Alanyuppie's LEGO Transformers: LEGO "The Last Autobot" Part 1 of 2 : Alternate modes

From tfwiki.net: "The Last Autobot is a guardian that Primus prepared, against the day that he would no longer be able to guide his creations. A stoic being, the Last Autobot awaits his destiny. "

How cool is that!

My first encounter of this character was from the Issue #79 of Marvel Transformers Comics (from the 80s. ). As a plot device to put all closure to everything (aka Happy Ending), he showed up, did a few magical stuff .. reformatting Transformers home planet Cybertron and resurrected the good guys Autobots to bring the bad guys into submissions.

TLA from the comics has a cheesy looking Autobot Logo as a face, which I am unable to replicate at the scale of my MOC.

About this Creation

As usual, the initial concept was in my brain for quite some time . Only recently I managed to entitle myself to some me-time thanks to a holiday in the state I am working and residing in , I quickly get to materialise my idea. 90% of this MOC was done in about 6 hours that day, and refinements took about 3 hours more over the next 10 days .

Trivia

I loved the idea of TLA being literally a robot in disguise rather than entombed somewhere in Cybertron waiting to be discovered, hence his Autobot Logo/Insignia mode. He can blend in into Cybertron metallic surface/walls/ceilings without anyone noticing.
Since I built the head last, It's an absolute co-incidence that the head can be tucked into the Insignia mode without modifying other already built component like the robot legs.
Initially I had some problems keeping this mode upright due to small footprint, until I refine his jet mode wingtips which can be folded/angled to help stabilize the Insignia modes. This, too.. is a co-incidence.
As a "sacred" creation of Primus (assumedly to be peace loving), I decided NOT to arm TLA with any form of weaponry in all his modes. He's literally a wizard in Transformers lore , so weapons are redundant... I guess.
TLA is an ancient Cybertronian so I keep this in mind during my refinement of this MOC... by adding gold toned LEGO parts on his chest and legs too, and a more slender legs compared to other blockier/ chunkier ones in modern Transformers .

More co-incidences. If you notice an unmasked robotic face above with eyes , nose and chin.... it's an optical illusion! I didn't plan for that actually.