In the TR Autobot Breakaway review thread a comment was made that the toy was disappointing due to the lack of Getaway's distinctive shoulder pads, and okay, fair point, but I don't know if I completely agree with this sentiment, and here's why.

Classicsverse isn't about replicating G1 toys with modern day engineering. The toys are distinctly identifiable as their G1 counterparts, but they're not necessarily enslaved to the idea of being G1 accurate. To me, Classicsverse is more like how HasTak would make these characters today using contemporary design/engineering. Masterpiece on the other hand is more about 'translating' G1 toys with a slavish dedication to aesthetic fidelity.

Look again at the Classicsverse/G1 Comparison thread and have a good look at a lot of these toys. Many of them "lack" iconic features of their G1 counterparts. e.g.
* Classics Optimus Prime has no smoke stacks on his shoulders.
* Mirage's weapons look nothing like the G1 toy's rifle or rocket launcher.
* Grimlock's overall design and transformation is a significant departure from his G1 counterpart. I know that he's not everyone's favourite toy, but I like it. And I like it a lot better than Generations/FoC Grimlock which has a more G1-like appearance and transformation.
* Much of RtS Windcharger's body looks nothing like G1 Windcharger (either the toy or show model), yet it's an arguably better toy than the more G1-accurate looking Combiner Wars Windcharger.
* Sunstreaker lacks the iconic yellow shoulder pylons and the limbs are totally different.
* Sideswipe & Red Alert's lower leg appearance and transformation is utterly unlike the G1 figures.
* Inferno has no ladder or wings.
* Boobglide. 'Nuff sed.
* The lower legs on the Nissans are inverted compared to their G1 counterparts.
* Voyager Nerf Megatron looks very different from his G1 self, and just as well because if he were G1 accurate then he'd raise legal issues!
...and so on and so on and so on... you get the picture.

And yet people have long loved Classicsverse figures despite their relative lack of G1 accuracy, and I think that it's because G1 accuracy isn't the staple of the appeal of Classicsverse. They're more like modern upgrades of these characters, like a "Transformers: Generation 3." And these "G3" Transformers generally tend to look a lot more like their G1 counterparts compared to some G2 Transformers such as G2 Mirage, G2 Power Master Ironhide, G2 Gobot Ironhide, G2 Jetfire (with Decepticon insignias!), G2 Gobot Optimus Prime, G2 Gobot Megatron, G2 Frenzy, G2 "Rave Party" Soundwave et al.

Classicsverse are very immediately identifiable as the character that they're meant to be, whereas some of these G2 figures you'd look at and wonder what the designers were drinking when they came up with them. I love both CHUGUR and MPs. I collect both CHUGUR and MPs, and it's because both lines scratch a different itch. Classicsverse shows me what G1 characters would be like if they were made as regular/mainline toys today. MPs gives me toys which are slavishly accurate renditions of G1 (or BW) characters. I love both for different reasons.