shajaki wrote:seein a lot of anger over the color scheme... to me it just looks like they were going for a G1 toy accurate color scheme. it doesnt exactly match, but its closer to that than the toon wheeljack.
and after seeing the plans for streak/bluestreak/silverstreak/streakystreakystreakstreak... im not worried.
wheeljack is his own entity, thus one mold, one use. but this way they can at very least get two figures out of it: G1 toy accurate & G1 cartoon accurate.
and i dont think ive ever been more excited about some teaser/non-information than the ultra magnus silhouette.
okay.. first, you're wrong.
they RARELY consider the toy coloring for anything.. and this isn't an exception.. the colors are based on the actual real life vehicle.. the colors aren't based on the toy whatsoever.
and if you read what hasui said about wheeljack.. he said that he tried to make the color of the vehicle mode as accurate to the real life car as he could, and said that he tried to make the robot mode look closer to the animation model.
so, again, the colors have absolutely nothing to do with the toy.
i said it earlier that i REALLY hope they release a simpler cartoon accurate color scheme since, as he is right now, he doesn't fit all that well with the other autobot cars. the color schemes on the other cars are simple, so they translated perfectly into being accurate to both the cartoon and the real life car. wheeljack, however, was too complicated for the animators.. which now turns into this mess.
and, like you said, wheeljack hasn't been made with the thoughts of further use of the mold.. so i would think that it's likely we'll see an animation accurate wheeljack.
i hope they do.. and when they do, hopefully i'll be able to sell the car accurate wheeljack lol.. though i'm sure i'll end up keeping it cause it looks great.. it's just not perfect compared to the others.
this news story has really ruined my excitement for bumblebee and wheeljack because i'm SOOOO excited for magnus lol. i'm still excited for the other two, but magnus is just going to be incredible.. there's no real life vehicle to be modeled after.. either of the two ways of him achieving his robot mode is just fine with me.. i love it.