Hasbro stock photos of Transformers WFC: Siege Wave 2 figures

Autobot Roadburn wrote:So what I'm now curious about is where did the blue bumper butt go in this picture?

Pretty sure it just pops off and snaps back on, though.

Really not feeling Chromia's VHS (visible head syndrome). I'm sure her head is turned the wrong way, but it isn't very well hidden.

Emerje

Soundwave's gonna be the firt figure in this line that I try to mess with removing battle damage from, simply because of his chest compartment. That's the only area I have issue with because it just looks... Weird, seeing Soundwave with that much damage when some of the Bots I'd expect to be in more battles like Megs have such minimal battle damage that it's that not too bad unless you're looking. I hope he gets the Magnus treatment with the amount being toned down before release, but I doubt that's happening because these look final and ready to ship

-Kanrabat- wrote:Sixgun and Starscream are obvious must haves for me.

I'm going to skip on Soundwave because WTF am I looking at? There's no way this pile of random garbage is his altmode. Look like someone tried to transform the thing and gave up halfway through.

It's because they didn't think it would make sense for him to literally turn into a cassette player given the whole "pre-Earth" thing for this line, and they didn't think "Cybertronian lamp post" would be a compelling official alternate mode to people that aren't aware of the source of that.

Basically, he transforms into the lamp post, but because they felt they needed something more "exciting" for the general audience and kids, they reconfigured it a bit into a "spaceship".

Jeddostotle7 wrote:Basically, he transforms into the lamp post, but because they felt they needed something more "exciting" for the general audience and kids, they reconfigured it a bit into a "spaceship".

I can poop a better looking spaceship than that. Now we are back at the movieverse "Cybertronian" random crap. The most shocking is Sixgun, Starscream, and Shockwave are Cybertronian spaceships and they ROCK their altmodes.


Soundwave could have taken a clue from an alternate universe. that same bot mode could easily have been a square tank of some sort. Way more appropriate for the character. And a genius designer would have squeezed in a "secret" tape-deck "fan-mode".

-Kanrabat- wrote:Sixgun and Starscream are obvious must haves for me.

I'm going to skip on Soundwave because WTF am I looking at? There's no way this pile of random garbage is his altmode. Look like someone tried to transform the thing and gave up halfway through.

To be fair, the Soundwave in this pic is mistransformed, his legs/waist are the wrong way around. There's a cockpit on the other side of his waist, and panels on the legs that fold out and hide the fact that they're legs a bit more. So credit where credit's due, you're right, they did kinda give up before they finished transforming it.

Same with the Chromia pics, she's mistransformed in both modes even. When they initially showed her off at Con her head wasn't visible at all in alt mode.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Hasbro's stock photographers couldn't be trusted to reliably transform a Jumpstarter

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote: you're right, they did kinda give up before they finished transforming it.

Hmmmm….
In that case, I'll wait for someone competent and not lazy to transform that Soundwave properly so that we see what he really look like. Because having Ravage and Lazerbeak in a convenient two-pack is a pretty good incentive.

But Chromia has the other VHS, visible hand syndrome, when transformed properly. And unlike her PotP counterparts there's no extra part to hide them.



Emerje

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote: you're right, they did kinda give up before they finished transforming it.

Hmmmm….
In that case, I'll wait for someone competent and not lazy to transform that Soundwave properly so that we see what he really look like. Because having Ravage and Lazerbeak in a convenient two-pack is a pretty good incentive.

Emerje

I wonder if the Boombox mode would be compatible on this?

Oh my god, you can literally see through ironhide

Emerje wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Oh my god, you can literally see through ironhide

Camera trick, the lines you're seeing aren't on the window.



Emerje

I'm talking about the hole in his body everyone hates, it lets you see through him cuz his windshield is clear; in the official shot you can see the white background, and in your pic, you can see the white of magnus' leg through him