>>8343713Originally the diaclone toy that Bluestreak was blue, so Budiansky used that for a wordplay name: he's a fast blue car who was a motormouth, that is he "talked a blue streak".
However, Hasbro wound up using a different deco for the toy they would release in the end, and further still would provided reference for Marvel Productions to make a character model using a DIFFERENT diaclone deco.
Smokescreen's toy was released in the 1985 product so he wasn't a factor in all this.