Seibertron wrote:MagicDeath wrote:So, I just looked at some Shockwave pictures, and I can’t figure out where the lavender color scheme is from. It might be my colorbindness, though. Anyone know?
Takara has had a long history with the ridiculous lavender color. While the color purple might come across occasionally as "lavender" in the cartoon from time to time, I don't think any of us actually perceive those lighter colors as being the actual colors of those figures.
I do. I always recall Shockwave being light purple in the cartoons and dark purple in the comics. Since the cartoon was what I saw first, that's where my mind is locked.
I also feel like the darker color is going to make him look smaller, which is a bad thing for that figure.
Edit:
Human memory for color isn't great:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03197418Our vision also changes as we age, but that would largely affect perception of depth, since changes in how we perceive color would probably occur before we have memory.
I guess another potentially important factor is that I was 1-2yrs old when the cartoon first aired. I grew up with VHS recordings and later the chopshopped G2 re-airing. Perhaps the colors faded some?