Title:
Soundwave 1st Carded
Description:
Soundwave (Deluxe Class, 2009)
Japanese ID number: RD-04
Accessories: Ravage missile.
Part of the initial Movie Preview wave, Revenge of the Fallen Soundwave is a Triple Changer, transforming into a satellite and a Cybertronian jet, which are not exactly what could be described as "distinct” from one another. In all three modes, Soundwave features a spring-loaded missile launcher which fires a missile intended to resemble Ravage, in reference to the scene in the film in which he launches the feline fiend down to Earth. In his (rather stocky) robot mode, Soundwave has blue light piping in his visor, but it is disabled, having been painted over in red; his other modes feature a second, armored version of his face, which is stored on the back of his robot mode. Probably to avoid giving the toy a very obviously two-headed robot mode, the alternate face lacks any paint details, and has an unpainted blue visor. Soundwave features numerous red and gold paint applications which are very cleverly and subtly positioned around his body to replicate similarly-colored and -positioned details on the original Soundwave toy.The configuration for the satellite mode depicted in the toy’s instructions is not the way Soundwave appears in the film, featuring a different angling for the panels on his shoulders. It’s not a big change, but transforming the toy in accordance with his movie appearance does help to distinguish the jet from the satellite a little, since otherwise, virtually the only difference is in the positioning of the large panel "wings”.
Japanese ID number: RD-04
Accessories: Ravage missile.
Part of the initial Movie Preview wave, Revenge of the Fallen Soundwave is a Triple Changer, transforming into a satellite and a Cybertronian jet, which are not exactly what could be described as "distinct” from one another. In all three modes, Soundwave features a spring-loaded missile launcher which fires a missile intended to resemble Ravage, in reference to the scene in the film in which he launches the feline fiend down to Earth. In his (rather stocky) robot mode, Soundwave has blue light piping in his visor, but it is disabled, having been painted over in red; his other modes feature a second, armored version of his face, which is stored on the back of his robot mode. Probably to avoid giving the toy a very obviously two-headed robot mode, the alternate face lacks any paint details, and has an unpainted blue visor. Soundwave features numerous red and gold paint applications which are very cleverly and subtly positioned around his body to replicate similarly-colored and -positioned details on the original Soundwave toy.The configuration for the satellite mode depicted in the toy’s instructions is not the way Soundwave appears in the film, featuring a different angling for the panels on his shoulders. It’s not a big change, but transforming the toy in accordance with his movie appearance does help to distinguish the jet from the satellite a little, since otherwise, virtually the only difference is in the positioning of the large panel "wings”.
Theme:
Revenge Of The Fallen
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2009
Date Added:
2021-10-31 18:02:37
