Toy Review - Studio Series SOUNDWAVE (ROTF)

[Krayt]

* As mentioned before, the upper legs are just reused from the DOTM figure... which means that it has Mercedes Benz faux-kibble on them, including the fuel cap! I understand that this version of Soundwave never showed his robot mode on film, but we also know that he was this satellite before he became a Mercedes.

Well actually we don't know that. Seeming DOTM retconned the interaction of Soundwave and Laserbeak to the Apollo missions, Soundwave may have always liked being a Benz. It was only when searching for the secret NEST base that he needed to go up and be a satellite

[christalcase]

It's weird because we got such a good DOTM Soundwave with an interesting transformation, great vehicle and robot modes, and slathered in silver paint. Yet for the ROTF version, we get a lazy transformation, silver paint only on the outer panels and a disgusting shade of unpainted plastic. If they used the same grey unpainted plastic as the DOTM figure, it'll look better in robot mode but the green-ish hue and freckles on the torso ruins the whole figure.

[Handsprime]

There's a couple of Studio Series toys I've skipped.
I may grab him, but I'm in no rush.

[shockNwave]

The only positives I can take away from these images is the chest piece looks like Mr. Stark's Ark Reactor or a variation on the cockpit of a tie fighter but apart from that I regret more that I didn't pick up the ROTF version when it was around.