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The bit about Shigeru Chiba being in charge of Takara's customer service line is especially funny if anyone here has ever heard the Japanese song "Megatron Ondo" ("Megatron's Marching Song") in which Shigeru Chiba reprised his role of Megatron during the speaking parts of the song that involved Megatron having a telephone conversation that just starts off civil at first but gets more and more insane as it goes on.

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At the risk of being a pedant, I assume you meant "Consummate" their relationship, not "consume".

Having played around with MB-11 for the better part of the week now, I find that he's not as complex as I thought he was going to be.

Getting everything aligned when going back to Truck mode can be a chore, but overall its not a very complex transformation.

Once you figure out where the arms go, and where the head goes, everything else comes together nicely.

With that said, I do have some questions, never having owned this mold or any of its retools along the way, maybe somebody can answer them.

He holds the swords and hooks like guns in the slots in his hands, but they also have a peg on the side. The only place I can find this fits in, is on top of his forearms, which makes posing very awkward as his hands cannot be positioned in any convincing way.

What's that peg for? The instructions only show him holding them in his hands.


His right gas can / gun part seems to pop off the slider on his back panels quite easily when I move it, anybody else having this issue? Its supposed to slide out, not just detach itself.


The left Air filter / shoulder panel seems to be stuck, it doesn't want to hinge upward as much as the right one, which means it gets in the way of the hood / forearm panels. Not sure how to fix this.


Anybody know where I can get translations for his voice clips? Tried to use Google Translate App on my phone, but it doesn't seem to be able to pick it up or transalate coherently when it does.



Beyond that, I'm loving this figure so much.

-Kanrabat- wrote:One difficulty of Leader Prime that have been removed for his transformation is to deal with the arms. The SPRING LOADED SWORDS. There were standards on the ROTF and HFTD originals. Takara, with the Buster retool emoved them. Those things were always in the way and were always springing forward in transformation.

Yeah, I remember all the complaints about the spring loaded swords on the original mold when it was released.

It's a good thing Takara made the swords an external accessory, its just that peg on the side of them that's intriguing.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Overcracker wrote:It's a good thing Takara made the swords an external accessory, its just that peg on the side of them that's intriguing.

Those are for the omitted Shield/Stealth Mode hood piece that they attach to, from Striker Optimus.

Ah, thanks, that makes sense. Now I know.

william-james88 wrote:I just realized, since Soundwave is at the same scale as the MP cars, he will be PERFECT to go with the upcoming MPM Bumblebee

Dunno about that. The HA line is supposed to scale with each others and ROTF HA Bee was so big that he didn't came with a bonus transforming bike. Unless the original HA bee was made too big, the upcoming MP bee might be a tad too small.

The only way to make sure though is when we actually have it in hands. I'll dig out my old HA Bee from storage and make all the comparison shots then.

carytheone wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I just realized, since Soundwave is at the same scale as the MP cars, he will be PERFECT to go with the upcoming MPM Bumblebee

Dunno about that. The HA line is supposed to scale with each others and ROTF HA Bee was so big that he didn't came with a bonus transforming bike. Unless the original HA bee was made too big, the upcoming MP bee might be a tad too small.

The only way to make sure though is when we actually have it in hands. I'll dig out my old HA Bee from storage and make all the comparison shots then.

I found that Soundwave is a little bigger than MP cars.

yeha but only in car mode. he shrinks down to their size when in robot mode. Cary, how do you position those purely aesthetic panels on his arms that have that little blue circle?

And Kanrabat, the HA toys were meant to scale with eachother, except for Soundwave who is much smaller than the rest. The HA toys are Ultra sized while the MP cars are voyager sized. And HA Soundwave is more in line with the voyager scale. he doesnt scale well with HA Bee (i know since i have HA barricade, who is the same height as bee) so he will scale well with MPM Bee.

There is a reason takara is rereleasing that Soundwave later this year, once people get MPM Bee in hand

Just wondering, is Soundwave the best looking car mode we have ever had in TF toy history?

carytheone wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Just wondering, is Soundwave the best looking car mode we have ever had in TF toy history?

That's an interesting list cause G1 had some nice looking cars with some funky robots.

That Soundwave is sexy as hell and floats between MP and alternators. That line probably takes all the cakes on good looking cars though.

This is what I have so far:

Top 5 Nicest Licensed Car Modes Amongst Transformers Toys

5. Binaltech Override/Windcharger

4. MP Wheeljack

3. Binaltec Meister/Jazz

2. G1/MP Sideswipe

1. MB Soundwave


G1 cars are nice, but the stickers kinda get in the way of them looking great. I was thinking of other movie cars but they have so many damn panels that they end up not looking as good as G1 or Binaltech (which doesnt have that many panels).