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I noticed when I was a kid watching transformers(G1) that all autobots had blue eyes and decepticons had mostly red eyes with the exception of a few with yellow eyes.

With this in mind, I have to ask the question, What's up with ultra Magnus' white robot mode? Was he at one time a decepticon? Did the trailer armor turn him into an autobot? I'm wondering if this is the reason why we never saw the white robot mode in the cartoon.

Anybody have any info on this?

Never mentioned, alluded to, or hinted at. Magnus' inner robot never even appears in the cartoon proper, but if it did I would assume he would have been given blue eyes, much like Grimlock, whose toy also had red eyes.

Sacrilege! That's like saying Captain America was a former commie. I would say Magnus is the most patriotic of all Autobots. He should start wearing underpants and a cape.

The red and blue eyes seems to be cartoon only. The toys had no such patterns.
I always used to put red and blue clay on my TFs eyes. Is that weird?

d_sel1 wrote:The red and blue eyes seems to be cartoon only. The toys had no such patterns.

Exactamundo. The toys has eyes of various colors, but in the cartoon (bar a few exceptions) Autobots had blue and Decepticons had red. The change is merely stylistic, but it did serve to keep both groups distinct

It would be an interesting concept, but no.

It's not like White Prime has red eyes before, right?




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1st, I think it was awesome of DW to bring him out the way they did in that storyline.

2nd, I always thought that for as loyal and good as he was, in the cartoon he was a stiff ass who couldn't carry the ball when it was handed to him.

3rd, really to answer the OP, no, I never thought he was a Con, even with the eyes. it's just a minor paint app mistake. happened to a few of them.

Rodimus Prime wrote:3rd, really to answer the OP, no, I never thought he was a Con, even with the eyes. it's just a minor paint app mistake. happened to a few of them.

Paint app mistake nothing, all the toys with painted heads had red eyes.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:3rd, really to answer the OP, no, I never thought he was a Con, even with the eyes. it's just a minor paint app mistake. happened to a few of them.

Paint app mistake nothing, all the toys with painted heads had red eyes.

Oh, OK. Whatever.

Banjo-Tron wrote:He should start wearing underpants and a cape.

Are you suggesting that Magnus has not been wearing underpants all along then?