Quote Originally Posted by SharkyMcShark View Post
I have a real bee in my bonnet about fake parts on toys to mimic a character model.
I know what you mean, but unfortunately it's the result of meeting consumer demand for "skreen akkuracy." If Hasbro just focuses on making the toys and not caring about how they might look on screen (let the animators work that out), then you have fans who complain about the lack of screen "accuracy" despite the fact that the toys were designed/made first. On the other hand, Hasbro can collaborate with animators or directly reverse-engineer a toy from an existing animation model in order to make their toys look more like what you see on screen, but then people complain about compromises made in engineering.

I prefer toys just being made as toys and just letting animators deal with making their animation models toy-accurate, but there is undeniably a sizable demand for screen-likeness in Transformer toys.