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Originally Posted by Incepticon
It is a changed a little bit. He has a solid piece blue chest in Cyb form, but has 2 distinct windows similar to traditional Prime's while in Earth form... along with the addition of firetruck lights on his back.
To be honest, I first thought that they pulled another G1 "More Than Meets The Eye" when I saw the Cyb forms of the Autobots since they look *so* similar to their Earth forms. But I eventually noticed while watching the show again last night that while in Cyb form, Bulkhead has tracks on his feet & back instead of wheels, Ratchet also has tracks instead of a wheels and a slightly different chest, and that Bumblebee has differently colored areas and slighlty different arms/shoulders. Still can't see the difference of Cyb vs. Earth forms of Prowl though... or Starscream, Blitzwing & Lugnut (?) for that matter.
Overall it's just a similar situation to G1 - where they obviously designed the Earth forms first, but made some small hindsight Cyb alterations for sake of animation and the Cyb toy versions of Prime & Megatron.
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Yeah, they're all different in their pre-earth robot modes, though with the colours almost the same, it's not obvious. Prime has differences all over his body, but particularly in his chest and shoulders. Bulkhead has very evident treads, etc...
Even Prowl is different, though his changes are the least noticeable. I think it's mostly around his legs... his earth form almost looks like he's wearing brown riding pants, while his cybertron form is sleeker and darker as I recall.
Their symbols also change... the crests on Ratchet's shoulders become medical emblems, while Bulkhead's become military stars.
I'm betting that part of the reason we only see Ultra Magnus and Sentinel Prime from the neck up is to save them from having to come up with modified Cybertron modes for them (since we already know that they'll have Earth modes).
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