Mega Steel Radio (aka Not-Blaster)

[1AZRAEL1]

Up for preorder on BBTS

He looks quite nice. Stands 18cm so he is voyager scale. Face I don't like too much, but there is apparently a different head sculpt included. If it was MP size, I would be all over it.

[Gofigure]

Damn that's a good sculpt....long overdue as I don't really feel the FOC soundwave repaint

I'm considering this

[CBratron]

His engineering looks like a direct copy of MP Soundwave.

[Sky Shadow]

His engineering looks like a direct copy of MP Soundwave.

To the point where the leg design is moronic - there's front-of-Blaster's-leg kibble on the front and inside of his legs.

[Lord_Zed]

To the point where the leg design is moronic - there's front-of-Blaster's-leg kibble on the front and inside of his legs.

Or more accurately lazy, this toy appears to be a straight remold from their announced not Soundwave toy.

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-...ndwave-178391/

Odd that they are releasing Blaster first, perhaps they want to compete with Unique Toys version.

[Hursticon]

To the point where the leg design is moronic - there's front-of-Blaster's-leg kibble on the front and inside of his legs.

lol!

*Lord_Zed beat me to it

Yep, you're dead right guys, from the Pelvis down it's literally Masterpiece Soundwave's design & engineering...




..actually, if you look closely at the back it would seem the whole upper torso has been copied too!




In fact, I would go so far as to say that this whole figure is simply a re-skin of MP Soundwave; the surface details have obviously been changed along with the head, it's likely they've neutered or withdrawn the cassette door & tape shuffling gimmicks and have added a pair of blocks for his handle to attach to in Alt mode.




Yeah this is practically iGear's approach, crossing that IP GREY area directly into the RED zone of Theft! - It's a no-goer for me.

[CBratron]

To me, this Blaster only barely passes the KO test.

On the other hand, the Soundwave that Lord_Zed points to (complete with KO Laserbeak) is just not cricket.

That's it. When I get back from work tomorrow I'm going to check MP Soundwave to see if the screw holes are in identical positions.