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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:46 am

Takara Tomy designer Shogo Hasui has tweeted an image of Masterpiece Soundwave and company! MP-13 Soundwave with Laserbeak is scheduled to release in December. The rest of the cassettes, MP-15 Rumble & Ravage and MP-16 Frenzy & Buzzsaw, are slated for March 2013. Check out Soundwave and his crew below.

News Credits: 10 · by **Trikeboy** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:48 am

El Duque wrote:Takara Tomy designer Shogo Hasui has tweeted an image of Masterpiece Soundwave and company! MP-13 Soundwave with Laserbeak is scheduled to release in December. The rest of the cassettes, MP-15 Rumble & Ravage and MP-16 Frenzy & Buzzsaw, are slated for March 2013. Check out Soundwave and his crew below.

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ooo, nice. Thanks for posting this.

News Credits: 1 · by **QBKiller94** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:13 am

Now there's a Masterpiece worth laying down some cash for! I'm passing on Sideswipe and Red Alert. Waiting for this one.

by **Grimlock Shakur** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:31 am

wow... now this is nice! good thing I've preordered him already... though this pic is making me preorder his minions... hmmm we'll see!

thanks for the pic though, very nice! he's badass!

News Credits: 16 · by **Super Megatron** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:36 am

Definitely made the right decision when I passed on MP-10! With the money I saved, I can get MP Soundwave and the MP cassettes! :grin:

News Credits: 1 · by **Marcdachamp** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:38 am

This sucker cannot come out in the US quickly enough! He looks awesome, and his minions look fantastic, too.

Wish I could avoid buying Buzzsaw, though. I want Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage and Laserbeak, but Buzzsaw is one of those characters who barely existed. Oh, well. His colors look good, at least. They're getting the most out of the mold. Can't say I blame 'em. At least we're getting Ravage, even though he can't really be repainted.

News Credits: 335 · by **Down_Shift** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:49 am

Looks fantastic!

by **Axalon_Prime** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:59 am

Ravage can totally be repainted. first off there's Howlback, an e-hobby exclusive with Garboil. Next there's Stripes that came with the encore Twincast. You could also do Glit that was in that 3 pack with Sundor and Rosanna. Finally SG Ravage. That molds has more repaints than the Rumble mold!

News Credits: 1 · by **Marcdachamp** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:01 am

Axalon_Prime wrote:Ravage can totally be repainted. first off there's Howlback, an e-hobby exclusive with Garboil. Next there's Stripes that came with the encore Twincast. You could also do Glit that was in that 3 pack with Sundor and Rosanna. Finally SG Ravage. That molds has more repaints than the Rumble mold!

I stand corrected. :lol:

Actually, I would probably prefer SG Ravage to Buzzsaw...

by **Rated X** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:01 am

Looks great, but cartoon wise the cassettes are a bit too small. Im would like too see how the cassettes fit in with classics. Are they scout sized ???

News Credits: 1 · by **Rhinox23** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:20 am

Wow! He seems to keep looking better and better! SW is my favorite

and this is definitely the best version of him ever made! Bring on December!

News Credits: 4 · by **freaky777** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:34 am

I heard a rumor that it will most probably be in early Dec too.. finger crossed!

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:10 am

Rated X wrote:Looks great, but cartoon wise the cassettes are a bit too small.

Actually, when one consults the official scale guide from the G1 cartoon, they are exactly as show-accurately sized as they're supposed to be, with Rumble/Frenzy reaching Soundwave's knee panels, the birds being bigger than his shoulders, and Ravage being just a bit bigger than the birds.

Rated X wrote:Im would like too see how the cassettes fit in with classics. Are they scout sized ???

Hard to tell, but my best guess would be that this Ravage it about the same size as the Ravage that came with Universe Hound.

Though. if want these to fit with the Classics figures, you'd be better off wishing they were smaller since MP Soundwave is about the size of a Leader and all the guys who were Soundwave's height in the Classics-style toylines are Voyagers. And the near-Voyager-sized MP Sideswipe and Red Alert are mere Deluxes in their Classic-style toys. So, when comapre to the Masterpiece toys, everything is scaled down in Classics.

Though, the Ravage/Hound ordeal fit since Hound was a small guy (not as big as the other Autobot Cars, but bigger than the Mini-Cars).

News Credits: 1 · by **SKYWARPED_128** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:21 am

Now that's what I call one big happy family!

Can't wait for SW to arrive.

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:42 am

It's so beautiful.

News Credits: 15 · by **Ravage XK** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:15 am

That piccy takes me back to the 80s. Pretty much everything I love about Transformers is summed up in that photo.

by **Coptur** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:35 am

Poor old Buzzsaw no love.

Strange i've always liked the outcast characters like Buzzsaw and Reflector.

Fingers crossed the next MP will be Reflector or Shockwave (w/Ratbat)

News Credits: 15 · by **Ravage XK** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:36 am

Coptur wrote:Poor old Buzzsaw no love.

Buzzsaw is there, on the left.

by **jamarmiller** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:46 am

love the tapes, love the fact they can fit in the original g1 toy

wish I could just get lazer beak and not Soundwave though

anyone want an extra soundwave with no lazer beak ? LOL probably not

by **agentcastle** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:58 am

excellent... i stumbled onto all the masterpiece figures (and TF collecting in general) in an attempt to find a soundwave - wife cant make me hide this bad boy!

by **XDMan** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:07 pm

I can't wait for this guy's release! He and his kids are going to look nice along with Optimus Prime (MP-10, of course), the Seekers, Grimlock, Sideswipe and Red Alert! =P~

Although for a US release, Hasbro would make him have a yellow visor (common on all of his G1 reissues, by both TT and Hasbro), a lighter blue and possibly omit either Frenzy or Rumble (and possibly swap their names as well), Buzzsaw (even though he was included in the US release of SW) and price them between the TC price and the OP price. Either way, whichever one is much more superior, hold on for Hasbro's release.

by **acchillyaout** » Wed Oct 31, 2012 2:49 pm

Meh, think I'll punt on this one. It looks too much like the original G1 version and exhibits no novel creativity. The addition of the minions is a cool concept, but it's been done before. I think giving them all new bodies and transformations would spice up interest and bring in more business. At it's current state, given the price, it's not worth the commitment in my humble opinion. Why can't it be a Masterpiece sized version of Soundwave in an alternate mode that resembles a satelitte? That was fresh and drove the market in a new direction! :HEADHURTS: