Do you see the screws?

[The Doctor]

This might sound strange. Transformers toys have screws in them to hold them together. I rarely notice them though. I know they're there, but it's like I rarely perceive them and my eye 'fills in' the screw holes. It's like I have a perceptual filter which doesn't often let me see the bits that make them obviously toys, ie screws and screw holes. Am I mad? Does anyone else 'see' the screws?

-Ralph

[Shockprowl]

I see the screws. I SEE THEM!

On a good TF, I don't notice them/mind them. On a poor TF I SEE THEM!

Example: Poor TF- Classics Ironhide, one of the many things I dislike about this mold is how obvious the screws are.

[Shockprowl]

So, I've voted 'sausages' 'cos some times I see 'em, and some times I don't. Crazy stuff.

[Bogatan]

Sausages. I think theres rules as to where screws go unnoticed or not. Inside of the legs I know there there but they fell like part of the design.

Ironhide really is a good example of when the screws are in the wrong places and suddenly become very annoying.

Andy

[dyrl]

Hm.

I notice to many problems with Transformers these days before even getting to the screws so...sausages.

Pete

[kayevcee]

I love the intricacy of TF engineering so I always notice the screws, pins, rivets etc. I think the part of your brain that masks the screws makes them stand out in mine.

-Nick

[Deleted]

Some good TF's actually use stickers to cover up the screws.

[grahamthomson]

Screws on Micromaster chests bug me. But the Japanese releases with the MicroTrailers do come with little stickers to cover them over.

[blueshift]

Sometimes I see them, sometimes I don't. But some designs do clever things with the screws, like hide them in a hole or have screw-like designs over the robot.

Some of them, like Universe Ironhide, just plonk them on higgledy-piggledy