Next GI Joe Transformers Crossover Rumoured to be a Thunder Machine Soundwave

If that rumor is true and the bot mode is not a pile of kibble cancer like Bee, I'd be all over it.

Hoping it'll be better than the other two Collaboratives, also finally a non-kiddie G1 Land Vehicle Soundwave

william-james88 wrote:

rairakku16 wrote:Hoping it'll be better than the other two Collaboratives, also finally a non-kiddie G1 Land Vehicle Soundwave

The Cyberverse deluxe was fine for a land vehicle soundwave, wasn't more kiddie than any other soundwave, as were the 2 War for Cybertron game figure releases

Oh yeah. Forgot about the WFC and FOC ones,hoping they redo them in SS.

That... certainly is a vehicle. As Soundwave I am indifferent, and ultimately these are not going to be in a scale I want for my main shelf. But after seeing the picture of the "car" I really wish they would pull a Snowcat and give us this as a Decepticon in line with the main offerings. Because that this is wicked and weird looking

rairakku16 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

rairakku16 wrote:Hoping it'll be better than the other two Collaboratives, also finally a non-kiddie G1 Land Vehicle Soundwave

The Cyberverse deluxe was fine for a land vehicle soundwave, wasn't more kiddie than any other soundwave, as were the 2 War for Cybertron game figure releases

Oh yeah. Forgot about the WFC and FOC ones,hoping they redo them in SS.

Too small or too big for what I want. But then what I really want is a G1 Soundwave with a surveillance plane alt in line with Prime.

This means at least one more GI Joe collab then. Can't see them leaving 2 'Cons to 1 bot. My guess is Optimus as a HAVOC.

Bumblevivisector wrote:

First-Aid wrote:This means at least one more GI Joe collab then. Can't see them leaving 2 'Cons to 1 bot. My guess is Optimus as a HAVOC.

That'd be awesome, and the HAVOC always was my fav Joe land vehicle, but HISS Megs does need to be repainted red and given an Optimus head at some point in the future to homage Op's appearance in the Devil's Due crossover, even if that would throw off the Joe/Bots vs. Cobra/Cons theme.

Don't think they'd go to far from main lines for either.

My belief is still Optimus (because they already did Megatron) but options may include:

HAVOC- may allow for bot mode to be comparable to Megs due to removal of hover vehicle despite larger vehicle size

Tiger Cat- longer armored Jeep-type vehicle

Mean Dog- longer vehicle, splits in two normally, could allow for an armored Prime to counter Megs heavily armed bot mode

MOBAT- because Prime as a tank is long overdue.

"In Your Dreams" vehicle: Rolling Thunder. 'Nuff said!

It's a shame they are only doing the same old boring (yes I said it) legacy characters. Those Joe vehicles are so cool one can easily imagine all the cool bits in an original robot mode. But no, we get the same 5 characters in vehicles that don't match colors with their bot modes leading to DISGUSTING mismatched, obtuse kibble. literally screaming into my gobots pillow rn tbh ngl

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:The other two looked pretty dire. So I'm not hopeful that this one will course correct the "Bot in cosplay kibble" aesthetic that BB and Megs enjoy. The comic book crossover designs ala Dreamwave & IDW, seem to grasp the concept a whole lot better than Hasbro does.

Not overly keen on GI Joe, in general. As strictly vehicle crossovers go, I think MASK would have been a better choice.

MASK would be tougher to pull off since the idea is to retain vehicke functionality and MASK vehicles have their own transforming gimmicks.

william-james88 wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:The other two looked pretty dire. So I'm not hopeful that this one will course correct the "Bot in cosplay kibble" aesthetic that BB and Megs enjoy. The comic book crossover designs ala Dreamwave & IDW, seem to grasp the concept a whole lot better than Hasbro does.

Not overly keen on GI Joe, in general. As strictly vehicle crossovers go, I think MASK would have been a better choice.

MASK would be tougher to pull off since the idea is to retain vehicke functionality and MASK vehicles have their own transforming gimmicks.

Most of the MASK vehicles are essentially triple changers EG Switchblade. Not a completely alien concept to Transformers. I think they would look a lot more interesting than this line's output of "good looking vehicle, but don't look too closely at the Bot Mode".

Yeah, MASK had it's time. Even IDW botched it, as a revival. Chiefly because I don't think it works in a shared universe. Particularly the same one as Transformers. The only dormant 80's property I think still deserves a revival is Bravestarr.

GI Joe's popularity is a strange one to me. I dunno, maybe it is a popular thing in America? But I don't hear too many people that actually like it, globally. Certain characters have pop culture status IE Cobra Commander or Destro. But personally, I couldn't name more than probably ten characters? I only know them from reading the crossovers that were printed in the part work.