Quote Originally Posted by DELTAprime View Post
So Hot Rod in the '86 movie had a lighter, slightly pinkish shade of red to him and it is accepted by some that when he becomes Rodimus Prime it is an animation error that has him keep the Hot Rod character model's colour instead of changing over to the Rodimus Prime model from the TV series. That is the shade of red on both MP-9 and MP-29.

Rodimus Prime in the TV series has a darker more maroon shade of red and a couple of other deco changes.

Anyone else want a MP-9 based on the fixed version of the mould with good QC and TV series Rodimus deco or am I alone?

That right Takara, I'm willing to give you more money for a crappy mould.
For at least the first version of MP-9, the cab on the trailer is actually the darker maroon red while the base car is the pink/magenta. I haven't tried, but i think the trailer actually matches closer with the darker Hasbro Rodimus (which didn't come with it's own trailer). It might have been intentional to sway fans into buying both!