>>6041522From what I've been hearing from friends in the 3P scene and retailers: It's the new factory they employed. It has inhouse engineers working on translating the designs into actual functional CADs instead of Griffith handling everything, since he's swamped with work as is. It was supposed to be a boon because it was to help with their slow ass release schedule, but so far, great designs have been utterly wrecked by sheer incompetence. The factory engineers just have no idea what the hell they are doing. The backpack/wing issue with Lockdown and Deathshead, along with the loose hip ratchets? Or all the problems plaguing Backdraft, even if you got one with good QC (legs can't support diecast and become loose over time)? That's on them.
This is also why Carnifex and apparently Trailbreaker turned out great, because they were handled by the old factory. MMC is trying to deal with this now since it's seriously hurting them, but I don't know how they will yet. They probably have a contract that prevents them from bailing, and even fi they could, they need the extra factory.
As for the problems with how Kultur and Rodimus look...Former is just the designer being happy with how it turned out and not seeing reason to fix it, latter is usual case of Sarkiness.
