That is very much like the kind of twisted backwards logic I would expect Fun Pub to come up with for a SG color scheme. Only this time it wasn't Fun Pub. 🤪
If this is a recent discovery, I wouldn't be surprised if Jim didn't have any knowledge about it at the time he started writing the virtual season 2 eight years ago.
I was going to guess even simpler: A rearrangement of each Combaticon's colors.
Blast Off with Brawl's colors
Swindle with Vortex's colors
Brawl with Blast Off's colors
Vortex with Swindle's colors
Onslaught with some of his own colors merely moved around (namely, more gray than he normally has)
Yeah, a mold that would give a more faithful truck mode, with the added bonus of having the truck grill on the robot mode's chest, would be the truck cab component of Commander class Armada Optimus.
But the Earthrise Grapple mold's claw hand just works so well.
No, I meant that they were first created during the years when TF: Prime was the main series in Japan that Takara was focusing on the most, meaning Takara likely had Primes on the brain at that time when they created these guys.
IIRC, one of the earliest character descriptions for Nightbird described her as having originally been a Decepticon before she joined up with the Terrorcons and became one of them.
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