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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Except the original kind of sucks. The lions look like body parts that happen to have legs sticking off of it.

That is kind of the point. The design of the lions is that they form a military machine and combine. Not that you're supposed to be following animal anatomy class. My little pony makes some awesome stuff tho.

I've also seen many attempts to "improve" on this toy design, and this one looks ok except for all that crotch / roids. I'd rather have the presence of a towering monolithic form, like a fortress - than an anime accurate jock bot (even though in the animations it was super blocky and voltron had a sweet mullet/80s aussie neck sunburn hat thing??)

The design style is called brutalism. Overwhelmingly monolithic and imposing.
And the original toy sucks how exactly? I get the subjective nature of this, buy what you want, etc... but when you say "it sucks" what are we talking about?

Pros:
Big 12" tall
Diecast
Rocket launching lion heads
combines
focuses on shooting your friends eye out
tons of accessories and missiles to lose in your yard

Cons:
no one cares about your cosplay recreations of scenes on your shelf
can't pose with crotch thrust against your face
can't pose like break dancing robot nerd, in lieu of you going outside and learning moves/physical effort
can't actually kill anyone w missiles or lion heads
can't legally marry you