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News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 9:09 am

This item came out but only in China. The only place anyone can get it right now is e-bay for 60$

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Xiaomi-x-Hasbro ... SwmtJXV8Jr

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 3:51 pm

william-james88 wrote:
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.

One of the videos in the article has him next to MP-10, so check it out.

For those among us who don't have an MP-10, can you put that in perspective for us?

News Credits: 23 · by **Bumblebee21** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:56 pm

Zeedust wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
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.

One of the videos in the article has him next to MP-10, so check it out.

For those among us who don't have an MP-10, can you put that in perspective for us?

Do you have a rotf leader Optimus prime. Mp-10 is an inch or two shorter than that if it helps

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:30 pm

There might have been some confusion. This toy is voyager size.

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:04 pm

william-james88 wrote:There might have been some confusion. This toy is voyager size.

Thank you.

News Credits: 1 · by **Doc bot** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 7:48 am

Just got mine in. He's pretty awesome. Packaged just like a tablet would be since he's sized exactly like the Mi Pad he's based on. Despite looking delicate, he's pretty robust. Feels engineered as a Hasbro product and not a Takara product. I find higher end Takara TFs can be pretty delicate and have had many things break off over the years.

My wife freaked out when she first saw it. She thought I had cracked my iPad screen.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 7:54 am

Doc bot wrote:Just got mine in. He's pretty awesome. Packaged just like a tablet would be since he's sized exactly like the Mi Pad he's based on. Despite looking delicate, he's pretty robust. Feels engineered as a Hasbro product and not a Takara product. I find higher end Takara TFs can be pretty delicate and have had many things break off over the years.

My wife freaked out when she first saw it. She thought I had cracked my iPad screen.

Where did you get it, e-bay? If you take some pictures to show us as different angles and give a few words on it, I could make it a news article

News Credits: 1 · by **Doc bot** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:08 am

I bought him off eBay for $60 shipped. Got him in around a week from China which was impressive. I'll post some pics I took while unboxing him after I resize them down some.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:13 am

Doc bot wrote:I bought him off eBay for $60 shipped. Got him in around a week from China which was impressive. I'll post some pics I took while unboxing him after I resize them down some.

Just in case you didnt know, you could upload the pics to an image sharing site (I use photobucket.com) and they will give you a link to insert them on these boards, so you dont have to do any resizing.

News Credits: 1 · by **Doc bot** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:10 am

Here are a few rough pics I took while unboxing the MiPad2 Soundwave I just got in from China. Pretty impressive engineering since he's so thin. Packaged just like an electronic gadget rather than a toy which is pretty cool. I imagine this might even be the same packaging as the real tablet. Since his back is bare, it comes in a gold colored sleeve that initially makes him look more like the real thing. The instructions are in a cool Decepticon shaped book with 30 steps (he needs them all).

I can take some better photos later along with the lazerbeak part and guns. I just took these quickly for unboxing fun.

News Credits: 1 · by **Doc bot** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:52 am

Here's a better pic of him armed up. Articulation is awfully limited by his unusual transformation.

Lazerbeak needs a bit of imagination to interpret. He attaches to Soundwave's back as wings.

Here's a group shot from the Soundwave family reunion.

Finally, here he is compared to a normal iPad. Looks just like a normal tablet with a cracked screen.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 3:50 pm

Fellow Seibertronian Doc Bot was able to acquire a Hasbro/Xiaomi MiPad Soundwave figure off the secondary market, and has shared a number of in-hand images along with some thoughts for the rest of the collecting Transformers community - check them both out below! Images include the figure in robot mode, tablet mode, the Laserbeak section, comparisons with real tablets and other Soundwave figures, plenty to feast your optics on.

Doc bot wrote:Here are a few rough pics I took while unboxing the MiPad2 Soundwave I just got in from China. Pretty impressive engineering since he's so thin. Packaged just like an electronic gadget rather than a toy which is pretty cool. I imagine this might even be the same packaging as the real tablet. Since his back is bare, it comes in a gold colored sleeve that initially makes him look more like the real thing. The instructions are in a cool Decepticon shaped book with 30 steps (he needs them all).

I can take some better photos later along with the lazerbeak part and guns. I just took these quickly for unboxing fun. Articulation is awfully limited by his unusual transformation.

Lazerbeak needs a bit of imagination to interpret. He attaches to Soundwave's back as wings.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 4:10 pm

I do want this and I'll get it, but ...

Dammit, why doesn't it come in blue?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 5:28 pm

Gauntlet101010 wrote:I do want this and I'll get it, but ...

Dammit, why doesn't it come in blue?

It might be meant to be Movieverse Soundwave, who was mostly silver.

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 6:30 pm

Movie sound wave looks more like sound wave in head and face this one does not plus I never saw blue iPad apple products mostly remain same color silver, black, white sometimes gold never blue

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:17 pm

If you watch the video in the first post they state that the name was given to this product after it was designed. They chose to call it soundwave because it was a communication device. Nothing more.

News Credits: 7 · by **Noideaforaname** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:18 pm

I don't think he's "meant" to be anyone other than a loose interpretation of the 'Transformer communications officer' archetype.

I wonder what are the chances of Hasbro importing this over here (or at least it popping up somewhere)? I'm guessing the Mi Pad license puts a hole in that idea, but boy if this isn't one of the more interesting TF products in recent years thanks to not being a slavish homage.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:19 pm

william-james88 wrote:If you watch the video in the first post they state that the name was given to this product after it was designed. They chose to call it soundwave because it was a communication device. Nothing more.

The head design still looks enough like Soundwave, and most like the Movieverse version than other versions.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:36 pm

william-james88 wrote:If you watch the video in the first post they state that the name was given to this product after it was designed. They chose to call it soundwave because it was a communication device. Nothing more.

Well, they said "Soundwave would be the most suitable name for this product" which doesn't necessarily mean that name came after it was designed.

It's head is Soundwavy, albeit in a Prime-esque, abstract sort of way. It's chest also invokes Soundwave.

And it comes with a little Ratbat guy integrated in it's design.

So it has to have been modeled after Soundwave. At least a little bit.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:05 pm

The Microman fan in me is starting to git da WANTZ!

News Credits: 1 · by **Doc bot** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 9:55 pm

I think one of the neatest parts of his transformation is his head. It's made of 3 slices that cobble together so that he can remain thin in tablet mode. He looses all articulation, but it's pretty cool.

Overall articulation isn't great, but he does have ratcheting hips and knees along with ankle swivels so can stand solidly.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 10:11 pm

Gauntlet101010 wrote:
william-james88 wrote:If you watch the video in the first post they state that the name was given to this product after it was designed. They chose to call it soundwave because it was a communication device. Nothing more.

Well, they said "Soundwave would be the most suitable name for this product" which doesn't necessarily mean that name came after it was designed.

That means there were options and that was the best one. It most definitely means that the name was secondary to the product.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 10:49 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Gauntlet101010 wrote:
william-james88 wrote:If you watch the video in the first post they state that the name was given to this product after it was designed. They chose to call it soundwave because it was a communication device. Nothing more.

Well, they said "Soundwave would be the most suitable name for this product" which doesn't necessarily mean that name came after it was designed.

That means there were options and that was the best one. It most definitely means that the name was secondary to the product.

Gotta disagree there. It doesn't give any sense about when the name was chosen. Just that they had "this product" in mind - a transforming mi pad.

And it comes with a very Ratbatish minion. And the head too. Those things didn't have to be designed that way.

Seems to me that they chose a name, possibly with a preliminary design, and went from there. There didn't need to be a Ratbat. I'd probably agree with your interpretation if it wasn't for the presence of a minion. There's no reason to include that other than to tie it in with Soundwave. And it's a part of it's overall design - not an accessory that could be tossed in.

News Credits: 3 · by **Starsaber468** » Mon Jul 04, 2016 10:55 pm

Love the fact that hasbro is going to sell the guy for 20$ cause suprisingly thats a more appropriate price

News Credits: 7 · by **Noideaforaname** » Tue Jul 05, 2016 12:25 am

Doc bot wrote:I think one of the neatest parts of his transformation is his head. It's made of 3 slices that cobble together so that he can remain thin in tablet mode. He looses all articulation, but it's pretty cool.

Freaky. Don't get too many transformations that, by all rights, should actually kill the Bot in question.

(morbidly curious if there are any mechanical details inside the head slices, like brain modules or the backs of the eyeballs; doesn't look like it though)