Gauntlet101010 wrote:Woo, nice! I wonder if they'll do one in blue. I also wonder if it'll be voyager sized. It looks bigger than a regular deluxe, but it's hard to tell.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Ravage XK wrote:Soundwave still transforms into a box, albeit a very flat one.
Its interesting but the robot is really messy and quite ugly.
Shuttershock wrote:Ravage XK wrote:Soundwave still transforms into a box, albeit a very flat one.
Its interesting but the robot is really messy and quite ugly.
Yeah, I have to agree. Might just be the color choice, but nothing about it really says 'Soundwave' to me. Maybe Movie Soundwave at a stretch.
Looks like that Year of the Goat Soundwave.
Sabrblade wrote:The bit I find the most interesting about this is that it's being initiated by Hasbro instead of Takara when Takara is the one who previously did the Music Label, Device Label, Mega Drive Megatron, and PlayStation Optimus Prime toys.
william-james88 wrote:Shuttershock wrote:Ravage XK wrote:Soundwave still transforms into a box, albeit a very flat one.
Its interesting but the robot is really messy and quite ugly.
Yeah, I have to agree. Might just be the color choice, but nothing about it really says 'Soundwave' to me. Maybe Movie Soundwave at a stretch.
Looks like that Year of the Goat Soundwave.
Looking at the video, the name soundwave is almost arbitrary. They didnt design the toy with soundwave in mind. The name came after when they were wondering what the most bankable name to sell this communication tech device themed toy would be.Sabrblade wrote:The bit I find the most interesting about this is that it's being initiated by Hasbro instead of Takara when Takara is the one who previously did the Music Label, Device Label, Mega Drive Megatron, and PlayStation Optimus Prime toys.
It is weird, and it makes this an official toy that Takara has not engineered, which is quite rare.
Randomhero wrote:You'd be surprised. A lot transformers are not hasbro engineered. Combiner wars, a lot of generations and and RID and the movie stuff are engineered at hasbro. Some are done with Takara but lately it's been a lot of Hasbro
The Transformers Adventure series came right after the development of the Movie Advanved series (Age of Extinction) and uses a lot of technologies developed during that previous line, as can be seen with TAV 01 Bumblebee. One of the main struggles of the "Advanced Series" was to replicate the rapidity of the transformation seen in the films and thus needing to reduce the amount of steps from one mode to the next while still getting the right look in both modes. We wanted to go back to the G1 era where kids from 30 years ago were fascinated with these toys and the fact that they converted from one mode to the next quickly made for easy play. We wanted to incorporate that speedy transformation and instant playability with the technology we developed in all these years since.
william-james88 wrote:Randomhero wrote:You'd be surprised. A lot transformers are not hasbro engineered. Combiner wars, a lot of generations and and RID and the movie stuff are engineered at hasbro. Some are done with Takara but lately it's been a lot of Hasbro
Firstly, your sentences are saying 2 very different things, you maybe out a "not" in the wrong place.
Regardless Takara engineers all Hasbro TF products for the lines you mentioned. This one here is a rare exception. Please show me where you get your info.
Here is an exerpt from a takara engineer about the RID line (which they call "Transformers Advenure):The Transformers Adventure series came right after the development of the Movie Advanved series (Age of Extinction) and uses a lot of technologies developed during that previous line, as can be seen with TAV 01 Bumblebee. One of the main struggles of the "Advanced Series" was to replicate the rapidity of the transformation seen in the films and thus needing to reduce the amount of steps from one mode to the next while still getting the right look in both modes. We wanted to go back to the G1 era where kids from 30 years ago were fascinated with these toys and the fact that they converted from one mode to the next quickly made for easy play. We wanted to incorporate that speedy transformation and instant playability with the technology we developed in all these years since.
There are a ton of other statements like this on their site detailing the engineering process.
Designing =/= engineering. The typical formula for TF toys is that Hasbro designs the toys while Takara engineers them. In the case of this Soundwave, however, Hasbro engineered it instead of Takara. That's what's unusual about it.Randomhero wrote:I apologize, I meant to say a lot are engineered by hasbro. And there are. Just look up on the tfwiki and you'll see a lot of hasbro enployees designed a lot of figures. Almost all of animated was designed by hasbros team and there are videos all over online with interviews of hasbro employees and the figures they've been credited. There is even an entire bonus segment on Age of Extinction and Harris design team creating a grimlock figure. Yes, Takara does do designs too but they are not the soul designers of Tranformers.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Randomhero wrote:
I apologize, I meant to say a lot are engineered by hasbro. And there are. Just look up on the tfwiki and you'll see a lot of hasbro enployees designed a lot of figures. Almost all of animated was designed by hasbros team and there are videos all over online with interviews of hasbro employees and the figures they've been credited. There is even an entire bonus segment on Age of Extinction and Harris design team creating a grimlock figure. Yes, Takara does do designs too but they are not the soul designers of Tranformers.
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