Actar said: Honestly, given the circumstance, I fail to see how my analysis was "flat and two-dimensional". Click to expand...

Your analysis is flat and two dimensional because of the context of what it is.Digimon is not Transformers, and you're ignoring that you know... Transformers are designed to match in both forms (especially in the case of Beast Wars, which never had designs 'that' crazy for most characters to work, the show simply tweaked toy designs that were already done, which is why those didn't match.)When you look at say... a Transformers figure and say it's show perfect, very often it isn't, it's just 'close enough' in your mind to count as show perfect.And of course, bringing up Masterpiece Megatron, a figure that costs over 200 dollars is particularly ludicrous. And despite it being a rather amazing figure, it isn't show perfect. Frankly, I'm not sure how it ever could be considering Megatron's design shifted quite a bit episode to episode.But as an example- The figure looks 'eh' from the back as I recall (which is a fair sacrifice to make to look so great from the front), his crotchplate often tends to look more like a diaper or a bad pair of underpants, his feet tend to look a bit to highheely to me, and they gave him nice waist articulation, but it kind of makes the figure look like crap when you actually use it.But then, as established, the figure looks amazing regardless of the fact that it isn't perfect. Frankly, it's better than 'show accurate' because the show design just isn't that nice. The toy is more representative of how you feel it looks in your mind.The context demands understanding that in the case of many characters, especially earlier in the Digimon franchise, there simply will not 'be' accuracy to the level that some people demand, because it doesn't exist for these, especially at anything resembling a reasonable price point (and some would argue 70 is already past reasonable.)The fact your 'go to' examples were expensive Transformers Masterpiece figures proves that (cause the recent 'accurate' Beast Wars ones are Masterpiece also.)The overall reason I used flat and two dimensional though is because seeing the picture, and then have it be immediately followed by what is effectively a list of complaints and grievances brought to mind the stereotypical comic/toy collector that is so deep into the hobby they forgot this stuff is allowed to be fun.