My eyes!!!Originally Posted by DELTAprime
If those decorated trucks were a thing before 2000, I guess it could have been the inspiration of one of the Japanese designers, just like Fire Convoy was based on a Japanese fire truck. Car Robots was after all a Japanese-first series, so I would imagine that the original concepts (toys) in Car Robots were created by Takara people instead of Hasbro people... and their inspiration for alt-modes probably didn't have to have Hasbro approval, if Hasbro was busy working on Beast Machines and was expecting it to go for another year and become Transtech.
After all, we also saw a combiner set of Trains done in Car Robots, which Hasbro would never do in a series that they had created, as trains are popular in Japan... and Hasbro people have said in the past that trains aren't as popular in America.
As much as I'd like to think that CR/RID Ultra Magnus is a Cybertronian truck, those decorated Japanese trucks unfortunately make too much sense to ignore.
But, does that mean his toy/cartoon colours are not real-world accurate, and we should have had the toy blinged up with lights and shiny?
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