Something that worked nicely for Shockwave, mind you, but for Soundwave? Yeah, not so much. Instead, though, he becomes a kind of space cruiser. Don’t get me wrong, there have been some great car-mode Soundwaves (War for Cybertron, Robots in Disguise 2015), and I wouldn’t have minded Siege Soundwave becoming some kind of ground vehicle, either. So whenever Hasbro tries to give Soundwave a more up to date, different alternate mode, the results are mixed. I’d have given it full marks if they’d just gone a little easier on the battle damage detailing.Īlternate Mode: Much like Shockwave, Soundwave also suffers from having had a brilliant yet outdated alternate mode in his original incarnation. Would have been even better of those pods on his back could flip forward as actual shoulder guns, but then again, that would interfere with his actual shoulder gun.īottom line: this is Soundwave! An excellent robot mode. Finally it is possible to give Soundwave a kind of “Hypermode” by flipping out the grey struts on his shoulders and forearms, as well as the big pods on his back (see picture 15), making it look as if he’s firing from a very large number of weapons simultaneously. This one you can easily leave aside, as it’s not needed in either alternate mode, either.Īrticulation is as good as we’ve come to expect from current-day Generations figures, very good, and Soundwave even has his left hand sculpted with an extending finger for pressing his own buttons. While it can be used as a gun by itself, it’s really there for connecting Soundwave’s two classic weapons into a much bigger one. He does come with an additional weapon that kind of looks like an emaciated gun barrel. Soundwave can store a single cassette in his chest (which almost manages to hide those battle damage scratches there) or use them as shields attached to his shoulders or arms. No cassettes included, but Ravage and Laserbeak are available as a Micromaster two-pack. He has the look, he has the guns, and he has the tape deck in his chest, too. Despite the different altmode, this is clearly Soundwave, no doubt about it. We’ll see.Īpart from that, we have an awesome Soundwave figure here. I might, for the first time ever, look into removing that detailing. I mean, I’ve seen G1 Soundwaves on eBay in played-with condition whose chest plate was less scratched up than this. As things stand, I find it a bit overdone. Now I could maybe have lived with that if he were to still transform into an 80s era tape recorder, allowing one to imagine that this thing has been worn down by over 30 years of constant use. His legs and his entire chest compartment are scratched up to high heaven. Robot Mode: Now the first thing one notices about this figure – I mean apart from how awesomely Soundwave-y it looks – is the sheer amount of battle damage detailing on it. And, spoiler: the best Voyager-sized Soundwave figure, too. So it does not come as much of a surprise that he is part of the Siege line, too, giving us only the third Voyager-sized Soundwave figure ever. He whose face inspired the Decepticon faction symbol. Prelude: If we’re talking Transformers bad guys, one of the first names that comes to mind is, of course, Soundwave.
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