Nexus Knight wrote:Cobotron wrote:Sigma Magnus wrote:Nexus Knight wrote:I am I the only failing to see the similarities with Leo's ship mode and the Yukikaze? The white is almost the same... but that's it. Is it supposed to be a reference to the ship?
I don't see it either, honestly.
It's a pretty loose interpretation. I think what Will was pointing out is that Takara was referencing something specific, instead of it just being a random "Space Cruiser".
So instead of him captaining the
Yukikaze he
is the
Yukikaze? That's... pretty neat, actually.
But is that the official word, though? Did Takara actually claim that they're using the ship mode to represent the
Yukikaze, or even that they simply colored it in homage to the
Yukikaze, or is it just an assumption that we fans have made? Cuz I don't recall hearing anything from an official source about the ship mode being the
Yukikaze or even just being colored after it.
To me, it just looks like the base plastic colors carried over from the other modes into the ship mode, while the windows got painted blue because blue is an extremely common color that windows typically get painted on toy vehicles.
After all, the
Yukikaze was predominately cream and violet, and there's not a speck of violet anywhere on this toy, let alone its ship mode. Also, there's no giant blue Maximal symbols on either side of the ship mode, which were proudly displayed on the
Yukikaze in places where this toy instead just has plain white surfaces that could have easily had a blue
tampo'd onto each one (and since these surfaces are the inside of the lion head halves, the symbols wouldn't show up in lion mode, and would be behind Lio Convoy in robot mode).