#war dawn

Transformers G1 Elita One (Fan Color Model)

Elita One's first G1 cartoon appearance was in "The Search for Alpha Trion" (though a later episode, "War Dawn," showed us an earlier form for the character called Ariel). She appears briefly in vehicle mode, near the end of the episode, but Optimus Prime is in front of her and you can't see her entire car mode. A lot of fans have tried their hand at a conjectural vehicle design based on what little of her we do see.

Well, her official vehicle design, as created by Floro Dery, only recently surfaced for the first time. I tried my hand at coloring it, based on what we see in the episode, and doing a little bit of extrapolating regarding how she seems to fold up. (It's weird that her knees apparently form her trunk. I have no idea how that would work on an official Hasbro toy. But, that's the great thing about being a character designer, I suppose—your designs aren't required to work in three-dimensional space!)

Transformers G1 Orion Pax (Fan Color Model)

The G1 cartoon episode "War Dawn" told the story of Optimus Prime before he became Optimus Prime. The design for his previous form, Orion Pax (note the initials), was originally conceived by Floro Dery as a design for Ultra Magnus for The Transformers: the Movie, before being appropriated for the second-season episode instead.

Elita-1 still deserves Better like a Brand New Figure than just a Retool of a Previous Mold or a Pretool of an Upcoming Fembot Toy, just saying