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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!)

Description
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!)