>>9545066The problem is that many of the toon-accurate details are a result of cheap, quick animation. Let's look at good ol' Optimus, for example. Nearly every official toy of him has silver-colored vents on his legs. But those vents are blue in the cartoon, because it's much easier to animate a big block of blue than it is a block of blue with a block of silver in it. Aesthetically speaking, the silver vents are nicer, as a big block of just blue is visually uninteresting, and silver helps highlight details in the mold that solid blue coloring would hide. Yet those that demand toon-accuracy expect blue vents, even though silver looks better, simply because that's how it was in the cartoon.
And then there's the issue of toy engineering for the sake of cartoon accuracy. Lets compare MP-10 with MP-44. MP-10 has nice proportions, details like the chest windows are the actual truck features, and has a transformation that isn't so complex as to be cumbersome. MP-44, on the other hand, has an arguably cumbersome transformation, proportions that are really not any nicer than what MP-10 already had, and most of the vehicle details in the robot mode are faked, all for the sake of looking like Optimus from the cartoon. The cartoon-centric design introduces several drawbacks for the sake of a visual style that is, at best, only just as good as MP-10's.
And then there's the simple fact that attempting toon-accuracy is a bit silly when the cartoon couldn't even stay consistent, itself. Again, looking at Optimus, his truck mode usually didn't have its iconic silver stripe in the cartoon, leading many people to say no stripe is toon-accurate. Yet, in many scenes, particularly the show's credits, the silver stripe does appear. So which is accurate?
