-Kanrabat- wrote: I find siege Optimus to be quite meh/daff. Especially with the stupid adition of that truck "baseball cap" who only end up as a backpack.



SS "Geewun" Optimus is a work of art in it's own right. I'm looking forward to it to arrive locally.

Tbh I kinda wish Hasbro would go with a more Sunbow cartoony aesthetic for a line with smooth panels and anime-esc angles (like giving G1 Optimus legs that actually get larger towards the bottom instead of them being big rectangles for legs). Because the new MP style does look good, but the designs are SO complicated and SO EXPENSIVE, that the whole simplistic cartoon style is sorta ruined by all those other variables. I'm not asking for 100% cartoon accuracy to G1, just some slightly more cartoony designs without all the excess senseless random lines and bits all over everything, and some more characterized proportions rather than the classic "symmetrical robo square thing" look. Like.. Why do they all have these perfectly symmetrical thighs from top to bottom? Why not add more anime-esc styling to give it more character rather than just looking like a "toy"? It's not that hard, just change the shape of the thighs and lower legs a tad on that Siege Optimus and it would look brilliant to me, but otherwise it just looks like another simplified MP10ish design to me.Generally I won't compare these type things to 3P, but.. When you look at Maketoys figures for example, some of them have very simple transformations like Despotron (MP Megatron), And they have some modified details to look more modernized, and yet they still look cartoony somehow like actual character models and still invoke the feel of the original characters. Really Despotron is probably just as simple if not less complex in transformation than some Studio Series figures, and yet it looks both updated and like a mini version of a giant animated character, rather than looking like a toy called "Megatron". And also by God.. Please give some of these figures more expressive faces instead of just "neutral stone face". Part of the reason I love Studio Series much more is they're able to somehow make them super movie accurate and robotic in figure form and yet they still look like characters. You'd think designs that are meant to look more G1 would look more character-like than movieverse humanoid industrial machines.