Burn wrote:Wolfman Jake wrote:Why do we accept Devastator or Predaking with their unified team colors for their individual members? They seem to be exceptions to the rule, but they're both celebrated. No one calls them out on having a "symmetrical" deco for all members. Bright red and teal just don't mesh well, unlike Devastator's green and purple or Predaking's orange and black motifs.
We didn't question it because that's just how it was. We were kids, they were robots that combined into a bigger robot, I for one wouldn't have cared about the colours back then.
So we've grown up accepting that Predaking and Devestator have a somewhat uniform colour scheme, while the Scramble guys don't.
We didn't really object to the crazy colours of G2, 'cause you know, TRANSFORMING ROBOTS!
But now, we're all a little bit older, our tastes have "matured" and along comes Victorion with her scramble city style combination but with a uniform colour scheme! I wonder if people may be rejecting the colours on a subconscious level because of what a lot of us grew up with.
My questions were meant to be more rhetorical than interrogative, but yes, I agree nostalgia has a lot to do with why the original exceptions to the rule are fine by us, but this new one is raising alarms. I think there IS something that can save Victorion and her color scheme, though, beyond Hasbro tinkering with the hues a bit:
story. If Hasbro can give us a compelling reason why the "Torchbearers" all wear matching colors, and why they use these
specific colors, there will be a lot more acceptance from us, the fans.