I think my brain is broken - when I saw S*******e, my first interpretation was S**thouse. I hope it's not freudian.
It looks like he'll just be a humanoid Segway in robot mode. 
Why on Earth (or Cybertron for that matter) couldn't he be red? I know OP is red, but people are hardly going to confuse them. Is it something to do with the animation? I seem to recall hearing that certain colours look less 'convincing' when animated, and I think that red is one of them.
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