Toy Review - JP Masterpiece Soundwave

[GoktimusPrime]

That's a great digibash, Iriorne!

Stronger plastic, make sure no more problems like that foot problem people here have encountered as for the energon cubes, they would well learn from the Luki's Bros version of energon cube inserts. Their hologram pink foldable inserts are what TakTom should've done. the lame print pink foldout they advocate is LAME LAME LAME!

I haven't encountered any problems with the feet so far (knock.on.wood). But improving the plastic quality can only be a good thing. For those who haven't seen this toy yet, the feet are actually die-cast metal. So perhaps it needs stronger plastic on the ankle joints to cope with the weight (as the feet do twist around during transformation).

What are the officially endorsed fold outs? I'm tempted to just buy some pink glitter and fill up 1 or 2 cubes with it. I like to have at least 1 or 2 empty cubes though.

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P.S.: MP Laserbeak^Condor's tech specs motto says "Autobots" rather than "Cybertrons"!

For those who may not know, the original Japanese G1 tech specs in the 1980s/90s didn't have mottos --- so an interesting thing about getting more recent toys from Takara(TOMY) is that we can sometimes see the first official Japanese translation for that character's motto. Also, since 2007 TakaraTOMY's been using Hasbro TF names for their 'mainstream' TF lines that they market at kids, e.g. movieverse, Animated, Prime etc., but toylines with greater appeal to G1 fans have retained using Takara G1 names, e.g. reissues, Henkei, United, Masterpiece etc. MP-9 was called "Rodimus Convoy," MP-10 = Convoy, MP-12 = Lambor, MP-14 = Alert, MP-15 = Jaguar etc., the factions are called Cybertrons and Destrons -- MP Soundwave's box says "Destron Communications," not "Decepticon Communications"... but yet Condor's motto says "Autobots" instead of "Cybertrons"! It feels totally inconsistent and feels out of place in the context of Masterpiece which has, until now, always consistently used Takara names.