Sabrblade wrote:william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:If they really wanted to give this toy Marvel colors, the gray would be light blue instead.
The blue conveys lighting, like with superman's hair in vintage comics. It's like saying the MPs aren't cartoon accurate since they dont have cell shading.
He's light blue even in broad daylight in the comics.
It's no different than when Takara did that Marvel-colored MP-8X King Grimlock with slate blue instead of black. It evokes the character's appearance more directly even if it was just an artistic technique.
Plus, Megatron is a gray character and he was consistently gray in the comics, in contrast to Galvatron II's usual blue.
I think this is a dumb argument, so I sgouldn't continue it, but saying "he's blue in the comics" is a simplification. Even using just one story, TF UK's Target 2006, his color differs between colorists and across issues. Here's a page from Part 5 from the IDW digital collection, which matches the 2002 print version from Titan books. This is not universal coloring across the title, but it's not just this one page, either.
I think there's a tendency in this fandom, and the wiki makes it worse, to label some things as "true" and others as "variants," and that's just not how it is. It's fine to have a preferred version, or to think that some designs are more consistent than others, but it's incredibly misguided and non-factual to try to formalize those preferences and claim others are false.
I also have to grant that these are modern reprints rather than vintage newsprint, but that's actually more evidence and justification for taking a pluralistic view. Even if you're a fan of the "comics" version, some contemporary collections feature new or modified coloring. That's as justifiable a design preference as any other.
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