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[Mindmaster]

I'm totaly sold on Soundwave and Laserbeak. Does this mean there will be a repaint of Soundblaster?

Think about it. Almost every Soundwave produced (excluding BW Soundwave) was eventually repainted (remolded in the case of G1 Soundblaster) in the trademark colors of said character. Chances are that we're definitely gunna get an MP Soundblaster.

[headsortails]

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.....

[starwarrior1227]

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.....

well i would suspect mp-13 will come out to 'MERICA! and the rest of the world(except to the UK cuz we all know hasbro hates giving toys on time OR at all to the UK).
but if you are that willing to spend cash be my guess(takara's usually look better than hasbro's...) AND yes i still think soundwave is better than the mp-14s.

[XDMan]

My thoughts on Soundwave: YES! He is now more show accurate! With a better looking design, a better looking Laserbeak and what else does he have? A red visor and at very long last! But didn't Takara say that Rumble and Ravage would be released as well? I believe Hasbro may give him a yellow visor. I hope he gets a Soundblaster repaint as well.

My thoughts on Red Alert: He is okay but if he gets an American release, then he and Sideswipe may be in a two pack.

[Stormrider]

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 shitty 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.

[starwarrior1227]

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 shitty 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.

thats not what he means. He just wants to see more MPs of transformers that never got good, show accurate toys to begin with.

[OmicronZero]

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.

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Those definitely look like ports. As a computer guy I can say without question that they are at least supposed to look like ports. 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.

As for speakers, well he doesn't need to have them. While it would be a rather simple and not-all-that-costly process to just drop an I/O port plate and a cheap MP3 player into a hollow bit of the toy, speakers would require a good deal more electronics as well as the extensive wiring. So if they did put an MP3 player in there it would be more efficient to just rely on the use of headphones.

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.

[CBratetron]

I don't remember Soundwave frowning like that so much.
I do agree with comments that MP Soundwave really doesn't add much to the already fantastic G1 figure. But I think this Laserbeak and improved arm articulation are worth it.

[SKYWARPED_128]

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.

Rumor has it that Soundwave's about the same size as MP-10, which means his leg would also be around the same size as the latter. There should be just enough space for something the size of a generic micro-mp3 player.

...if they did put an MP3 player in there it would be more efficient to just rely on the use of headphones.

That's what I thought.

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.

That would be the most plausible, and also the most disappointing.

[gothweaver]

So what is that thing he's got in the 4th pic, a futuristic dirt devil?