>>5880288>"Big metal humans"? Kind of, but not really. By that argument you can say Ents are just big wooden humans, or Elves are just humans with pointy ears. You'd be ignoring all the subtle nuances that many writers and creators have weaved into the various continuities and lores over the decades that make them more than just "big metal humans".
But when you really think about it, Cybertronians themselves are not natural, they're designed and built (usually by other other aliens, higher powers or other Transfoormers) who themselves are aliens with their own intricacies and such, it's not unreasonable to assume original Cybertronian forms would follow very different and alien design aesthetics that doesn't really look like anything we see here on Earth or even when we think of the more traditional, G1 look. When you take all that into consideration, it opens up a whole universe of potential for different experimental designs, allows us to explore the more alien side of their nature other than just that boring "big metal human" BS.
>>5880320Oh without a doubt. G1 will always be among the very best of all the continuities and design, the masterpiece line is evidence alone of that. But we shouldn't let nostalgia and adherence to the past restrict creativity, we shouldn't allow it to make us blindly dismiss anything remotely different or outside the traditional desgins. I love G1 as much as the next guy, but I also like to see the more detailed, intricate and alien looking designs too, especially when you can see the nods to the G1 designs throughout it, like the Megatron in OPs picture.
>>5880342And "Geewuners" like you are the reason why the fandom often looks like it's filled with nothing but petulant twats who can't move on from the 80s.
