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by **wing0hero** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:24 pm

Will we ever get a true Classics Soundwave? I just transformed the ravage that came with Hound and he looks like he could perfectly fit into a voyager class new mold. But I guess just wishful thinking.

News Credits: 7 · by **Chaoslock** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:30 pm

I heard that the blue Music Label Soundwave is a good substitute for the classic line, but nevertheless, there were plans for a classic Soundwave, as I know it have been cancelled:

News Credits: 5 · by **Sledge** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:36 pm

Meh, this would be better:

by **wing0hero** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:51 pm

I liked both thanks guys. For me its hard to see him as an suv. I had to get used to him as a scion for animated.

by **Nickolai** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:06 pm

The one Sledge posted looks like it has a very similar transformation scheme to Classics Megs'. But where does the left arm go in recorder mode?

News Credits: 5 · by **Sledge** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:15 pm

I don't think this was a design for a TF toy, but I'd say the left arm and the head could fold onto his back.

by **doomseer** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:23 pm

Damn I wish they would make that one in the colour picture and stop trying to convince us that we don't still want him to be a tape player or something similar - WE DO!!!!

by **doomseer** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:32 pm

To me Soundwave is a pretty special character. I didn't have him when I was a kid but I loved his voice and look and had every bit of merchandise with him on. I think because I couldn't find him in the shops on the rare occasions I convinced my mum to buy me a TF he had a sort of cult fascination for me. I never knew what the actual toy properly really looked like until I got the internet! Even for G1 he is amazing and I am now the ADULT owner of a 1983 Complete with Buzzsaw one ( unboxed - yeah I did open it! ).

I know the MP3 version is out there but it is £119.99 in the one and only shop I can find it in in my nearest town centre ( Liverpool ) and there is no way I can afford that. The titanium 'nappywave' was, I think, an insult to fans!

But Hasbro / Takara seem to be hell bent on persuading us he can't be a tape player anymore and has to be a vehicle of some kind. Why? Frenzy wasn't a vehicle in the film and he still shifted a lot of merch!

So am I deluded by my childhood or DO WE WANT A TAPE PLAYER BASED CLASSIC SOUNDWAVE?

Adult collectors have a lot more 'disposable income' than faddy kids who are only getting their parents to buy them what they have seen on the movies or what their friends tell them is cool.

Please discuss. lol

News Credits: 5 · by **Sledge** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:39 pm

Dude, someone started a thread about this about an hour ago. It's still in the top half dozen threads on page one of the Toy Forum.

News Credits: 4 · by **Firebird** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:55 pm

Sledge wrote:Meh, this would be better:

Get to work Takara. I want this thing in the Masterpiece series.

Nice find Sledge

News Credits: 9 · by **Archatron** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:00 pm

Sledge wrote:Meh, this would be better:

Exactly. I love this version and would buy several of them, Hasbro. Hint, Hint :wink:

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:17 pm

I love mini-cassettes! That's great! Too bad it's just a sketch.

News Credits: 88 · by **DavidT** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:37 pm

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I still want this Soundwave :grin:

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News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:49 am

I'm assuming that's a custom?

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:04 am

Yeah, that's a custom. Nice one too ... but if it were official I'd really want it to look more like the cartoon tapedeck more (even if it was made more fancy). And I'd want it to have a level base for the tape deck mode.

I'm very happy with my MP3 soundwave ....and Rumble and Frenzy that went with him too, for that matter. It's cool to have some non-tape tapedeck accessories to be his minions. I dunno if anyone's really satisfied with Titanium Soundwave ... unlike Scourge or Rodimus, or even Ultra Magnus, that guy just is no good as a Classics character. Dunno how they could screw that up. Soundwave's the most brickiest of all brick transformers. Because he transforms into a rectangle!

If they made a tapedeck Soundwave, I think it'd be fair to want it to be compatable with Ravage and the other G1 cassettes. Although, since I have the MP3 one, I dunno if I'd buy it. Although I'd definately buy the Blaster repaint!

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:49 am

That is an outstanding custom!
I use the "classic" Soundwave from TRU as my soundwave in my calssics setup.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:54 am

Sledge wrote:Meh, this would be better:

That was Guido Guido's design for Soundwave's appearance in All Hail Megatron, you know to give him an alt-mode that actually is in use nowadays but how well we know how that turned out.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:00 am

Cyber Bishop wrote:That is an outstanding custom!
I use the "classic" Soundwave from TRU as my soundwave in my calssics setup.

Archer himself said that was the Classics Soundwave.

He said pretty much, that they really couldn't top the original.
(Take up your issues with that statement with him, not me.)

by **The Chronic** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:39 am

Best custom Soundwave I've seen

For some reason I don't have the alt mode pic saved but it is out there

and just because this was also in my photobucket

Think I might get my self a reprolabels set for him soon

by **Dagon** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:21 pm

Firebird wrote:
Sledge wrote:Meh, this would be better:

Get to work Takara. I want this thing in the Masterpiece series.

Nice find Sledge

Good call on the Masterpiece inclusion. That is a good looking drawing, and it would be nice to see in bigger Masterpiece size.

As I was messing around with Classics Ravage I got myself to wondering if maybe Hasbro isn't going to at least release Classics Cassetticons instead of a new Soundwave. Isn't new Ravage supposed to fit inside reissue Soundwave? I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I remember reading that line somewheres. Classics Cassetticons would be excellent, and personally I'd rather have them than a new Soundwave.

News Credits: 1 · by **Agent 007** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:28 pm

Somebody at hasbro said when and if universe comes back after the movie the two characters we wants to make are soundwave and rinox. Imao soundwave would look good as an suv with speakers.

News Credits: 5 · by **Sledge** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:29 pm

Please don't say things like that, even in jest. You might give Hasbro the idea that it would be acceptable.

News Credits: 1 · by **Agent 007** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:34 pm

Sledge wrote:Please don't say things like that, even in jest. You might give Hasbro the idea that it would be acceptable.

lol what's wrong with an suv? can you really see kids buying a deluxe boombox? And even if they made him one it wouldn't be in scale and couldn't really do much on its own. Kids would get bored.

by **Dagon** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:37 pm

Agent 007 wrote:Somebody at hasbro said when and if universe comes back after the movie the two characters we wants to make are soundwave and rinox. Imao soundwave would look good as an suv with speakers.

I don't understand why they are making Beast Wars era figures as part of the Classics line up. Yeah yeah yeah, I know. It's Universe. Yeah, it's the 25th anniversary of the franchise and blah blah. But really, why not release the three years ago rereleased Beast Wars reissues again for the 25th, like they rerererereissued the G1 Prime? I saw Dinobot and Cheetor at Target last night and damn are they bad looking. They make the BW originals look good. I don't know. I liked BW as a show and a concept but really can't support beastformers, so my bias is showing but still, I am displeased. Greatly displeased.

Some one, come please me.

News Credits: 97 · by **Savage** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:41 pm

Dagon wrote: I saw Dinobot and Cheetor at Target last night and damn are they bad looking. They make the BW originals look good.

Have you seen the original Dinobot figure?? IMO, the new version looks much better (and either way, it's definitely more show-accurate). All it's missing is the blue.

As for Cheetor, he's okay. I love him from the knees up, but his lower legs bug me.