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I've only seen a few of these in stores, but so far, the Autobot logo for the alt mode hood ornament is unpainted on all the ones I've seen. Has anybody seen any of these with this on there properly? The card back photo shows it, but you know how that goes. Seems like Hasbro's gotten so cheap lately that they're actively damaging the brand with this sort of thing.

Yeah, all the ones I've seen have been missing said logo. It's not something I care a lot about, personally, since it's a small and easily-missed one anyway, the symbols are probably among the most expensive paint apps to apply (Then again, maybe not, since the tampos are stock-standard and individual paint masks are toy-specific..anyone know more about this process?).

They've left out much more significant paint apps elsewhere, so I'm not too gutted by a symbol. But, this has been veering further from "product may vary" to "product is significantly crappier thank the one in the stock images". I value intact gimmicks more than paint apps.

I've looked at more photos, almost every image out there has no logo except the 1 Hasbro prototype, even other Hasbro photos using different prototypes don't have it, so I guess that got cut.

I suspect it'd be hard to tampo only because they recessed the part.

I do feel like this particular tampo is vital to the figure though, the part feels incomplete without it, a hood ornament without ornamentation.

I don't feel anywhere near as gypped by this as I do by Mixmaster's hood ornament. Now that's a hood ornament without ornamentation. I want my Decepticon-headed dog!