Naw, I really like silverburst and I think it is just great on an Explorer shape, really accentuates it. I remember silverburst Iceman guitars and they were gorgeous too.
At the end of the day this is of course just a set neck TBird with better high register access and a 22 fret neck, but who cares?! That shape breathes and oozes pure, unadulterated rock'n'roll and Gibson (Ted McCarthy) invented it, not Ibanez, Alembic, Warwick, Dean or whoever. About time they lived up to it too. This is their best take on it by far, the late fifties stuff (short scale, with the Explorer headstock grafted onto an EB-2 neck), the eighties aberration (medium scale), my Custom Shop version (excellently made out of Korina and beautifully resonant, but who needs a short scale Explorer, that is about as fitting as a Mustang with a diesel engine) and the credible attempt Epi model (long scale, but let down a little by the pups) included.
