Quote Originally Posted by Omega Metro View Post
My only complaint is I wish it was a slightly darker shade of purple.
I would also prefer a toy/comic-accurate darker shade of purple, but TakaraTOMY's objective was to achieve a show-accurate lighter shade of purple, which if we compare it with the animation model we can see that the purple that they've used is pretty spot on.

Show-likeness has been a running theme with TakaraTOMY's MPs, so it comes as no surprise that they would aim for show-likeness in the MP toy. I know that some animators coloured him darker, but we know that the G1 cartoon wasn't exactly known for consistency. Many other characters varied wildly in colour, shape, size etc. - but TakaraTOMY have obviously used Sunbow's animation bible's model as their reference (as it would've also been a reference for Sunbow animators).