User blog comment:Thenewcoven08/Flying Autobots/@comment-209.253.86.141-20090820025436

because G1 (though we all love it) was riddled with mistakes and the plot called for flying autobots at the time. later, it called for the fact that autobots can't fly for plot deveploment ("one of the new flying robots,").

another example of using something for plot and then dumping it is Jazz's grappling hook, which was used only twice.