i love tweets that are like "can you believe people think this is for kids when [describes a thing that is extremely normal in things for kids]" like. yeah. yeah kids media also gets to have like. plots. themes. ideas. events that happen. yknow.
stop trying to make soundwave's alt mode something that "makes sense". it does not need to make sense. the less sense it makes the better. the only competent person in that army is inexplicably a boombox and no explanation is forthcoming, embrace it