I know there's all the thing about "G1 Accuracy", but in the updated figures, I never thought that should prevent Hasbro from fixing some long-standing mistakes. Like with Kickback. He was supposed to be a grasshopper (or a locust). And he had most of the features in his alt mode that one would expect. Antennae, wings, two pairs of gripping forelegs, and larger inverted hind legs for jumping. The one thing he was missing was a grasshopper-style abdomen. And that always bothered me.
I know the G1 figure had limitations which were part of the design/technology issues of the day. They couldn't figure out how to include an alt-mode abdomen with the budget and size constraints. But that was then, and this is now. The technology and design capability is much better now, and I had hoped that the new Kickback would fix this by adding an abdomen and making him look more like a grasshopper.
Yes, I know it's not a REAL grasshopper, therefore it doesn't 'need' the abdomen. But one could say the same thing about any beast alt mode. Grimlock doesn't need the forearms, Slag doesn't need the tail. But they added them because the actual dinosaurs had them. Why should Kickback be any different? Besides, they were able to do it with Deluxe Insecticon "Ransack":
And they did it with POTP Legends Kickback. So it's perfectly possible. I think they could have given Legacy Deluxe Kickback a grasshopper abdomen and still made the robot mode accurate. As for them not doing anything with the robot head for the alt mode? Well, that's a separate gripe.
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