I'm not against people buying any of these different "designer versions." I like and appreciate many of the renewed designs. Beside, it is not up to "me" to decide if a design is necessary or not, or who's allowed to enjoy a design or not (I hate those arrogance too). Rather, the Capitolist Market will decide the winners/losers.
But sometimes, I honestly think designers do need to leave some already great designs alone out of respect, and focus more on those that needed updates. For me, there's very few near-perfect original classic designs, I listed 3, I want to add Macross VF-1 to that list. I just can't imagine new gen designers can "improve" them much other than add some superfluous details to the original (think the older metal-builds, those are mostly good examples of design/detail renewal but not really the "designer version" type of styling changes I'm trying to differentiate), but the result do make a more premium toy. Like I said, "different"? Sure, and just as enjoyable. But aguably "better"?, not really in my opinion. |