Found this:
http://tformers.com/transformers-toy...9606/news.html
NOOOOOOOOOO, SOUNDWAVE HAS A YELLOW VISOR, I WANT RED!!!
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Found this:
http://tformers.com/transformers-toy...9606/news.html
NOOOOOOOOOO, SOUNDWAVE HAS A YELLOW VISOR, I WANT RED!!!
Spot on griffin!
I really am loving Acid Storm:D 90% I'm going to get him, the colours and patterns they used are AMAZING. Soundwave....... 100% ill be getting him especially that he gets 5 cassettes with him. I'm just kind of upset about the yellow visor, I just prefer red.:(
It says that they're digital mockups so it could still turn out to be red *fingers crossed for you ILikeSoundwave* :)
In all honesty I don't mind the yellow visor. I do prefer the cartoon-accurate red though because I like to think of a Masterpiece as the ultimate iteration of the cartoon character, not of the original toy.
Acid storm looks great! Must get.
The green on Acid Storm is really intense! I really like it though:)
I also wonder whether Rumble and Frenzy will have their guns since they aren't pictured....
Both bought. Acidstorm is great, and another Soundwave is never enough :D
These are both looking fantastic and are bought on sight. I'm impressed with Acid Storm more than I thought I would be too, and I like the green eyes.
Awesome! All the tapes are there. Although heavily photoshopped, seems like Soundwave will be identical or pretty close to the Tomy release aside from the eyes (which I prefer as yellow).
Acidstorm looks very crap but it could be the photoshop green.
I think the yellow visor is a GREAT idea! :D It makes the toy more accurate to the original G1 toy, comic book, story books (virtually every G1 medium other than the cartoon!) colours, and also makes it distinct from the TakaraTOMY version in a meaningful way. :) This isn't the first time a Hasbro MP has leaned toward toy and/or comic accuracy over TakTOM's show-likeness, others have been:
+ Grimlock -- crown over brain scanner/butler-set
+ Skywarp -- more toy-accurate colours (including yellow eyes (G1 Seekers have yellow (stickered) eyes))
+ Rodimus -- more toy-accurate colours
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Originally Posted by ILikeSoundwave
Is your eye colour preference worth paying up to $200 (at full RRP) extra to get the TakaraTOMY version? :p You could always repaint the visor yourself if it really bugs you that much. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ILikeSoundwave
The yellow is growing on me, I might learn to live with it.:)
i really like that acid storm but i know its probably going to be ruined with hasbro grey like thundercracker...
Acid Storm is so hideous that I want him. Yellow-eyed Soundwaves are better than red-eyed ones.
Red eyes superior, yellow eyes inferior.
Was hoping for cartoon accurate white instead of silver too.
Soundwave is alright.
Acid Storm is revolting, but Sun Storm was awful too, so at least they're consistent...
I am liking this release better than Tomy's. I think from now on, I am going to collect MP toys exclusively from Hasbro if there is an obvious release. They are better value for money and easier to deal when it comes to QC.
Im in for both. soundwave is too good to pass up with 5 cassetes.
I love acid storms green, now to get a sunstorm.........
Gotta say Hasbro is doing a great job with the Masterpieces, the deal on Soundwave is outrageously better than the Japanese releases.
If only they were releasing the licensed cars as well i'd be more inclined to wait it out in the future.
Ooh yay, another Soundwave! :D
I don't mind the yellow visor at all. Red, yellow (or blue :D)... I don't care, it's still Soundwave!
I dont care what colour his visor is - I just wanna see one in a TRU shop near me!
Acid Storm looks pretty damn cool! And Soundwave has pretty much lived up to my expectations of being toy accurate. Will definitely be chasing him down on release day.
:)I just want the "Green Machine" :D
AND I AM PRAYING TO PRIMUS THAT THEY GET ENOUGH STOCK THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is one seriously bright green! It's growing on me, despite the initial retina burn. :p
Soundwave looks rad! The yellow visor doesn't worry me too much. In the comics it's sort of a blended red-yellow anyway. Rumble, Frenzy & Ravage in his chest, Laserbeak on his arm and Buzzsaw as a fiddle toy. All set! :p
Keep Praying:rolleyes::DQuote:
Originally Posted by lj7369
Acid Storm I Will get. Don't need the Soundwave now.
Acid storm! All over that like a fat kid in a candy store!
Prob pick up soundwave to just quietly :P
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Originally Posted by Megatron
yepers.Quote:
Originally Posted by snaketales
and though I'm not a fan of green, I really like the digital camo appearance of Acid storm.
It would've been nice to be able to have both red and yellow visors, ala Grimlock with his red/blue. I prefer red though.
Hmm interesting, it looks like aside form the yellow visor he may also have a brighter cartoony blue, ala Hasbro MP10. I still far prefer the Japanese releases however Like MP10 this looks to be a much better deal.
Acid storm looks crazy bright, however if the crazy colours are done right and they give him a reasonable Hasbro price tag, that Toy's R Us sees fit to reduce further ala Thundercracker. Then I might be tempted.
Acid Storm surprised me. It went from I don't need it, to maybe I want it now.
Soundwave is a must (color of eyes don't matter) for those who missed out on the Takara Tomy version, like me. :)
I'm concerned about getting a hold of Acid Storm... looks at STL:p
I love that green!! (green is my favourite colour) if that camo paint can be taken off the wings I will surely buy it!!
Acid Storm is glorious. I hope the green looks like that in real life.
Soundwave is Soundwave.
Getting all the cassetticons in one cheap hit is a great deal, even if the visor is yellow!
I am always dubious about Hasbro's (and now Takara's) photoshopped images. The real thing always turns out very dull indeed.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...oudidthere.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Kazza
Hasbro's digitally doctored photos never lie! ;) :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Quickstrike
I say kudos to Hasbro for being old skool and staying true to the original! ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lint
I personally find TakTOM's digitally enhanced images still aren't nearly as bad as Hasbro's. Like the photography used on MP Soundwave's box... the toy actually looks better IMHO! :) So much so that I've now stashed Soundwave's box in storage instead of having it on display like my other MP boxes. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Lint
Lol, they have Ravage mis-transformed in the official pics:
http://tformers.net/g/generated/1960...scaled_600.jpg
(they forgot to pull out the nose, leaving a hole in the middle of his face)
Not sure what's up with the tformers post, but the pics on tfw2005 look better. A less eye-gouging shade of green. Overall, I'm digging the green and black scheme.
I've just been spending the last three weeks hassling ToysRUs here for product images of these two, with no luck.
I emailed them, and they replied to tell me to call them. So I did, 5 times over 2 weeks... getting an answering machine each time, asking me to leave my contact details. They called me back only twice of those 5 calls, several hours later when I was at work.
I then emailed them again on Friday to ask what is going on, and why they can't just email me with an answer. (also asking why they didn't want the free publicity)
Monday afternoon while I'm in Melbourne I get a call asking if anyone has gotten back to me yet. (I even told them in the email that I won't be back in Brisbane until Wednesday, so I wouldn't be able to do anything before then)
Not happy.
(and the phonecall yesterday was just to ask if I wanted my email passed onto a person responsible for boys toys.... gee, what do you think? It was even in the original email. And you thought the stores were run by kids who don't know what they are doing. This is just shocking customer service.)
Now after all this time mucking around, TRU America released their images to fansites. We were first with the news, so it would have been nice to back it up with being first with the images.
I dont think that anyone at TrUs wanted to get in trouble by leaking it and no one you spoke with had the nuts to tell you that. That sucks but still, your breaking info was right :thumbsup
And "Etipsone" (the name currently on the cockpit) is the name of an artist who did some corporate graffiti art for Hasbro HQ.
I agree that TakTOM's photoshop jobs on a whole aren't as bad as Hasbro's but I cannot forget stuff like Creator Primus which, because the packaging is windowless, almost amounted to false advertising :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime