Which form of Thorax do you like better?

[Sonic Shimmer 4,131]

He's a pretty terrible character in both forms honestly.

[Megas 27,564]

Original, when I saw his redesign and the reformed changelings redesign I thought it was a bad joke. His brother Pharynx was the only one who got it right 

[Misty Shadow 7,842]

I know a lot of people hate the reformed Changeling design, but for Thorax...I gotta go with his reformed design. Seriously, his unreformed design, even if we both agree that it's better, you can't deny that he looks exactly the same as every other Changeling like that. 

[Fritzy 1,691]

Reformed definitely. The original was cute and all but there was something to me just a tad more pleasing to the eye to the reformed designs. Plus he was cuter and tad more interesting like that IMO. 

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[Reality Check 631]

Reformed Thorax, definitely. I just want to hug him whenever I see him smile

[BornAgainBrony 2,397]

It's kinda hard to separate the Thorax design from the overall Changeling design, so on that: Xenomorph fan, so I might be biased. Managing to put a parasitic hive species in a cartoon aimed at little girls was a pretty impressive thing to pull off. Aesthetically I prefer the original because the changelings really stand out more, in a world that already has a lot of pastels. But furthermore, it felt like too much of an appeal to outdated fairytale norms, to have changelings become "beautiful" by turning to the side of good. I would've been perfectly happy if there had been no wild transformation. Maybe they just could've looked more healthy and not frayed/cheese-legged like the dark changelings? Regardless, I wanted to hug thorax from the moment he revealed himself to Spike. He's just so sincere.

The reformed pastel color scheme also seems a bit overdone. There's just TOO many colors, that don't go very well together. This might have worked fine in a more realistic art style, because maybe the intent was to emulate the iridescent color-shifting exoskeleton that some insects have. But in "Flash" it just kinda falls... well... flat.

And a random question: Why does reformed Thorax have mandibles on the top of his head that apparently serve no purpose?

[Landi 600]

To be honest, I really dislike the post-reformed changeling designs, especially Thorax's, so I am going to have to go with the original thorax design. The new design just looks extremely odd and mismatched, and it is probably one of my least favorite character designs in the show.

 

[Fritzy 1,691]

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[TheSupremeLeaderOfChaos 1,206]

I always thought the transformation scene was super fascinating, and that it creates a lot of interesting questions about the history of the changelings. While Thorax's old form is adorable, I really do love his new form! Not only do I think the colorful changeling design is super unique, but also I think it fits Thorax so well!

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[JMTV99 1,352]

56 minutes ago, Landi said:

To be honest, I really dislike the post-reformed changeling designs, especially Thorax's, so I am going to have to go with the original thorax design. The new design just looks extremely odd and mismatched, and it is probably one of my least favorite character designs in the show.

 

Yeah, same here. I don't like new designs for the changelings, either.  When I saw the changelings being redeemed, I was like "Are you kidding me?" 

It's like, why? Who in the hell asked for the changelings to be redeemed? It just ruins the contrast since they were supposed to be villains and Chrysalis' minions. What makes the changelings so interesting in A Canterlot Wedding is the design gives out a good contrast for the ponies to fight. Similar to Powerpuff Girls: Cute little girls fighting off big ugly monsters. That worked. The fact that this show trying to say that 'not all of the changelings are bad', just shows that the writers really don't know what the hell they're doing.

That was the final nail in the coffin for me and I stopped watching the show after S6.

So yeah, I prefer the original.

[North Star 5,218]

Neither :|

I like this changeling

[ExplosionMare 18,062]

I like old Thorax, he was so much cuter

[Splashee 28,563]

The early one was better, and his voice fitted better.

 

The green bug look never worked.

[Flying Pencil 3,024]

I like the reformed version of him. More cuter and colorful. 

[Toastypk 923]

On 2021-07-29 at 5:21 PM, abrony-mouse said:

Neither :|

I like this changeling

This is an acceptable answer too.

[Astralshy 26,420]

Definitely a good question. There are things which I like and dislike in both designs. In general I prefer the changed visual design of the changelings but Thorax is maybe not the best example for this. If I have to pick I would also vote for the new design, but only with a tiny margin here.