Balvintron video review.

Wednesday, November 24th, 2021 5:26PM CST

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Balvitron has begun being shipped left and right but not many reviewers took an interest in this odd collab. Luckily for us, Youtuber That Toy Guy made a video review of the thing for us all to enjoy.

This oddity is a set of repaints of G1 Soundwave, Buzzsaw/Lazerbeak, and Ravage. Soundwave is in eye-searing yellow with pre-applied stickers all over. Unfortunately, the quality of the stickers seems to be basic "Power of the Prime" style. BuzzBeak is in white with "Energy" written in Spanish on him while Ravage cosplay as a tiger because why not.

Also, Soundwave don't come with his usual "battery" guns. Instead, he come with two of Siege Jetfire's guns with blast effects.

You can see the video review down below.

What do you think of this fever dream of a set? Please leave a comment below!

Credit(s): That Toy Guy from Youtube

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Re: Balvintron video review. (2121753)
Posted by primalxconvoy on November 24th, 2021 @ 7:32pm CST

I've seen shampoo-bottle quality knockoffs that look better than that overpriced turd.

Re: Balvintron video review. (2121759)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on November 24th, 2021 @ 8:44pm CST

primalxconvoy wrote:I've seen shampoo-bottle quality knockoffs that look better than that overpriced turd.

HEY, THAT'S MEAN! [-(

...................................................But not wrong........................................................

Re: Balvintron video review. (2121760)
Posted by Otaku-mus Prime on November 24th, 2021 @ 9:38pm CST

I had no idea who J. Balvin was until about 2 months ago when I heard him featured on a track by m-flo called Human Lost. FYI, m-flo is the group that sang the opening song Transformerz for the Transformers Adventure series in Japan.

As for Balvintron, it's a pass for me.

Re: Balvintron video review. (2121814)
Posted by Black Bumblebee on November 25th, 2021 @ 2:20pm CST

I like him. Odd colors with zany stickers? It's so 90s it has to be my G2 Soundwave.

Re: Balvintron video review. (2121817)
Posted by Ultra Markus on November 25th, 2021 @ 3:16pm CST

primalxconvoy wrote:I've seen shampoo-bottle quality knockoffs that look better than that overpriced turd.

best comment ever

Re: Balvintron video review. (2121842)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on November 25th, 2021 @ 10:01pm CST

Picked up Balvintron just now. He is truly garish. TBH, I got him more for Lazerbeak than either the main figure or Stripes.

I actually think this will age well. It's an iconic G1 character and mold painted in garish colors. If it was a KO nobody would care, but it's official and that makes all the difference. Someone mentioned this as a G2 Soundwave. Yep. I see it. Stand him beside Action Master Thundercracker.

In hand Stripes is the worst. I forgot exactly how he looked like - one side is totally blank except for googly eyes, a random stripe design, and a tape sticker. Did they waste all their effort on Lazerbeak and forget about him? Because he feels like an afterthought.

I also think they missed a trick in inventing new characters for these guys. They'd mean more if they were their own obscure characters. Now they're just versions of other characters.

Re: Balvintron video review. (2121844)
Posted by alekese on November 25th, 2021 @ 11:20pm CST

The decos for the casettes are based off of the cover art for 2 of Balvin's albums, so you could headcanon them as new characters with the names of those respective albums, Vibrancia and Energia IIRC.

Re: Balvintron video review. (2121846)
Posted by Emerje on November 26th, 2021 @ 12:22am CST

alekese wrote:The decos for the casettes are based off of the cover art for 2 of Balvin's albums, so you could headcanon them as new characters with the names of those respective albums, Vibrancia and Energia IIRC.

Those names are used on the box alongside their normal names. Soundwave is technically J. Balvintron so they really have renamed all of them.

Emerje

Re: Balvintron video review. (2121850)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on November 26th, 2021 @ 4:47am CST

Black Bumblebee wrote: It's so 90s it has to be my G2 Soundwave.

Somehow, this is turning this horrible thing into something AWESOME. :APPLAUSE:

Re: Balvintron video review. (2121853)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on November 26th, 2021 @ 8:01am CST

Emerje wrote:
alekese wrote:The decos for the casettes are based off of the cover art for 2 of Balvin's albums, so you could headcanon them as new characters with the names of those respective albums, Vibrancia and Energia IIRC.

Those names are used on the box alongside their normal names. Soundwave is technically J. Balvintron so they really have renamed all of them.

Emerje

I mean ... Balvintron is right at the top so he's renamed. But I'm not sure the other two are properly new characters. Sure, Buzzsaw will be a new character in my headcanon, but I just think they'd be more desirable if they were canonically new characters.

Looking up the Vibras art, wow. What a terrible cover to make into a TF. There's nothing to work with. Shoulda chosen Rumble, though, since we've never had an orange Rumble.