First Review of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Soundwave

I like him a lot more than I was expecting, given how much everyone's been saying he sucks. The robot mode is really neat and very poseable; I especially like how the various panels on the back and arms can be manipulated. Satellite mode is a bit iffy and the robot arms don't lock in place as securely as I'd like, but it's serviceable. I like the cruiser mode a lot and will probably keep that as his main alternate mode. I've only opened four of my RotF Deluxes so far (Rampage, Chromia and Sideswipe being the others), but Soundwave is my second-favorite, behind Sideswipe.

His robot mode is pretty nice, but the alt modes aren't too great. I don't like how nothing locks in place in the alt modes and his legs keep falling off.

This dude's awesome, you can do about 20 thousand things with his wings & panels.

Been having a blast with his ship mode, can pretty much make any jet shape you want.
Satelite mode, ok whatever. Bot mode is also panel tastic. Screw the official way, fold this guy the way you want.

Ah, Transtech Soundwave.....good luck figuring out what his "Manufacturer's Suggested Alt-Mode" is without the instruction manual.

Soundwave is ok, definitely needs more paint apps. An obligatory Soundblaster repaint, mostly black with silver and red apps, would probably do the mold better justice.

Kinda iffy on the figure myself...not a must-have. but if you're a sucker for fan-modes, Soundwave is practically a bottomless pit of them...

pod mode?

secret boss in Punch-Out is:

I blame this guy for me having a relapse into buying toys even though I'm pushing 30!

I never got G1 Soundwave as a kid and so I tried to make up for it by getting this one.

He's grown on me as time has gone on. I'm still somewhat hoping for a Legends Ravage to pair up with him. But he's a lot of fun to mess around with.

Pretty much every opinion has been said in the thread already, but the only thing I can add is, I think Hasbro even got the transformation wrong on the packaging.

We now know what SW looks like in Satellite mode as he's the nav menu on the UK official site. In case any haven't seen him, he looks like this:


You can get pretty close to this with the toy by doing this;

Apologies for the terrible quality, I took it with my phone.

I think this is how he was supposed to look in Sat mode all along. Especially as there doesn't seem to be any need for the shoulder flaps to fan out for any of the 'official' transformations, but they're used for this one. I haven't really tried to get him to look like he does in the insert, the image is too small, but that's probably possible also.

In the back of the package, it reads: "Canon converts to blade". What canon converts to what blade?

You might want to try to pose his feet like this, to add some height to him :

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/c...undWave_01.jpg

I love him. He's my favorite Soundwave yet.

When changing to the space cruiser mode, the wings on the sides should clip into the panels on the shoulders.

Heh.....I ended up dong the same thing as Brakescream. Even with the phone without knowing it.

Here's my take on Soundwave. Maaaaan, I'm really behind everyone else on these things, but then, I just never intended to get the toys to begin with. Damn you plastic addiction!

this figure is trash. You just cannot play with him. His robot mode falls all over the place, and none of his parts seem to clip on anywhere. Not solid at all. Jet and sattelite mode are ok though, but really, they could have made a better job for him to stay in place. A lot of movie style figures seem to have this problem. I'm getting sick of it. Parts need to stay on together in order to make solid figures. Why won't hasbro understand this?