Transformers Titans Return Soundwave Sighted in United Kingdom

Agamemnon wrote:That's $60 US. O_O


I was going to say something more, but seriously, speechless... O_O

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Via our favorite News Administrator Dr Va'al, we have word that Titans Return Leader Wave 2 has made it to the UK! Soundwave was spotted in Bromborough and purchased for £45.99. The original tweet can be found HERE and the image of the Soundwave in question can be found below. With this sighting, it seems that Soundwave is starting to make his appearances around Europe and will be making North America soon, so keep alert and let us know when you sight this new leader version of the monotone Decepticon communications specialist!

RAR wrote:
I HAVE A QUESTION :

Has anyone seen a Video review of TR Fortress Maximus where they PROPERLY show of the opening legs and how they can be used - as everyone seems to ignore them as they are no Canon or some such foolishness.

RAR wrote:I notice the box for Soundwave has a huge lie on it - it implies that He has a Robot, Jet and Car mode... where as no such Transformer exists... and it certainly doesn't apply to him.

[I'm being overly literal for effect but I bet it will confuse someone out there]

Hellscream9999 wrote:Just watched Balt's review of a3, and man, did that one have worrying qc issues

Stuartmaximus wrote:

RAR wrote:I notice the box for Soundwave has a huge lie on it - it implies that He has a Robot, Jet and Car mode... where as no such Transformer exists... and it certainly doesn't apply to him.

[I'm being overly literal for effect but I bet it will confuse someone out there]

If you mean this

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all Leaders & Voyagers carry this!(even if the fig doesn't form a car or jet) but your right.....it is a bit strange

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Just watched Balt's review of a3, and man, did that one have worrying qc issues

Well Optibotimus has also done his video review of the figure, so i dunno if that helps

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

RAR wrote:I notice the box for Soundwave has a huge lie on it - it implies that He has a Robot, Jet and Car mode... where as no such Transformer exists... and it certainly doesn't apply to him.

[I'm being overly literal for effect but I bet it will confuse someone out there]

If you mean this

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all Leaders & Voyagers carry this!(even if the fig doesn't form a car or jet) but your right.....it is a bit strange

It's just a general triple-changer logo to signify that the Leaders and Voyagers all have three modes.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Just watched Balt's review of a3, and man, did that one have worrying qc issues

Well Optibotimus has also done his video review of the figure, so i dunno if that helps

Yeah, watched it this morning, his was noticeably better, which means he either glossed over them, or didn't have any. It's at this point that I feel that the qc gods are actively conspiring against poor Balt

Decepticon Stryker wrote:Actually, why haven't we gotten a car to her to robot triple changer? It's one of the most obvious triplechangers to make.

SillySpringer wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Just watched Balt's review of a3, and man, did that one have worrying qc issues

Well Optibotimus has also done his video review of the figure, so i dunno if that helps

Yeah, watched it this morning, his was noticeably better, which means he either glossed over them, or didn't have any. It's at this point that I feel that the qc gods are actively conspiring against poor Balt

...and you.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

RAR wrote:I notice the box for Soundwave has a huge lie on it - it implies that He has a Robot, Jet and Car mode... where as no such Transformer exists... and it certainly doesn't apply to him.

[I'm being overly literal for effect but I bet it will confuse someone out there]

If you mean this

reduced-galery_image_11674_19384-1.jpg

all Leaders & Voyagers carry this!(even if the fig doesn't form a car or jet) but your right.....it is a bit strange

It's just a general triple-changer logo to signify that the Leaders and Voyagers all have three modes.

Actually, why haven't we gotten a car to her to robot triple changer? It's one of the most obvious triplechangers to make.

SillySpringer wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:Actually, why haven't we gotten a car to her to robot triple changer? It's one of the most obvious triplechangers to make.

"Her"?

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:Actually, why haven't we gotten a car to her to robot triple changer? It's one of the most obvious triplechangers to make.

"Her"?

I meant jet. For some reason autocorrect changes it to her.

william-james88 wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:

RAR wrote:I notice the box for Soundwave has a huge lie on it - it implies that He has a Robot, Jet and Car mode... where as no such Transformer exists... and it certainly doesn't apply to him.

[I'm being overly literal for effect but I bet it will confuse someone out there]

If you mean this

reduced-galery_image_11674_19384-1.jpg

all Leaders & Voyagers carry this!(even if the fig doesn't form a car or jet) but your right.....it is a bit strange

It's just a general triple-changer logo to signify that the Leaders and Voyagers all have three modes.

Actually, why haven't we gotten a car to her to robot triple changer? It's one of the most obvious triplechangers to make.

How? They are comletely differetn shapes. A car is usually more compact while a plane is on the long side. Thats why it was easier to have a toy that had a plane mode and a oil tankor mold since both were long alt modes, same as a space shuttle and a locomotive.

Decepticon Stryker wrote: I'm pretty sure that if by had the bright parts and some money I could make my own.

william-james88 wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote: I'm pretty sure that if by had the bright parts and some money I could make my own.

Your autocorret is having a ball

And yeah, I hear you, shouldnt be so tough so its odd we didnt get one yet.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote: I'm pretty sure that if by had the bright parts and some money I could make my own.

Your autocorret is having a ball

And yeah, I hear you, shouldnt be so tough so its odd we didnt get one yet.

Ugh I need to turn autocorrect off. And besides, it doesn't have to be an earth car. It can be a Cybertronian vehicle which would probably make the transformation easier.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote: I'm pretty sure that if by had the bright parts and some money I could make my own.

Your autocorret is having a ball

And yeah, I hear you, shouldnt be so tough so its odd we didnt get one yet.

Ugh I need to turn autocorrect off. And besides, it doesn't have to be an earth car. It can be a Cybertronian vehicle which would probably make the transformation easier.

Sabrblade wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote: I'm pretty sure that if by had the bright parts and some money I could make my own.

Your autocorret is having a ball

And yeah, I hear you, shouldnt be so tough so its odd we didnt get one yet.

Ugh I need to turn autocorrect off. And besides, it doesn't have to be an earth car. It can be a Cybertronian vehicle which would probably make the transformation easier.

This was a car-jet triple changer:

Counterpunch wrote:Question that may have been answered already...

Are there comparison images of Hasbro and Takara Weirdwolf?

william-james88 wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:Question that may have been answered already...

Are there comparison images of Hasbro and Takara Weirdwolf?

Not in hand no. We can only compare stock images.

Counterpunch wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:Question that may have been answered already...

Are there comparison images of Hasbro and Takara Weirdwolf?

Not in hand no. We can only compare stock images.

Was there a comparison of the stock images and the in hand images from Botcon then?

Counterpunch wrote:F it.

Comparisons below...

Kurona wrote:If you want a jet-to-plane triple changer you could always buy TR Voyager Optimus, cover his tanker with your hands and pretend he's a weirdly shaped car.

Counterpunch wrote:Courtesy of Maz...

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I was hoping to get the Hasbro version, but the Takara head is so much better.

Kurona wrote:Anyone else find it weird that despite Nightbeat and Siren being in Titan Masters wave 1, Hosehead doesn't even have an announcement yet for the class? Especially when all three of their small Decepticon Headmasters have either been released or coming out in Wave 3.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Kurona wrote:Anyone else find it weird that despite Nightbeat and Siren being in Titan Masters wave 1, Hosehead doesn't even have an announcement yet for the class? Especially when all three of their small Decepticon Headmasters have either been released or coming out in Wave 3.

I've noticed and I'm a bit disappointed by it. But then again, maybe Hosehead will be the lucky one to get a full body

Kurona wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Kurona wrote:Anyone else find it weird that despite Nightbeat and Siren being in Titan Masters wave 1, Hosehead doesn't even have an announcement yet for the class? Especially when all three of their small Decepticon Headmasters have either been released or coming out in Wave 3.

I've noticed and I'm a bit disappointed by it. But then again, maybe Hosehead will be the lucky one to get a full body

If anything, he might actually be the most likely one due to character re-use - he and his japanese counterpart Cab have no deco differences at all unlike Nightbeat/Minerva and Siren/Goshooter... plus, they could always re-use him for Heatwave. I do remember something about Generations Rescue Bots being asked about at Botcon...
Probably a bit of a stretch though.

Kurona wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Kurona wrote:Anyone else find it weird that despite Nightbeat and Siren being in Titan Masters wave 1, Hosehead doesn't even have an announcement yet for the class? Especially when all three of their small Decepticon Headmasters have either been released or coming out in Wave 3.

I've noticed and I'm a bit disappointed by it. But then again, maybe Hosehead will be the lucky one to get a full body

If anything, he might actually be the most likely one due to character re-use - he and his japanese counterpart Cab have no deco differences at all unlike Nightbeat/Minerva and Siren/Goshooter... plus, they could always re-use him for Heatwave. I do remember something about Generations Rescue Bots being asked about at Botcon...
Probably a bit of a stretch though.

We then turned to the Titans Return line, looking first at Alpha Trion. As noted previously, he was not originally planned for that line, and as such was not originally designed as either a Headmaster or a Triple Changer. Emiliano’s original design showed a robot mode very similar to the final toy, inspired by Cybertron Vector Prime, but equipped with an extra spiked sceptre weapon and a cloak, whilst the lion mode was significantly more sleek and organic, with a Transmetal 2-style cyborg look.

Emiliano also worked on the beast modes for Skullsmasher, Mindwipe and Wolfwire, with Takara then designing robot modes out of them. Wolfwire’s intial design was very close to the final toy, whilst Skullsmasher was originally planned to have his cockpit in his crocodile head before having it moved to his torso due to space limitations. Mindwipe’s design art was most different from the final figure, having a far more realistic bat silhouette, and a more snub-nosed bat head. The final toy’s ‘robot legs to bat wings’ transformation scheme was also absent, with the robot legs forming the bat torso instead.

Next was wave 1 of the single-packed Titan Masters and their drone vehicles/beast. Interestingly, Emiliano noted that these were originally designed as brand-new characters, explaining why their robot modes didn’t appear to be based on anything in particular. Their original head modes had very cool, unusual designs, with features like large cylinders and chunky faceplates, before being replaced with those of existing characters.

Galvatron was another figure Emiliano worked on, and like Alpha Trion, was not designed as a Headmaster. He noted that his earliest sketches were approved very quickly. Interestingly, these early designs sported a cartoon-style ‘crown’ rather than the IDW-style helmet seen recently on test shots.

Next up was Powermaster Optimus Prime, for which Emiliano had to search up pictures of Leader Class Ultra Magnus online to identify the figure’s transformation scheme! The initial concepts were mostly similar to the final toy, but unfortunately new parts to close up the front of Prime’s vehicle trailer didn’t make it onto the figure. Also lost from the original design art were several extra paint applications, including blue fists, detailing on the shins, and extra black and white details on the chest plate’s faux Hi-Q.

Finally for Titans Return, we saw the design art for the Soundwave retool of Leader Class Blaster. Emiliano was specifically asked to give him a modern sound bar alternate mode. Two pieces of tooling that didn’t make it to the final toy were Soundwave’s traditional rifle, and a mounted microphone which would have replaced Blaster’s boombox handle and transformed into Soundwave’s shoulder cannon for robot mode.

Tyrannacon wrote:That interview posted William was pretty interesting. Has nothing made it out of the original head planned for Galvatron from then I take it? I mean we have the original rendered shots with the different different looking-crown. I just wonder how much different it was. The gap is also starting to drive me nuts a bit on mine, but I'm making do with it at least.

Dr Va'al wrote:

Tyrannacon wrote:That interview posted William was pretty interesting. Has nothing made it out of the original head planned for Galvatron from then I take it? I mean we have the original rendered shots with the different different looking-crown. I just wonder how much different it was. The gap is also starting to drive me nuts a bit on mine, but I'm making do with it at least.

There was no gap, the head was fully part of the design, and it looked quite similar to the Guidi IDW version of things. Emiliano said at the panel how his designs were still following the IDW-trend that Hasbro was doing with Generations, just as they switched over to the new G1 updates (without really telling their freelance artists, of course).

Next was wave 1 of the single-packed Titan Masters and their drone vehicles/beast. Interestingly, Emiliano noted that these were originally designed as brand-new characters, explaining why their robot modes didn’t appear to be based on anything in particular. Their original head modes had very cool, unusual designs, with features like large cylinders and chunky faceplates, before being replaced with those of existing characters.

Bumblebee21 wrote:so we could have had a perfect galvatron