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Jan. 26th, 2009 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Almost forgot about this *was distracted by chainmail*. I've seen seekers likened to birds in stories and drawn as birds. But I haven't seen the Coneheads done this way, or have seen any diversity in the birds chosen for people's pictures.
I give you Shoebill Coneheads. An east African bird that I thought with it's unique bill fit the Conehead design nicely. Though at first I was tempted to use the Marabou Stork.

*Is enjoying depicting transformers as animals more than is probably healthy*
I give you Shoebill Coneheads. An east African bird that I thought with it's unique bill fit the Conehead design nicely. Though at first I was tempted to use the Marabou Stork.

*Is enjoying depicting transformers as animals more than is probably healthy*
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on 2009-01-27 05:36 am (UTC)Whee, storks! I haven't actually seen the Seekers as anything other than feathery jet-hybrids (basically, just them in robot mode w/ bird wings + tail + maybe feet)and the closest I've seen to real animals is maybe an eagle (and it was only Screamy)...but this is a nice change nonetheless.
*Is enjoying depicting transformers as animals more than is probably healthy*
Forget that--indulge in your passions. They is made of awesomez.
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on 2009-01-27 06:31 am (UTC)Shoebills have always been a favorite of mine. If I ever find a figure of the bird I am most certainly getting one (or three). It is my opinion that with thousands (10,000+) of birds to choose from it's a shame there isn't more diversity in people's choices. If I was going for a personality-wise selection I know Ramjet would be a Peregrine falcon.
Watch out all Transformers! I have permission now to turn you into animals!! Mwahahahaha.
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on 2009-01-27 05:58 am (UTC)Hey, they started it with Ravage and Laserbeak.
And this is great! The Insecticons better watch out (unless you're going for an all-out reversal kind of thing - there's an idea for you, Insecticon jets). This form = Coneheads for sure: big pointy beaks, paired with thin spindly legs that are just too fun to sweep out from under them for maximum tumblage (literally or figuratively).
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on 2009-01-27 06:44 am (UTC)Insecticon jets... that is an idea that is definitely going in my Idea Well.
Personally I can't believe what a beautiful bird Ramjet makes. But now I'm sniggering with the image of him on his back with those thin legs waving in the air. Careful with the tumbling though, they're rather large birds.
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on 2009-01-29 05:48 am (UTC)Considering Ramjet is famous for bashing things with his head, and if they're still robots, just with bird alt modes, then that means should he try something like that while a bird you're going to end up with one odd picture. Mainly a very big bird, halfway stuck in the wreckage of some building, with those thin little legs waving vainly in the air, trying to get loose.
It'll certainly be interesting coming up with regular alt modes for the beasties, though there are some who have already had this treatment in canon. Ravage being one of them. In my opinion, some of the cassettes, like Ratbat or Buzzsaw, would end up as some sort of spy plane. Now I seriously want a fic where somehow all the altmodes of everyone is switched around. I think Ratchet would make a great spirit bear, or maybe even a white buffalo. Ironhide would be a ram, Bumblebee, for some reason I'm seeing as a big old yellow lab, Soundwave would be an owl, and Megatron, just for the sure hell of it, would be a hamster. Starscream, of course, would be a cockroach.
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on 2009-01-30 06:32 am (UTC)*agrees completely* As a little kid it was a dream of mine to know how to do everything, so that I could make everything I ever could possibly need or want. Now it's to know as much as I possibly can as a human lifespan is only so long.
Ratchet as a Buffalo/Bison works really well. When I was doing the Transformers as Zoids list I had Ironhide as one of the bull-shaped ones, but I like the ram idea too. *laughter* Megatron and Starscreams' are just too much. But if you're going for extreme survival, than Starscream would be a water bear. Those things are amazing when it comes to living through things.
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on 2009-01-31 03:41 am (UTC)*snorts* My nickname is Tink, as in tinker, because the junk drawer was my favorite toy and I was forever messing around with the stuff I found in it. It was fascinating taking something apart and seeing how it worked, putting it back together on the other hand, didn't always go so well.
*chokes* Water bea-How could I forget about water bears!? They can survive space, and radiation and and *flails* I blame the lack of caffeine for this misdemeanor. I just like the thought of Ironhide being one of those animals who can bash their heads together and not get hurt, musk ox would work, too. So could a bull dog. As for Megatron, I was trying to find some sort of small, cute, cuddly creature that most would just coo over, and the hamster was the only thing my fried brain could think of. *giggles* Though I'm most likely to be calling Megs Hamstertron from now on. And now I am trying to come up with all the animal forms each one would take on. You also read my mind again, I was thinking of the Marabou Stork being the form for Dirge. Thundercracker = fisher eagle? Though, what would Cosmos be? A hummingbird? Or would that be for one of the helicopter 'formers? Jazz = raccoon/weasel. Mirage = (artic) fox/elk hound. *mutters*
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on 2009-02-01 11:48 am (UTC)Ambitious costuming. I wish you luck with those. Have you seen the youtube vids of the people who made actual transforming costumes?
*snickers* That's an awesome nickname. The closest thing to a nickname I ever got was morning monster. Never slept well as a child either and waking up at 6:30 for school was sheer torture for me.
The amount of mind reading going on here is staggering.
The funny thing is, storks are mute, Dirge would so be pissed. Hummingbird definitely equals helicopter, they're the only birds that can actively hover and fly backward and all sorts of other unique aerial feats. Dragonflies could work too.
Any incomprehension/crazy found here I blame on not sleeping again.
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on 2009-02-17 11:30 am (UTC)And no, I haven't seen those vids. *off to search YouTube.* And have you seen the book Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You? It has some of the best realistic pictures of fantasy creatures that I've ever seen. Example: Sea Serpent. (http://pics.livejournal.com/heslestor/pic/0001x7z9/)
Morning monster? Well, I was a bit of the opposite, absolutely hated going to bed. So much so, that I developed a very good technique to keep myself up until I had no other choice but to sleep. I'd position myself on my side on the veeeeeery edge of the bed, so the moment I fell asleep, I'd fall off the bed and wake up. My parents weren't amused.
Oh, and I just thought of a better animal for either Soundwave, Blaster or one of the sound oriented mechs, a Lyre Bird. A house fly could work for a helicopter too, they can land on ceilings and all that. *is having way too much fun with this.* Oh, that reminds me, in the comics Hearts of Steel, all the Transformers have beast modes. Bumblebee has some sort of insect while Ratchet looks like an armadillo. It's hard to tell since they never actually shift into their alt modes, though. And if there's ever been a picture to represent what I think a pit harpy or pit vulture would look like, this is it. (http://pics.livejournal.com/heslestor/pic/0001e73a) Also, also, Ravage's Cybertronian form, (http://pics.livejournal.com/heslestor/pic/0001ff01) I'm absolutely in love with.
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on 2009-02-22 06:54 am (UTC)"What unexpected kitchen items were used to unnerve and distract German gunners in at least one notable instance during the 1940's?"
"That would be pots and pans on a wire Bob."
"I'm sorry, but it must be in the form of a question. Pick again."
I have seen that book, it's definitely one of the best fantasy beastiary books published recently. (the sea serpent bugs me though, it look too much like an Oar Fish for my tastes. But that's just me.) The movie was good too, it had me sitting in the audience going "Oh my god, they got it right!". Went to see it cause it looked like it had some nice graphics but was fully prepared to be disappointed with the fairy tale interpretation. I was pleasantly surprised.
It was more of a descriptor than anything else, I was also likened to a bear just coming out of hibernation since I wasn't pleasant in the least. I too hated going to bed but only because I'd lay awake for hours on end and was scolded if I didn't stay in bed with the lights off.
*makes a note to get their hands on more tranformers comics* My collection is very sad, it isn't very filled out. As for what the pit harpies may look like, I'm guessing you missed this January post (http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/16088.html). Though I do like the one you pointed out more than my scribbles. Forgive me but Ravage's cybertronian form reminds me of a digger, like a badger. I am humored.