Talk:Show-accuracy

Can we get a picture for this article? IMO, a 4-way split like this?

Tidal Wave Anime	Tidal Wave PS2 Game
Japanese Tidal Wave	American Tidal Wave

I think that would nicely capture Japan's attachment to show-accuracy, but also displays how the Show-INACCURATE colors often crop into other media, and thus are no 'less correct' than the show-accurate colors. -Derik 20:46, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

It would also show that Japanese Tidal Wave isn't actually in show colors. -LV 21:05, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Thus exploding the whole paradigm! -Derik 21:37, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

It's not tremendously relevant to the Tidal Wave example, but Takara has this tendency to freak out and do weird things to their toys when they can't find ways to make them more "show-accurate". The original Japanese Rhinox's bizarre grey wash springs to mind. -LV 21:45, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Clearly there is more to say on this subject than 'sometimes toys look more like the show than others!' There's a whole psychological phenomenon in effect here that allows the equally-show-inaccurate Nipponese Tidal Wave to be perceived positively as 'show accurate' while the Gaijin version is slammed as inaccurate. Or how almost-symbolic gestures towards show-accuracy confer a godlike quality unto a toy-- even if the toy still looks nothing like the show does. -Derik 21:58, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Last sentence

Occasionally, new designs for a given series resemble old G1 characters for whom there were no, few (such as Energon's heavily G1-esque Galvatron/Megatron), or less show-inaccurate toys; for example, the Armada Unicron toy is the closest (and presently only) transforming likeness to the 1986 animated Unicron.

Okay, that sentence kind of falls apart ("for whom there were no, few, or less show-inaccurate toys", "closest (and presently only)"). Could someone reword it, possibly with different examples? - SanityOrMadness 23:19, 19 April 2009 (EDT)