>>10841379picrel is the worst recent offender for me. Just absolutely appalling. They want all of his wheels to magically hide away like they do on the animation model, but that is not conducive to Gears' general transformation scheme, and since mainline doesn't have the budget to clusterfuck-engineer the wheels out of existence like they would on an MP, the compromise is that the alt mode looks like it's riding around on the flimsiest bicycle wheels imaginable, and the alt mode overall just looks unfinished and profoundly unfun to vroom around as a result; this alt mode is just a formality.
What adds insult to injury, though, is that they did have enough budget leftover to add a completely useless opening chest compartment just because it was in the show one time. It's like everything wrong about the MP line has now osmosed into the mainline, without the good alt modes to make up for it. Hope everyone's ready for 30 dollar deluxes next year, btw.