MP Laserwave & Hot Rod Release date, price & colour photos

[Paulbot]

Yes the blade is a bit too big but no big deal

What's up with the backpack on Shockwave? That plus the lavender shade plus the dull ultra-80s styling... nah, not for me.

Shockwave's backpack seems to be storage space for the gun barrel (most pics) and/or gunstand (one of the pics) so presumably you could just leave that off.

You'd probably have to wait for a future Hasbro or Takara Mall release for a more toy accurate darker purple.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Damn...I was totally going to skip on both these guys, but they're looking pretty nice in colour. Gonna be hard to resist them.

[drifand]

I am NOT complaining about plastic wheels, thought I should say it. There you go and Yes I bought it.

Maybe someone can come and tell me they cut cost and make the wheels non rotating.

[Bidoofdude]

Other than the chest being a little flat in robot mode, Hot Rod looks pretty solid. Car mode is a beast, with the boxiness of the G1 toy.

Laserwave/Shockwave though is a real beast. He's got that curvature in the legs and gun mode that Quakewave didn't have (the boxy legs were what I disliked about QW). I like the paler colours and think he suits the G1 cartoon model quite well. Want.

[nsm034]

fishing rod FTW !!

[Ace]

fishing rod FTW !!

"Talk about doll Daniel"

[UltimateGalvatron]

"Talk about dUll Daniel"

Sorry

[Defcon]

I really want to Pre-order Shockwave, but I think I'm not liking that purple. If they had left it in prototype I may have ordered already but now I'm hesitant. I'm not specifically after toy accurate colours, or even cartoon accurate colours. But not Lavender purple, I never liked that colour on the henkei Cyclonus.
The figure looks outstanding though.

Can't say the same for Hot rod, but looks good enough.

[Magnus]

I don't really care much for Hot Rod - I'm perfectly happy with my MP9.

Shockwave on the other hand... I'm seriously considering it. Not sure if I'll try preordering or if I'll take my chances with eBay upon release again.

On the colour: I don't mind the colours in the photos, but I can't help but wonder if the lighting in the photos is making the colours a bit lighter than they actually are.

[Mythirax]

Please let Hot Rod be easier to transform He's the only MP figure I have I've ever transformed once and said nope, never again.