Character that previously was more "jackass or morally ambiguous" and less "BAD MAN MAN BAD!" suddenly bad because "orange man bad! ORANGE MAN BAD!!! HE"'S TOTALLYG GONNA KILL ALL YOU MINORITIES FOLX!!"
This is weirdly common and I wonder exactly why it happens. Every version of Kingdom galvatron has this going on with the purple parts, for instance. SHits been going on with figures on and off since thrilling 30 blitzing I think? maybe earlier but thats one of the first I remember people complaining significantly about.
I used to it when it's yellows and sometimes reds, but it's becoming more and more common with different colours. It's not so much a problem with me because I like painting my Transformers since I like painting and they're larger than tabletop minis so my shaky hands can handle it better, but I think people like me make up less than 1% of the community. We don't need translucent plastic on our figures so you don't need to paint that. Just stick with opaque plastic and let the whole thing look good. Even my son notice the colour differences.
I need to go find/dig out my old ones sometime. Never sold them off so they've just been around in boxes in various parts of the house since forever. Technically 3 or 4 of them are easily accessible as they're on a weird storage shelf which used to be a bunk bed ages ago instead of a box. I'd need to dig them off that instead of out of that as it'd require me clambering up there and then dusting them off. Those 5 being Armada unicron, Armada Galvatron, Tidal Wave, Energon Galvatron, Alpha Q, and some other one I can't remember right now. I also have animated shockwave and the Walmart g1 recolor of energon devastator in a box in a more reachable location, but that's another story. All the weird beast wars/Unicron Anime trilogy figures that were the majority of transformers I had as a kid are in boxes somewhere in the basement probably, save for Armada Nemesis prime who USED to be in the same spot as the other shelf-bed dwellers but somehow is missing now.
I'm amazed they lasted as long as they did. They've been in the red since 2015.
That wont matter much, Hasbro was making them anyways so they can keep the trademark going on them. IDW just didn't want to do anything with the vast amount of characters Hasbro owns. It's why so many died for no reason.
He's mistransformed in a few photos, you can see that his top part can be lowered more with a gear.
a slight retoil could be done for both General Prime and Roadbuster, remove the canopy and add a missile rack for Dropshot or Onsalaught from the movies.
That big round head on a long neck just doesn’t work for me with that body. The helicopter mode looks sick though.
