pump the brakes big shoots..yer givin me a broner

 

Great review! Really looking forward to getting mine even more now. I have to admit I dont recognize that Ravage. I've only seen the deluxe and it doesnt appear any if the SS figures came with him. It would be nice if we got a Ravage with the possible upcoming satellite Soundwave though.

Now how do I get a new Frenzy as I lost my Movie 1 Barricade with him a while back...

 

That Ravage is Legends class Ravage which was released in the line after the RotF line (HftD?). He works quite well posed with Studio Series figures, I have him posed with Rampage.

 

Same here! He's still really fun. Only problem is the hip cannons on mine broke off many years ago, I glued them back on but they broke again when I took him out earlier this year to be friends with Rampage  

 

you do realize all that silver is paint, right

 

You've said that before.

 

I got my number one Christmas gift of the year.

 

Glad it finally arrived buddy.

 

Seeing pics of the old HA one...yeah. Glad I didn't buy that one now. The legs especially look ugly.

 

My Soundwave should be here on Friday! Can't wait, he's my most anticipated figure out of the Studio Series line. Really hoping that a 3rd party group releases his blasters, I'd even taken an alternate visor head if they made it. That's one element I do like from the original deluxe, inaccurate as it may be

 

Now available on amazon in the US for retail! Mine should be here on saturday!

 

Yeah I used to be sad it wasn't release but it looks really bad compared to the new SS deluxe.

 

Overall, he is a nice figure. I still think I like the HA version better.

Be careful with the tabs on the door frames. I'm not ham handed or anything but, those bastards just sheared right off. Doesn't affect anything but, still annoying.

 

Figure is nice, I’m not blown away by it but it’s a good figure. I wish the back car kibble had a place to tab into and he just needs some blue paint. The silver paint apps is nice to see and it’s a great color. Laserbeak is a nice addition but I think I would have liked a gun for him to hold instead.

 

The instructions show to just flip the head when changing to car mode. When I do it, the head antenna stick out. I pulled it out to rotate the head backwards. It was scary due to the tightness of the head. It works fine now. I hope I didn’t break an tabs or anything cause it made an a awful loud click when I turned it

 

I've had him since I made the thread, and only yesterday was I able to rotate one of the headlights without popping off for the first time. There is the smallest possible window of clearance you have to work with. The best direction to go in is rotating the headlights down first.

 

I got Sounders and the 07 Camaro Bee today, and Soundwave is pretty great. He's at least an excellent example of how good Hasbro has gotten at delivering reasonably accurate movie designs in deceptively simple ways- fundamentally, his transformation is to flip up his feet, shrug down his arms and swing up the chest. The only hiccup is in rotating his headlights around, but once I figured out that they should rotate a particular way, I've had a nearly 100% success rate in transforming them.

I like his backpack as well. It pegs into a solid unit, and while that is then free to swing back and forth on a single hinge, that just seems to serve to neatly get it out of the way. Subjectively, his colours are really drab (not that I'm asking for a G1 scheme here- anything with more contrast than silver & dark grey would be preferable), but that's just being honest to the source. It's just another modern figure where I miss the "cause we can" random repaints.