So I'm a fan of the 70s-early 80s space toy aesthetic, the futuristic colours of stuff like Big-Trak or the Wheeled Warriors of ,grays, off whites, smokey browns, gold and such. Keeping that in mind...
I try to avoid doing things I think are probably inevitable like Seekers and Diaclone stuff, given how Hasbro are dusting off the weirdest things these days, the deepest cuts are needed to get to the things that won't end up in selects or a retailer exclusive line.
Speaking as someone who owns three versions of the original Armada toy (don't judge me), the issue with Sideswipe is he was so badly proportioned thanks to gimmicks being the driving force behind that toyline, that there'll never be a mold that comes close to being a fit for that robot mode...
Growing up in the 80s, I remember thumbing through the Argos catalogues and admiring the walkmans and portable boomboxes, which were a sea of blacks, blues and silvers for the most part, but there always seemed to be at least one model which was yellow and black.
A unified colour scheme will need to wait until we've got images of Breakdown, Dead End and probably completed Menasor too so they can all be done at once.
Right, so given how the scramble city bots were all pencilled in for release in Diaclone prior to Transformers, and that line drew a whole heap of 'inspiration' from real world vehicle decos, the Stunticons probably weren't ever going to sport the colours they released in as Transformers. I...
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