Shadowknight
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Ah, it was some misinformation I ran across some years ago, but it turns out the Romita thing is some type of incorrect myth associate with the cartoon for some reason
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~sstoneb/tf/faq/appendices/glossary.php
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~sstoneb/tf/faq/appendices/glossary.php
ROMITA, John
Comic art legend John Romita Sr. has absolutely nothing to do with Transformers at all. For many years, though, he was given credit by fans for creating the animation models of the early TF characters. This accomplishment was actually the work of some Takara artists and Floro Dery. We'll probably never know for sure how fans came to think it was Romita's work, although it may have been his credit as "art director" in the Transformers Universe comics. At the time they were printed, that was Romita's title at Marvel. It was a company-wide position, and his name's appearance in TFU is meaningless. Nevertheless, you will probably sometimes see the animation models referred to as "Romita models" while this particular false meme gradually works its way out of use. Also, the "process" of turning the toys into these simplified designs is sometimes called "Romitization".
The toy Galvatron always looked like crap, but I ran across a toy a few weeks ago that was a new iteration of the Galvatron character who's robot mode looked almost exactly like the robot mode on the show. He turned into a jet, and that would have been a far better jet design/robot design than we're getting with Megatron for the movie.And I think they should've made megatron look more like the cartoon one or at least galvatron from the movie.
