Transportation mode

This article is about the mode for transportation. For the vehicle mode, see Alternate mode.

For Waspinator, a transportation mode just means more parts to get blown off.

A transportation mode is an extra mode specialized for transportation, above and beyond the normal vehicle mode or beast mode. The transportation mode usually features vehicle parts, such as wheels, wings, rotors, or a surfboard.

Toys

Generation 1

Of course, most Corvettes look like they can fly even without wings.

• Tracks possesses a "flight mode".

Dollars to doughnuts says every kid who owned Overdrive flew him around the room making whooosh noises.

• Overdrive has a third mode that sure looks like it is supposed to be able to fly even though the instructions call it an "armored car" and the "wings" are called simply "back flaps."

Beast Wars

Almost all of the Transmetal characters have a transportation mode. It's sometimes referred to as flying mode, flight mode, or vehicle mode. (Or, if you're Rattrap, Knievel mode.)

The following Transmetal characters have a transportation mode:

Mace Chimpu.

• Airazor
• Depth Charge
• Megatron (both Transmetal and Transmetal 2 forms)
• Optimus Primal / Optimal Optimus
• Rampage
• Rattrap
• Rhinox
• Scavenger
• Terrorsaur
• Waspinator

The following characters have a vehicle mode:

• Transmetal Cheetor
• Transmetal 2 Cybershark
• Transmetal Tarantulas

In addition to the "transportation mode", Inferno has a "flying mode". Optimal Optimus has two transportation modes, called "Hypersonic Attack Mode" and "Ground Assault Mode".

The term "transportation mode" is called "vehicle mode" in the Japanese franchise Beast Wars Metals.

Cybertron

Optimus Prime has a flight mode.

Generations

Cybertronian Megatron's tank treads convert to hover engines.

See also

• Attack mode
• Transformers with three modes