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    Check the description of Tasmania Kid (Snarl). It still lists him as transforming into a "Tasmanian devil"

    It does look a little closer to one, but still off. I'm kinda torn on loving that it still says he's a Tasmanian Devil despite being fairly off, or annoyed they didn't take the CHUG approach to remedy it and make it more accurate like they did with Cheetor back in Universe 2.0
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    Quote Originally Posted by Golden Phoenix View Post
    Check the description of Tasmania Kid (Snarl). It still lists him as transforming into a "Tasmanian devil"

    It does look a little closer to one, but still off. I'm kinda torn on loving that it still says he's a Tasmanian Devil despite being fairly off, or annoyed they didn't take the CHUG approach to remedy it and make it more accurate like they did with Cheetor back in Universe 2.0
    The Tassie devil mode looks pretty accurate to me! Improvements include:
    * Pointier/smaller snout
    * Smaller head
    * Smaller ears that no longer resemble bat wings
    * Smaller eyes
    * Thinner tail

    They've really fixed up the inaccurate proportions from the original toy; he looks more like the actual animal and less like a cartoony generic/non-descript marsupial. Unlike the original, you can tell that the Legacy Tasmania Kid designers have actually seen a Tassie devil, or at the very least looked at reference photos. The original toy looks so ridiculously inaccurate that it's likely that those designers never even saw pictures of a devil, let alone the animal IRL. And this is also a bold move because it does make Tasmania Kid's beast mode inaccurate to the original toy and the Beast Wars Second cartoon design, but bugger that; a more realistic beast mode = superior robot in disguise! They did the same with Legacy Lio Convoy too, giving him a less cartoony and more realistic looking lion mode.

    Okay, the colours aren't realistic, but you can blame the original for that. I would personally like to see HasTak repaint this toy in realistic Tassie devil colours and release it either as a new character, or as Beast Wars Snarl; finally establishing the two characters as being visually distinctive from each other (hey, if eHobby can retcon Hauler as green to make him distinctive from Grapple, I don't see why it can't work for BW Snarl)

    I find it funny that some people have commented on "Tasmanian Kid"'s name, saying that it must be because Hasbro's lost the trademark for Snarl. Despite the fact that Studio Series 86 and Legacy Core Class Snarl are a thing. It does appear that Hasbro were unable to secure the trademark for Tasmania Kid though, thus having to go with Tasmanian Kid, but it's certainly not because Hasbro doesn't hold the trademark for "Snarl" anymore, lol. I also saw some people stating that it's so that they don't confuse people. This maaaaay be true (apparently it's why Titans Return G1 Chase was called "Roadburn," and why WFC G1 Barricade was called "Decepticon Runner") -- but they could've easily gotten around this with "Beast Wars Universe Snarl." I dunno... it's possible. I still would like to see a black and white-striped repaint of this toy as "Beast Wars Universe Snarl."

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