#the gradual transformation of Yoshi from actual dinosaur to Barney-like mascot suit actor

[fnrrfygmschnish]

Even more than I miss the original chunky Pikachu design (as opposed to the "yellow baby" it eventually morphed into, first in the anime and then later carrying over to the games), I miss when Yoshis were actually Yoshi-shaped.

This is a Yoshi:

And these are Yoshis (note: if you spell it "Yoshies," I will punch you. That is not how plurals of words ending in "i" work.)

Notice the longer tail, scrawny T-Rex arms, long neck, big spikes on the back of the neck. It's bipedal, but in pretty much the same way a velociraptor or a tyrannosaur or an ostrich is bipedal -- not at all "human-shaped."

This, however...

...this is not a Yoshi.

This is... somebody in a Yoshi mascot suit. A reject from whatever the Mushroom Kingdom's version of Disneyland is, or their equivalent of Barney perhaps.

The tail is barely more than a useless nubbin, not a legit tail like on an actual Yoshi-shaped Yoshi. It's so small now that they actually have to have it inexplicably grow to usable size whenever Yoshi uses a tail-related move in the Super Smash Bros. games.

The arms are suspiciously human-like in both size and shape, with huge hands on the end rather than the hands being about the same width as the rest of the arm. Not surprising, considering that they have to be big enough to fit the actor's hands inside.

The torso and neck have shrunk down, while the head is inflated to absurd size. This is so it can fit the actor's head inside as well as mechanisms for moving the eyes and mouth, of course.

And it's now fully human-shaped rather than "dinosaur style" bipedal, which is no surprise when you consider that there's a human inside of the suit!

That is not a Yoshi.

Bring back actual, Yoshi-shaped, legit Yoshis.