Amelie wrote:Seibertron wrote:I'm baffled that they screwed up the colors for Astrotrain and Blitzwing. They could have done the original G1 version to give everyone something different for reissues (especially since there has never been a reissue of Astrotrain in his original Hasbro G1 colors), or they could have done platinum paint jobs on them like the Predaking reissue a few years back, something, anything other than random paint schemes that don't currently have any precedent. Weird.
I wouldn't even be interested in this set if it wasn't for the wacky colours.
I'm with Amelie on this one. I think the vast majority of collectors that would care about and pay premium pricing for G1 reissues probably have Astrotrain and Blitzwing in their original colors. Would I have preferred this be the e-hobby "Anime" Astrotrain colors? Of course, but some other weird thing is ok too, because I just don't need another White/Black or White/Purple Astrotrain.
It may be noted that this might seem conflicting to opinions given my posts in regards to the Coneheads. Explanation below:
- Insecticons - Reissued twice, including in the US. This isn't a change of color scheme or, well, anything that I can tell. Really not interested but will pick it up
if and only if it can be had for not a lot someday to get some more of those Energon cubes that fit in the Diaclone driver cockpits.
- Coneheads - Aside from Dirge, no reissues beyond a very limited e-hobby release for Ramjet and Thrust. No problem with the straight reissue here due to this factor, but still would have been
more excited for new or "enhanced" decos.
- This set - explained above. Probably the only color combination I would have preferred over this would be the Animetrain, but "enhanced" or "shiny" versions of the original decos would be cool. Were these just the Takara book-style Blitzwing along with the Commemorative Astrotrain, would not care one bit to get this set.