Quick masterpiece query

[GoktimusPrime]

I was on the side of RIRFIB because the G1 toys and comics are that way, making it logical that FIRRIB in cartoon was a error.

Yeah, but it's an error that's become a canonical truth for the Anglophone cartoon (much like says blue eyes on 'Bots and red eyes on 'Cons, Jetfire being called Skyfire etc.). Also Rumble was distinctly purple in the cartoon, not blue like the Frenzy toy. And MP Frenzy is very much purple, modelled after G1 Rumble's (or Frenzy in JP G1) colours... so it would be perfect sense for Hasbro to name the purple robot Rumble since the toy is coloured just as Rumble appeared in the Anglophone cartoon. It would also help differentiate the toy from the TakTOM version. TakTOM's already going for RIRFIP (which makes sense for their market), why not go for FIRRIP on the Hasbro version?

But now that IDW has made half their comics RIRFIB and half FIRRIB I've given up.

Yeah, that was frustrating... now they seem to have settled on basing them on their United toys, which is RIRFIB... so I've accepted it as so. The flip flopping has been most annoying though, I agree. Gah.

[Kapryiath]

but i was under the impression the yellow eyes was toy accurate? shouldnt that mean that rirfib would apply to the cassetes?

not that it bothers me much because the only g1 i was really exposed to is the cartoon so forever it will be firrib!!

[GoktimusPrime]

but i was under the impression the yellow eyes was toy accurate? shouldnt that mean that rirfib would apply to the cassetes?

Then Frenzy should be blue, not purple.

And I would've thought that the decision to give Hasbro MP Soundwave toy-accurate yellow eyes was to better differentiate the toy from the TakTOM version, which I think is a good idea. Making Frenzy blue would've also been a great way to do this while also making it more consistent w/ the G1 toy accuracy theme. But if they wanted to keep the same purple colours as w/ the TakTOM version, then why not name him Rumble? I highly doubt any fans would complain that at long last Anglophone fans will finally have a G1 Rumble toy, named Rumble, who looks like Rumble in the cartoon!