I think that if you replaced the flag with the American flag, it would look pretty good!
Throw everyone a curveball by making it with the United Kingdom flag!
Paint it blue, put the french flag on it call it the general montcalm.
Paint it green with a picture of a sheep on the roof and call it the General Specific.
Red one with a Union Jack. Blue one with fleur-de-lis. General Wolfe vs General Montcalm two-pack with a free maple candy.
I still think the decision to make the mech modes as robot versions of characters hurt them. What I (and presumably others) wanted to see was TFs with SW vehicle altmodes. Not necessarily Bumblebee as a Snowspeeder or Starscream as a TIE Fighter, but maybe, or new characters.
Best case scenario, Tatsunoko forces them to make the bottom half of the car blue.
I don't think they're significantly trickier than other sci-fi altmodes. I think it's more to having to get the licensor to approve the product and they're probably not keen on having their IP be compromised to fit in robot parts.
I feel the same way about GI Joe, and instead we get existing characters as GI Joe vehicles. We know they were on Earth during GI Joe, in their normal alt modes, during all the crossovers, so it'd be nice to see some unique guys. I actually love the idea of new Cybertronians who either prefer Earth, or were born there a la the recent show (Earthspark?). It's the perfect way to explain new guys who just want to live on Earth with Humans in Earth vehicle modes, or even "work with" factions such as GI Joe. It just feels like such a gimme explanation. I think they used it for the first few Collabs essentially too, didn't they? Ectotron etc.
Okay, fair, but TIEs? Any spindly outcropping is tricky. I mean, a car is basically a block. A plane is sort of a block with a couple sheets. Spindles and outcroppings make things harder.
