#autothoughts

The idea of just being able to make a figure is pretty sick. And apparently you can get decent 3D printers these days much easier than a few years ago.

I'm curious to hear about y'all's fav characters who don't have good figures/any figures

Aka these bad boys:

CONSIDER

A velociraptor alt covered in these fibers

Minimus ambus with a moustache that can glow.

Massive fiber optic manes

Bots with a glowing mohawk or other hairstyles

Wrist/ankle floofs like those draft horses have

Using these lights to communicate silently

Useful whisker-like ones for small bots like Ravage and/or spies/covert bots who need to hide and crawl in small spaces to feel their environment and gauge whether they can fit in the spaces. Maybe even help slightly lighten up dark spaces.

When Cybertron isn't at war, there are many cybertronians who performed in some way (dancing, concerts, etc) that would outfit themselves with these cables which they would then use (glowing on and off, glowing different colours for different effects, fluffing them out and pulling them in from their body, etc) in their performance choreography.

... Ma'am he's just a stressed out introvert.

May I also offer this to you

Have some of my sketches.

I'm still not sure about the helmet over the eyes. I kinda miss his eyebrows. 🤔 And I think imma make his bird legs a little more armoured.

I'm just rambling below the readmore. Feel free to ignore 😂

Ratchet and Rodimus are Friends?

It’s interesting. There’s a conversation that took place in volume eight of More Than Meets the Eye that caught me a bit by surprise. Some of y’all are prolly way ahead of me on this and it was super obvious to y'all but I wanna talk about it anyways.

Before Ratchet leaves to find Drift he does a checkup on a selection of mechs because, he claims, of the possibility of them being infected by super scraplets.

He checks up on

Rung

Skids

Nautica

Ultra Magnus

And most interestingly: RODIMUS

He proceeds to call Rodimus out on how he treated Drift.

(Also Ratchet defending Drift is very sweet.)

Not going to lie, I thought Ratchet didn’t particularly like Rodimus. Or he just tolerated him. And based on some fan content I’ve seen, I don’t think I was alone in that. This above conversation could potentially even support that theory. That is until First Aid comes in and calls Ratchet out.

And then First Aid drops this juicy tidbit

Note the word “ALL”. Meaning Roddy wasn’t an exception compared to the others. Roddy IS Ratchet’s friend. It could be a recent development or it could be longer term, either way at this point in time they are friends to one another. This means that Ratchet is one of those friends who will be the first to call you out when you're being an ass and I really love that for him. The friend who tells you what everyone else is too hesitant to say.

With this knowledge, looking back it really makes the scene where Ratchet tells Roddy that he voted against him keeping his position of captain all that more impactful in my opinion.

Looking back there's probably a ton of things that hinted at a friendship between them. Like the fact Roddy chose to confide in Ratchet (if I'm remembering this correctly) about the list to get his opinion. That shows a certain value Rodimus holds of Ratchet's opinion.