>>10344119I mean, it's not a perfect upgrade, but it's certainly not a bad one. The neck is on balljoints, so it's certainly possible to remove a segment if you think it looks too long (at the cost of some articulation). Personally, I don't think it's the neck that's too long (compared to the old toy, which actually had a LONGER neck. It IS too long for his show model) as much as it is the tail is too small and offsets it by comparison. The neck base thing is understandable - that piece is there to cover the tip of his right robot fist, which actually protrudes from his torso in beast mode; for the transformation to work in robot mode, it had to be small enough to tuck back into the left shoulder pad, so there's no outer neck segment to wrap around it, which makes it look odd. It's still not that big of a deal, though.
>not to mention the lack of vac metal and shading and translucent wings.Yeah, we were never going to get vac metal. it would have been nice if they had done some metallic paint, but what we got still doesn't look too bad. he DOES still have that shading/gradient look to him, but it looks a bit different because they actually redid the proportions for his beast belly and chest, which (in my opinion) looks better now because it's a single, cohesive piece. Also, his wings ARE still translucent (though much more opaque) and still have all the same details sculpted onto them - they're just made of a different kind of plastic now and are much thinner. My camera's pretty bad, but look closely at pic related - you can vaguely make out the black patterns of the Generations Selects boxes through them, and you can see the overlapping wing segments through each other.
