Here's the problem with that line of thinking: By that logic, practically no toy of a G1 Transformer should have a transparent windshield or cockpit canopy. Because they're so often drawn with a flat color that has white streaks on it, and sometimes not even those streaks.First-Aid wrote:Ultra Markus wrote:my only gripe on Kup is his chest is too flat its supposed to me more curved
That and the color of the chest piece and window on his vehicle mode is wrong. That's the thing that bugs me more than anything else about it, and it really is a big turn-off. If screen-accuracy is a big thing for this line, why use the transparent blue when a solid light greyish-blue piece is probably cheaper and more accurate?
They made it clear because it's a windshield and logically should be transparent - and frankly, I like that change. Having opaque, painted windshields is one of the biggest things that makes Blurr, Kup, and Springer's original toys (as well as many of those that followed through G1) look cheap compared to the Diaclone-derived toys that came before as well as fellow made-for-the-movie toys Hot Rod, Rodimus Prime, and Wreck-Gar.
As for the chest.. Making it as curved as it is in the robot mode animation model would require obnoxious faux-parts use, so I'm glad the toy didn't go there. However, the chest on the toy does at least actually properly jut out as per the animation model, when Kup's torso is posed correctly (instead of the awkward slight limbo pose half the pics thus far have him in).