1986 prototypes revealed in catalogue on ebay.

[GoktimusPrime]

Interesting that some of the odd colourings on Onslaught were used later for Dolrailer (Mega-Octane). I prefer the orange on Galvatron's barrel, but I don't know if that's really because it's actually nicer or if it's just because I'm too used to it! Can't... remove... fanboy goggles!!

Superion looks interesting, but too similar to the colours for Ultra Magnus, so I can understand why they changed them. I suspect that for the gestalts, that these might have been their intended Diaclone colours, remembering that these toys were originally cancelled concepts/designs for Diaclone, which Takara dusted off and used for Transformers. And Diaclone Powered Convoy (Ultra Magnus) had entirely different colours - so maybe after they decided on the final colour scheme for Ultra Magnus they then decided to alter the colours for Superion as well.

<shrug> Just completely wild conjecture on my part, but hey - it's fun to guess.

[1AZRAEL1]

Then again, they did use the blue chestplate for G2 Superion. Quite cool to see the prototypes of figures from that time.

[MV75]

Galvatron looks kick arse in those darker shades of grey.

[Robzy]

Agreed! Galvatron's colours are wicked!

[AussieJason]

Fascinating stuff. I always find it very interesting when G1 info like this surfaces years later.

I wonder when this 1986 catalogue was produced, as wasn't Superion (in the colours we are used to) in the TV show in '85 ?

[GoktimusPrime]

It's even funnier when toys' prototype colours make it into animation, like in this infamous early trailer for Transformers The Movie. Then there are characters like Astrotrain whose entire cartoon appearance was in his prototype catalogue colours.

[Sky Shadow]

I think the 'Battlespringers' are more interesting than those other guys:

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/1/10/To...6-TFpage06.jpg

And squee! I want Hubcap and Tailgate:

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/a/ac/To...6-TFpage01.jpg

Brawl's turret and Streetwise's head:

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/1/11/To...6-TFpage03.jpg

And it's hilarious that for the characters that didn't have stickers, they've just chopped up other Transformers' stickers and used them. And I'm not just talking about Runabout's classy seeker arm stickers:

http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/e/e8/To...6-TFpage02.jpg

[snazzbot 101]

Interesting that some of the odd colourings on Onslaught were used later for Dolrailer (Mega-Octane). I prefer the orange on Galvatron's barrel, but I don't know if that's really because it's actually nicer or if it's just because I'm too used to it! Can't... remove... fanboy goggles!!

True, but I reckon the trans purple barrel would've looked great lit up.

Not so weird: the prototype coloring of Bruticus close to matches his appearance in the Trypticon vs Metroplex box art.