>>7209170>>7209174Sunstreaker looks like shit, Prime 3.0 looks like shit, Hound looks like shit. Megatron was pushing it but he gets a pass because it's the best out of several attempts from different companies.
Why do they look like shit? Because they're panel-covered messes that replace the actual vehicle parts with fake simple ones. Characters with simple transformation schemes are getting figures that are nightmarishly complex just because the cartoon fucked with proportions and left details off out of time and budget constraints. Takara should have G1 OP figures down to an art by now, but 3.0 is a gappy, backpacked mess with panel seams cutting through panel lines because
>Oh my god we've gotta hide these rivets and truck doors and lights because you couldn't see them in the cartoon!Leave the rivets off or incorporate them into the robot mode like the Masterpiece line was supposed to do before the new designer started huffing paint fumes. Adding a 3D truck puzzle as a second skin that folds into a giant backpack is absolutely asinine.
Imagine if other companies were this fucking slavish to low quality source animation.
