War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come?

Monday, May 3rd, 2010 7:53PM CDT

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A new product page over at valued site sponsor BigBadToyStore reveals some possible new figures in our horizons. The product page is for Generations Deluxe Wave 3, which is composed of,

Cybertron Megatron
Cybertron Soundwave
Darkmount
Red Alert

Cybertronian or simply Cybertron is the designated name for toys related to the War For Cybertron video game. We've seen WFC Megatron and Darkmount prior....

....however War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet, as well as Starscream have been floating around as rumors. Thus if Soundwave will have a toy, it will also likely mean that Ratchet and Starscream will have ones as well.

It is unknown whether or not Red Alert is for his War For Cybertron persona, or the Henkei figure that never saw it's Classic's counterpart in Universe 2008.

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Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070564)
Posted by Astronopolis on May 3rd, 2010 @ 7:59pm CDT

Ratchet ≠ Red Alert

does this mean we will be getting henkei red alert in the states?

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070569)
Posted by Megazarak on May 3rd, 2010 @ 8:14pm CDT

Ya, I don't think this will be WfC Ratchet. One thing worth noting is that Optimus, Bumblebee, Megatron and Soundwave all have Cybertron in front of their names, but Red Alert doesn't. If I had to guess I would say that it will be a repaint of Sunstreaker, so I guess it will be similar to the Henkei figure, just like Thrust is. It would be cool if it was a new mold though or even a remold.
Sounds like a really good wave of figures. Looking forward to all of those figures. The Generations line is looking really good.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070579)
Posted by Editor on May 3rd, 2010 @ 8:29pm CDT

Red Alert can be whatever it wants to be, as I'm not concerned in any form.

WFC Soundwave already has an open spot on my shelf waiting for him, right beside the space to be filled by SG Soundwave when FP gets of their ass and releases him.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070582)
Posted by Mindmaster on May 3rd, 2010 @ 8:33pm CDT

They better, or else the East Cybertron Trading Co. is gonna hunt 'em down and MAKE them (or kill them, wither way). Thunderstrike is based off of Soundwave, so they better make one, so THunderstrike will be happy... :KREMZEEK:

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070586)
Posted by Editor on May 3rd, 2010 @ 8:45pm CDT

Mindmaster wrote:They better, or else the East Cybertron Trading Co. is gonna hunt 'em down and MAKE them (or kill them, wither way). Thunderstrike is based off of Soundwave, so they better make one, so THunderstrike will be happy...

Err... You made Thunderstrike with a Tapedeck altmode, Neither WFC SW (Armoured Car) or SG SW (Minivan) fits so you might want to calm down there.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070589)
Posted by Down_Shift on May 3rd, 2010 @ 8:46pm CDT

Mindmaster wrote:They better, or else the East Cybertron Trading Co. is gonna hunt 'em down and MAKE them (or kill them, wither way). Thunderstrike is based off of Soundwave, so they better make one, so THunderstrike will be happy...

Inside jokes are never funny if no one knows what you're talking about

As for Red Alert... as much as we'd all like it to be Henkei Alert it could be Animated Red Alert for all we know. I'm guessing fans would want that more anyways.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070607)
Posted by It Is Him on May 3rd, 2010 @ 9:25pm CDT

Old news! We were talking about Red Alert and Soundwave on Saturday

http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/bbts-fall-preorders-up-midnight-tonight-t65281.php#p1069824

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070610)
Posted by Hound of Dragonsbane on May 3rd, 2010 @ 9:34pm CDT

I don't know if I've missed this already but is Darkmount supposed to be Straxus? The robot mode yells it to me.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070612)
Posted by Down_Shift on May 3rd, 2010 @ 9:36pm CDT

It Is Him wrote:Old news! We were talking about Red Alert and Soundwave on Saturday

http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/bbts-fall-preorders-up-midnight-tonight-t65281.php#p1069824

Dame right we can use cool emoticon glasses

Hound of Dragonsbane wrote:I don't know if I've missed this already but is Darkmount supposed to be Straxus? The robot mode yells it to me.

Yessir. Hasbro couldn't get the name rights to Straxus so they went with Darkmount. But for all intents and purposes it's Lord Straxus.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070622)
Posted by Shadowstream on May 3rd, 2010 @ 10:10pm CDT

Down_Shift wrote:
Hound of Dragonsbane wrote:I don't know if I've missed this already but is Darkmount supposed to be Straxus? The robot mode yells it to me.

Yessir. Hasbro couldn't get the name rights to Straxus so they went with Darkmount. But for all intents and purposes it's Lord Straxus.

Which begs the question, how in the hell that happened? Straxus is an obscure name to already have been taken, and Darkmount sounds MORE likely to have been taken.

As for Red Alert, I'm more than fairly certain it's gonna be the American version of the Henkei figure... and now I'm beating myself over the head about a repaint I did, but that aside I'm curious as to how they plan to do colors?

G1 toy accurate colors, maybe?

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070637)
Posted by FracturedKoi on May 3rd, 2010 @ 11:10pm CDT

Pardon my ignorance, but just who exactly is Darkmount? o.o

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070642)
Posted by enclinedesigns on May 3rd, 2010 @ 11:21pm CDT

man I hope this all proves to be true! I want to buy some more TFS this year..

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070645)
Posted by Editor on May 3rd, 2010 @ 11:23pm CDT

FracturedKoi wrote:Pardon my ignorance, but just who exactly is Darkmount? o.o

Behold Lord Straxus of Darkmount.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070647)
Posted by FracturedKoi on May 3rd, 2010 @ 11:27pm CDT

Editor wrote:
FracturedKoi wrote:Pardon my ignorance, but just who exactly is Darkmount? o.o

Behold [url="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Straxus_%28G1%29"]Lord Straxus[/url] of Darkmount.

ah ha...thanks for that. Darn losing of trademarks and such gave him a new name, huh?

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070685)
Posted by Mindmaster on May 4th, 2010 @ 5:12am CDT

Editor wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:They better, or else the East Cybertron Trading Co. is gonna hunt 'em down and MAKE them (or kill them, wither way). Thunderstrike is based off of Soundwave, so they better make one, so THunderstrike will be happy...

Err... You made Thunderstrike with a Tapedeck altmode, Neither WFC SW (Armoured Car) or SG SW (Minivan) fits so you might want to calm down there.

[quote="Down_Shift']
Inside jokes are never funny if no one knows what you're talking about

[/quote]

Ok, couple things
Numba 1: East Cybertron Trandong Co. is my Heavy Metal War team, so now that we got that all figured out...

Numba 2: Well guess what Soundwave trasnformed into when he got to Earth? A TAPEDECK/CASSETTE PLAYER. So when I mean by I based him off, I based him off his G1... Oooh, I thought of a good idea for Heavy Metal War! But I'm not gonna mention it, for fear I might get reported for off topic. :-B

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070686)
Posted by Hal7300 on May 4th, 2010 @ 5:17am CDT

Very excited about Darkmount and Drift, pre-ordered both from BBTS.

The WFC stuff should be easier to find - i assume Hasbro will release the toyline in decent quantities to coincide with the release of the game?

Then again, we Europeans may not see any WFC or Generations 'till Xmas...

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070717)
Posted by GEEWUN on May 4th, 2010 @ 7:12am CDT

I want Jetfire's war for cybertron toy....

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070734)
Posted by Requiem Prime on May 4th, 2010 @ 8:48am CDT

Huh. The Quartet is called series 3, but there were the only other announcements since series 1. Who is series 2?

Oh SWEEEEET! They're finally making a new Soundwave toy! It's been so long! And if they made him compatible with the old cassettes, well.

I have no doubts Starscream is coming. That's easy redeco money waiting to happen. And we all know Ratchet is an easy retool/redeco into Ironhide.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070742)
Posted by kirbenvost on May 4th, 2010 @ 9:19am CDT

Eeeexcellent news.

This line is shaping up to be a good one. Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream would be instant buys. Megatron looks ridiculous so far, but I still have hope he's mistransformed. I can skip on Red Alert since I don't collect him, but for everyone else who's hoping it's similar to the Henkei one, I hope so too. I may just happily chug through this year collecting Generations exclusively.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070763)
Posted by Nekoman on May 4th, 2010 @ 10:37am CDT

Let's hope Soundwave will look better than Bumblebee. While we're at it, let's hope Red Alert looks comparable to the Japanese version for once.

Really not having high hopes for Generations. If we get Dirge in the next wave and then maybe a new mold after that, there will have only been THREE new molds for Classics. Two of which aren't even based off any iconic or existing toy.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070780)
Posted by Mkall on May 4th, 2010 @ 11:06am CDT

Nekoman wrote:Really not having high hopes for Generations. If we get Dirge in the next wave and then maybe a new mold after that, there will have only been THREE new molds for Classics. Two of which aren't even based off any iconic or existing toy.

Gotta admit I'm feeling that I'm not feeling the love as much with this line as previous incarnations (Universe 2 and Classics).

The WFC figs are a nice addition, but I gotta be honest, I don't know if I want to collect them or not at this stage.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070858)
Posted by Down_Shift on May 4th, 2010 @ 3:54pm CDT

Requiem Prime wrote:Huh. The Quartet is called series 3, but there were the only other announcements since series 1. Who is series 2?

Oh SWEEEEET! They're finally making a new Soundwave toy! It's been so long! And if they made him compatible with the old cassettes, well.

I have no doubts Starscream is coming. That's easy redeco money waiting to happen. And we all know Ratchet is an easy retool/redeco into Ironhide.

Wave 2 is just two figures (WFC Megatron & Darkmount) much like Classics (Grimlock & Mirage) and Universe (Acidstorm & Galvatron) before it.

Wave 3 so far is rumored to have WFC Soundwave and Red Alert but that is fairly uncommon to release only two new figures in the 3rd wave rather then the typical 3 or 4 new figures in a 3rd wave (Silverstreak, Ironhide, Sideswipe in Universe or Snarl, Soundwave, Jazz & Oilslick in Animated)

Who knows, maybe we'll see that WFC Starscream figure (which Hasbro said a while ago we'll see as a toy) or maybe some other great figure that deserves the deluxe treatment, say another comic book character like IDW Thundercracker or IDW Scrapper.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070860)
Posted by DevastaTTor on May 4th, 2010 @ 4:03pm CDT

Starscream sounds good to me-hope that figure becomes a reality. WFC Soundwave doesn't really do much for me though. Looks like a big, non-descript, purple box on wheels.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070863)
Posted by sabrigami on May 4th, 2010 @ 4:21pm CDT

I hope there will be a good number of WFC toys in this line. I really love the designs for the game. Heck, I wouldn't mind if they had their own line. But that's not going to happen :BANG_HEAD:

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070864)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 4th, 2010 @ 4:28pm CDT

Gone over the topic twice, and have yet to see a mention of a possible domestic release of Henkei Red Alert, much like Gentei Thrust. Sloppy

Seriously though, I'm surprised at the amount of video game figures. You'd think that would warrant its own line now.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1070865)
Posted by Razorclaw0000 on May 4th, 2010 @ 4:39pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Gone over the topic twice, and have yet to see a mention of a possible domestic release of Henkei Red Alert, much like Gentei Thrust. Sloppy

Seriously though, I'm surprised at the amount of video game figures. You'd think that would warrant its own line now.

I think the point of "Generations" is to condense three or four lines into one and eliminate brand confusion. Although Power Core Combiners have their own packaging, so I don't really know for sure.

I'm almost positive this will be Henkei Red Alert, especially since Fun Pub was stuck using that version for Breakdown.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1072301)
Posted by Anonymous on May 8th, 2010 @ 7:39am CDT

what is deluxe generations
that megatron toy looks like a voyager maybe leader

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1072320)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 8th, 2010 @ 9:14am CDT

ROARBO wrote:what is deluxe generations
that megatron toy looks like a voyager maybe leader

Trust us, he's Deluxe-sized. Amazing how much detail they can put in such a small toy these days. All War for Cybertron toys will be released under the Generations line, which only has the Deluxe Class.

Re: War For Cybertron Soundwave, Ratchet and Starscream Toys To Come? (1072333)
Posted by VADtoys on May 8th, 2010 @ 10:16am CDT

Soundwave looks a bit bulky but it may be because he's crouching down, still definitly a pickup if I ever see one.
On a side note, I'm pretty sure I saw Soundwave transform into something more like a huge Stereo in a trailer, is he a triplechanger?