Although this does look a bit more G1 toon, I still really like Maketoys effort as well, I think either would make a great Hound.

I wish there were some scale photos though, my biggest gripe about Maketoys version is how over sized the alt mode looks, personally I've always seen Hounds as being the smallest of the non minibot carbots seeing as how he seemed to struggle fighting (toon) Rumble who is one of the smallest cons.

I also think Taktom will make an MP Hound at some point, but I don't know if that really means as much these days to the plans of 3rd party, the 3rd party company making those MP vanbots doesn't seem at all deterred by the official ones. And after the last run of MP like 3rd party toys I picked up and MP Tracks, the only real difference these days seems to be that tampo faction symbol.