Hey, you're the one most open to deviating from G1...that's about as far away as they get.  

 

 

That wasn't deviating, that was total train wrecking!    

 

colors are a bit off...

G1-"accuracy" aside, the shades that WB picked don't even stand well on their own.



Also, the head would look more like the character with the faceplate unpainted brown.

 

Clearly you missed the part of the Feral Rex thread where David single-handedly controlled the color choices for rex with nothing but his encyclopedic knowledge of pantone color palettes and his mighty fingers!!!!!

 

Yeah cause there is a shade of brown and purple that go together so well anyways. Lol When it comes to transformers some didn't exactly have complimentary colors.

 

Joking as you are that isn't terribly far from the truth, david's feedback to MMC did in fact have a big influence on the colors chosen for the feralrex team.  

 

I don't dare for the color choices simply because I don't think they go well together. Normally I'd also prefer realistic vehicle coloring, but given this is a completely fabricated space cruiser, realism isn't much of an issue.

 

He's fine as is, but would be nice if he was darker. No one ever seems to get his colors quite right.

Also would've been really cool if they had flipped his shins around and allowed the boosters to form his toes.

 

... Okay these just went from my 'likely gonna get' list to 'DEFINITELY gonna get' list ^_^

 

And seeing as how I am thus far quite pleased with the colours on the Feral Cons (as are other TFW members, to the best of my knowledge), any influence ascribable to him has been no bad thing, yes?

Well, I guess that means people other than you, then. But you can let me know when everything's done and dusted and it's safe for me to come back in the room again!

[add]OK I'm actually going to take you seriously on this. My analogy: I go into an Italian restaurant and order a spaghetti bolognese. My spaghetti arrives and the meat sauce uses all pork instead of beef. Now, I know that a traditional SB uses beef. I say "how can they have not known what meat to use? This sauce isn't bad, but a spaghetti bolognese sauce should be all beef. Would have tasted better, too".

You overhear me and say "They sell cow meat right down the road at Beefmart. Don't like the meat, show us ur snazzy skills and whip up your own sauce. Thats within ur control. What meat the chef chooses to make for THEIR spaghetti bolognese isn't".

How reasonable does that sound to you?

By the way, I don't think that using pork in SB is some sort of sin - I wouldn't have complained if the chef had thrown in some pancetta. As with all things though, the matter of degree - matters. And all pork is too much of the wrong meat.

I hope that zfarsh is right and the brown will be more muted like how it appears in the in-tray pic he posted. If he isn't anywhere close to olive drab though, I am very certain that would have been a deliberate choice. I simply cannot believe the WB team didn't know which was the "right" brown to use - and if so, the natural question must follow - why deviate?

Hey! That sounds kind of neat. Just like the old Marvel artwork. Granted that the G1 toy had regular bot feet, but having the thruster nozzles form Blast Off's toes/front foot would have been a cool, individual touch.

Alright, the blasters can be attached to the sides of the bot legs! That's great. Now all Blast Off needs is another handgun to hold in bot mode.

 

Well, that's a false analogy. You know exactly how this not Blast-Off is going to 'taste', the only thing you have to decide is whether or not you like the taste. WB certainly isn't at fault, they've shown you what he will look like, now vote with your wallet. They have no obligation to make him the exact tone of colour you want.

 

The Predacons' colors are much more critical---they all share their colors. If the first one is wrong, the whole team will match and look wrong along with it. They had to have good colors right from the start.

Whereas with say the Combaticons or Stunticons---one "off" member won't ruin the whole team or anything. They all have their own colors.

Now, if Warbotron makes Brawl bright kelly green instead of a muted tank-like olive drab green, then we're going to have problems...

(same for Onslaught---if he turns out BLUE! instead of navy/slate blue, we're going to have a very bright and colorful Bruticus--more G2 than G1)

At least Vortex is hard to screw up----grey is inherently drab.

 

Holy Fucknuts and Skittlefarts! I really hope this turns out good. The Combaticons are a cool Team and the Decepticons on my Shelf are in need of Reinforcements.

Nice, Those are a definite buy!

 

What David said, I can deal with one of these guys being a bit off color wise. But if all 5 are vibrant and bright then they aren't the combaticons to me. Colors are important to tf characters, its a big part of what defines them and these guys out of all tf's are suppose to be dark and muted.

People wouldn't accept an optimus that is trying to be a g1 optimus in marone or pinkish red, no he has to be his iconic vibrant red. The only exception to this is redecos. These figures should be treated no different.

 

Alright, let's try again.

1. There's a Blast Off archetype derived from the G1 sources (toy, comic, animation). While all the sources are not 100% congruent in every aspect, we can, give or take, identify certain common elements of should be included in a "Blast off" homage. This is the "traditional spaghetti bolognese recipe".

2. Chez Warbotron advertises that they're going to open soon and teases what seems to be a pretty kickass SB. Everyone's excited, not least because there's only one other SB joint out there and their SB isn't to everyone's tastes.

3. Thereafter, they release more information on their SB and among that information is the fact that their recipe is onion-less.

4. I really, really want to eat a good old-fashioned SB. But now I'm thinking "damn that looks good, but why did they leave out the onions?"

5. mikequillm overhears me and says "[If you really want to eat SB you can buy it and you know what] They sell onions right down the road at OnionWorld. Don't like the sauce, show us ur snazzy skills and whip up your own. Thats within ur control. What the chef chooses to use for THEIR bolognese isn't".

Does that work better for you? My point is not that I have no choice but to buy (obviously I don't), but for something that for all intents and purposes appears to reference a known thing yet omits an element that is reasonably to be expected - it's a best puzzling and at worst, sinister. And in either case, disappointing.

It's really no good telling me that major self-help is my solution. It's also not the point that I'm not actually compelled to buy. I want to buy - and there's probably enough in there to make me buy - but I'm not pleased that there is an omission of a simple, reasonably-to-be-expected ingredient which IMO would have made the end product better for a great many people, myself included. And that I think I can lay squarely on WB's shoulders. They dont have to. But they should have.

 

There's another option......I'm sure TT will nail the colours in an official MP.......eventually.

 

I just realized---same as Mania King---if they'd just matched the box art, it'd be perfect.

They really need their art-guys to be in charge of ALL the coloring, not just the box's...

(also, they're obviously not following NECIO's colors, sadly)

Finally---I first saw the pics on my phone and wasn't sure about what I was seeing, but now I am sure, as this pic is pretty clear:


He doesn't have any black parts. It's all dark purple.

 

What are you even talking about anymore? The point has long been lost in your long winded analogy (both versions).

 

I actually REALLY like the colors they chose. It makes him pop without looking too bright, and I think it'll look fine on the combined figure, as well. I don't think he'd have looked as good using a more drab/darker color. Whoever Warbotron is, they definitely have an eye towards what makes the individual figure look good, not just the combined set.

 

Voting with your wallet (alone and of itself) has got to be one of the stupidest ways ever to send a message.

Put yourself in their shoes six months after release and poor sales. The designers sit down and try to come up with reasons:

• Poor Marketing
  
• Cost of product
  
• Color or product
  
• Accuracy of product compared to reference
  
• Weight of product
  
• Quality of plastic
  
• State of Competition on this particular item
  
• Paint quality
  
• etc, etc, etc....

So what did voting with our wallets do? Absolutely Nothing.

Send an email instead.