Nevertheless, shots featuring Thrust and Megatron standing on his neck are still farcically out of scale. A vaguely similar explanation appeared in Dreamwave's More Than Meets The Eye encyclopedia. In toy form, Lockdown's small alternate mode means you can either set his Deluxe-sized toy against a Voyager-or-smaller Prime for correct robot mode scale, or against a Leader-sized Prime toy for correct vehicle mode scale - but obviously not both! Scale when it comes to planets is so fraught it's painful. Then again, the vehicles pose even more problems: Prowl, who still sports car kibble, rides a motorcycle, Wheeljack (who used to transform into a car himself) drives a sports car, and Optimus Prime steers a massive 18-wheeler truck, despite his own chest still being the front end of a truck cab. Of particular note, Wheeljack's Turbo Racer is based on a Ferrari Testarossa, and the Action Master Jackpot figure (a new character created specifically for the Action Masters lineup) sports kibble that indicates he once used to transform into a Ferrari Testarossa himself!

Most notably, the additional kibble added to their bodies shows in glaring contrast to already-existing car parts, indicating that their aerial forms are quite undersized. Nevertheless, if one assumes that most vehicle altmodes are intended for human-sized passengers, comparing toys such as Chromedome with Lightspeed suggests the scale problem continues. Indeed, given that the lines all share a 1:24 scale, they actually scale well with each other. Daily Prime - Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime, Fans Hobby MB-12B Wheel Blade TFCon 2020 exclusive Windblade, Contact us about any infringements right away - CLICK HERE. This results from the Mini-Cons scanning normal vehicles and then resizing them to fit, retaining now-useless passenger compartments. While they're not shown next to humans in their jet and helicopter modes, their on-screen transformations do not indicate any notable size increase. "Toyhax Flashbax" returns with a look at Toyhax's new Upgrade Set for G1 Fasttrack. Numerous characters are explicitly shown to shrink or expand at various times. Likely the first major example of this is Wheeljack, who is about the same size as the other Autobot Cars, if not a bit bigger, despite his altmode, a modified Lancia Stratos, being a very small car. The Marvel Generation One comic sidestepped this issue by depicting Trypticon, Fortress Maximus and Scorponok as merely "large-standard" characters. Given that their limbs are mere cars and construction vehicles, this is patently absurd (Superion, by contrast, would be building-sized, given that his torso is a 100-seat jetliner). The crucial point is that the toy lines were initially unrelated. The characters should be in scale to each other as they all have real-world altmodes that (should) pass for real vehicles. Combiner characters are often depicted as far larger than the sum of their parts. This is purely for dramatic effect. Another interesting example is Lockdown. These out-of-proportion vehicle parts were necessary to give his robot mode show-accurate proportions. Some of the citybot toys have visible windows, which are too large for a city, suggesting instead a medium-sized building.

Rhinox is about half the size of an adult rhinoceros, and Optimus Primal is a roughly normal (or female) gorilla. Even a two-mode toy can have this problem.

For example, Optimus Prime can hold both Sam and Mikaela in one hand.

With the Human Alliance assortment, Hasbro have taken a different approach by trying to keep the vehicles in scale (roughly 1:24) and adding accessories and other characters that turn into motorcycles for smaller cars such as Jazz, Skids and Mudflap.