Sabrblade wrote:In train mode it looks to be about even between the two colors.Hellscream9999 wrote:But this mold has grey as the predominant color,
And now that it's been pointed out that the pieces the wheels are a part of are both gray plastic painted purple, that says to me that Takara attempted to add more purple to the train body since the original train was all purple, while at the same time maintaining the notion of the wheels being the same color as the part of the train body that they are attached to, just like on actual steam engines, the aforementioned toys, and the cartoon model.
But a quick google search shows that that only holds true for about 55% of steam engines, so....
And the fact that the train mode is about 50/50 purple and grey means that they could have gotten away with using that as an excuse either way, but didn't, because: G1