I realise I'm a bit late to the party regarding Leader Soundwave, but I will say it looks decent. The alt mode looks a bit plain compared to Blaster, I think they should have kept the boombox speakers even if they're not G1 accurate, but I like the robot mode and I think he'll look great next to Combiner Wars Megatron and Starscream. I'm looking forward to seeing how his cassettes/spy tablets turn out, though I do hope Ravage has some new tooling to make it look better than Stripes (assuming it actually will be a Stripes repaint and not its own mould).
Tyberion wrote:I then had an idea for another direction they could go.

That actually looks fantastic, the Galvatron mould would be perfect for Shockwave, I'd pick that over G1 or Energon Megatron any day.