>>11343473I love the BW toys but I didn't get toon accuracy until I saw the beast modes on the MPs. Yes, they were old CGI models, but the animators put a lot of personality into the designs, the beast modes are a part of the character themselves. I don't think they were meant to look 1:1 to a real animal in the animation because they understood you needed some anthropomorphize them a bit to animate them as characters and not just wild animals. The few times we see real animals next to the beast modes, they're the same model but the faces are animated less expressively.
Look at the Lion King animated movie vs the live action one.
I do get not liking stuff like the low res texture look on the paint, but as far as the sculpt itself, the heads and proportions go a long way into feeling like the character.
Now, stuff like taking away Optimus' silver stripe in vehicle mode, THAT I'll never get.
I do wish there was more room for more beastly/organic looking updates of the old stuff, but that's more in the realm of Generations.
