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Sit Down Saturday: The Toon Talk

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Sit Down Saturday: The Toon Talk

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I am an artist in my 40's and I've been drawing practically my entire life. I say this because I always felt like the cartoon felt lacking compared to the detailed toys. Obviously, Ironhide and Ratchet looked better in the cartoon, but nearly every other character looked cooler with all the extra details from the toy. It feels like these companies are taking a step back by being so slavish to the cartoon aesthetic. I prefer that first wave of MP cars including Soundwave and MP10 when if felt like we were getting a perfect version of characters that surpassed both the limits of 80s animation and 80s toy design. I pretty much have stopped collecting 3rd party G1 characters because they just don't look like the perfect versions of the characters to me anymore.

Chuck Skillz

Yeah, I think toon leaning but not super toon is my preference. For me it is a FT vs Maketoys Jazz. I like the head on MT better. The FT to me is too toon and sort of doofy in proportions. The MT head looks like a cool dude who should also be taken seriously (aside from the dumb smirk face that I never put on). The place I struggle most is with the minibots. I actually want them to look more toy. That is why I’m so excited about Parkour. I want a Cliffjumper that looks like the toy in alt mode. It won’t really fit in with Prime in alt mode, but it never did. I’m cool with everything not making real world sense because that was what we were conditioned to as kids. This truck with a cab is an 8th of the size of this truck with a cab. (Gears v Trailbreaker)


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