Toy Review - Hasbro MP Soundwave

[Gasaraki]

Mine has popped off also.

Same here for the finger, and after a while I decided not to play with it and play with Acid Storm which I actually had a bit more fun. Might have to do with the Macross thingy.

MP-10's finger would pop off. Didn't happen with Soundwave, but then I've only transformed him 3 times.

Well, so far mine pops off when I extend the further out joint of the index finger... It doesn't pop off if I don't manipulate the hand at all, but that's the finger he needs to push to eject button!

I read some ways people have fixed this on the TFW boards... Will take a look at the figure tonight...

[jazzcomp]

Index finger on both hands popped off
That's being careful as well.

[drifand]

I am used to this for a model kit but for a toy is a bit weak. I can cope with it just be a bit careful. Overall is still a good value for money toy.

Wife love the cassettes tapes more and I felt the same. Still a good toy, definitely can be better in quality.

[Gasaraki]

Took a close look (using my myopic powers) and whilst there is some minor amounts of excess plastic I shaved off, it hasn't fully solved the problem. Also manually squeezed the joint together (after taking the finger off), and the end result is that it's a bit tighter, but still not the same as the opposite hand which doesn't have this issue.

(Dis)heartening to know that others have the same issue...

[GoktimusPrime]

The index finger on my TakaraTOMY version pops off if I fully extend it (i.e. try to make the finger perfectly straight). This is about as straight as I can make it without having it pop off:

[M-bot]

Overall, an awesome toy, well worth the money. Love all the inclusions, weapons and so forth. My SW's finger popped off the same as many others.

The only negative in my book was Ravage. Not quite as good as the Ravage that came with classics Hound, hence a bit disappointing for an MP. A minor quibble though.

[CBratron]

The Hasbro version is such a deal.

[lancalot]

Yes, yes, that's all very cool, but where are they supposed to go when he's in cassette player mode!??

It plug into the side and act as a batteries

[Gasaraki]

Alright, I think we've officially created the no. 1 reference for Masterpiece Soundwave finger popping off in the inter-webs! Sigh... bummer about this, more a bummer if it affects both sides of your toy.

After my attempted fix, I think I can categorically say it at least can point straight without popping off the joint, although definitely not tight enough to manipulate the finger back and forth just using the tip.

It plug into the side and act as a batteries

Haha! Well, if you're referring to the setup using the 'sensor' thing to join the piledrivers in tandem to the port on the side, I think that's meant to emulate the link cable from that scene in the '86 movie!

Here's my take - it's meant to stay on the arms after transformation, attaching to the rear of the player:

The piledrivers are flush with the tabletop this way, although it's hardly 'storage'! Remember, you saw it here first - another WORLD PREMIERE courtesy from us folks down-under!

[doublespy]

A little late to the party but finally got my TRU online order....

The money for value of this package is beyond awesome. If I owned the Takara version I would still be picking up a Hasbro one just for the 5 cassettes. I'm not quite sure how things work for Hasbro for these Masterpiece figures that were designed by TT only. But the design cost is definitely a pricing factor for the TT release. For future Masterpiece releases that have no licencing issues, waiting for the Hasbro release is a no-brainer is you ask me.

Contrary to the majority of opinion here, I think Ravage is very well designed. Not quite on the level of the Laserbeak/Buzzsaw mold (which utilizes volume and dimension to an extreme), but it captures the feline posture well. Ravage to me is always the most difficult to design because of all the cassette minion he's the least "flat" and has virtually no cassette bits that can be worked with in panther mode. Hasui did a tremendous job here and you can hardly tell what he transforms into in panther mode.

Last but not least:



"Hey! Nobody calls Soundwave unkrozzomatic!"
"Yeah let's kick talegate!!"