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Okay people...you CAN see Shockwaves bot mode in these Picuters!!!!!! LOOK!!

I think his bot mode looks cool. I expect that he will look great in the movie. I won't be buying this figure though. Not G1 enough for my collection.

The tank mode is cool, but the robot modes is... kind of a hodgepodge. It has some features of a protoform design. Some features of his tankness. And some of a skeleton. And, oddly, a rock lord. But they don't blend into each other well. Nonetheless, this is a big improvement over the rest of the line.

Warning: Short rant ahead

First Megatron, and now Shockwave. Once again, another potentially awesome DOTM figure that should have been a Leader Class is likely ruined by being too small. I had been looking forward to expanding my ranks of Leader Class Decepticons, especially to having a good Megatron big enough to face Leader Prime. The figure itself looks great in robot mode and the tank mode's not bad (although I was hoping that the gunship thing Sam and Carly had been seen riding would be Shockwave), but he's going to look ridiculous fighting Leader Prime. I guess if I'm going to be getting Megatron and/or Shockwave and want them to look at all reasonable fighting Optimus, I'll have to get Battle Blades Prime. Then, however, I would not have an in-scale Starscream (unless I got the Voyager Starscream, which would be horribly out of scale with the rest of my Movie collection, and which I don't even like much in the first place). I suppose I may get Shockwave at this scale, but he'll just seem way to small.

Don't get me wrong. I do think this toy looks good for what it is.

We can only hope that there will be Leader figures of Megatron and Shockwave, and that we just don't know about them yet.

*Thinking back to TFMovie I video game and WFC videogame*

This disappoints.

Not horrible, not awesome. Might get it if it's a voyager, but not if it's a leader. But then, I think the last leader-class TF I bought was Brawl, so I guess that's not saying much.

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He looks so freaking awesome!!! THAT is the first thing I get when this line comes out!

T-Macksimus wrote:

Joker'sRequiem wrote:

T-Macksimus wrote: Energon Shockblast is still a better re imagining of Shockwave than this. I know this isn't so much Hasbro's doing as it is Bays, but still one would think that Bay would have learned his lesson by now. I'll wait for another 18 months for Hasbro to give us a proper Shockwave in the Generations line.

What lesson does he have to learn? That people still expect Classic/G1 designs in the movie-verse? If anything we should have learned by now that that isn't going to happen. They're unrealistic expectations. The movie aesthetic has always been entirely separate from anything remotely G1. A/E/C all benefit from a similar style, allowing them to more easily adapt an old design into an updated one. Blaming Bay for creating a design that fits his own aesthetic is, well, laughable. Of course Shockwave from the Bayverse isn't going to be an updated G1 design that still fits G1's own aesthetic. It retains his color scheme, his general head design, and homages his gun hand. No, he doesn't have a yellow eye. No, his hand isn't a gun. No, he doesn't turn into a gun. G1 Shockwave does. THIS isn't G1 Shockwave.



You'd think by now, with this being the third movie, people would've gotten the hint that anything that fits G1's design isn't going to be found in the Bayverse...

WHOA!! Dude, I was making a half-hearted comment AT BEST. I KNOW this isn't G1, I never expected it to be a full on G1 Shockwave. He's about as G1 as as any incarnation of Movie Megatron is but holy crap I don't need a full paragraph dressing down over the whole situation and neither does anyone else on the site. Next time, get some input from me about the spirit in which my comment was intended or ask me for a little clarification but don't ever treat me like I'm a freaking idiot or a child! I'm sorry I worded my previous comment in such a way that the intent was misconstrued. My thoughts on the whole situation with Bays creations aren't simply a "black & white" subject. I take for granted the fact that there might possibly be folks on here capable of understanding such a thing but obviously I was wrong and this point has been wondrously illustrated.

I think i get your point T. Im pretty sure no one expected this to look G1...we all knew it would look bayverse with bay aesthetics. And the point is a lot of people still just dont like the bay-verse look. Which is totally understandable. Im like 50/50 on it. Bludgeon and Terradive were both movie style and so was Deluxe Bludgeon. But Bay didnt have a hand in them and they came out looking pretty good being part of the bay-verse. The only figure I think Bay did exceptionally well is Blackout. I know some people love the bay-look. but yeah no one needed a whole paragraph explaining that a movie toy would clearly be based on Bay...so thanks for the ranting Joker

ShardFenix wrote: The only figure I think Bay did exceptionally well is Blackout.

Yea, even with the needless gimmick, its a great figure, maybe not the most poseable, but one of the coolest from the bayverse that was actually in the movie.

I don't think the design is too terrible really. At least I can tell it's Shockwave. The only thing that bothers me is that he looks kinda fat in the chest. I kinda like my shockwaves tall and lanky. I might get him though. have to see a review or in person first though. I'm just glad he looks like Shockwave