Toy Review - SHOCKWAVE (Studio Series 110)

SHOCKWAVE
Series - Generations
Sub-line - Studio Series
Hypo-line - Bumblebee
Size/class - Voyager
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - XIV
Released here - March 2024
Approximate Retail Price - $55
Approximate Size - 19cm
Allegiance - Decepticon
Alt-modes - Cybertronian tank
Main Features/Gimmicks - light-piped eye
Main Colours - purple, grey
Main Accessories - rubber hose, gun attachment

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IMO the Core Class figure is better, but obviously the Voyager scales better with most other toys. I prefer the darker purple and more ample use of silver highlights on the Core Class figure. Voyager Shockwave's arms don't swing out or in, so he can't place hands on his hips etc., whereas the Core Class figure can. The battle damage is done well enough on this toy; certainly not as awful as Siege.

The robot mode looks quite nice. Cybertronian tank mode is predictably lame, as are all Movieverse Shockwave tank modes. At 19cm this is an impressively tall Voyager though; same height as his Leader Class wavemate, Megatron.

Paying Voyager price for an upscaled Core figure is, as it turns out, ENTIRELY WORTH IT. He is a hefty boy, very solid in both modes, the transformation is more fun than the simplicity would suggest, and he looks absolutely incredible.

So glad I was finally able to nab him.