Wait a minute, these ARE the Droids I was looking for!
Why does this Eldritch nightmare have to have flesh tone plating and a face that opens? It's fucking disturbing
I was going to say the color was faithful to the original, but it seems I misremembered.
I don't think misremembered as much as mistranslated.
Someone may have well tried picking a colour from a screenshot in the movie and thought it'd be as simple as that.
I don't know how they painted or coloured it, but having been in a graphical design school for a bit, I know how complex it can be to get a colour right, depending on what sort of media/display youre using.
There are 3D print files for this beer cooler out there.
I do not remember where I saw them, sorry.
I remember seeing this meme on 9gag over a decade ago
Wait a minute, these ARE the Droids I was looking for!