>>11442285the trouble is, transforming animal parts is hard
on a vehicle, you say okay this is a boxy shape that protrudes here and there.. we can break up THIS many feet into an arm, or THAT many feet right to the back of the door, or we can make those parts torso, whatever
on an animal it's like.. there's limbs. do you want them just hanging off of body quadrants, like the oldschool dinobots? of course not. Well should they just BECOME limbs? well that's a bit boring, if you can't think of something for them to do to change them completely, plus now you need to deal with how humanoids have less torso and more limbs than most animals..
so ideally you figure out a way to make the best of both. Bison Bonecrusher always felt good to me, the thin part of the bison limb folds into the bulky shoulder part, then the robot arm folds out. place-swapping should be a lot more common in beastformers. especially limbs-move-into-torso, new-limbs-come-out-of-torso.
