>>7978318>Just by the time the movie came out, the new skeletal ones took off.Baloney. "Skeletal" car carriers were hardly new in the '80s, but keep talking bullshit if it makes you feel smart, I guess.
>>7978809Yeah, but even the original G1 toy's design is quite a bit more bulky and robot-y than 60s-70s era car carriers were. It's clearly a high-tech embellishment of the concept.
Besides, Diaclone stuff wasn't supposed to be "in disguise" like Transformers were, so it wasn't quite as conspicuous to have a truck basically towing around robot armor.