New e-Hobby / TFCC SG Soundwave Vs. Blaster Images

So... where's Soundwave's headband

Can't say I like these... At all. I'm just not feeling these colors.

The cassettes alone are the reason I'm getting this

The cassettes are still the only reason to get these. I like Blaster's alt mode in those colors but he is too boring in bot mode. I wish they had used the Soundwave and Blaster mold instead of the SoundBlaster and Twincast mold. I don't like how far out their chests stick.

alldarker wrote:So... where's Soundwave's headband

Don't worry about that, he never got one on Cybertron. Only when he landed on Earth and scanned a van did he get that bandana.

And whoever called "Solarbot" get +1 internet.

I think these look awesome. I know some like to bitch about the Shattered Glass fiction, but I only collect the toys. I couldn't care less about the silly stories made up to sell them. They're cool toys, in cool colors, and that's enough for me.

And to settle the red Eject/Rewind: it's Rewind. Now let's pray TFCC doesn't go the RiBFiR homage thing by switching their colors in the media.

I'm not interested in this at all. Can we put SG on the back-burner now?

They look really nice.

Soundwave looks cool, but not cool enough for that price. Blaster is kinda meh.

Now, who wants to play guess the price? I say $179.90 USD on the club store!

Let the year of the cassettes begin! Between this, the LP release, and the MP version my cassette forces shall increae exponentially.

It's strange .... while I was indifferent to the white ipod version of Label SW when it was released I kinda like this version of SW. It'd be nice if there was a white-heavy version of Rumble and Frenzy to compliment Glit and this guy.

gavinfuzzy wrote:Soundwave looks cool, but not cool enough for that price. Blaster is kinda meh.

Now, who wants to play guess the price? I say $179.90 USD on the club store!

Ehobby has it listed for 13,900 yen roughly 177.00 US, so Im guessing most likely between 175 - 180.

STngAR wrote:

gavinfuzzy wrote:Soundwave looks cool, but not cool enough for that price. Blaster is kinda meh.

Now, who wants to play guess the price? I say $179.90 USD on the club store!

Ehobby has it listed for 13,900 yen roughly 177.00 US, so Im guessing most likely between 175 - 180.

At about $90 for each it's pretty steep compared to the Encore releases, but it's an ehobby release so that's to be expected.

Evil Blaster looks pretty sweet.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

STngAR wrote:

gavinfuzzy wrote:Soundwave looks cool, but not cool enough for that price. Blaster is kinda meh.

Now, who wants to play guess the price? I say $179.90 USD on the club store!

Ehobby has it listed for 13,900 yen roughly 177.00 US, so Im guessing most likely between 175 - 180.

At about $90 for each it's pretty steep compared to the Encore releases, but it's an ehobby release so that's to be expected.

My guess was so accurate! Seriously, I know TFCC too well. Hahahaha. (Really, I did not check, it was a guess).

Ehobby release eh? Like Black MP Rodimus and Brown G1 megatron? Thoes 2 are still lingering around collector shops... Megatron started at around $80 US... Now he's down to $63... Black rodimus I don't even check the price anymore. Still, I'm not planning on picking these up.

gavinfuzzy wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

STngAR wrote:

gavinfuzzy wrote:Soundwave looks cool, but not cool enough for that price. Blaster is kinda meh.

Now, who wants to play guess the price? I say $179.90 USD on the club store!

Ehobby has it listed for 13,900 yen roughly 177.00 US, so Im guessing most likely between 175 - 180.

At about $90 for each it's pretty steep compared to the Encore releases, but it's an ehobby release so that's to be expected.

My guess was so accurate! Seriously, I know TFCC too well. Hahahaha. (Really, I did not check, it was a guess).

Ehobby release eh? Like Black MP Rodimus and Brown G1 megatron? Thoes 2 are still lingering around collector shops... Megatron started at around $80 US... Now he's down to $63... Black rodimus I don't even check the price anymore. Still, I'm not planning on picking these up.

Not all of them linger like that. But with deluxes getting smaller and pricier and the same being true for MPs, I can't say these are overpriced compared to Brown Megatron from years and years ago.

But I guess we'll see. I'm getting these mostly for the cassettes. Although I do like the look of Soundwave.

gavinfuzzy wrote:Ehobby release eh? Like Black MP Rodimus and Brown G1 megatron? Thoes 2 are still lingering around collector shops... Megatron started at around $80 US... Now he's down to $63... Black rodimus I don't even check the price anymore. Still, I'm not planning on picking these up.

Black MP Rodimus is currently $175 at TF Source and $169.99 at BBTS. eBay BIN prices are $200-$225. I think it's a beautiful figure and I'd buy it in a heartbeat if it wasn't so expensive.

I think I am going to pass. Mainly due to the fact that I am trying to be very picky about the pieces/sets I buy, especially since I already obtained the "Encore" version of Soundblaster. That, and the ignorant "debate" made against a point I was making with the "VSE" name and Takara Tomy banner (and not the set itself) was added to my reasons not to get it.

(I will be ignoring all counter-notions about said "debate." So keep those thoughts to yourself, please. )

But I digress... Looking at them, here are my feelings on this set:

: e-HOBBY adds another item to Takara Tomy's vintage* G1 set.
: Both e-HOBBY and TFCC (corrected my friend on this) are giving the Japanese fans their own Shattered Glass universe.
: We have a very good chance that we may see TFCC bring this set be tied to BOTCON, and receive a TFCC packaging.
: We have to wait until the comic is here to see what kind of events unfold, which means that it is a gamble when it comes to the fiction.
: TFCC has not yet said when or if they will reissue it on their front, which makes it a gamble for those who only want their stuff.
: This may be a another event-based limited set, which pretty much means that it has a high chance of being costly in the secondary/after-market.

All I can say is that if you have both the luck and the money, and do not care if a TFCC set comes out, then go for it. Just know that this piece is part of Takara Tomy's (*: 1985) VS (VSY?) line, so it continues e-HOBBY's tradition of adding figures to the 27 year old vintage line. That, and it is spun-off from the "Invasion" set, which also is based on a 27 year old tradition of importing U.S.-based Transformers (in their original packaging) to Japan.

The rest... Take a gamble and see if you made the right choice.

These look sweet! love the color schemes on these guys and not much into the shattered glass stuff, but these really get me and really want them! I thought Soundblaser and Twin Cast was nice, man these blow them out of the water for sure.

I found this over on tformers.com. The e-Hbobby site has posted bio's for the SG characters. They have been run through Google Translate so they may not be 100% accurate but they give a good look into the characters. Ratbat is Batman, so cool

Book sale finally SG vs SG Soundwave Blaster e-HOBBY limited collaboration!

Introducing a special review of this set to commemorate the start of pre-orders "SG vs SG Soundwave Blaster e-HOBBY limited collaboration," the second part of TCC collaboration and e-HOBBY!

Because there is the case of prototypes, the final may differ slightly from the actual product photo.

SG Soundwave
Title: correspondent (cheerleader)
Formal job title but correspondent, bills itself as cheerleader, trying to raise the morale of fellow who loves rock and roll. Transferred to the new body by the soul, we have been able to go back to the original Earth.

SG Blaster
Position: Intelligence unit commander
subordinate only to what you can dominate, genuine sadist. I'm plotting revenge on Soundwave and Wing Blitz that led the troops cassette bot, he was banished to the moon.

SG rat bat
Position: Vigilante employee
Usually televised speech but an outcast, change the paint at night, transformed into dark hero to protect the Earth. Good without resorting to arms, I will track down the villain with clear mind.

SG Slug Fest
Position: Warriors
Regardless of the brain also has been enhanced to Starscream scientist, one idiot Decepticons. Micawber that I believe have the stamina and confidence to firepower, and are evaluated fellow but surely.

SG Ramhorn
Position: Runaway soldier
Trapped rewind, animal type transformers with intelligence. The fanatic obsessed with chaos, and there is a deeper meaning of something even chance events.

SG rewind
Position: Tracker
Follow-up experts honed in the wilderness of stars Cybertron. Blaster was hired to increase the number of cassette bots. From battle are interested for the Earth's creatures.

"Solar bots" messenger of the mystery

The original post on tformers: http://tformers.com/transformers-e-hobby-magazine-updates-with/18300/news.html

The e-Hobby original page: http://www.e-hobbymagazine.com/topics/4987.html

TFCC have revealed the pricing and pre-order dates for their collaborative effort with e-Hobby, "Solar Requiem". The set features Shattered Glass repaints of G1 Soundwave, Ratbat, Slugfest, Blaster, Eject/Rewind mold, and Ramhorn. Pre-orders will start tomorrow and run approximately a month with a price of $195.00 not including shipping and handling.

Copper color weapons for the win! Really pretty, those.

Seems like that price should be the price to import these from e-Hobby. Has BBTS, TFsource or any of the other online retailers posted pre-orders for the e-Hobby sets yet?

GuyIncognito wrote:I think these look awesome. I know some like to bitch about the Shattered Glass fiction, but I only collect the toys. I couldn't care less about the silly stories made up to sell them. They're cool toys, in cool colors, and that's enough for me.

Agreed. I hope they don't sell out soon, because at $200, I won't be getting these guys until I finish the list I got goin on right now...

Hmmmm, wasnt expecting that price. Up in the air now.

El Duque wrote:TFCC have revealed the pricing and pre-order dates for their collaborative effort with e-Hobby, "Solar Requiem". The set features Shattered Glass repaints of G1 Soundwave, Ratbat, Slugfest, Blaster, Eject/Rewind mold, and Ramhorn. Pre-orders will start tomorrow and run approximately a month with a price of $195.00 not including shipping and handling.

And I still find it surprising that they still snubbed their Facebook followers when it comes to this, as something as big as this should have been posted there the same time it was Tweeted. Then again, they also excluded a e-HOBBY link on their page, while e-HOBBY posted a TFCC banner/link on theirs.

Also, I am wondering if this is Takara Tomy's second exclusive that was sold by both e-HOBBY in Japan and in an area that sells Hasbro Transformers. Because I read somewhere that the first was A-01U Ultra Magnus, who was also sold at the Transformers China Carnival in 2010. Even then, this is still a piece of Transformers history.

But with the price... I have to pass. I need to set up my 2013 vacation plans, and other stuff. Plus, I am iffy about trusting TFCC right now. So those who get it through them... Good luck.

Seibertron wrote:Seems like that price should be the price to import these from e-Hobby. Has BBTS, TFsource or any of the other online retailers posted pre-orders for the e-Hobby sets yet?

Seeing how the items go on sale tomorrow, I am assuming we will hear something from them as early as the same day. TFsource, however, I'd give them an additional day or two on this.

jeebus. $200 for this set? I can get the originals for less then that.

Immortal Starscream wrote:jeebus. $200 for this set? I can get the originals for less then that.

True. But those are not originals, much less exclusives, like these are.

Yeah, but it's 7 toys... That's only like $28.57142857142857 each! Not too bad for an exclusive. LOL.

I'm not sure I see the price as being way too high. IIRC the last Soundwave reissue was on par with a new Voyager figure, price-wise. Blaster is a lot bigger, so probably be double the price, and the cassettes in their Encore line haven't been cheap. Plus this set is in exclusive paint colours and may or may not have some kind of yellow thing that we've only seen artist's renditions of, so may be entirely fictional. Still, if I had the money, and actually wanted these things, I'd buy.

as they are though, it's only the tapes I'm even a little bit interested in, and I'd maybe stretch to 50 bucks for them.

gothsaurus wrote:Yeah, but it's 7 toys... That's only like $28.57142857142857 each! Not too bad for an exclusive. LOL.

It's 6 toys, as the seventh is a "bonus" piece. But I do agree that the pricing is not too shabby when you separate the items into their own categories.

I mean, lets say that each tape is $15 each. That is a $60 set right there. That is a really good price for a set of four tapes, especially when they are compared to the Encore sets.

And that least SG Soundwave and SG Blaster being $70 each. Which makes them a great price, taking into account that they are exclusive pieces.

craggy wrote:I'm not sure I see the price as being way too high. IIRC the last Soundwave reissue was on par with a new Voyager figure, price-wise. Blaster is a lot bigger, so probably be double the price, and the cassettes in their Encore line haven't been cheap. Plus this set is in exclusive paint colours and may or may not have some kind of yellow thing that we've only seen artist's renditions of, so may be entirely fictional. Still, if I had the money, and actually wanted these things, I'd buy.

as they are though, it's only the tapes I'm even a little bit interested in, and I'd maybe stretch to 50 bucks for them.

Just take into account that these items are not Hasbro exclusives, but rather ones that are tied to Takara Tomy. So when it comes to pricing, items like this go by an import pricing and not a domestic pricing.

That's incredibly pricy. Even compared to previous eHobby exclucives.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:That's incredibly pricy. Even compared to previous eHobby exclucives.

Agreed, when compared to some. Because the 2008 exclusive "Gadep" was pretty huge. And 2011 Black Rodimus Convoy was a Masterpiece. But the rest...

http://www.e-hobbymagazine.com/category/english/museun_en

...They were not this big of a set, especially the G1 exclusives.

Shattered Glass Continuity needs to go away yesterday...

C - 310 wrote:Shattered Glass Continuity needs to go away yesterday...

No one's forcing you to buy it.

Wow.. What a price... Here, take my kidney too...

Bob called it!

I'm not saying the price is high for e-Hobby exclusives. I'm saying the price is high for it being sold as a club exclusive. I would expect that would be the price we'd pay for the actual imported e-Hobby exclusives via BBTS or TFsource. This price doesn't seem like the Club is doing any of us any favors. I had expected the price to be cheaper. For that price, I'll just order them when the e-Hobby ones come out.

Hope they put the purple autobot insignia on blaster, the red one in the pictures isn't doin it for me

I was all in at $150, but at $200 I think Ill pass. The cassettes were all I really wanted.

New continues to trickle in on TFCC and e-Hobby's "Solar Requiem" collaboration. e-Hobby have posted a mock-up of the sets packaging, which can be seen below. The set features Shattered Glass repaints of G1 Soundwave, Slugfest, Ratbat, Blaster, Ramhorn, Eject, and Rewind. According to TFCC we can expect pre-orders to open today. The set is priced at $195.00

With all the money that has been made off of these molds, I don't really see the justification of a $200 dollar price tag when all they have is a new paint job. I think half this price would have been perfect. But what do I know?

Yeah, I wish it were less... but this is about what I'd expect for the set.

It's not cheap or easy to pull out all the metal molds (think forklifts) and pay a crew to run a short, limited-edition job (AND print and design new boxes... paint the figures.... pack and ship them...etc).

It's all the production hassle of doing a full run of a million toys, only trying to make up the money with a couple thousand buyers.

It reminds me of working on a printing press... and how running an extra thousand or two of something only cost a few cents more (and took a few seconds longer.) All the cost was in the setup.

All that said... I wanna see the last figure!

They need to make some new G1 styled art for their toys. How many times can we see the same thing recolored?

Oh, wait ...!

I like the sticker sheet for these guys. We have a Bat symbol for Ratbat, Soundwave's head gear, official SG symbols, Zartan, Blaster's tattoos and various others. They are putting a lot of love into this set. It is starting to show it's worth to me. I think I'm in when preorders go live. Hopefully I can snag the Takara version off of Robotkindgom.

They tweeted that orders for these are up!

bit.ly/Qd6K9U

TFCC has opened pre-orders for their collaborative set with e-Hobby, Shattered Glass Soundwave VS Blaster. Click here to place your pre-order. The set features Shattered Glass universe repaints of G1 Soundwave, Slugfest, Ratbat, Blaster, Rewind, and Ramhorn. Plus a repaint of Eject.

PRE-ORDER ONLY! This item cannot be combined with any other orders or items and will ship separately! Approximate delivery date is Mid-January 2013. Orders will be taken through October 15, 2012 or while quantities last!

Here it is! The eHobby exclusive Shattered Glass Soundwave VS Blaster Global New Years VSE set. Each set features G1 Soundwave and Blaster in stunning SG color schemes, five cassettes, sticker sheet, and an English version of the "Solar Requiem" 10 page comic.

This set will be limited so make sure to get yours today!

(PRE-ORDER)(THIS ITEM HAS TO BE ORDERED BY ITSELF IN A SINGLE TRANSACTION PLEASE DO NOT ADD ANY OTHER ITEMS TO YOUR CART WHILE ORDERING THIS ITEM) eHobby Shattered Glass Soundwave VS Blaster set with cassettes

It's just SG Rewind. The yellow cassette, Solarbot, is not related to any of them.

I wonder, if people who already own the white Music Label Soundwave get this set, what will they do with him?

What do you mean what will I do with them!?? Walk around downtown with one on each shoulder, what else!?

Darn it! My wallet and cc is at my other jobsite. Guess I'll have to wait until the weekend to order these guys

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:It's just SG Rewind. The yellow cassette, Solarbot, is not related to any of them.

I wonder, if people who already own the white Music Label Soundwave get this set, what will they do with him?

Personally I intend to leave ML Soundwave where he is and leave both SG1 Soundwave and Blaster in their box. I really only want to display the cassettes at this point in time.