Studio Series Bumblebee Movie wave early 2022

[Paulbot]

The other deluxe in that 2022 wave one is SS86 Perceptor and the voyager in the wave is rumoured to be SS86 Junkion.

Shockwave's appearance (and the rumoured core class SS Ratchet) is a bit of filler - but it's giving kids toys of the popular/evergreen characters at the cheapest price point (same as Kingdom's core class Megatron, Optimus, Soundwave and Starscream). It's what the "legends' class was originally meant to do all those years ago! It's very likely a Voyager/Leader BB Movie Shockwave will come along. In the meantime the small characters (like Ravage, and Rattrap and the rumoured Rumble, DOTM Laserbeak and Exosuit Spike toys) get released in "scale" alongside popular characters. (I see a lot more Dracodons pegwarming and few Soundwaves).


The core class box does a fairly good job of hiding how small Ravage is at first glance (he needs to be small to fit inside the voyager Soundwave).

It's been noted that Soundwave's alt mode is not far off the design he was given in that wild GIJoe/Transformers crossover comic, so it's not come completely out of nowhere.

I think the designs are generally quite nice, and if these had been in the WFC Siege line (with G1 rather than movieverse heads) I'd be a lot more interested. Brawn and Ratchet are both appealing but just not what I want in my collection.

[Bemblebuu]

Poor Soundwave. His alt mode really looks like 'wotevah'. Siege Soundwave also had a crap alt mode. What's wrong with a futuristic cassette player?

[Jaxius._]

What's wrong with a futuristic cassette player?

So a cd player?

[griffin]

(added mirrored images in first post)

[Magnus]

It's been noted that Soundwave's alt mode is not far off the design he was given in that wild GIJoe/Transformers crossover comic, so it's not come completely out of nowhere.

Yep - someone on Reddit posted a picture of it. https://www.reddit.com/r/transformer...s_referencing/

[Autocon]

Soundwave crapbot mean crabpot argh crabbot. I dont see what he is suppose to be? Brawn is awsome. Like rachet. Like wheeljack.

[griffin]

Someone has managed to snag a copy of Soundwave, with box... which either means, it is soon to be released globally, or it was nabbed from a Hasbro source.
It all depends on when it is supposed to be released, as there are conflicting sources saying either January or April.

The in-hand images can be seen here as well as here.

Just keep in mind that Soundwave is is being sold as a Voyager, and yet it appears to be the same size as the Deluxe Dropkick in vehicle mode (the robot modes are more significantly different though).