[Izzy Dunne]

none of the transformers exploded

I read somewhere that that was the exact intent. An explosion would have attracted attention from the nearby freeway, but as it it, they got 110 hits and almost took out the station without raising a fuss.

Dress rehearsal.

[Hoplite]

I read somewhere that that was the exact intent.

Without asking the gunman, the intent can never be known. All this speculation merely reinforces the position that people talking about it don't know WFT they're talking about.