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Originally Posted by Blaster86
Pat Lee's design style WAS anime based and he forced everyone at Dreamwave to use said style (For two reasons, one it was "the house style" and two so he could take credit for work that may or may not be his). That was the entire problem with his blow-up doll inspired robots. People like Don Figueroa base their designs on the lines of the old artists (Geoff Senior and Andy Wildman, both from the UK oddly. Apparently Americans suck at drawing robots). But with you, I don't think it matters. Unless they do it in cel animation, raise Chris Latta, Don Messick, and Scatman Crothers from the dead and reassemble the entire original voice cast, you're not going to be happy. I get the sudden feeling you used to sit in front of your tv watching Beastwars screaming "TRUKK NOT MUNKY!!1!11!" 
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Pat Lee's style and the subsequent dreamwave house style and even the style that still permeates a lot of the current comics is really more of "what a North American thinks anime style should look like". Ultimately, for me, Transformers for me has to be the Studio Toei versions derived from Floro Dery's original character sheets (which I personally don't like until they got the Japanese studio treatment).
Figueroa and Guido Guidi, etc. are okay but they still do it waay too chunky. It's just the American style I guess. It's this way even in other cartoons. I actually hated Andy Wildman's art when I was a kid (that was more due to his use of real faces and hands for robots). He drew a mean Action Master Grimlock though.
My favorite art is actually the Studio OX art which sadly was only really used in promotional material and Call of the Primatives (or it may have been Tokyo Movie Shinsha). My favorite art book is Transformers Visual Works which I picked up in Toronto last summer.
Also, dude, you have me pegged. I spent most of 1994 just getting terribly angry at computer animated vomit that was on TV called Beasties. I hate Beast Wars 1000x more than the Vancouver Canucks. There's no possible way to put into words how much I hated that series. I also hate the current movies. Okay, fine I hate pretty much everything (including the Masterpiece/Alternator toys!) aside from some comics that do a very faithful job of translating the original 1984-85 characters to modern day versions. I also loved the Henkei! / Classics line and I have to get around to buying all of those one day. That was the only line of toys in the past 20 years that has put any effort into faithfully getting the feeling of the original characters right.
BTW, while we are talking Trypticon - here's some random trivia. In the original cartoon, he was voiced by the guy who plays Raymond's brother Robert in Everybody Loves Raymond!