Quote Originally Posted by Autocon View Post
i dont understand why people have this "ho no they are animals not machines!" mentality. why is it so wrong?
There's nothing wrong with it, it was just something entirely new and it took people by surprise. To this day some people still don't like the aesthetics of Beast Wars Transformers (as heroic_decepticon once said, it feels "icky" to him) -- and that's just their opinion. I guess some people just don't like seeing organic animal kibble hanging off robots.

When you break away from the traditional design of Transformers you're always gonna get people who won't like it. There are lots of people who hate the live action movie designs because they look too "f'ugly"* and people who hate Animated because it uses the simplified contemporary style of Western animation which cuts down on excessive detailing. Whether you like or hate a certain design aesthetic is entirely a matter of personal opinion.

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*I like the fact that they look so alien. "Transformers and Philosophy" states that technically the Transformers shouldn't have virtually _no_ alt mode kibble at all and that the movie designs show too much. It argues that all their alt mode parts should really pull apart and hide somewhere, leaving a pure protoform on the outside. Similar to how some insects are able to pull back a carapace and reveal wings etc. But as someone from Hasbro pointed out, as unrealistic as it may be, having alt mode kibble is something very iconic about what makes a robot a Transformer -- so I appreciate the fact that the designers tried to reach a compromise between 'realistic scifi fans' who would insist on kibble-free robot modes, and traditional Transformer fans who would want lots of kibble.