Agreed. It doesn't really look right. I don't have a lot of skin in that game since I was never going to get it anyway. But I really do enjoy seeing collection pictures of stuff I love that I can't/won't have for whatever reason. And that one really stands out to me.
My beef with the original as a kid was always "it's too small," so to make it even smaller now is too bad.
I'm genuinely glad that people who got it are enjoying it. Hope we weren't raining on your parade too much there with the negativity. It's a great piece to have, regardless. And I guess the upside is that it takes up a bit less space and is therefore probably a lot more manageable for an adult display rather than a kid who's just going to leave it all over the floor until their parents yell at them.
I believe they said the original tooling was too badly damaged to be re-used. Why they decided the Terrordrome was important enough to spend the money tooling up a whole new one... dunno. Maybe the retro release line is making them a ton of money. Most of it is literally just using molds that were paid for a thousand times over 40 years ago. It's as close to free money as a company can get that produces an actual physical product.
