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Rated X wrote:The scale in this picture makes me want to cancel my pre-order. I thought this figure was supposed to be the same height as classics Prime ? Now all of a sudden it scales with MP figures ? Exactly how small is MP Prowl ?

I can try to provide a picture or two later this evening if you like, but yes the MP cars are small. However X, I think this comparison will work for you: MP Prowl is about the same height as Device Label Blaster.

I believe Robot Mel is dead-on: UT's Soundmixer will be the same height as Classics/Henkei Optimus.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:

daimchoc wrote:

Interesting,looking good. I gotta ask the million dollar questions? what parts form the big gun? what parts form the cassette? does the small gun that looks like TM1 Primal's gun,form any part of the cassette,big gun or armor on the robot?

From what I can tell, the cassette turns into the big gun, while the TM Primal gun is a separate piece.
This does look like a pretty damn good figure, I would still like to know wtf is up with the weird black armor bra things though.

Looks pretty damn good to me , i will be buying this .

Dead Metal wrote: I would still like to know wtf is up with the weird black armor bra things though.

The cassette-bots are at that awkward teenager age. Where blaster needed to add a curfew for them. Due to them sneaking out at night & getting into all sorts of trouble. When the Curfew didn't work,Blaster had Ratchet install a black gear brace lock on his cassette door. Which he apllies at night time when he's sleeping.

Or,perhaps Blaster needs to wear the black gear bra,when his chest gets bigger & he needs the extra support. Due to him have multiple cassettes inside his chest which bumps him up a few cup sizes.

That cassette gun is a very nice touch. This might make me retire Device Label blaster, if the price is right

Ok, UT, now how about some pics with some G1 cassettes? Or some KFC cassettes?

Only... ONLY if they promise to push out all the cassettes, autobot and decepticon, and a Soundwave. I fell for PerfectEffect's cassetticons only to hold my breath for years on end with only so much as a shadowed teaser of a Soundwave... I don't want a repeat of that...

Banjo-Tron wrote:That cassette gun is a very nice touch. This might make me retire Device Label blaster, if the price is right

I suddenly have a Device Label blaster for sale!

PM if interested.

Really like what I'm seeing here. Let's hope this is just another sign that UT is becoming a mature, well-desired toy manufacturer.

I like the Mega Steele version better. This UT Soundmixer is too overly simplified & not bulky enough.

Images from TFsourse .

Why do I feel I so don't like the head and face?

paul053 wrote:Why do I feel I so don't like the head and face?

It kind of looks like a cat-face...

megatronus wrote:

paul053 wrote:Why do I feel I so don't like the head and face?

It kind of looks like a cat-face...

Yea. The unpainted one looked better but the newly painted one looked just like it. Or, rabbit libs?

Fat lips! lol looks so wrong....

mooncake623 wrote:Fat lips! lol looks so wrong....

Better pucker up...

UT Blaster looks small & thin next to MP Silverstreak in that Compariion pic. UT Blaster & MP Silverstreak appear to be the same height. Since MP Silverstreak is 6.4 inches in robot mode,this is UT Blasters height also.
This makes UT Blaster on the small side for a Voyager scale toy.

Love to see comparisions pics of UT Blaster next to Mega Steele Blaster. So I see which version taller & looks best.

I like the cat face on UT Blaster. It adds more character on the face.

UT, Needs to bulk up & scale up their robots designs.

UT Galvatron,Would have been a home run had it been a Leader scaled toy. With rotate articulation in the wrist.

The lips are dumb looking but I can live with them. What irks me is that the cassette deck isn't standard size. I always felt the standard G1 size cassette was too small for MP scale, but perfect for classics scale. This is supposed to be classics Blaster, right ? So why not make it fit classics scale cassettes like KFC ? Or are KFC cassettes supposed to be MP scale even though they aren't MP style engineering ?

megatronus wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:Fat lips! lol looks so wrong....

Better pucker up...

I rather not

Rated X wrote:The lips are dumb looking but I can live with them. What irks me is that the cassette deck isn't standard size. I always felt the standard G1 size cassette was too small for MP scale, but perfect for classics scale. This is supposed to be classics Blaster, right ? So why not make it fit classics scale cassettes like KFC ? Or are KFC cassettes supposed to be MP scale even though they aren't MP style engineering ?

Eh, I think the alt mode size of cassettes kinda throws everything off. G1 size is the same size used for MP Soundwave, which I think is fitting since his chest is smaller in comparison to the rest of his body which is more show accurate. For Classics, the only component of any cassettes/cassette bots we really ever got was Ravage, but with them never making a true 'Classics' Soundwave for him to go with, I expect it was just intended to be a one-off thing as the only item classified as 'Classics Soundwave' in any official measure is the reissue of the G1 figure.

As for this guy, I'm with you that I'd prefer it worked with G1 size cassettes, particularly since there are so many 3rd party ones coming out right now, however I will say that if they did increase the chest size, they'd need to scale up the entire figure, otherwise the chest would be way too massive for my tastes. The proportions on this figure are very nice and very tempting. In all honesty though, I see little point in trying to scale the chest to hold the cassettes since I figure most of us who might buy this guy would probably never keep any cassettes inside him anyway because we'd want to display him surrounded by his cassette buddies transformed into their robot/animal forms.

I'm still undecided on whether or not I'll be getting this guy or not, but after seeing these latest pics, it has become quite tempting.

xyl360 wrote:

Rated X wrote:The lips are dumb looking but I can live with them. What irks me is that the cassette deck isn't standard size. I always felt the standard G1 size cassette was too small for MP scale, but perfect for classics scale. This is supposed to be classics Blaster, right ? So why not make it fit classics scale cassettes like KFC ? Or are KFC cassettes supposed to be MP scale even though they aren't MP style engineering ?

Eh, I think the alt mode size of cassettes kinda throws everything off. G1 size is the same size used for MP Soundwave, which I think is fitting since his chest is smaller in comparison to the rest of his body which is more show accurate. For Classics, the only component of any cassettes/cassette bots we really ever got was Ravage, but with them never making a true 'Classics' Soundwave for him to go with, I expect it was just intended to be a one-off thing as the only item classified as 'Classics Soundwave' in any official measure is the reissue of the G1 figure.

As for this guy, I'm with you that I'd prefer it worked with G1 size cassettes, particularly since there are so many 3rd party ones coming out right now, however I will say that if they did increase the chest size, they'd need to scale up the entire figure, otherwise the chest would be way too massive for my tastes. The proportions on this figure are very nice and very tempting. In all honesty though, I see little point in trying to scale the chest to hold the cassettes since I figure most of us who might buy this guy would probably never keep any cassettes inside him anyway because we'd want to display him surrounded by his cassette buddies transformed into their robot/animal forms.

I'm still undecided on whether or not I'll be getting this guy or not, but after seeing these latest pics, it has become quite tempting.

UT pobably didn't want to make this carry G-1 scaled Cassettes. Because UT would of Had to increase the scale to Ultra Scale. It would have needed to be MP-13 Soundwave scale.

Looking at the current UT Blaster design. There is just no way. UT could have expanded the cassete cavity to carry G-1 scaled cassettes.

I think most of UT toys are fail. As UT favors the Voyager scaled,Thin & compact sculpt. It seems like UT wants this scale,As they maximize more profits.

UT should venture out into bulkier bigger scaled toys. As Their sculpts ,Articulation & engineering are nice.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:

xyl360 wrote:

Rated X wrote:The lips are dumb looking but I can live with them. What irks me is that the cassette deck isn't standard size. I always felt the standard G1 size cassette was too small for MP scale, but perfect for classics scale. This is supposed to be classics Blaster, right ? So why not make it fit classics scale cassettes like KFC ? Or are KFC cassettes supposed to be MP scale even though they aren't MP style engineering ?

Eh, I think the alt mode size of cassettes kinda throws everything off. G1 size is the same size used for MP Soundwave, which I think is fitting since his chest is smaller in comparison to the rest of his body which is more show accurate. For Classics, the only component of any cassettes/cassette bots we really ever got was Ravage, but with them never making a true 'Classics' Soundwave for him to go with, I expect it was just intended to be a one-off thing as the only item classified as 'Classics Soundwave' in any official measure is the reissue of the G1 figure.

As for this guy, I'm with you that I'd prefer it worked with G1 size cassettes, particularly since there are so many 3rd party ones coming out right now, however I will say that if they did increase the chest size, they'd need to scale up the entire figure, otherwise the chest would be way too massive for my tastes. The proportions on this figure are very nice and very tempting. In all honesty though, I see little point in trying to scale the chest to hold the cassettes since I figure most of us who might buy this guy would probably never keep any cassettes inside him anyway because we'd want to display him surrounded by his cassette buddies transformed into their robot/animal forms.

I'm still undecided on whether or not I'll be getting this guy or not, but after seeing these latest pics, it has become quite tempting.

UT pobably didn't want to make this carry G-1 scaled Cassettes. Because UT would of Had to increase the scale to Ultra Scale. It would have needed to be MP-13 Soundwave scale.

Looking at the current UT Blaster design. There is just no way. UT could have expanded the cassete cavity to carry G-1 scaled cassettes.

I think most of UT toys are fail. As UT favors the Voyager scaled,Thin & compact sculpt. It seems like UT wants this scale,As they maximize more profits.

UT should venture out into bulkier bigger scaled toys. As Their sculpts ,Articulation & engineering are nice.

Why wouldn't standard size cassettes work ? It worked for Sonicron. The only reason I didn't buy Sonicron was because it was too neo for me. If UT made the chest bigger to fit standard cassettes, then they would have had to bump it about an inch to Mania Kings height. But it doesn't need to be huge like MP Soundwave just to fit standard size cassettes. I choose to call them "standard" size because saying they are MP scale is very debatable. The classics Ravage that came with Hound was standard size. BTS Tremor, Frequenzy, Nightfang, and Savage were all standard size cassettes aimed towards classics collectors before MP Soundwave even existed. Not to mention TFC's standard size scout cassette that came with the Gear of War set which was clearly a classics upgrade set.

Looks great! Also looks like he would scale well with Device Label Soundwave which makes him an instant buy, nice gun storage also.

Rated X wrote:Why wouldn't standard size cassettes work ? It worked for Sonicron. The only reason I didn't buy Sonicron was because it was too neo for me. If UT made the chest bigger to fit standard cassettes, then they would have had to bump it about an inch to Mania Kings height. But it doesn't need to be huge like MP Soundwave just to fit standard size cassettes. I choose to call them "standard" size because saying they are MP scale is very debatable. The classics Ravage that came with Hound was standard size. BTS Tremor, Frequenzy, Nightfang, and Savage were all standard size cassettes aimed towards classics collectors before MP Soundwave even existed. Not to mention TFC's standard size scout cassette that came with the Gear of War set which was clearly a classics upgrade set.

Yeah, I'd be fine if they upscaled it a bit and made it fit G1 cassettes, and I agree it wouldn't need to be MP size to do so and still look good.

As far as what size the cassettes are in alt mode, it's G1. All of them. Including the MP cassettes, the Classics Ravage, the KFC cassettes and the TFC cassette. G1 was the original and all those others we've named followed the same exact size to fit inside G1 Soundwave and G1 Blaster. It makes sense for Has/Tak and third parties to stick to that size because with every figure they create to carry them and every new cassette they make, there's an instant ton of compatible accessory figures or 'carriers' to go with them.