Amazon Japan Exclusives for MP Sideswipe and MP Soundwave

nice pics. cant wait til this comes out.

That'll do nicely.

First pics I've seen of MP-13 prototype. Looks good! Laserbeak looks sweet too.

he looks good i best start saving. not sure how i feel about the feet to be honest but i do like.

Damn I cannot belive we are finally getting an offical release of mp soundwave.Cannot wait for him to come out those pics have me very happy.

yyyyeeeeeaaaahhhh it looks awesome !!!!!

omfg looks amazing takara, keep it up.

Allright, now i'm cautiously optimistic.

hellooooo, laserbeak ...

my very rusty memory is telling me that proportion wise this guy is a bit neater than the 3rd party one. although knowing my memory they could well be identical

Just some comparisons I made quickly...

Amazon page also mentions he can hold 3 cassettes and suggests more will be released in the future.

Bought, bought, bought, bought, bought, bought.

Uh... Ahem.

Yeah... I mean... it's pretty nice.

3 at once? If so, Soundblaster post haste

brilliant! yeah, i think the masterpiece does win out. the other looks a bit over greebled and long in the torso

That Laserbeak is amazing. Stick a fork in FT's Acoustic Wave.... It's done.

Judging by the Optimus comparison he is a bit smaller, obviously it's rough, but I hope he's at least the same size as MP-10, afterall Soundwave was a big bot in the cartoon.

exactly, at this round Takara kicked the 3rd party's ass

Amazon.co.jp preorder exclusive accessory shown - "Piledriver Ep.18 Ver."
note that Ep.18 in Japan is "Dinobot Island (Part 1)".

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Yeah they did. Wow. I want this bad. Glad I preordered at BBTS.

how the hell did they manage a complete laserbeak that turns into a cassette? have they discovered actual mass-shifting!?

Holy shit that looks good!! Looks better than FT's too IMHO. Lovin' Laserbeak too, can't wait to see Ravage, Rumble & Frenzy.

MP line is certainly starting to hit the high notes now!

That assumes the new cassettes are the same size as the old ones/Classics Ravage. They might be a little larger - hence Soundwave will be MP-10 size. Which is what I'm hoping for.

^yes, GTFO Turd-Party makers! In your FACE!

Then again I have full respect to TFC and Fansproject. Not all of them are Turd makers LOL.

I was referencing to FT's ' Acoustic Wave'
that was a kick up the balls Takaratomy needed to come up with this remarkable piece of engineering that is MP-13 Soundwave.

Gotta say, I think if FT's can get FT02 out there for $100 there will still be a market for it. I think he has a slightly nicer, more detailed bot mode to be honest.
I think it's odd seeing proper feet of Soundwave, but I guess the trade off is better articulation, which looks to be excellent.
Overally, looking at the grey proto's, i'm 95% going with Taktom, unless he turns out to be tiny.

Really? I see extra alt mode kibble on those legs, and the design could be neater around the crotch area, which really looks flimsy.
EDIT: Also, no neck?

Anybody else note the remarkable similarity to FT02?? I know there's only so many ways to make a robot turn into a box, but still...

This official TakaraTomy Soundwave looks better than both 3rd party version in terms of proportions, altmode and amount of surface detail.

The 3rd Party soundwave just has too much surface detail, in a style which imo doesn't fit. As a result of that, the altmode also looks compromised... especially the area around the window.

Agreed on this. Anyway I'll support always any 3rd Party maker will give me what I want....

This is a grey prototype. Looks like an early one too. I'm sure they'll clean it up a lot.

Yes, I do! I actually thought there was a mixup with the pics but they do look amazingly similar. Once you look at MP 13 closer though it looks better imo.

Laserbeak looks awesome! It looks like he has the video camera in the top of his head.

Sucks that those are exclusive.

well our amazon has their exclusives so, it's only fair.

Not fussed about those at all.

Sorrry pardon me but what is this "Dinobot Island (Part 1)" all about.

It will be more expensive with 2 more energon cube? I will just get the normal mass release version.

It's the episode these particular pile drivers featured in.

The pile drivers are the weapons right? So the normal mass release do not come with pile drivers? Ridiculous

Post a picture.

Generation 1 - 30 - Dinobot Island (Part 1) 1/3 HD - YouTube



Those are neat accessories, but I'm not too fussed about getting them.

this. Takaratomy photo staff just got super excited releasing early proto pics that's all.

Takara may release all the cassettes in a boxset,we shall wait.

So anyone will be getting the Amazon version just for the piledrivers sake?

Damn, maybe the Hasbro version will have these included with it as well.

Right on,we will never know except to wait & wait.

Man that's a real shame those are exclusive. Like the idea of the cubes attaching to SW

if only Soundwave came with Energon-o's indgrediant chest panel,then ided get him