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...I couldn't think of a name and I panicked, ok?

Ok, look, as some of my longterm fans may remember: Ruben Falcon doesn't have any actual superpowers. Instead, he wears a special kind of robotic power armor called the Cadabra Suit. Ordinarily, it's fitted with different multi-tools, making him like Gizmo Duck from Ducktales.

In fact, fun fact: the original name of the Cadabra Suit was The G.I.Z.M.O. Suit. Short for "Garment Integrated with a Zillion Mechanical Options". But I eventually went with "Cadabra" because I liked the idea of Ruben being like a magician, in the sense that he has a lot of tricks literally up his sleeves.

So, why all of these weird transformations? Well, it's based off of my other favorite super power: elasticity. I've seen dozen of characters from main stream media and even here on DA.com that take advantage of elasticity's versatility to transform into different shapes and even grow into giants. So I decided to add those powers to Ruben's suit. Sort of making the suit like a wearable version of the Magic School Bus. IE, a machine that's "magic" because it does the impossible.

First off, we have Ruben with a pair of giant hands. And you know what they say about guys with giant hands: something inappropriate.

But in all seriousness; this giant hands idea originally came from an episode of Super Wings; one of the few shows I could think of that could be described as both "a Paw Patrol ripoff" and "successful". Normally, it's a show about some jet planes that can turn into robots, but this was from an episode that was about them having "Super Pets" which were little drones of themselves that can attach onto them and give them power ups and additional gadgets. And at one time, they gave a plane giant cartoon robot gloves and that image must've just stuck onto my brain for so long. Especially since I haven't seen that Super Wings show in, like, months.

Then we have Ruben as a cube. I think this idea came from an episode of one of my favorite Disney Junior shows; Miles from Tomorrowland. It was a show about a kid living in the far off future. Basically Futurama but for kids. And in the season 2 finale, they were setting up the 3rd season of the show; Mission Force One. Where Miles leads a team of borderline Power Rangers in space, where everyone has a special suit with a special power up. And one of them, Blodger; a green blob alien, had a suit that allowed him to stretch into other shapes. His literal first attempt of doing this result in him turning into a cube. So I guess that was my inspiration for this.

There's also these set of bumpers from Nick Jr. called "Block Party" that involves their most iconic characters being CGI cubes and going on adventures. So maybe that was part of it too.

Next we have Ruben turning into a twister. Because Taz.

Then we have him turning into a ball and not liking being bounced around. Because Michael Jordan.

And lastly, we have 2 pictures that result in what's known as size-play: the ability to morph one's size to be bigger or smaller than they want. As I said, this was based off of the logic behind the Magic School Bus; which is known for messing around with people's sizes on a regular basis.

On one side, we have Ruben shrinking himself smaller than a doll. Which is perfect for when you need to get inside a machine to fix it's smaller parts. And on the other side, we have Ruben as a giant so big, he's dwarfing most of the buildings of the city and awkwardly waving to a passing plane. Luckily, as the footnote addresses, Ruben doesn't normally get this big.

I wanna experiment with more transformations like this. Hopefully, I can come up with more ideas like this soon. For instance, I always wanted Ruben to have the ability to turn his suit into different vehicles, but in a way that makes him look like he actually turned into a vehicle. Sort of like Kirby's Epic Yarn, or some vehicular equivalent of the Wild Kratts' Creature Power Suit.

Stay tuned for more!

These sketches and Ruben Falcon (C) Me, 'cause I am Ruben Falcon!

Description
...I couldn't think of a name and I panicked, ok?

Ok, look, as some of my longterm fans may remember: Ruben Falcon doesn't have any actual superpowers. Instead, he wears a special kind of robotic power armor called the Cadabra Suit. Ordinarily, it's fitted with different multi-tools, making him like Gizmo Duck from Ducktales.

In fact, fun fact: the original name of the Cadabra Suit was The G.I.Z.M.O. Suit. Short for "Garment Integrated with a Zillion Mechanical Options". But I eventually went with "Cadabra" because I liked the idea of Ruben being like a magician, in the sense that he has a lot of tricks literally up his sleeves.

So, why all of these weird transformations? Well, it's based off of my other favorite super power: elasticity. I've seen dozen of characters from main stream media and even here on DA.com that take advantage of elasticity's versatility to transform into different shapes and even grow into giants. So I decided to add those powers to Ruben's suit. Sort of making the suit like a wearable version of the Magic School Bus. IE, a machine that's "magic" because it does the impossible.

First off, we have Ruben with a pair of giant hands. And you know what they say about guys with giant hands: something inappropriate.

But in all seriousness; this giant hands idea originally came from an episode of Super Wings; one of the few shows I could think of that could be described as both "a Paw Patrol ripoff" and "successful". Normally, it's a show about some jet planes that can turn into robots, but this was from an episode that was about them having "Super Pets" which were little drones of themselves that can attach onto them and give them power ups and additional gadgets. And at one time, they gave a plane giant cartoon robot gloves and that image must've just stuck onto my brain for so long. Especially since I haven't seen that Super Wings show in, like, months.

Then we have Ruben as a cube. I think this idea came from an episode of one of my favorite Disney Junior shows; Miles from Tomorrowland. It was a show about a kid living in the far off future. Basically Futurama but for kids. And in the season 2 finale, they were setting up the 3rd season of the show; Mission Force One. Where Miles leads a team of borderline Power Rangers in space, where everyone has a special suit with a special power up. And one of them, Blodger; a green blob alien, had a suit that allowed him to stretch into other shapes. His literal first attempt of doing this result in him turning into a cube. So I guess that was my inspiration for this.

There's also these set of bumpers from Nick Jr. called "Block Party" that involves their most iconic characters being CGI cubes and going on adventures. So maybe that was part of it too.

Next we have Ruben turning into a twister. Because Taz.

Then we have him turning into a ball and not liking being bounced around. Because Michael Jordan.

And lastly, we have 2 pictures that result in what's known as size-play: the ability to morph one's size to be bigger or smaller than they want. As I said, this was based off of the logic behind the Magic School Bus; which is known for messing around with people's sizes on a regular basis.

On one side, we have Ruben shrinking himself smaller than a doll. Which is perfect for when you need to get inside a machine to fix it's smaller parts. And on the other side, we have Ruben as a giant so big, he's dwarfing most of the buildings of the city and awkwardly waving to a passing plane. Luckily, as the footnote addresses, Ruben doesn't normally get this big.

I wanna experiment with more transformations like this. Hopefully, I can come up with more ideas like this soon. For instance, I always wanted Ruben to have the ability to turn his suit into different vehicles, but in a way that makes him look like he actually turned into a vehicle. Sort of like Kirby's Epic Yarn, or some vehicular equivalent of the Wild Kratts' Creature Power Suit.

Stay tuned for more!

These sketches and Ruben Falcon (C) Me, 'cause I am Ruben Falcon!