He wrote:
"I think I have the answer to this whole debate. I just spoke to Dorling Kindersley and had a conversation with the really nice guy who did the artwork for the Doctor Who Visual Dictionary. I explained that there was a debate about this and the sonic colour online and he shed light on this by having a look at the original artwork supplied by the Beeb and he told me in no uncertain terms it was 'ivory gray' and was not yellow in the slightest.
He then went on to explain the reason why the colour issue occured. This was down to the printing and error in colour rendering.
The first edition of the DWVD published in the UK suffered from two much red in the RGB ink mix which made everything look a bit yellow. Here's the 1st Edition pic:
When the 2nd edition was publuished in America they corrected this and think they used CMYK (?) for the pictures.
This is the pic that Terrasolo published from the US 2nd edition:
He said that even the second pic suffered from a little yellowness over the raw pic but was truer to the actual colour than the 1st edition pic.
I think that must answer the question one way or other."
Thank god for common sense and someone actually going to the source! If what he's saying is true, I think this can safely be taken as confirmation of what I have said previously and has confirmed XeonXIII's initial suspicions. That being that the yellow sonic is entirely mythical and in a funny way, is the result of a cock-up. An interesting example of fuck-up becoming gospel. On a more serious level, this does make the MFX hardly 'screen accurate' but a nice reproduction of the DK sonic. It should be pretty funny to see Risu, Primrodo and the usual shower of bastards arguing that it was yellow. Christ, I hate being right sometimes.....
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