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News Credits: 5749 · Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:35 pm

SURU has posted some additional images of the special Linkin Park edition Soundwave set. The set feature gold version of G1 Soundwave, Ravage, Laserbeak, Ratbat, and Buzzsaw. This set retails for $150.00.

he LINKIN PARK SOUNDWAVE TRANSFORMERS Special Edition Action Figure is in the “Generation 1” or “G1” style of the fan favorite SOUNDWAVE TRANSFORMERS character, features an orange gold treatment and is packaged in a unique cassette tape-inspired box. The set includes the Decepticon spy minions Ravage, Lazerbeak, Buzzsaw and Ratbat which take the alternative form of a microcassette stored within Soundwave’s tape compartment.

Features:

Soundwave stands approximately 7 inches in height
Features 8 points of articulation
Converts from robot to “cassette player” mode
Includes 4 cassette minions

News Credits: 25 · Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:09 pm

All my no.

Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:14 pm

I like this thing. Another strange G1 figure to add to my collection. It should fit in well next to my Exile edition Music Label Convoy.

News Credits: 101 · Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:24 pm

Yeeeeesh.... This look like some unpainted prototype. 150$?! Good lord.
Oh well, if you're into these things...

News Credits: 251 · Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:24 pm

Nice job putting Ratbat's boosters on the wrong side. >:oP

Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:29 pm

I REALLY wanted this however, at $150 I'm better off spending a little more and getting a Hasbro Masterpiece version.

Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:33 pm

At least "Golden Shower" Ultra Magnus has someone to sit in the corner with.

Pic courtesy tfwiki.net

Mon Aug 26, 2013 5:52 pm

I can't explain why I like this. This would be an abomination on my shelves but I love it. Maybe it's so bad it's good, I don't know.

Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:44 pm

Doesn't need Buzzsaw, needs Frenzy/Rumble instead.

Just my two cents.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 26, 2013 6:50 pm

I love it, just because it's linkin park. But $150 is quite steep.

Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:52 pm

This is just my opinion, but that thing is an absolute piece of crap. Cheap looking gold plastic and the only other color is black, and there is so little of it. This Soundwave doesn't even have metal thighs.

If Linkin Park really had a say in this figure's design, they made it pretty obvious that they don't give a hoot about Transformers. :lol:

News Credits: 462 · Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:29 pm

Looks more like "Vanilla-flavor" instead of "gold".

News Credits: 9 · Mon Aug 26, 2013 10:40 pm

Butterscotch Soundwave

News Credits: 1 · Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:16 am

He is one of my favorite G1 characters. it'll go great opposite my MISB 1984/G1 Soundwave. Where will it be on sale at?

News Credits: 101 · Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:22 am

Regimus Prime wrote: Where will it be on sale at?

Let me guess... Linkin Park? :WHISTLE:

News Credits: 1 · Tue Aug 27, 2013 4:02 am

Regimus Prime wrote:He is one of my favorite G1 characters. it'll go great opposite my MISB 1984/G1 Soundwave.

They are opposites indeed. One is awesome and the other sucks eggs.

News Credits: 12 · Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:31 am

I'm waiting for the pink Limp Bizkit version. 8-}

Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:16 pm

i can only hope that Gold plastic Syndrome causes this toy to crumble into nothingness; just as Linkin Parks career did.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Aug 27, 2013 9:28 pm

Yweggo wrote:Doesn't need Buzzsaw, needs Frenzy/Rumble instead.

Just my two cents.

Agreed, because they could at least represent some generics from More Than Meets The Eye and S.O.S. Dinobots.

As is, they could all be electrum coated...but the reveal of Ratbat makes that odd, as Golden Lagoon was before his time in the 'toon.

Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:11 pm

It looks like a KO, at least the other G1 reissue, Bape Prime was interesting.

Wed Aug 28, 2013 12:16 am

I can't believe that over a year after showing the actually good looking prototype in 2012 they came up with this final product. It's as if they totally forgot about it (I know I did) and handed it off to some intern who doesn't know a thing about TFs to finish the design on the cheap.

BTW the Linkin Park facebook page has some great comments. With 43,700+ Likes, I'm sure it'll sell out between the two sets of fans.

News Credits: 767 · Wed Aug 28, 2013 4:06 am

Wow, it surprises me every time just how ugly this thing is, every time I see it. Just wow.
This deco makes G2's Skittles "taste the painbow" decoes look super badass in comparison.

Mon Sep 02, 2013 12:27 pm

i tried so hard, and got so far. but in the end, it's still slaggin ugly.

Tue Sep 03, 2013 3:23 pm

Man, Soundwave is #1 to me with his cassettes, but this is a easy pass for me. That tan plastic, so called gold looks like trash. And at $150.00 ? They are making a killing on who ever buys this set, no paint, all one color plastic, crappy box. :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 251 · Fri Sep 06, 2013 6:31 am

Excited for Linkin Park Soundwave? Then why not show it by wearing apparel based on the blinged-out Decepticon? Linkin Park's partner Suru has revealed some apparel based on the visage of the upcoming Linkin Park Soundwave. The apparel includes a snapback hat with Soundwave's tape deck mode, and two variants of a shirt: one having Soundwave's tape deck mode in gold, the other the same design, but in Soundwave's traditional blue. Images are below.