Tracks (or Turbo Tracks if you prefer) is a Botcon 2012 Invasion Box Set Exclusive.
Botcon Universe: Shattered Glass
Mold Used: Transformers 2010 Deluxe Turbo Tracks
Name Origin: Tracks is a G1 Character.
I previously reviewed this toy based on the pictures released on the Botcon web site. You can read that blog here.
Tracks is awesome. I think he would have been better looking in black, which would have also been a Diaclone color scheme, but the red looks awesome too. However, the Diaclone color scheme was red and black, not red and purple, and he loses a few points for that. It still looks nice, and it’s a really great mold, and he has nicely painted details.
Grade: A-
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Maz from Autocon had the answer for me on the red Tracks:
– Japan Diaclone: Blue launchers, wings and missiles, very very dark blue legs, arms, backpack and long-stock handgun
– Joustra Diaclone/GiG Trasformer/MB Transformer: Blue launchers, wings and missiles, black legs, arms, backpack and short-stock gun.
So, the MB Transformers version was black, but since they did purple, it’s wrong no matter what they were going for.
Normally, I am fine with new colour schemes on toys. But, Fun Publications normally sticks to straight up homages, meaning that Tracks’ colour do come off as a bit half-assed. (Of course, for Fun Publications, “half-assed” is usually conflated with “creativity”.
One point of information though: I am fairly certain that the old Diaclone toy, (later recoloured as Road Rage), was red and (very dark) blue. The blue often does look black in photos though.