Toy Review - DOTM Shockwave

[Paulbot]

Why so they keep giving prominent Movie Decepticons non-Earthen modes? This toy is good but it doesn't fit in with the others. It's so alien in both modes that it feels like it belongs to another line. At least the tank mode ends up being more clear than the Fallen or Megatron's jet modes.

I found transforming Shockwave to be fun and everything rewardingly snapped into place with solid clicks. The toy has nice colours but in robot mode it doesn't look that much like G1 Shockwave. The homage seems slight, but the extra hose and being able to fold up the hand when you plug the mech tech weapon in help it out.

Overall, pretty nice as it's own alien robot/tank figure with bonus points for looking like Shockwave and for (I assume) it's role in the movie.

[Decepticon]

Brilliant! Love everything about this figure. Robot mode is the best I've seen for a while

[GoktimusPrime]

Why so they keep giving prominent Movie Decepticons non-Earthen modes?

I guess to make them less familiar and more "monstrous" to the audience? I agree that I would prefer seeing Earth modes though... but then again, I guess having him stay in a Cybertronian form is in it's own way, a homage to G1 where Shockwave never acquired an Earthen mode either.

[Stompy]

This figure/movie-lore is a waste of a good character.

While the robot mode looks quite nice and menacing and works well with all it's great sculpting and armaments. Not to mention the awesome backpack. The back of the legs are hollow as if it's meant to have batteries and the lids have been lost. The ultra thick rubber hose is way too strong and limits poseability with the cannon on his arm. The head is ok but not keen on the forward swept "ears". I would have also liked wrist rotation as I personally do not like the elbow bend always having the palms face up.

Conversion is easy and is possible to convert witht he hose and weapons attached.

The alt mode is just absolute rubbish. There are gaping holes everywhere and this is not a tank. Cybertronian or not. This is scrap metal taped together. Truly awful. The front "wheels" do not lock on to place and tends to fold back. RUBBISH. Even movie 1 and RotF Megatron has better alt-modes.

Overall this is a great looking botmode. Unfortunately for me, this is meant to be a transformer toy and I got ZERO joy from the alt-mode. Hence this is a big fail.

[Doubledealer]

Yup, I'm with Stompy on this one. After the brilliance of TFA Shockwave (who had FOUR awesome modes, one of which was also a tank) I expected much, much more. Hoping the Legends toy manages to pull off a RotF Ravage and trounce its larger counterpart.

[5FDP]

Hoping the Legends toy manages to pull off a RotF Ravage and trounce its larger counterpart.

That's exactly what I am waiting for.

[Tallestblue]

I love this guy. He seems to be the bastard child of G1 Shockwave and the Invid from Robotech, but I like that look. Would love to see a Leader class version at some point.

[Lord_Zed]

Yeah I'm with the Shockwave fans too, it was Shockwave which for me is instant buy as he is my preferred Decepticon leader of choice. Overall he is a good toy, not quite great, solid in both forms, excellent robot mode, tank mode is meh but at least its solid,

He looks good next to ROTF Voyager Megs, and HFTD Voyager Prime which is what I wanted. I only have two DOTM toys, Shockwave and Sandstorm, but he is definitely the better toy in my mind. I also far prefer him to the floppy mess that is my purple Animated Shockwave, so yeah not perfect but thumbs up, here's hoping for a Generations Shockwave now old one eye is getting some recognition.

While the robot mode looks quite nice and menacing and works well with all
The alt mode is just absolute rubbish. There are gaping holes everywhere and this is not a tank. Cybertronian or not. This is scrap metal taped together. Truly awful. The front "wheels" do not lock on to place and tends to fold back. RUBBISH. Even movie 1 and RotF Megatron has better alt-modes.

The front wheels lock in place, the tabs on the wheel arms lock under the front hull of the tank, on my toy they are very tight and secure in vehicle mode. It ain't pretty but it locks tight.

I so agree with Skyshadows Skullgrin repaint/retool idea too.

[SharkyMcShark]

What I don't understand is that the first ever movie figures with Cybertron alt modes (Prime and Screamer protoforms) were awesome in both modes, so why since then has every Cybertron mode figure just looked very poor? (with maybe the sole exception of voyager crab tank Megatron from ROTF)

[SkyWarp91]

What I don't understand is that the first ever movie figures with Cybertron alt modes (Prime and Screamer protoforms) were awesome in both modes, so why since then has every Cybertron mode figure just looked very poor? (with maybe the sole exception of voyager crab tank Megatron from ROTF)

I guess with Cybertronian modes there's no standard to adhere to with creativity , like for regular TFs the engineering has to be done in a way that makes the robot become the car (or vice versa in some cases). With cybertronian vehicles they can just chuck up whatever they want so long as it has treads/wings/cannons/wheels and call it a TF.

cybertronian figures of any line are a hit and miss - some saw WFC prime as a miss but WFC soundwave as a hit!