Generations Kup (left) and e-Hobby Kup (right)
When I preordered Scrapheap‘s three-pack, I knew I’d be selling off at least one of the two other guys. Blue Rodimus was a no-brainer. Screw that dude! I don’t need him! And I figgered I’d probably be selling off the extra Kup, too, since I was pretty satisfied with the colors of the Generations Kup that I already owned. He was green!
And the photography of the e-Hobby three-pack Kup depicted him as bright blue, almost a cyan.
I really hate when Kup is blue. And Kup is blue all the time. He’s blue all the way through the Marvel Comics. He’s blue in the Big Looker Storybooks. He’s blue in all sorts of obscure merchandise. But his toy is teal, as Kup should rightfully be, and Kup was sort of a grayish dirty teal in the cartoon.
G1 Kup and e-Hobby Kup, before and after color correction
Part of the reason for Kup’s often-blueishness, though, is his original toy just doesn’t photograph right. When you put a camera to it, photos come out cyan-y. I can’t imagine Hasbro or Marvel or whoever could be bothered all that much to make sure that they were color-correcting all of their reference material as they sent it back and forth from one another. So, well, blue Kup.
(For the record, I would totally dig a blue Kup if they went through the trouble of swapping his helmet and face colors like the toy’s. I would love a Big Looker Storybook Kup.)
And a small part of me hoped the same was true with the official photography of e-Hobby’s Kup.
The laser musket is supposed to peg underneath and be his exhaust pipe, but you can see it better placed this way.
Indeed, e-Hobby Kup is deliciously teal. Bright and vibrantly so. (After I took photos and he insisted on coming out cyan, I attempted to color correct his colors as much as possible in Photoshop.) As much as I liked the darker minty green of Generations Kup, I can’t resist a more vividly teal color scheme. So it looks like it’s my Generations Kup that has to go.
Another thing that sets this Kup apart from the other decoes is his painted battle damage. There’s silver paint scrapes painted up and down the surface of his vehicle mode. This is a look that’s appropriate for Kup, so I’m glad to have that as well. It’s a nice bonus. It wouldn’t have been enough without the teal, but with the teal it’s something I won’t scoff at.
Teeeeeeeeeeeeal.
Maybe you could keep both? e-Hobby Kup has some scratches but he could still be used as the “young” Kup we saw in the third cartoon season.
Damn, I want your Generations Kup though.
I don’t really have need for both! If I keep both, one goes in storage forever. May as well sell it.
(Besides, I already have a BotCon Kup that’s “young Kup.”)
“Frenzy is blue because he was in marvel comics”
“I have blue Kup, he was blue in Marvel comics and I hate that”
WHATCHU TALKIN BOUT WILLIS?! D<
*hate
The point is not that Frenzy is blue for him because he was blue in the Marvel Comics, I think it is more due to his toy being blue.
Damn, Willis! You’re just as bad as AFOLs when it comes to obsession with color. Although I guess teal is one of the main reasons I love the Seacons…
Stand him next to Animated Sunstorm and see how long it takes for the first film geek to jump in and sperg out about hack cinematography.
hahaha
To be fair, Marvel Comics coloring in that era of TF was often horrifying.
If by “often” you mean “OH GOD MY EYES”.
I tell you, Kids These Days ™ just don’t understand how terrible every comic was in the days of four color dot-printing. It makes we weep quietly to myself in the wee hours of the night that Tarot: Witch Of The Black Rose has better print quality than anything Jack Kirby ever got to see of his own work.
That’s true, but my comment was more about the coloring and color choices for the TF comic, not the quality of every comic at the time. And to get real old school geeky, the incorrect coloring of some characters in the “Transformers Universe” mini-series was probably responsible for many mis-colorings that came after it.
When will you be selling this Kup?
what did you want on rodimus?
I understand your situation, I collected guitars (have own 5, 2 at a time) but you got to get rid of some stuff, keep what you really need or really use.
Its like a collection of wine, you only keep the good ones.
There is no reason to be a completionist.
Even with comics, you ony keep the good storylines and the more important comics, Is insane to have all batman issues. Exept with Sandman, Hellboy or other comics that have a begining and an endig, in other words every comic that actually tells a story.
I’d be intereste dint hat Kup mold if it were silver with black accents like my uncle’s Ram.