And I give you......Reissue G1 Seacons!

[MV75]

Ask yourself, if they were originally in these colours, and now changing to black head + dark purple, would you'd be complaining all the same?

Yes. I can just imagine a black head being called a third gun, and the purple garish and out of place.

G1 bias aside, objectively speaking they do look dull compared to the original colours because they don't provide as much contrast. Original Snaptrap's turqoise head is offset by his black head, and the yellow eyes also better contrast against black. The turqoise head here just blends in with the same-colour chest and the yellow eyes don't contrast as well (since yellow is closer to blue/green). This new Overbite has way too much magenta which looks quite bland compared to the original which was predominantly purple which was accented by the magenta upper arms and fists.

A nicer change might be if they painted Snaptrap's faceplate silver to match his original G1 boxart. I'd consider that an improvement. But the current changes we've seen make them look worse.

Snaptraps head no longer blends in with the back cannons.

Overbite now looks like it belongs to the set.

The colours are more thought out this time and create a more "tropical" monster. That, and it would've been cheaper to produce it like this. Those extra colours might've added $10 to the set. Gotta off-set the cost of the chrome sword too.