Re: Official Images: Takara Tomy MP-13 Soundwave and MP-14 Red Alert
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 8:36 am
SOUNDWAVE SUPERIOR, inferior mp-14's can suck it for all i care.
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Segor wrote:So, I think those guys (Sideswipe and Red Alert) are like taller delux figures?? I've seen some MP 10 with alternators pictures and they look taller compared to him than them...
alldarker wrote:Those slots... Are strange. It's not detail that's obvious in robot mode, and the location in alt mode isn't very visible either. As plain details, they might just as well been left out. Actually, I can't even really see where that part with the slots moves to in robot mode: it seems like those parts fold into the rear of his legs? The legs are the parts with the most available bulk to them to contain something like electronics: his main torso needs to contain a maximum of three casettes, so that will not have much available space.
Adding an MP3 player isn't very expensive, and the (pretty hefty) retail price for this item would definitely allow for something extra. The attachment below is the relevant detail, taken from the Amazon.jp site.
kirbenvost wrote:Pretty sure the tech detail on the side is just that... detail to make it look like a real tape player. While they COULD fit an mp3 player in there if they wanted to, I doubt they would due to price.
gothweaver wrote:I'm totaly sold on Soundwave and Laserbeak. Does this mean there will be a repaint of Soundblaster?
starwarrior1227 wrote:SOUNDWAVE SUPERIOR, inferior mp-14's can suck it for all i care.
headsortails wrote:starwarrior1227 wrote:SOUNDWAVE SUPERIOR, inferior mp-14's can suck it for all i care.
100% agreed. Soundwave, so far, IMO is the best MP done. And I'm not taking any chances on waiting to see if Hasbro is gonna bring him over here. Can't wait to get these.....
frogbat wrote:Ah these look good but I might skip.... The thing that kinda bothers me is that I'd rather see characters that were never given a good toy form.... Prime I understand (maybe not the 2 versions) and well grimlock is grimlock.. The other masterpieces... Rodimus, megs, starscream and co all had poopy toys and sorely needed decent homages.
The original sound wave toy was IMHO one of the best g1 toys as It was close to the cartoon.. This version doesn't bring much more to the table.. For the price I'd liked to have seen some mp3 playing gimmick or some proper mass shifting lol. Sideswipe though was a blockformer looked like his cartoon self in both molds, besides which the classics versions are very good.
Ultra Magnus and Galvatron... Now those would be masterpieces worth selling a kidney for..
Stormrider wrote:frogbat wrote:Ah these look good but I might skip.... The thing that kinda bothers me is that I'd rather see characters that were never given a good toy form.... Prime I understand (maybe not the 2 versions) and well grimlock is grimlock.. The other masterpieces... Rodimus, megs, starscream and co all had poopy toys and sorely needed decent homages.
The original sound wave toy was IMHO one of the best g1 toys as It was close to the cartoon.. This version doesn't bring much more to the table.. For the price I'd liked to have seen some mp3 playing gimmick or some proper mass shifting lol. Sideswipe though was a blockformer looked like his cartoon self in both molds, besides which the classics versions are very good.
Ultra Magnus and Galvatron... Now those would be masterpieces worth selling a kidney for..
Surely you must be jesting if you think that MP Soundwave doesn't brig much more to the table compared to G1 Soundwave.
YRQRM0 wrote:That definitely does not look like an SD port, USB, or anything. Plus, there's no sign of speakers, and the buttons don't look to be able to be pressed down. Also, assuming his legs are the speakers, the joints attaching the legs to the torso are too thin to conceal any kind of wires really. It'd be awesome though.
OmicronZero wrote:Though without a better sense of scale I can't be sure if they're "real sized" or which kind of slot that is on the bottom. The buttons admittedly confuse me, since I can't think of an intuitive way to use that number of buttons in that layout to control an MP3 player.
OmicronZero wrote:...if they did put an MP3 player in there it would be more efficient to just rely on the use of headphones.
OmicronZero wrote:I do have to say that as cool as it would be to have, I don't think people should get their hopes up too much. It's entirely possible that the ports are merely there to better emulate a more modern mircocassette recorder. Or it could even be that it is a sort of modern recorder (using SD Cards and USB instead of cassettes) instead of an MP3 player. That would be weird.
gothweaver wrote:So what is that thing he's got in the 4th pic, a futuristic dirt devil?
DevastaTTor wrote:Soundwave is amazing, looks to be the best MP to date.
Stormrider wrote:gothweaver wrote:So what is that thing he's got in the 4th pic, a futuristic dirt devil?
I believe that is the device he used to jump start Jetfire in the G1 tv series.
frogbat wrote:Ah these look good but I might skip.... The thing that kinda bothers me is that I'd rather see characters that were never given a good toy form.... Prime I understand (maybe not the 2 versions) and well grimlock is grimlock.. The other masterpieces... Rodimus, megs, starscream and co all had poopy toys and sorely needed decent homages.
The original sound wave toy was IMHO one of the best g1 toys as It was close to the cartoon.. This version doesn't bring much more to the table.. For the price I'd liked to have seen some mp3 playing gimmick or some proper mass shifting lol. Sideswipe though was a blockformer looked like his cartoon self in both molds, besides which the classics versions are very good.
Ultra Magnus and Galvatron... Now those would be masterpieces worth selling a kidney for..