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They could always sell their prototype to iGear.

El Duque wrote:From Full Metal Hero, looks like this project may be dead:

Word is reaching us that start up company http://www.fantoys.com has ceased operating and the upcoming FT-02 Acoustic Wave figure is no more. As a product this figure was incredibly close the knuckle with regard to Hasbro's Transformer property G1 Soundwave, more so than most of the existing unofficial figures already on the market.

More news as we get it, we're hoping to reach the Fantoys guys for clarification on this.

Also, from other sources, it was also found that the www.fantoys.com site is down, but the weibo page is still up.

Mkall wrote:And this is why I don't get excited over figures not being made by established orginizations. It could lead to disappointment

Even established companies (*cough cough HASBRO) break our hearts routinely. But this announcement is one of the saddest in a long time, for me. Particularly after seeing those beautiful prototypes. Hopefully there'll be a hail mary save of some sort...

That's sad to hear, because I enjoyed BOTH Soundwave prototypes they've shown. And I believe they had a Blaster on the books as well.

They could always shrink it down to Voyager and change it a bit as a sort of Classics Soundwave.

Yeah, this is tragic. Soundwave is THE Masterpiece figure I want. All others are way down on the list.

Same with a decent Classics figure of SW, along with Megs. (Still really confused about which of the three 3rd party Megs to get.)

Really, I want my Classics lineup nicely completed, and as G1 accurate as possible. Same for the Masterpiece line, though that's next to impossible to see. For it, at least we could get the major players... including SW and cassettes, Bumblebee (that's right, we never got an Alternators Bumblebee!), and some of the other deluxe cars in their original experimental race car forms — like Wheeljack, Jazz, Mirage — plus Prowl, etc.

At least Takara is going to put a real MP Soundwave out there...