Because they were written at a time when bad guy supervillains were cartoonishly evil with little-to-no nuance or subtlety to their "evil for evil's sake" nature. G1 Megatron was just a naturally-born bully.
I remember hearing about how Saban wanted to take the series "back to its roots" back when Samurai came out, but RPM was only a "failure" in the sense that Disney did an abysmal job of advertising it.
They put it in a dead timeslot on ABC Kids, they never put it on Toon Disney's Jetix (Jungle...
The blue also looks lighter, while the red looks deeper.
And the Decepticon symbols are smaller and don't have a white border.
And the missiles are the elongated versions Hasbro uses in their reissues.
And the stripe pattern on the wings is shaped differently.
And there's no stripe pattern...
Aren't the O-ring designs prone to breaking over time?
That's what people said was the inevitable fate of Energon Kicker, who also used the old Joe O-ring ("JO-ring"?) design.
For the time being, Authentics Arcee kinda fills the niche for the articulation-limited brickiness of the G1 figures. She even has that awkward "dead inside" stare that many G1 toys had. 😜
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