>>10657377>>10657386Exactly, Minicons and Cyber Planet key gimmicks were still retained despite not having the Minicons or the keys retained in modern times because all they do is either flip out weapons that can now be done manually without a spring or just attach there as extra utility. That is far different from y'know, COMBINERS who transform their entire self and combine with others to make a new bigger robot.
>like, the originals were designed around the gimmick so IDK how transformation would be, and the only thing that would really NEED to be sacrificed for combined modes that I can see is waist articulation.Essentially all the Deluxe Energon Autobot mostly use their lower half to serve as either shirt or pants while their upper half is folded back and away, the only exceptions is Inferno/Roadblock who does use his upper half as the shirt mode and Tow-Line who doesn't have a leg mode because he is a reference to the original Ironhide and Ratchet toy as seen in pic related. The only concessions were that some didn't have forward's and back leg articulation due to needing the waist split and some have the entire upper half just lying back and doing nothing. The bigger Autobot combiners such as Ironhide, Jetfire and Cliffjumper has that last problem exacerbated. But other than those concessions were a result of engineering at its infancy and can easily be fixed nowadays, the real problem is the janky and off proportioned look of the combined mode and I don't think that's a problem, that's just something inherent of the shirt pants combining gimmick and should be embraced.
