>>11361941Basic common sense? Consider the following:
>Vehicles are pretty complex>A machine capable of moving like the human body will be incredibly complex>A machine capable of moving like the human body AND contorting itself into a perfect, fully-functional replica of a vehicle is going to be ASTRONOMICALLY complexFor a Transformer to look even remotely convincing in live-action, it's going to have to be pretty intricate. Blocky box-men aren't gonna cut it. Even Bumblebee, which was a lot closer to the G1 designs, still had to make the TFs pretty complex.
>If you want to make an adaptation, you have to adapt the fucking material.Transformers had already been through many different incarnations at that point. It wasn't a straight adaptation of an existing storyline (thank goodness, unless you wanted B.O.T in live-action), it was just another reinvention of the basic concept of "robots that turn into things" like the countless others that had come before it. Hell, it's not even like Transformers had never had more intricate, detailed and alien designs before; compare the Beast Wars cast (toys OR cartoon models) to what preceded them.
