Munkky wrote:I've just noticed that the EAN code lists the Voyager Soundwave as "S Soundwave (repack)", when the massive leak from TFW with the case breakdowns last month claimed it was a new Prime Soundwave. I take it from this list of EAN codes that Legacy Soundwave will just be a re-release of Netflix Soundwave (or perhaps just the original Siege Soundwave) after all. What a shame.
william-james88 wrote:Just some things I wanted to point out.
I think there was some confusion online with the listings. The Legacy Soundwave is listed as Soundwave PR. PR means Pack Refresh, meaning it's not a new toy. And we see this come up for a few others. But I think some leakers saw that PR devoid of context and that's how we got the rumours of a PRime Soundwave coming. And now we can see, that's not the case.
If I'm remembering right from what I've witnessed, the history of the Soundwave listing has been as follows:
-Big Target leak happens, there's a Soundwave PR listed, people assume that means a rerelease of the Netflix figure and leakers neither confirm nor deny explicitly, but do confirm that that is what PR stands for by saying Galvatron is supposed to be a rerelease
-Listings show up from a different system that that label both Soundwave and Galvatron as Prime rather than PR, some people run with Prime Soundwave despite the Galvatron one seemingly indicating that it's a mistake (since there was never a named Galvatron in Prime), at least one leaker admits to have seen both indications that the Netflix mold is getting used but also the Prime Soundwave title, so now we have people expecting a reissue, people expecting a new Prime design, and people expecting the Netflix figure in Prime colors or something
-EAN codes show up yesterday now listing him as S Soundwave PR, further reinforcing that it's probably just a rerelease, although the S might mean it's actually Siege Soundwave and not the Netflix one, but because of the one outlier listing people start going "but I though it was supposed to be Prime Soundwave?"
AcademyofDrX wrote:I'm not sure that PR actually stands for "Package Refresh." There is at least one truncated (rather than abbreviated) description in the list: Armada Starscream. One of the Optimus listings ends in "T," which might be a code, or might be the only letter of a truncated word. Both of those listings are 63 characters long, which may be the maximum possible in the source. The length of the Soundwave PR listing? 63 characters. That could be "Prime" truncated rather than indicating a package refresh. I don't know, though, this is all speculation.
Edit to clarify: I am going by the raw text posted at other sites. I don't know why Seibertron's text is different.
"Transformers Generation Legacy Evolution Voyager S Soundwave Pr"
If PR stands for Prime and not Package Refresh, then what's the deal with Galvatron and, to a lesser extent, the Core Soundwave and Optimus?