Agamemnon wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Agamemnon wrote:The Hasbro release of Windblade is more comic color accurate, correct?
Negative. Just the opposite.
Ah, gotcha. The world is right again. I thought there was discussion initially that Hasbro's was more comic accurate. Must have been another figure...
[Edit] As I look at my comic that came with the figure, the cover art is accurate to Hasbro's scheme. But, looking at the inside, the Takara one is closer to the interior art.
Takara based theirs on Sarah Stone's coloring of Windblade, which in turn was based on early concept coloring for the character. The Hasbro toy is the finalized color scheme, but the comics instead depict the earlier unfinalized deco, which Takara decided to emulate for their toy.
And frankly, the Sarah Stone/Takara deco is much prettier since it gives some much needed color to an otherwise uncolored jet mode.
However, a few select comics (and some covers) not done by Sarah Stone colored Windblade kinda similar to her Hasbro toy:
But the early/Stone/Takara deco is more ubiquitous (and nicer).