>>6834722I'll go with Carnifex since it's one of the toys that I see no one else shitting on (not that I can remember anyway).
I'll contend that it suffers from the same flaws that of most of MMC's Reformatted toys suffer from.
Some background:
Carnifex was initially teased as an IDW inspired Overlord toy. This is evident by how a render was shown sitting in a throne in a manner made popular in LSoTW (attached pic). It is clear that the inspiration is there (see shoulders), but the design is still mostly original and heavily stylized comparable to Maketoys' current Cross Dimension line. It turned out that the proportions of this original design were fucked. The torso was too small. It was either hard to see in the original teaser due to the angle, or the design was adjusted before Griffith's reworking. Griffith reworked Carnifex to be better proportioned and give a closer likeness to IDW Overlord. He ultimately re-designed the torso, head, jet nose/shield, and gun. Carnifex's new torso sported blue chest flaps and a ridge running down the belly that unmistakably resembled the IDW design not G1. The shoulders, arms, hips, and legs had some of Sark's trademark ridges reduced but were otherwise left exactly the same (
http://www.mmc-hub.com/carnifex-a-behind-the-scenes-story-part-2/).
I'll address the stupid argument first: Carnifex was shit when Sark designed it, but Griffith fixed it.
If you think that this is true, then you only thought it was shit due to subjective taste in the aesthetic of the toy. Griffith made no engineering decisions on the toy. He simply designed pieces of the toy that differed from the aesthetics of the original. You can compare the placement of the limbs in alt-mode on the original and final designs to see that the transformation was unchanged (
http://www.mmc-hub.com/carnifex-a-behind-the-scenes-story/).