Redeco

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It may be a surprise to some that these three toys are actually the same toy but in three different color schemes! Crafty.

A redeco is a toy which uses the same molds as a previously-released toy, but has been reproduced with different plastic colors and/or different paint applications.

For example: the first three Generation 1 Seekers, Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp, are redecos.

A redeco uses exactly the same tools or molds as the original toy. If any changes have been made, even something as simple as giving the toy a different head or additional pegs for locking body parts into place, it is more properly categorized as a retool.

The term "repaint" is also in wide use among fans as a synonym for "redeco". "Redeco", however, is the term used by the people on Hasbro's Transformers team. Additionally, the term "repaint" is technically wrong in almost all instances of a same-mold-new-colors toy, as typically more than the paint applications are changed when a toy is redecoed.

See also

• Repaint
• Retool
  
  
  From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.