Platinum Triplechanger Set Image

[griffin]

Hasbro: gives us Blitzwing in Thrust's colours and Astrotrain in G2 Starscream's colours.
Takara: gave us Blitzwing in Diaclone colours and Astrotrain in cartoon colours.

Glad I went with the 2nd choice.

Some are saying that Astrotrain's colours are based on Shuttler (RiD Mo-Vor). Well this has tenfolded my interest in this toy (10*0)

I see people on various sites trying to help explain the colours, but no one seems to be coming up with anything close.
Movor was probably closest, but neither mode matches the arrangement of the colours on this Astrotrain (the orange is on the wrong side of the shuttle mode, and is the legs instead of chest in robot mode).
And Gen2 Starscream would go with Thrust.... but why one Gen1 and one Gen2... it kinda ruins the point of a homage 2-pack that doesn't homage the same era.

[GoktimusPrime]

I see people on various sites trying to help explain the colours, but no one seems to be coming up with anything close.

This

[MayzaPrime]

This

Hahaha... Hasbro does have it set on the whore setting

[griffin]

From a Brazillian product catalogue that is probably for the eyes of Retailers only, comes images of Blitzwing and Astrotrain in both modes... in all their oddly coloured glory.


Blitzwing might well be coloured to homage Thrust, but it still isn't obvious or necessary... as they are releasing Thrust this year as well, so don't need a stand-in homage toy.
Astrotrain's homage is still up for debate.

[Starscream77]

I may be alone in this but I actually like the look of Astrotrain, not sure why but it just jumps out at me

Blitzwing reminds me of a market KO though

[The_Black_Sheep]

I usually go for any sort of G1 repaint (no matter how obscure) but these two make absolutely no sense at all...

[Lord_Zed]

I may be alone in this but I actually like the look of Astrotrain, not sure why but it just jumps out at me

Blitzwing reminds me of a market KO though

Opposite way around for me, Blitzwing uses a mix of colours that work together and that we rarely ever see on a Transformer toy, I like it.

The blue on Astrotrain bugs me, a more purple colour would have worked better I think.

[crankcase76]

Well they do look a little weird! But hey i will probably still buy them.

[Megatran]

Is this on preorder anywhere?

The more I look at the pics the more I'm sold.

[griffin]

These just get uglier... with the train and tank modes now shown on the Hasbro site.