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I can't speak for most people, but the problem I have with the line isn't that it's a woodpecker that turns into a toucan. I get the whole Piciforme thing, and the mid-stage does a decent job of transitioning between the two. It's the fact that it's a literal woodpecker that turns into a literal toucan; there's no theme between the two that justifies the transformation outside of giant beaks. They could have done something more to link them together, like stylizing the beak of the toucan so it looks closer to a boring tool than the blunt weapon it currently looks like it'll be. Even just straightening the beak out a bit or making it metallic would have done wonders for making the design more consistent with it's pre-evolutions. At the moment it just looks like a flimsy board that'd be just as fragile as the actual thing it's based off of, which just doesn't mesh well with Pikipek or Pikipek2.
