Haha, lol, I'll pay that one Goki - That was good! :p:D
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Peter Cullen's son, Clay Cullen, is a movie stunt double and driver and worked as a stunt driver in Age of Extinction.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1247999/
Age of Extinction Dinobot Slug is possibly the first (only?) purple Autobot.
2003 Universe Silverbolt.
Which kind of makes his name a bit misleading, but then 'Purplebolt' doesn't really have the same ring to it...
Isn't FoC Whirl and Impactor Purple-ish as well?
Whirl is orange and blue, but you're right about Impactor -- he does have purple on him. Although he's mainly orange with purple as his secondary colour, but yeah, Impactor would certainly take credit as being the first Autobot toy with purple. :) But AoE Slug appears to be the first Autobot toy to be predominantly purple. His secondary colour is lavender! So Slug is very, very purple - which is so unusual for an Autobot as, AFAIK, unprecedented. :cool:
Purple is rare as a prominent colour for an Autobot toy, as it seemed to be reserved for "evil" toys (almost every 1988 Decepticon had purple on it somewhere)... but we do have a few contenders.
Grotusque
Trizer
Rodney
AM Skyfall
Euro Deluge
G2 Gobots Ironhide
BW Cybershark
RID Skid-Z
Armada Cheetor
2003 Universe (Fuzor) Silverbolt
JP SCF Alpha Trion
2002 Gorilla-Bot
2003 Beast-Bot II (cheetah)
2003 Buzzer-Bot (wasp)
2004 Beast-Bot (gorilla)
2004 Buzzer-Bot (motorcycle)
2005 Beast-Bot (dinosaur)
2005 Racer-Bot Beta (hotrod)
2005 Racer-Bot Beta Roadster (hotrod)
Universe Minicon-class Windrazor (packaging notes it as Autobot)
Universe Minicon-class Makeshift (packaging notes it as Autobot)
JP Beast Wars Returns (BM) Silverbolt
2007 Arcee
2007 Battle Damaged Arcee
BotCon 2007 Alpha Trion
2010 Autobot Alliance Twins (darker redeco, so looks purplish)
Human Alliance Elita-1
Kreon Alpha Trion
GO! Sensuimaru
One of the Kabaya Aerialbots
Also, Armada Sideways and one of the releases of Animated Longarm were purple. For an incredibly racist society, it's surprising the Autobots weren't more suspicious of those two. :p And Shattered Glass Optimus Prime. He's evil too.
Someone off the board also pointed out a Japanese variant of ROTF Elita One. Either way, it's certainly uncommon to see heroic characters with purple on them -- especially so predominantly.