Okay if I was ever somehow in the position of redesigning Transformers characters for a new show/comic I'd definitely have Starsaber involved but with slight changes.
I'd have his base form be one 'bot like the IDW comics, rather than Saber and then a suit of armour which extends the vehicle mode.
But I'd have him combine with Victory Leo like the original version....But then, I'd also have Galaxy Shuttle combine with the two of them to form BIGGER shoulder cannons and extra armour for the arms and upper body.
Basically if it was, I wouldn't give Optimus a Super Mode, but I'd take this:
A new batch of "Overload and Replicate" dice are made. They are inspired by the Izzet guid form Magic the gathering. A combination of clear red and blue resin with some white Mica and some metal foil inside. These are still raw and need some sanding and inking.
Dear Vector Prime, how do non-vehicle bots get around Cybertron? Secondary vehicles? Public transportation?
Dear Mobility Minded,
As with so many things, the answer to your question varies—but for one example, in universes where Cybertron is ruled by functionist law, Cybertronians designated as members of the transport class are tasked with… well, transforming other 'bots across the planet and through its cities. For instance, Overload's truck form allowed him to carry other bots in a large trailer transport, while Railspike was able to link up with and pull carriages on the "transit tracks" of his native Rodion—experience he would, much later, put to use in coordinating the onboard monorails of the Lost Light.
Just reminded of this one again. Because I really don't think my language learning abilities have actually gone downhill since I started learning German as a kid (with a lot fewer resources available then, beyond formal education).
I think it's more of the kind of situation Mel was talking about making this frustratingly slower and harder. Along with so many other things in life. Years of rolling burnout and physical health problems really haven't been helping, and I have definitely been spending the past couple of years since we moved to Sweden in its own subset of this. Thankfully nowhere as severe and frankly life-threatening as the 10 years before that, when I really couldn't see any good way through everything.
Beyond that (if such a thing makes sense), it doesn't seem like the less-usual ways my brain approaches language have really changed that much since I was picking up English to begin with. That doesn't even really feel like my native language, though I did pretty quickly bootstrap my way into being a surface-hyperverbal little shit who has rarely shut up since then.
The usual assertions about learning this stuff being so much easier for kid brains has never made much sense from the way my own seems to want to behave in general. But, a lot of that does indeed seem to be unusual, including the susceptibilities toward burnout.