The science behind colour-vision is pretty fascinating! (Thanks to the oddities of the X-chromosome, it's actually possible (but quite rare) for XX people to have 4-6-colour vision. It's an understudied subject, sadly.)
Deadput wrote:philswitch engage wrote:Devastator is iconic in his neon green and purple scheme.
Iconic doesn't mean pretty the Constructicons have always had an ugly color scheme no matter how you spin it.
I'd say almost all Combiners have colour schemes that are a bit screwy one way or another (consequence of trying to make the colour layouts work for individual and combined forms), but Victorion's problem might be that her paintjob's awkward in a different manner to preexisting combiners. Guys like Devastator have the "monochromatic blob" problem, guys like Menasor have the "we're not even trying" problem (although that does seem to be fairly effective at deflecting critique).
Victorion comes off as kind of "crumbly" - the colour layouts of her individual components are already fairly small and jumbled, which only gets more noticeable when they're all stuck together. I think she would've benefited from her colours being mapped in larger blocks, and maybe mixing up the colour scheme between some limbs (cars teal w/ cerulean, copters rust w/ white etc).
Deadput wrote:I bet that if Victorion was from the original G1 toyline no one would care and they would call her colors iconic cause nostalgia is a blinding thing.
Yeah, new characters get held to weirdly high standards that legacy characters don't. Iconic/traditional is more of an excuse than a reason.