Does anyone else just not care anymore?

[SkyWarp91]

I actually think that the movie toys did considerably well for today's standards because you had real life vehicles that transformed into such alien like robots. Sure the classics verse toys had vehicles as well but they were generic vehicles and the robot modes were blocky as - nothing wrong with that but admittedly it does not require the complex engineering as needed for the movie toys. Despite my name being of decepticon cause i am in this situation the optimus

[GoktimusPrime]

Yes, hence my comment:

and to be fair to some movie toys, they have the additional challenge of being based on screen models (highly complex ones at that) which are difficult to translate into toys - whereas the majority of G1 toys were designed as toys first (thus HasTak had more creative freedom)... but even then that only covers the toys that appear in the film. We have had some movieverse toys which didn't appear in the film and were designed as toys first which are still sub-par by contemporary standards, e.g. Breakaway (I like this toy cos I got it for free as a bday gift, but I probably wouldn't be so fond of it if I'd paid money for it - esp. full retail). And I'll give credit to HasTak that they are - in general - getting gooderer at designing movie toys.

But on the whole, I don't think movieverse toys are generally as well designed by today's standards compared to early G1 toys by the standards of their day. There are exceptions on either end, but generally speaking when examining both lines on the whole, that's how I feel.