Talk:The Gift Horse

Holomatter avatar?

Is there an in-fiction reason why Bumblebee wouldn't have used a holomatter avatar to talk to the girl instead of transforming into his relatively gigantic, scary, and attention-grabbing robot mode? I could imagine a real-life reason being that they wanted to avoid a talking-to-strangers-is-good message in a mini-series aimed at younger readers (or that the writer was just forgetful/ignorant about the avatars in the first place), but I was wondering if there was an in-story explanation that I missed. - Jackpot 23:09, 22 April 2010 (EDT)

Also, why didn't he use an avatar to go into the house and steal what he needed? My guess is that it isn't forgetfulness or ignorance but rather total apathy toward holomatter avatars. Were avatars mentioned in Continuum? - Starfield 18:09, 23 April 2010 (EDT)

There was talk about everyone being low on energon. There's also the possibility that Skywatch can detect holomatter avatars somehow. I don't think that anything was said, though. I'm also not sure that using a holomatter avatar would have been better for talking to the girl. She, like most young children, seemed to think that a car that becomes a robot was pretty exciting. A human would have probably have just resulted in a "I shouldn't talk to strangers" and her running off. LiamK 11:29, 7 March 2013 (EST)