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Originally Posted by Ozrein
If you go with the Quintesson angle on TF history, then the TFs would be products to be sold to other alien races, assuming these races to be somewhere in the vicinity of Human size and proportions, it would explain why there are seats, cockpits and controls.
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I had a similar thought.
Since the Quintessons come in all different sizes and shapes in the cartoons (and assuming they are one race and not many), I figure they are able to change their shape from an original form, like an ant larva into a different life stage or body type.
Also, since some people (tfwiki) say that the Autobots first discovered the art of transformation, the domestic line slaves were not originally becoming vehicles for giant Quintessons and they were doing something else. The Decepticons learned how to transform, later.
This leads me to another assumption that the Autobots were copying vehicles or robotic forms (drones?) that already existed. After all, why bother inventing a new form if you are trying to hide? There may or may not be room for a human to sit in a pre-Earth alt-form. If there is no room, then I wonder what the non-sentient machines do. If there is room, why would there be domestic vehicles that have room for small creatures? Unless maybe they are meant for human-like buyers, like Ozrein said.
Why do most of the Autobots and Decepticons have human-ish features like a head with a face, a bi-pedal form, two legs and two arms? Why is their robot mode usually not more arthropod-like or squid-like or alien?
While wearing my favourite tinfoil hat and a snazzy straight-jacket, I tell ya that the Quintessons are actually super-technologically advanced humans that went back through time and mutated/roboticized themselves and built robot slaves that look like humans that revolted and kicked them off their own planet. (It's true! Our machines will turn against us, again! Just you waaait!)
Or, maybe vehicles and human-like features appeal more to people and their wallets, or something.
