Techno-organic Transformers

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:12 pm

Something occurred to me. Would such Transformers be exclusively animal in their alt. modes? Could there be a non-creature techno-organic alternative mode on post BM-Cybertron?

Thoughts?

Stormwolf · Post by **Stormwolf** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:20 pm

Good question, I guess it could be done though.

Just watch the organic Vorlon and Shadow ships in Babylon 5, I suppose that a TF could transform into something similar

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:46 pm

Botanica was a plant...

The techno-organics in B5, and also Farscape!, I'd call creatures. Although, the distinction between animal and plant (not to mention the other 6 or 7 kingdoms of life!) can get blurred in some species.

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 4:59 pm

What about the less than obvious examples of living ships in Babylon 5 and Farscape? Has any other series done a good job of living space vessels?

Now that I think of it, are space vessels the only example repeatedly used?

Hmm, techno-organic car... ...?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:46 pm

eXistenZ.

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 11:29 pm

Yeah, that crossed my mind, but I didn't mention it cause, well, it's kind of disappointing. In that the only such entities ever seen are multiple living space ships and a video game in one movie. Not counting the transforming populace of Techno-organic Cybertron, of course.

Hmph.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 11:18 am

How about the Tyranids from WH40K? Would they count?
Altho their vehicular lifefroms are really only found in discontinued Epic scale or in the fluff. About all they have in the actual 40K game are living artillery pieces.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:07 pm

Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors? Plant-cars!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 12:38 am

Brendocon wrote:Jayce & The Wheeled Warriors? Plant-cars!

Monster Minds? Here? Master! MASTER!

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:29 pm

Species 8742 from Voyager made all their ships and tech from the same organic material as themselves...

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:50 pm

'Tin Man' ship from Star Trek TNG - that seemed to be exclusively living metal, which is a departure from techno-organic. I don't think it was a ship's computer or anything. Or am I remembering this all wrong?

Not even sure why I resurrected this topic - just flicking through old stuff. It's not frowned upon here is it?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:46 am

Autobloke wrote:It's not frowned upon here is it?

Course not.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:54 pm

That's good - I'm gonna trawl through the old stuff sometime and see what inspires me.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 9:31 am

Transtech had very animaly non-animal alt-modes - Cheetor TF'ed into a Cheetah-like car, and Prime was a truck with a gorilla face...I think they would definitely have fit in on a post-BM Cybertron...

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 8:40 pm

Now I really want Transtech.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:32 pm

We sort of got Transtech with Armada, though it was heavily modified. Megatron, for example: http://tfarchive.com/fandom/transtech/o ... Megs03.jpg is definitely the same bot, but his Transtech body is a much better design.

Autobloke · Post by **Autobloke** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:42 pm

Metal Vendetta wrote:We sort of got Transtech with Armada, though it was heavily modified. Megatron, for example: http://tfarchive.com/fandom/transtech/o ... Megs03.jpg is definitely the same bot, but his Transtech body is a much better design.

Wow! I totally didn't notice the similarity before. Good eye.
Still want Transtech though. What do you reckon are the chances of it ever being revived as a possible new toy line? I mean, is it popular amongst TF fans? I certainly like it, and I don't think I've ever heard/read a completely negative comment on the designs.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Wed May 25, 2005 7:39 pm

Autobloke wrote:I mean, is it popular amongst TF fans?

since when has that mattered to Hasbro?

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Thu May 26, 2005 6:29 pm

Personnally, I think the designs are horrible. Completely over the top and funkily weird-lookin'. They took the design-elements of BM that were bad and multiplied it with 120.

I can see some of the designs working, but then they're going to need a lot of re-tooling, like Megatron had.

BTW, has the Minicons noticeable been mentioned? Apparently a lil' robot-race had been in the works for some time.

The Transtech-Primal design is one the least appealing to me.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Thu May 26, 2005 8:02 pm

I just finished rewatching some of the old cartoons on DVD, and it was the one with the BotCon 2002 documentary as part of the bonus features, which included an interview with Aaron Archer.

Anyway, long story short, he said that since it was concieved as a continuation of BM, and instead they chose to "reset" the line and go back to basic vehicles with Armada, he doubts we'll see anything more from TransTech.

Señior's Covenant · Post by **Señior's Covenant** » Thu May 26, 2005 8:03 pm

I can change that...

...if Chris will hire me.