
So, um, yeah. Anybody have some good thoughts on mass-shifting? I know they've announced that there won't be any mass-shifting in the forthcoming movie. I think that's probably wise. Not that they could sell a toy that changed into a boombox (archaic) or a Walther P-38 (illegal) these days