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I recently bought a soundwave but i dont know if its a reissue or what. on the belt clip it says takara 74 83 japan just like the reissued one only it does not say hasbro anywere on it. can someone plz help me with it

Mine is not a reissue, but also says that. Do you have any pictures of it?

ill post some pics as soon as i get a hold of a camera, It has a lot of wear on it, the color around the glass frame is chrome idk if it was gold then faded or what.

Under lazerbeak wing it says Takara CO. LTD then under that it says Japan 1983

Moving this to the toys forum

If the copyright said CHINA, then it's the reissue. If it's Japan, then it's the original.

If it has room to fit two cassettes in the chest it's a reissue.

Looks like an original, but that Decepticon symbol looks a little suspect. Could just be the image quality.

That copyright seems legit. And yes, the chest sticker does look questionable. The top portion is too straight.

Your Soundwave pretty much look like this one, compare the sticker and the copyright.:
http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-ima ... Soundwave/

See my copyrights aren't on the belt clip they are inside the battery compartment. The sticker though I don't find an issue, since there is repolables and what not.

The sticker could have come from anywhere, so I don't think that's any indication of the figure's origin.

Sorry, I don't have anything else to add.

The figure itself is legit base on the copyright and currently there is no Soundwave KO. Of course excluding the over size Soundwave and the 2 CassetteMan(legit & KO). The sticker is not.

As for the copyright location, the Reissue Soundwave has their copyright inside the battery compartment, not outside the belt clip.
The original Soundwave copyright location, I'm not sure. I think it's both. One version has it outside the clip e.g. the link above. Other, have inside.

I dont know if all laserbeak's are like this but this, as you can see there is writing under the wing.



http://i51.tinypic.com/5p3480.jpg

Possibly, some Tfs had the rubsign and others didn't. I've had my Soundwave since I was a kid.