Who's to say a highly intelligent and technologically superior alien race abides by our current understanding of physics? Many centuries ago, people thought the earth was flat. Until Copernicus and Galileo, people thought the earth was the center of the universe. We've learned a great deal, but there's probably just as much if not more we do not know about or can understand. For all we know, the Cybertronians have it right and we're in the wrong. Just take that into consideration whenever you see a scientific discrepancy in any Transformers fiction. But if you still can't use your imagination, at the end of the day, Transformers doesn't always equal physics
Even though they are "metal" they are still organic. You can't think of it as something from Earth with the same properties.
very well said! Sentinel built space bridge tech that defied our laws of physics after all. Im sure TFs still have some stuff that we humans dont understand or cant yet duplicate. Like metal that flows like fabric.
I'm really feeling a red/black repaint of the toy when it comes out. I'll just swing it through the air, shouting "b****** love cannons!"
I'm guessing the trenchcoat is made of something like highly flexible metal or something, so it resembles fabric. Transformers in the movies have really crazy, atomic scale self-repair systems so a metal trenchcoat is not farfetched to me.
I didn't mind Que's hair because it looked like fibre optic cable. Crosshairs skirt doesn't bother me because it's just flowy metal. Why can't their metal "skin" be constantly bending?
While I know that they're not made from the same material as the real-life vehicles they turn into, the C7 Corvette's body is made entirely from fiberglass (plastic!) and carbon-fiber. Also, from a real-science point of view, there are materials which can be alternately metal-rigid and flexible. Depending on the current being run through them, etc. Batman's cape, from the Nolan movies, is a good example. He could run a current through it and the frame would stiffen and allow him to glide. That's a real technology. Hardly out of the question for Transformers. Besides, every single character in the Bay movies had parts that bent and changed shape in order for them to transform. This is just an extension of that. I'm not crazy about the look but it's not as big of a "wtf" as, say, Hound's fully bearded pipe-smoking visage. I'd feel a lot better about it if they devoted a quick little character scene where everybody was talking about their alt modes and blah blah and explaining how they like their particular look or whatnot. They did that in the comics a lot and it always worked rather well.
So its silly and inconceivable for a transforming alien robot that can scan and disguise to have a trench coat? Run that by me again?!....the response doesn't merit a scientific explanation, its fantasy after all.
Not to mention, they're an advanced alien species, who probably have more chemistry elements than we do that allow their metal to bend in a certain way. A specific Cybertronian element, perhaps? No one knows. It lies beyond the microscope for investigation.
the question I want to know even more than how Crosshair's Trenchcoat works is where his vehicle mode spoiler winds up in robot mode.
