We are Getting Cybertron Hotshot and Leader Soundwave in Legacy Line

I feel like we heard rumors of Cybertron Hotshot before. Interesting that Soundwave is a leader, I wonder how many tapes he'll come with at that price?

Emerje

I expect "leader" Soundwave to just be a reissue of the Netflix Soundwave set.
I'm 99% sure of that and I'll be fine with it.

But if in the 1% chance that everything are a brand new mold, with no "Siege Soundwave scars", and if he comes with a completely remade Lazerbeak and Ravage cassettes, I'd be impressed.

Leader Soundwave?

Hopefully it's just a Netflix repack and not some bullshit like a repack with Buzzsaw or something.

What if it's Marvel Soundwave? With that shade of purple and the mouth?

I suspect that this "Leader" Soundwave is a re-release of the Netflix toy. The brand team have said before that they keep an eye on the secondary market (which is why Legacy Dirge and the Buzzworthy Bumblebee Dark of the Moon Optimus Prime happened), and that version of Soundwave is a highly sought after and rare figure so it would make sense to give it another run for those who missed out on it, and fingers crossed the yellowing plastic issue is fixed. As for the cassettes, I never much liked the Siege/Netflix Micromaster version of Ravage, so a completely new or heavily retooled version would be nice, but even if it is just the same that will be fine too. Perhaps they could throw in Buzzsaw and/or Ratbat to bump up the parts count and justify the Leader price tag?

I tend to think this will be Netflix Soundwave with cassettes also. However that would be perfect for SS86....

I mean, I know one of the TF team said they would want to do another new Soundwave for SS86 to make him as tall as Kingdom Blaster ( although the difference in height is pretty insignificant). I think both Kingdom Blaster and Netflix Soundwave are perfect for SS86 as they are....

Cybertron Hotshot is cool to see, but since I'm the weirdo that actually likes the Selects Hound-repaint Hotshot, I'm actually more excited about the potential Excellion repaint here.

Leader Soundwave is very weird, because it's the only figure for next year we have a listing for that doesn't specify which iteration of the character it is (other than the Strongarm repack, but she didn't specify universe in her first listing either). Gears, Sureshot, Sandstorm, and Deluxe Optimus all say G1 in the listing, so the lack of it here is either a weird oversight, or it's like Animated Prowl just being listed as Prowl and it isn't actually G1 Soundwave (or it is a repack like y'all are thinking, but then there would be 2 G1 Soundwaves in Legacy and this listing would still be weird for not saying repack). For the sake of not getting my hopes up though, I'm just going to assume it'll be G1 Soundwave so I can't be disappointed if it isn't.

Also, is it just me or do we have a surprisingly high amount of Leader listings? UNI already has BW Tigerhawk, G1 Sandstorm, Armada Galvatron, and now mystery Soundwave, and there's still that mystery Evolution Optimus that we don't know the identity or release plan for either (which is part of why I keep speculating that Evolution might have 5 waves).

Emerje wrote:

Munkky wrote:Another Hasbro Pulse Transformers stream has been announced for 20th June at 4pm ET, this one promising both new Legacy and Rise of the Beasts reveals. At first I thought this would be revealing wave 4, but the wording of the announcement makes it sound like the focus will mostly be on Rise of the Beasts, so I'm guessing this stream will just announce more exclusives for Legacy instead, perhaps some Toxitron stuff, and wave 4 could be saved for SDCC or a similar event. Either way, I'm looking forward to a pre-order going up for Dreadwing.

I don't know, we've already seen leaks for four Evolution wave 4 figures now, they might want to get out ahead of the rest of them.

Also the pipeline reveals from the last stream were Legacy Wave 4, and both times they've done pipeline reveals thus far those reveals have been the meat of what was shown in the immediate next stream.

If anything I would think they would want to save Studio Series reveals for SDCC since we just had a summer theatrical release to capitalize on.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:What if it's Marvel Soundwave? With that shade of purple and the mouth?

A Marvel-colored release of the Netflix Soundwave set was rumored/leaked as a exclusive alongside the first mention of the now-revealed Miner Megatron, we just don't know where/how it's potentially releasing unless it's part of the Comic 2-pack's currently-unknown contents.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:that Leader Soundwave makes absolutely no sense.

One very simple thing does make sense. Machine Wars Soundwave from Doubledealer. That mold hason't had a second use yet.

(Yeah, probably just wishful thinking.)

Emerje wrote:We just got Siege Soundwave reissued in Legacy last year and recently Mark Maher basically confirmed a few live streams ago (in April?) that the next Soundwave would be a new mold that matches the same size as Blaster.

Emerje

Yeah, but when he said that, he was talking about Studio Series 86, not Legacy, which makes this listing even more odd.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:that Leader Soundwave makes absolutely no sense.

One very simple thing does make sense. Machine Wars Soundwave from Doubledealer. That mold hason't had a second use yet.

(Yeah, probably just wishful thinking.)

If THAT'S really the upcoming Soundwave, I will laugh my ass off, drink the tears of those who wanted a Netflix Soundwave reissue, and preorder the sht out of it!

Look what I found at my Wal-Mart: