Quote Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy View Post
It's sad isn't it? Any one of us could probably get it right...
It is sad. But it's because Hasbro doesn't take those photos. They send toys to professional photographers who then transform the toys - usually correctly, but sometimes not - then photograph them and send them back to Hasbro... who accepts them.

Notice this happens far more infrequently with Takara. I suspect Takara must either:
1: use in-house photographers
2: if they use external photographers, those photographers may try to pay more attention to the instructions - mind you, Hasbro's instructions can be quite poorly illustrated which doesn't help
3: Takara rejects photos of toys that aren't correctly transformed and demand that the photographers do it again (and the photography company would lose face and feel ashamed/dishonoured that they haven't done their job properly)