Aside from Netflix Soundwave's Cassettes being cross-compatible with Siege Soundwave, I don't really see the trade-off. MP has the same issue because the MP Cassettes are the same scale as the G1 Cassettes, but at least the trade off is that G1 and MP Cassettes are cross compatible with G1 and MP Soundwaves. Unless this is one helluva big WalkMan! Proportionately it looks more like a boombox than a WalkMan, and this is due to the Siege Cassettes being so small. But one trait that it shares with the MP toy is that the cassette door (and thus cassettes) are disproportionate to the player.
This feels a lot like a "Poor Man's MP Soundwave" (which I always mean as a compliment). I'll still keep my Henkei Jaguar to display in robot mode. But TBH, it's the cassette mode that interests me with this toy. Unfortunately no mould variation seems to be made to the robot mode, and I was never a fan of Siege Ravage's robot mode (which to me just doesn't look like a jaguar). Ravage is the superior looking cassette with his cassette side looking very G1 accurate - a lot like a cassette tape. But as far as this non-cassette side is concerned, it is quite G1-accurate, I'll give it that. I would have liked to see the other side painted with some cassette detailing I know that it won't be convincing as the other side isn't flat, but at least it would've been something. I know that the G1 toy is the same, but this is the side that you don't show - it's the non-cassette side. Laserbeak is faithfully coloured like the G1 toy's robot side but unfortunately it doesn't look like a cassette tape, just a folded up robot condor. The yellow eyes is also more like the Netflix cartoon model too, so I'm not sure why they opted to give this Soundwave red eyes given that it's meant to be part of the Netflix series. IMO the red doesn't look as nice as the yellow eyes on Siege Soundwave. Main Features/Gimmicks - holds "cassette" Transformers
SOUNDWAVE BLUE TAPEDECK PORTABLE
Micromaster Components - Ravage (repaint of Siege Ravage) & Laserbeak (retool/repaint of Siege Laserbeak)Īlt-mode - portable radio cassette player Make an updated G1 Soundwave cool, and it will sell, out-dated technology or not.New/remould/redeco - heavy retool of Siege Soundwave Cybertron Downshift, anyone? The guy looks like 1978 is trying to give him a phone call in car mode. My point is, to say that "We won't do Soundwave because he was a tape deck, and nobody buys tape decks anymore" is silly. Jetfire, in all his coolness, doesn't necessarily look like any kind of jet I've ever seen. Heck, anything post-TF:TM barely resembles anything. G1 Scourge looks like a bar of Coast soap with engines on it, yet he's got appeal because of his cartoon character. I don't look out my window and see any T-Rex's or Tri-tops walking around. The thing is, for what reason does a Transformer have to be something current? Where is the written rule that says "A new Transformer shalt not be an out-dated alt mode nor shall it be a realistic machine."?Ĭase in point being, if we used the same argument that is being used for Soundwave not being updated as a tapedeck, then we would've never had the Dinobots.
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