Apologies, I Probably should have worded it better.

 

No problem! Sorry if I came across as snarky in my last reply.   Are there any other known mix-ups with bios? That's pretty interesting about Sideswipe and Sunstreaker - so does that mean that Sideswipe was originally intended to be the vain, merciless one? I re-read their bios, and they must have switched the names over, because Sunstreaker is obviously yellow-sounding, so presumably the swap was deliberate? Oh, wait, their colours were switched, weren't they? So originally there was to be a yellow Sunstreaker that used the Sideswipe mould and vice versa. Cool.

 

Something like that, all you have to do is hold Sunstreaker in hand while reading Sideswipe's bio - mind blown!

 

Another great gallery guys.

Yeah - basically Tigertrack is what the original Sunstreaker was meant to look like.

 

Beautiful.

You know what that would have worked a lot better.

 

After this release (and seeing how good it looks), it would be great if HasTak decided to make it Bluestreak's official color scheme going forward.

 

TRIPLE meaning, even. Bluestreak's ion rifle fires bolts that resemble "blue lightning" according to his bio.

Or QUADRUPLE meaning even, since he's described as being one of the fastest Autobots in 1984... and "blue streak" being a term used to describe something really fast.

At that point, it sort of seems like overstating it, doesn't it?  

Well, a certain portion of the fandom might suggest Rumble and Frenzy...  

Not their bios, but comparisons would suggest that all three 1984 Seekers had their Tech Spec graphs switched. The intelligence and ranks stats give it away.

A lot of people nurse the suspicion that Battletrap and Flywheels had their names switched.

The Sunstreaker mold was supposed to be produced in red, not yellow... which is somewhat confirmed by the fact that his sticker sheet was never updated. He still had the red stickers for his shoulders. It makes a lot of sense if you always wondered why Sunstreaker had a red rear fender.

It makes a lot of sense in other ways too. Going by the bios:
- Sunstreaker is supposed to have a heavily armoured chest... but the toy has a glass canopy for a chest. Meanwhile the Sideswipe molds seems to have a big solid chest.

- Sunstreaker has the piledrivers described in Sideswipe's bio, as well as the two shoulder mounted flares, the jet pack (sort of) and the external engine vens that supposedly "ruin" Sideswipe's car mode aesthetics.

- Sideswipe has the right-shoulder-mounted rocket launcher and rifle described in Sunstreaker's bio.

- Sideswipe is described as the rough and tumble one, while Sunstreaker is the "beautiful" one. Conversely, the Sideswipe figure is an elegant, proportional design, and the Sunstreaker mold is the muscley ape-like robot design. Also of note... according to his Tech Specs, Sideswipe is quite strong (7) compared to Sunstreaker (5)... but Sunstreaker clearly has the more brutish looking toy.

On the colour thing... apparently Sunstreaker's name was changed late in the game; originally he was supposed to be "Spin-out" (Sideswipe and Spin-out has a nice symmetry to it, eh?). So who knows what colour each one was supposed to be originally?

I always did find it a bit weird that 1984 had both a BlueSTREAK and a SunSTREAKER. Maybe it was a last-minute change or something.

This is one of those nagging bits of trivia that really bugs me. Like, suddenly everything about those characters makes that much more sense. It feels like something that should be rectified. But then, on the other hand... it's like, waaaaay too late for that now. The twins are cemented as they are.

I'm torn... this looks sooooo good, and it hits that special nostalgic spot. But I have to say, the silver/black deco is also really, really pretty. MP Bluestreak (the first one) really shows it off nicely.

Speaking of real cars, BOTH of those decos are real Fairlady Z paint jobs. A few years ago, someone who lived a block away from me owned one in the black/silver scheme. Whenever I saw it parked on the street, I had to stop to oooh and ahhh over it. It was a really beautiful little car.

zmog

 

Several Autobots had their names changed at the last minute, namely Sunstreaker, Cliffjumper (Blow Out), Trailbreaker (Guzzle) and Windcharger (Sprint). For the better in most cases, except for Sunstreaker. Spin Out would've been better IMO.

Also, given the common theme in these new names I wonder if Thundercracker also had his name changed...

 

Great explanation, SMOG!

Hopefully the red Diaclone Sunstreaker we eventually get will be called Spinout, and given a new personality et al.


The G1 cartoon pretty much ruined any chance of swapping Sideswipe and Sunstreaker back around by giving Sideswipe an actual jetpack and piledrivers (Sunstreaker also has a mini launcher he uses in car mode).

 

Now that stuff I didn't know. Interesting.

Good point... though really, all of the original 3 seekers had compound invented names, rather than actual terms or phrases like most other characters. In any case, it certainly initiated a tradition of Transformers names constructed in a similar way.

I have no doubts that it will. We'll also probably get the classic Diaclone police deco as well.

Yeah... though I'm fine with attempts to redesign them slightly to better reflect those old bios. For example MP Sideswipe comes with piledrivers... no jetpack though.

What mini-launcher are you talking about on Sunstreaker?

zmog

 

Can't find a photo of it but pretty sure in the first episode (not sure which part), when he and Sideswipe come along to save Trailbreaker, that he shoots at Laserbeak(?) with a rear-mounted launcher of some sort.