Emerje wrote:When I was talking about toy colors I wasn't looking at any one specific thing. For Shockwave it was the purple, the lighter Siege colors are closer to the cartoon than the darker "Capture" colors that look more toy accurate.
From everything I've seen of SIEGE Shockwave (and I've seen him in person as well as in photos), his purple doesn't really seem lighter - just bluer. Both the cartoon and the OG toy have a more reddish purple. And again, see the barrel color. SIEGE Shockwave has a purple gun mode barrel, cartoon has gray.
Emerje wrote:For Megatron it really comes down the shininess, at best cartoon Megatron looked like a well polished gray, not the chrome appearance of the original and new figures.
I've always seen that as "the closest the cartoon could get". And I reiterate that the chrome looks way better than plain gray.
The plain gray looks bland and boring on a physical toy.
Emerje wrote:And for Soundwave, yes, the purple isn't toy accurate,
Emerje wrote:purple
...purple? Purple?! WHAT purple????
Whuh?
Where on this Soundwave is there
any purple? Did you slip up and say the wrong color because you were distracted by Rumble in the screencap or something?
Emerje wrote:but the use of metallic gold and silver instead yellow and gray like the cartoon feels specifically toy based.
It's what I think of as additive cartoon accuracy, as opposed to reductive cartoon accuracy. It includes specific things the cartoon added (like head redesign, optics color, etc) and leans towards the cartoon's palette, but doesn't dumb down decals and metallic accents to match the cartoon's limits.
Emerje wrote:Granted, animation limitations and all that, but I see what I see.
Emerje
Well, did you see that Soundwave has red eyes?
That certainly isn't toy-based.
Overcracker wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Till-all-R1 wrote:It's too bad with all that reuse that they couldn't have simply tooled new Soundwave to include, that would have significantly swayed my considering the purchase of a 3-pk.
I think you might have left something out of the first half of this sentence. As is, it reads as an incomplete thought.
I think R1 means he wanted a completely new Soundwave mold, and not just a re-use of the Netflix mold.
Which would have been an odd thing to do, when the other 2 figures are existing molds.
It would have been odd, yeah, but I get why R1 wanted it - being a SIEGE retool with leftover transformation engineering therefrom inflicts some definite awkwardness on Netflix Soundwave, plus the tape door is barely big enough for purpose.
I'm happy enough with configuring SIEGE SW into an ersatz G1 tape deck mode via that one kit. Now, if they were to put out a new Sound
blaster from the Netflix mold.. that would have my attention.
Overcracker wrote:Also, there’s still that Legacy United Leader class Soundwave out there we know nothing about. It may still be a G1 version with packed in cassettes to bump him up to Leader Class.
It occurred to me there's something else it could be: