First of all, the box is TINY. Much smaller than I expected!

I had heard from an early review that Ravage was fragile and easy to break, so I took very extra care when transforming him. His transformation is every bit as amazingly engineered as Laserbeak but the robot mode is not quite on that par. But mine didn't feel nearly as fragile as I was worried. He is small, but has a nice range of motion and thankfully the joints were tight on mine. I was able to get him back into casette mode pretty easily as well. I guess it's a good idea to just be super careful and take your time with him.

Rumble is much easier and more straightforward. Flipping his tiny hands and head out is the hardest part. Nice range of motion on him as well. The gold chrome looks really nice and I don't think it should be a problem rubbing off as it doesn't come into contact with other parts during transformation. His paint looks pretty solid too.

They ceratainly don't feel like masterpieces...they are so small! I'd consider them glorifed accessories really (which they will be in the US version) but paying so much for such small figures shows how insane we are as collectors.

Still, it's nice to have all the molds represented and I'm still looking forward to next month and "completing" the team....that is until Ratbat is announced, whenever that may be!

 

Hmmm. Any pics,

 

I'm very impressed with Ravage. Not as fragile as the video review led me to believe.

The joint tolerances on him are mixed, some joints are smooth while others are really tight. I guess the tight joints might loosen up over time.

I've got him on a Figma stand in his G1 box art leaping pose. Awesome!

Rumble's alright. Neat figure but not as impressive as the beast MP cassettes.

 

I could take pics but I only have a camera in my phone....I figure everyone else's pics are better. But if you have any requests, I can try.

I agree that Ravage didn't feel as fragile as I was lead to believe, but I still handled him very carefully.

I actually thought Rumble was more fun cause I wasn't worried about breaking him. Other than his goofy thighs, he has a great range of motion and the paint is really nice.

No metal parts on either of them, obviously. But I like that the bottom of Rumble's feet are unpainted so there is no need to worry about rubbing the paint off.

 

One thing about Rumble though, I hate that they printed coding on his bum. Will probably remove it with rubbing alcohol.

 

It's on his cassette side, so I just figure it's part of his disguise you know? Like the serial number of the brand of cassette he turns into.

He looks pretty bad from the back anyway cause he's got all the blue and red paint of the cassette mode showing! The serial number doesn't bother me at all.

 

For those wanting pics, Type-R shared these links in our news forum. Alfes2000 has done a very nice little gallery of these two:

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I am just not feeling these. I like the original Ravage and Rumble more. I may get the OG versions of the two and just use those for my MP Soundwave tape army since they are the same size as MP Ravage and MP Rumble and will fit in his chest too. Ironically, I really like the new MP Laserbeak though.

 

Has it aready been discussed how stacking the pink tape cases in threes like that makes them look kinda like the squished-down-for-transport energon cubes? If that's intentional, it's very cool, and I'd imagine it's something Hasbro won't clue into for the domestic release(i.e. if we get cases at all, they'll be clear).

 

These look really great! Glad they turned out so nice. I ended up cancelling mine since my Soundwave broke and I am in the process of returning it. Everyone is sold out of Soundwave so I will just be waiting for the Hasbro release I guess.

 

i think i'm more interested in the cassettes then i am in soundwave...

 

They look good to me.

I wouldn't mind the reissue ones too, though, now that you mention it, icewolf74.  

 

double post, wtf...

 

Very nice, can't wait for Hasbro to bring these over I hope!

 

Looks great!

I may try and get both the takaratomy and hasbro releases (if there are cool noticeable differences)

I love me some cassettes. (still own a cassette player/recorder dual tape deck for my stereo.)

 

How is this news when thielmj posted a better review like a week ago?

 

This is what I would like the toys repainted into. Plus one new cassette mold.


* Soundwave (Marvel Comics colors) + Ratbat

* Soundblaster + Enemy

* Shattered Glass Soundwave + Shattered Glass Ratbat

* Glit + Wingthing

* Garboil + Howlback

Thats three uses for each of the cassette molds. I wanted an equal number of repaints for each of the cassettes.

 

They look okay. I've ordered this set because I think it'll be hard to get later, but worth £22.50 each? Meh, not really.

 

I was iffy on MP Ravage/Rumble but now that I see that they interact with MP Soundwave I have to have them!
Now just hoping for a Frenzy/Ratbat pair.

 

With product photography its more about the lighting then the cam in this case