Caelus wrote:Skritz wrote:Caelus wrote:Flashwave wrote: Sure, but who wants to be strapped to the OUTSIDE of a jet when its going Mach 2? If I were a little dude who turned in to a gun, I’d rather be in the COCKPIT than picking insect icons out of my grille.
This.
Also, even in a more-or-less Quintesson free context like G1 Marvel or IDW, I figured they had passenger compartments simply because Cybertronians come in a wide variety of sizes, including human-sized. In alternate mode, Sky-Lynx can carry Jetfire, Jetfire can carry Optimus Prime, Optimus Prime can carry Bumblebee, and Bumblebee could carry a *Master. The catch is, there aren't very many bots small enough to get behind Bumblebee's wheel. My assumption as to why there are so few bots smaller than minibot size has always been rather grim, and some of the details in IDW's Functionist Universe seem to support my assumption in that regard.
I also suspect that, in settings where they can upgrade to bigger and strong bodies most would. You'll notice that the peace-time setting of Animated is swarming in mini-bot sized Bumblebee-like body types. Not a whole lot of reasons to be a colossal lug unless you're doing physical labor. Seems to me like smaller Cybertronians is a peace-time thing which would make sense.
Or, you know, we're all just overthinking it too hard.
Bah, that's not overthinking! Overthinking is when you realize that - even without considering alternate modes - the designs of Transformers are so diverse in terms of size, weight, dexterity, mobility, etc., that making antebellum Cybertron's public spaces accessible would have pushed its civil engineers to their limits.
Hah!
But, see, little did we know that a total lack of any logical infrastructure was the main cause of social and economic pressures that eventually devolved into the Great War!