Wow, OK, looks like I have to apologize to Va'al, I went back through the comments and couldn't find one where you stated the androgynous design style would be best suited for Transformers, as a matter of fact I even found comments I didn't see before...
Looks like the lack of sleep and rest did take a larger toll on me than I thought.
Looking back at Nick Roche's old material, and comparing it to the current output in MTMTE, the difference in design are extremely noticeable and obvious. I mean I did realize that his style had changed and become more cartoony, along with something else something I couldn't quite put my finger on. Now I know, and it took me having to look at Neon Genesis Evangelion and Alien to realize what it was, a good deal of the characters are now drawn to look more gender neutral, while a good deal of them still look fairly masculine. It does kinda work, but it does make the ones in question kinda sameish (legs, chest, waist, arms) for Hot Rod, Drift and Tailgate. But, they still remain masculine looking for the most part, I think if they went more gender neutral it would look terrible.
I for one don't care whether a character is super buff, fat, masculine, slim, slender, robust, female, super hot female, etc looking. I like variety, that does not however mean that the tried and true body types (like Prime Megatron, Optimus etc) are bad, they are used so often for a reason and that reason is they are the norm and more numerous. The exceptions and more unique builds we always want are just that, exceptions.
So decrying them and wanting them to all be changed in favor of more fat guys, or skinny ones is utterly stupid. The closest TF to my own body type is Bulkhead, doesn't mean I want the rest of the cast to look like him, nore should they. Especially prime in which the designs are perfectly in tune with the character's personalities, fighting styles and even history. (I've been thinking about writing something about that for a while now, I may do it later after I've gotten some sleep.)
So yes, I'm sorry Va'al for putting words in your mouth.
But I stand to what I said about this particular design and designs in general, so yea the only thing I did wrong was putting words in Va'al's mouth.
Later