People do keep saying this, and I'll be honest, having seen 8/10 of the SG figures with a hint at the 9th, I don't really buy that being an intentional thing. I can see it being an unintentional side effect at this point because of having mostly G1 molds to work off of instead of the originals mostly being UT molds, but I don't think it's an intended design mentality in play. Blurr, Jetfire, Starscream, Wheeljack/Slicer, and Blaster are all the correct molds (and Starscream especially feels intentional, as they could have incorrectly made him an Earth jet instead of the tetrajet), some of whom even got extra new parts to look more accurate to the originals, and those that are the wrong molds feel circumstantial to me.Emerje wrote:As people love to point out the new SG is about G1 characters in SG colors so a Beetle makes more sense as "correct" in this line.
-Megatron is still a repaint/retool of another Megatron as he originally was, and even got extra new parts to give him an extra alt mode to emulate that old figure...but that Megatron mold happened to resemble Galvatron, so people are saying he should have been a Galvatron retool instead.
-Goldbug should have been a Hot Shot repaint to be accurate, but there was no Hot Shot to repaint, so they went with a different sports car mold that just so happens to be shared with his G1 self (they may have done it to make sure the head existed to make this new G1 Goldbug, honestly).
-As for Magnus...I think he just got shafted by the desire to make Delta Magnus, and despite that he still managed to get the new right head and extra accessories in the name of accuracy.
We haven't really seen Sir Soundwave yet but we do have hints at him via the comic, and while we know he's gonna be a repaint of his G1 self, yes, the original Sir Soundwave has had a figure and multiple fictional appearances using that mold/design before, and SSW also needs to be that mold to have cassette functionality. I would put that more towards being accurate than being intentionally a G1 palette swap.