Decent amount is fine with me. I mostly collect small sized figures and cyberverse is the right amount for me.
Well said, I share this opinion, the only thing about the Prime figs that even remotely bothers me so far is (FE)Optimus Primes mouthplate, this is one time I would prefer the toy without it.
Show accuracy is a big factor. I can forgive a few cheats if it makes for a better figure, but if say things were pretty much the same, I'd go for the one closer to the show version.
Show accuracy is extremely important to me. As a kid I was always confounded by the fact the optimus' toy looked like some wired block truck thing. Imagine how I felt about ironhide lol. That being said, my favorite tf is, and most likely will be for a good long while, rotf leader prime
I like show accuracy, but theres a number of times where it doesn't need to be there, ie when it causes major cheats if making a toy more show accurate means putting 4 fake wheels on the figure even though the other wheels are still visible I don't want it. If its physically impossible to make something accurate like when parts of the vehicle mode change size when going to robot mode, ie on tfp Ratchet, than I don't want them to cheat in an attempt at accuracy
I like accurate toy designs because they usually either lead to or are the result of more detailed or complex transformations and engineering. If a figure looks cool, I will at least consider getting it even if it isn't really accurate. (For example, I considered getting DotM Voyager Optimus because I thought it looked cool even though it wasn't accurate at all.)
It's nice, but it's far from everything in regards to the toy for me. I prefer a toy to be a good toy. Show accuracy is simply a bonus.
It sometimes depends on how much I care about the character. In a character I don't care about, a cool toy or transformation can trump accuracy. On the other hand, I'm a lot less likely to buy a toy of a character I don't care about. So yeah, 90% of the time, accuracy is hugely important to me. Of course, it's a sliding scale. I'm lenient if I feel a toy is about as accurate as they could come with modern engineering and needing to bring it in under a certain price or produce it at a smaller scale such as Cyberverse. I'm a lot less lenient if I know they could have done better (or already did do better, as we've seen with some recent toys). In cases like that, lack of accuracy can be a deal-breaker.
For my g1, not at all. I got over it at age 8. I thought my cousins Ironhide was wrong but it had it's own charm as a figure so I liked it none the less.
For me it depends greatly upon the toyline being discussed. If the desigsn come first, I want the toys to be screen accurate. If the toys come first, I don't care (like G1).
Couldn't care less. Probably why I like the modern iterations of G1 so much. They don't look like the old cartoon, but you sure as hell know which character is being depicted.
100% agreed on this. Also, I loved my G1 toys but an awful lot of them didn't look at all like the characters they represented. Even those who came after the cartoon.
