Well after DOTM there's no real need to have realistic alt modes cause the whole damn world knows about Transformers after they partially brought Cybertron to Earth! Welcome Cybertronian alt modes

 

Tumbler Autobot? I think yes.

And for what it's worth, the Bayformers movies have had ENORMOUS budgets. Building one or two scratch cars, or doing them with CGI, is actually something that could be realistically considered.

 

That's a fair point. The movie storyline is at a point where they don't need to explain or justify things like that anymore.

The nascar wreckers didn't need a disguise. They didn't even need a subplot explaining how they became nascars, and what was up with the always-on weapon-modes.

Now that I think of it, it'd be pretty cool to just have a totally Cybertronian car gleaming in the sunset past desert landscapes. The way they tend to do.

Of course it'd have to be a decepticon, or some sort of lone badass autobot.

 

One of the charms of Movieverse is that we get real life vehicles for once, would be a shame to toss that all. I'd rather see them pull out another weird-but-true alt mode like Bonecrusher's "armed" MPV or Long Haul's size-of-a-house dump truck instead of them making up some futuristic thing.

 

Just recalled, they also built Ratchet's Hummer mode from the ground, and Barricade's police car mode from a modified Mustang.

So I guess it could be possible to make custom vehicles, and I'd love to see those. But it's probably easier and cheaper to ask a car company to assist with its own vehicles. Still, if they can pull it off, it'd be great.

 

well that's true, and I agree. And for the most part I don't expect that to change, even if an occasional Cybermode gets thrown into the mix for the sake of variety.


Besides, imagine how cool it'd be to see something like this built as a full-scale working vehicle.

(just as a random example)

In a game or a cartoon, it's never as dramatic, because everything in that world is artificial and distorted to begin with, but part of the appeal of the tf movies is in making the extraordinary a reality. If you have the best designers develop something so alien, so unearthly. And then it shows up on location, and it's just driving around on our actual streets like something from another world.

I think that'd generate a lot of excitement.

 

That's not quite true. Ratchet's vehicle mode was built on an already existing Hummer H2, but they added the Ambulance section, and Barricade may have been made to look like a police car, but the Saleen Mustang underneath already existed. Technically, Jazz was somewhat modified as well, since he is actually a hard-top version of the Pontiac Solstice, but based on the soft-top version. The hard-top was never released because of GM going bankrupt and dropping the Pontiac name.

 

^ To a degree it's like when a movie takes a real-world working/firing weapon and builds a different design over the top of it. Stuff like RoboCop or Judge Dredd's guns - a shell built over a working real gun. Sometimes movie cars look like one thing, but underneath it's not that thing at all, just a flashy bodyshell over a mundane or reinforced chassis as the movie requires. Film productions can save a lot of money by putting the shell of an expensive car design over the chassis and engine of a cheaper vehicle. Or as exampled above a car has just been gussied-up with a few extra gubbins. Wasn't the extra turret on TF1 Brawl/Devastator an addition that the real-world tank didn't have? Actually, didn't that tank show up prior in XXX2?