MP-29 Masterpiece Laserwave (Shockwave)

[GoktimusPrime]

I enjoy reading your detailed reviews Goktimus, like this one and Ironhide. I think they do a good job of explaining things and decisions that some people like to whine and complain about. I hope you post them on the American sites! 👍

Cheers dude. I don't post on foreign sites anymore, but you're welcome to copy/paste my reviews with due credit.

[drifand]

I don't want to debate but hang on a second, there are more darker shades purple as in being show accurate. When I google images the next 4-5 images of shockwave is of darker purple.

Is hard to say that the official colour is supposed to be the lighter shade .
This is my issue I had with bumble bee, there are a lot of times is not orange and is yellow.

I have no issues with the toy overall just that the lack of paint makes it look very plain.

[Trent]

got him the other day. I like him a lot. Although there are many things that Quakewave does better.

And I was very disappointed to find the faction symbols as stickers and not tampos.

Although those are nitpicks. Great figure overall.

[GoktimusPrime]

The sticker thing drove me mental. And I found having the option between toy and show accurate stickers to be rather pointless. There would only be 3 fans in the world who might care about having this choice. Honestly... that's what Reprolabels are for.

It's more understandable with MP Ratchet, and even then, I was happy to find that the quality of stickers on Ratchet are much better than Shockwave's -- more like just normal sticker quality. But yeah, Shockwave's logos really should've been tampographed on.

[willocrew]

Which one is the cartoon accurate stickers? Top or bottom row?

And is the backpack cartoon accurate?

Lastly, is there a way to make the head click in place instead of being suspended?

[drifand]

Which one is the cartoon accurate stickers? Top or bottom row?

And is the backpack cartoon accurate?

Lastly, is there a way to make the head click in place instead of being suspended?

Read the entire thread I have linked a video exactly how to lock the head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he3RnmP-ogM

[willocrew]

Read the entire thread I have linked a video exactly how to lock the head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he3RnmP-ogM

Thanks! That's a very useful video.

[GoktimusPrime]

Which one is the cartoon accurate stickers? Top or bottom row?

They're the "fat" symbols with the smaller "eyes." See my photos as I used the show-accurate stickers. The fact that you've had to ask this question demonstrates how superfluous the difference is; they should've not bothered and tampographed either one or the other. Every other MP comes with toy-accurate logos, and does anyone really care?

And is the backpack cartoon accurate?

Yes. The G1 cartoon model's backpack was fairly toy-accurate, thus also show-accurate. It's a separate detachable accessory because the stock of the gun forms part of the legs in order to make the legs bulkier,improving over what they did with MP Megatron who has skinny legs that they attempted to bulk out with slide out panels. But the compromise is the detachable backpack.

Lastly, is there a way to make the head click in place instead of being suspended?

You will need to pull it up and possibly jiggle it as you exert upward force until it clicks into position.

[doublespy]

I'm kind of disappointed that he can't hold the gun Megatron that came with Soundwave...