Honestly, we all love the obvious Ultra Magnus repaints of Optimus Prime, it's what he's supposed to be, a repaint with the general armor and whatnot, and who can forget the repaints in black to portray Black Convoy/Nemesis Prime/Scourge? They look sweet, but what about those other characters that just don't need a damn repaint. I'm not exactly a hardcore toy collector but a friend of mine was showing me his massive collection and the guy has like three different Prowls from RiD with a slight color difference. Wtf? Who's to spend money on these besides the aforementioned hardcore collector? Most repaints even run higher than the actual toy itself.
So I ask you, who's had it with repaints? What's the stupidest repaint you know of? Do you even own any repaints?
Most of the G2 repaints of G1 characters were the silliest of the old school. But character changed repaints wise, the 1st blatant repaints that I remember sticking out as such were in 1986 when they did the mini autobot repaints/remolds.
Cliffjumper and Bumblebee were slightly remolded/recoloured to be Hubcap, Brawn was redone as Outback, Windcharger as Tailgate etc.
Those were the 1st cynical feeling repaints, for me...
Whether it be Starscream-Skywarp-Thundercracker-Thrust-Ramjet-Dirge, Rumble-Frenzy, Buzzsaw-Laserbeak, Prime-Magnus or whatever, the repaints have been in from the beginning. And the last lot I just mentioned were and always will be cool with me.
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Last edited by Sadako of Girth on Feb 23rd, 2008 at 08:54 AM
Yeah, G1 repaints were still repainted, yet slightly different, nowadays things are just out of hand. How many Ransack(Cybertron) repaints do we need?!
i actually like repaints. i did them when i was a child with coloring books. i was the bane of color-by-numbers. it's like seeing them in different costumes. like elseworlds tranformers.
i've been extremely tempted to actually paint a transformer myself. maybe give the original optimus some flames on the cab. i'm sure it'd look 'cool'.
seriously tho i have given it some thought, primes trailer would look awesome with graffiti, and the alternaters(only decent toy in years apart from the masterpieces) would also look cool i think.
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