As with the other microns, you have to build this one with snap together parts and put stickers on it.Īs for Soundwave, he is very cool. It is a staff, almost like a trident missing its middle point, that transforms into a scorpion. Unlike many other Hasbro vs Takara releases, where the Takara version is made up of plastic with a glossy paint app, these two versions have almost identical plastic parts. I like aspects of each, but overall, I prefer paint apps to stickers. In the end, the stickers and paint apps of the two are very similar. The RID version has paint apps, while the AM one has a sticker sheet. The only difference between the two molds is that the AM version has some weapon peg ports, including two near the base of the wings that look like some kind of gun pods. The two toy versions of Soundwave so far are the RID version and the Arms Micron version. He is more like a part of Soundwave, which he kind of is, as he is a part of Soundwaves chest when not active. Laserbeak is seen less and has less personality than his G1 counterpart. He speaks in pictures and actions, and generally gets his point across very clearly. While his mechanical voice has been one of his main identifying features, I like how he is mute on the show now. His personality on the show is also spot on. I like this choice of an alt mode because a surveillance UAV fits Soundwaves job so well. More specifically, his alt mode looks to me like a hunter-killer surveillance UAV called an MQ-9 Reaper. Now we come to the Prime version of Soundwave: a UAV. Although I do understand that a Cybertronian lamp post would not make a very exciting action figure (see “More Than Meets the Eye”). But even though the video game figure is very cool, it does not fit his job description well. I have high hopes for this upcoming figure. The Voyager version (yet to be released) will have disks that can be launched from the chest compartment and then turn into Soundwaves various minions. This is reminiscent of how his G1 weapons turned into batteries and were stowed in the battery compartment in the tape recorder, with the addition of the functionality of the old tape compartment. The Deluxe version stows his weapons (which look like batteries) in a chest compartment.
An interesting one that I actually like is an SUV looking Cybertronian vehicle from the recent video game series. Many of his newer alt modes do not fit his job description well. His original tape recorder mode fit this job very well. Also, when I look at a new Soundwave figure and character, I want to see him retaining his job as a surveillance expert, spymaster and intelligence expert who is completely loyal to Megatron. While some newer versions have has minions of some sort, they have fallen short of the originals. (I know all my old original G1 tapes are in a box… somewhere…I hope.) And what made Soundwave even better were all the cassette tapes he had as minions. For my Classics collection, I have ended up using a reissue G1 Soundwave, with Encore edition tapes. There have been very few versions of Soundwave that even come close to the old one. Hasbro pretty much trapped themselves when they made such a great G1 figure. On a side note: if some1 manages to reserve a few pancakes, maybe we could have them loaded into Kolormagnetics shells: and branded (plastic printing) as "Tapeheads FE" or "HF" *grin* I really wonder whether those guys are still doing shells & stuff.Soundwave has always been one of my favorite characters, so I was both eager and apprehensive to see him on Transformers Prime. Maybe quite a few fellow members are actually involved, and this is why we're not seeing 10+ pages of discussion all at once. I'm sure many experienced THers out there have understood this whole situation much better and needn't resort to rumours. Though you can surely disregard this whole bollocks of a post. but I don't remember any cobalt in there *confused* Anyhow, mayyybe we're overthinking it all with the "cobalt environmental issues" thing and maybe, while everyone was talking how sad it is that Type II is no more, someone did in fact get ready for new production of just that *idea* Now it's not any worse if it's related to ECP (IMHO of course), for they used to make some really decent tape. And the first results are promising *thumbsup* Huge thx for the reports, by the way *wink*
The fact that this isn't being overhyped NEARLY as much as the other two leading products makes it even more amazing *bigthumbup* And if we try applying reverse psychology, then it turns out that: no major news about it = it's real, not a PR stunt, not a glorified duplication job, not a relabel, but a whole new produce.
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