>>7261203>>7261323I think FansToys has done a good job of nailing the Hasui aesthetic of the middle MPs everyone seems to love. For the 84/86 Guys, I much prefer that look. In fact, for the rest of the original cast I'm just going with FT, however long that'll take, because it'll still be less time than Takara.
For the movie guys, however, I don't think they've hit the mark at all except Arcee and Blurr and maybe Hot Rod. Galvatron and cyclonus still look really cool, and Galvaton's compromises are more for the sake of coolness so I can't blame them. Kup and Springer are the worst offenders to me, they lack character and just came out like blocky slabs. Kup in particular; his animation robot design is full of curves and rounded edges, FT Koot looks too flat all over. Apache looks too wide compared to G1 Springer. The most perfect attempt they've done is Arcee,and of course its at the expense of her playability.
Its a point of contention since a lot of people hate it for being so, but MP-36 Megatron is the perfect example of modern MP design; Its Floro Dery as fuck. For the 84/85 guys and the combiners, I think its ok to drift away from the animation aesthetic, but the movie characters except Ultra Magnus were designed in animation first. So I think the Fans Toys look for a lot of them doesn't quite hit the mark.
Maketoys is the other company that manages to ape the modern MP look well, butt hey committ o it even harder than Takara does. I feel like Takara still includes just enough detailing to make them work as toy versions, where as MT's seekers and Jazz look like giant Heroes of Cybertron PVCs.
