>>9106178>Clearly they were aiming for a battle armor angle with this designIf thst was the plan, they didn't consider
1) He-man wears a grey/silver harness anyway, plus his accessories match the BA so the color carries through
2)Similarly, Skeletor's BA is purple, carrying through to his accessories and hood and boots.
Hurricane Hordak's armor color needed to carry through the design the same way. Or chose a different color for the armor other than gold. Maybe invert the normal colors to make it red with a black bat symbol. But again, then the red needs to carry into the collar.
I think Mattel forgets that, while the collar is part of the sculpt of the head, in terms of the design, the collar should be viewed as a part of the armor.
(On that note, making the collar part of the head sculpt has always been a weird as fuck tooling choice.)