#tripodeca

What if Tripodeca didn't die during Overlord's rampage?

Various artists have come together in an attempt to answer that question, with 10+ artworks all created within 10 minutes or less.

Hey Overlord fandom,

Overlord killed a tripod 

And also a Transformer hid from Overlord in his toaster alt-mode.

Dear Alt-Mode Alarmist,

Dipstick is one of the few Triple Changers whose secondary alternate mode is a similar kind of vehicle as his primary one—in his case, he has the choice of becoming a three-wheeled truck or a four-wheeled car. Some have suggested that having an alt-mode considered “redundant”—the common label for such bots—is to blame for Dipstick’s ornery temperament, but never to his face.

As for the other bots you mention, let me see… Perceptor was also a Triple Changer, turning into either a microscope or a tracked vehicle. Soundwave gained a wheeled form after the end of the great war, adapted into an APC disguise upon his return to Earth. Blaster, at varying points in his life, was a hovercraft or a wheeled vehicle. Amp had a drill-tank mode, long before he became Kaon. Likewise "Forestock" only assumed his gun mode (and name) out of a desire to be useful to Megatron—before then, he was a forklift called Stockade.

[twitter convo between @hired_sword and James Roberts @jroberts332 on 5 October 2018.

HS: How does one pronounce “Tripodeca”? Is it try-POD-ek-uh, or TRIP-oh-DECK-uh?

JR: The former ]