Why Michael Bay was actually RIGHT about Starscream 📐 #transformers

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Michael Bay's Doritos Starscream is actually way more realistic [music] than the G1 design you love. When Travis Knight gave us the perfect G1 seeker [music] in Bumblebee, he completely ignored a brutal engineering problem.

[00:00:12]See, an F-22 Raptor is massive, [music] over 60 ft long. Without animation cheats like mass shifting, turning that entire [music] jet into a sleek, classic humanoid robot would make Starscream stand way taller than Megatron himself.

[00:00:28]To fix the scale, ILM had to compress that vast [music] jet geometry outward instead of upward. It looks alien, but it's the only way a live-action [music] jet transformer can actually obey real-world physics. Which means, if you want a design that doesn't fake the math,