Autobot N wrote:Also, unpopular opinion, but I prefer Siege Soundwave over ER Soundwave. The cassette deck alt mode is stupid and outdated, and even if Siege Soundwave's alt mode looks dumb, at least it's functional and requires no mass shifting
Not so much unpopular than that we don't bring it up often enough. While it was already said that with additional pieces it can be turned into a tape deck, I still couldn't care less about that. Especially now that those kits no longer have the 5mm ports on them anymore. I nave Netflix Soundwave though only because I was able to find it and I would've regretted not getting it. But he now sits in my extras box instead of being with the rest of the Decepticons like Siege Soundwave.
I even said recently that I want a new Blaster and Twincast that have vehicle modes to go with my Soundwave and Soundblaster. I think both (all four?) characters should have some sort of a vehicle based third mode added to their designs permanently so that every toy of them from here on out will have both the tape player mode and a vehicle mode of some sort. Not unlike Perceptor in that regard even though the concept behind Perceptor's third mode comes from something else entirely. Even if it's all just some stupid things like making Blaster a mini-Metroplex carrier type thing or something. Just have a few wheels flip out from his legs and peg them together, put his head away and sit him down on said wheels with his chest opening up onto his legs like Metroplex' chest ramp. Soundwave can still be a space ship of some sort or just a box on wheels like some of his other wheeled vehicle modes.
And while I hate the Siege paint jobs, I think the only one I would get a "clean" or "better" version of would be Apeface. I think that as a Titan Master gimmick figure, his having the battle damage is most egregious as not a single other Titan Master gimmick figure has any battle damage paint at all. Not even Snapdragon or Scorponok have any from Earthrise. If Legacy Minerva is compatible she most likely won't have any either. Looks like Diaclone Topspin and Twintwist won't as well. And if they do redo Apeface, I hope it's not a one to one otherwise though and that they change that white plastic to something less translucent and maybe a better shade. It also should "feel" better too but what does that even mean? I'm not sure, I just don't like the way that white plastic feels especially when you need to move pieces past pieces for the jet and beast modes. Oh and while it's not likely, get rid of that translucent blue plastic even if it means the cockpit won't have it. Not that he can see out of the cockpit anyway with the rear wing/shield over top of it though and even if it weren't there he's still not seeing out of it like the cockpit on TR Optimus/Octane but I digress. With the translucent plastic gone, his shield peg will be less likely to break.
