Maybe it would help if we observed at the parts that were being considered not accurate enough.
Let's see...
MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:the chest, the arms, the hourglass, her weapon?
The chest:
The chest is bulbous in both show and toy form with the spider leg designs arranged in similar positions that branch out from the upper-center and curve back inward around the perimeter. The only major difference is that chest on the toy is translucent while the chest on the show is opaque.
The arms:
Due to the limitations of using this mold, the forearms are colored to emulate the claws she had in the cartoon, while the shoulders are colors to evoke the shoulders pads of her cartoon model. Granted, the upper arms are indeed the parts that deviate from the colors of cartoon model's upper arms, but that again comes from using this particular mold and having to make compromises with it. Since the entirety of both arms forms a spider leg, it makes sense for the whole of each leg to have a consistent pattern running its entire length, so the upper arms are the only parts not colored correctly for the sake of not looking weird in spider mode.
Plus, the spider legs are not on the toy's forearms since the transformation calls for them to be attached to the toy's back, what with each arm becoming a spider leg. Otherwise, had the orange spider legs been attached to the robot forearms, then the spider mode would have four of its six legs attached to two other legs instead of the spider's body.
The hourglass:
The hourglass is where it's supposed to be and decently visible, even if the one in the cartoon only mostly visible in close up shots and in proper lighting.
Unless the hourglass on her waist was the intended subject:
That's another compromise made from using this mold, since that hourglass was molded into the waist from the original version. With all the other retooling put into this mold, it probably wasn't in the budget to redo the waist to give it spider eyes on top of all the other modifications made to the mold.
The weapon:
As far we can tell, the Legends toy bears no weapon, so we can't really talk about this one.
MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:Thighs and feet should be purple, her upper arms are absolutely crazy and do not match the show model at all, the hourglass on her spider abdomen is bizzare by skipping over the already molded one in favor of painting a slab of plastic that is practically shapeless, and her breasts make no sense... translucent with gray detailing. Not accurate at all.
Glad y'all are fine with it, but I think it could have been done better, just like the remold. She has no stomach, and they could have gotten rid of the front two spider legs and put all four on her arms and tucked her robot legs away in beast mode (which could have stood a remold themselves). It's decent, but if they really wanted to make her Beast Wars accurate, they could have and chose not to... disappointing
The thighs:
The outer thighs are the same black as her pelvis, and which runs the entire length of her thigh, while only the top half of her inner thighs are purple, with the bottom half being the same gold piece that divides the two halves if each thigh. But since the molding of the Legends toy doesn't allow for this kind of coloring, they are colored black since that was the dominate color of her thighs in the show, with the little slots being purple as a nod to the inner thighs' purple.
The feet:
The feet of the Legends toy are purple like on the show, so moving on.
The spider abdomen hourglass... is not visible in the shots of the Legends toy seen on this website, so I'm not sure there is to complain about here.
Already talked about her chest.
The smaller stomach comes from the original mold, so there's not much of anything that could have been done there short of remaking the entire mold from the ground up.
The proposition about the spider legs and the robot limbs is unreasonable for what Takara was trying for with this mold. Redoing all the limbs combined with having the redo the body (to fix the stomach), coupled with the retooling that has already been done, would end up with essentially leaving nothing from the mold intact, at which point would everyone start asking why Takara would even bother using this mold instead of just creating a brand new one since all the changes that would need to be made to it would essentially (and needlessly) render it as a completely new mold altogether.
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