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<table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"> “ </td><td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: 'lucida console', arial, sans-serif;"> Why can't we get some more realistic colors fitting a real life vechicle/Animals for a TF? Example: A purple wolf Silverbot for the TF line. A rainbow colored Depth charge for TFU. The badly colored Armada Tidalwave. No ones saying paint everything black+grey. just stop using those neon colors & so forth. </td><td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"> <p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"><cite style="font-style:normal;">—Deathy<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a></sup>, alt.toys.transformers (2004)</cite>

</td></tr></table> Unlike the real world, where the word means "fluorescent", neon is a term used by many in the Transformers online fandom to describe any color on a Transformers product that an individual merely finds ugly. This broad usage means practically any color imagineable can be marginalized as a hated "neon" color. Colors that have been categorized as neon include the following:

• White
• Yellow (unless it is on a bug)
• Red (unless it is on a truck)
• Blue
• Green (unless it is on a construction vehicle)
• Purple (see previous)
• Orange
• Black

Often a neon color will be a complementary accent color, even if that color is extremely unsaturated. Any color schemes that adhere slavishly to a pre-existing Generation 1 character are exempt from all of the above.

Prominent examples

<center><table class="gallery" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/6/68/Tidalwavearmadaremy.jpg/120px-Tidalwavearmadaremy.jpg" width="120" height="120" border="0" /></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> You might think the red is what's neon here, but it's actually the dull green.

</div> </div></td> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 38px 0; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/d/df/Depthcharge-universe.jpg/120px-Depthcharge-universe.jpg" width="120" height="70" border="0" /></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> The aforementioned "rainbow-colored Depth Charge."

</div> </div></td> </tr> </table><table class="gallery" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 37px 0; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/4/45/Thundercrackeram.jpg/120px-Thundercrackeram.jpg" width="120" height="72" border="0" /></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> Okay, this one IS kinda hideous.

</div> </div></td> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/c/c1/G2bruticus.jpg/84px-G2bruticus.jpg" width="84" height="120" border="0" /></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> Neon camouflage — easy to be spotted on the battlefield.

</div> </div></td> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 25px 0; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/f/f0/G2_Gobot_Soundwave_toy.jpg/120px-G2_Gobot_Soundwave_toy.jpg" width="120" height="95" border="0" /></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> You can see it from space!

</div> </div></td> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/a/a3/Neon.jpg/120px-Neon.jpg" width="120" height="120" border="0" /></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> The blue here is especially neon. As is the black.

</div> </div></td> </tr> </table> <table class="gallery" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/e/ed/Skyquake.jpg/73px-Skyquake.jpg" width="73" height="120" border="0" /></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> And worst of all...

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See also

• Playskool
• Black repaint

References

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0">[#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/e1afb34ee4f68eb9?dmode=source Important questions to ask Orson/Hasbro]</ol>