Toy Review - Generations FOC Soundwave & Laserbeak

[Sky Shadow]

Maybe one of the South Australians who saw it, can take a couple more photos of the packaging (back) to see what it comes with...

Weirdly, Prime's gun is even shown on the back of the boxes. It doesn't come with the toys, obviously.

[griffin]

Link doesn't work... but tfw have a few images up now.

[Trent]

How has no one bought one of these yet?

[Sutton]

How has no one bought one of these yet?

Because it's $50 for a redo of a figure that was in scale and already pretty nice IMHO. If I see him cheaper I might just bite. Still waiting for a perfect Classics Soundwave, although the Blaster repaint might work.

I think the auto-transform disc ejection system is a sweet little gimmick though. It's the sort of simple non-battery powered ideas that Hasbro should be focusing on. Don't know about you guys, but the sound effects I could make as a kid were always 500% better than the fuzzy crap that comes out of modern Leader class figures.

Classic G1 transformation sounds on conversion are an exception however

[Sky Shadow]

Because it's $50 for a redo of a figure that was in scale and already pretty nice IMHO.

Expensive upscaled redos of perfectly-good toys seem to get a lot of excitement in the fandom whenever Hasbro calls it a Masterpiece.

[Sutton]

Expensive upscaled redos of perfectly-good toys seem to get a lot of excitement in the fandom whenever Hasbro calls it a Masterpiece.

Ha!

Megatron, Starscream and Prime deserved the MP treatment, since their G1 toys were seriously lacking. Soundwave and Grimlock are iconic characters, so yeah, ok...their G1 toys were already pretty good though.

But Sideswipe? GTFO. What a boring generic character for an update.

And Rodimus is a dick. Even the MP toy was a dick.

[5FDP]

And Rodimus is a dick. Even the MP toy was a dick.

I couldn't agree more

[Bidoofdude]

Classic G1 transformation sounds on conversion are an exception however

This one knows the way of the force.

[crankcase76]

Finally opened my FoC soundwave tonight and had a play with it, not a bad figure at all. Very detailed and looks great in robot mode, shame we have not got the G1 gun? As depicted on the box and instructions, would look better if it had have came with it as his left hand has the pose for it. Alt mode is really nice and very easy transformation, does look a little boxy although I suppose this is because of the available space in his chest for the other discs. Have had no problems with the discs, are a little tight to get in but like all things if it is played with enough I think this will eventually become less of a problem.

[The Scream Man]

I'm happy with him overall, though I still may get the Media Player version to be my default Soundwave in my display. The Auto eject doesnt work great, but i like the data disk, and the way that you can fit a couple of discs in there. i think Ill gt the Ravage/Rumble set if i can, but i wont worry about Frenzy and Ratbat. Ill also get Blaster i suspect.

Great value for $39