>>10463927It's more the toy designers just looking at the first thing they see without confirming it. The G2 Combiner Wars Menasor set's colours were based off someone's custom G2 Menasor. Or:
>The robot mode head of this toy is based on that of Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Class Dead End, or more accurately, based on that same Dead End head as used by a fan-made custom that's one of the top results on Google Images when you type in stuff like "movie scorponok". 