Title:
Shockblast Shockwave 1st Boxed
Description:
Shockblast (Alternator, 2004)
Alternator ID number: 12
Binaltech ID number: BT-13
Binaltech release date: April 4, 2005
Accessories: Muffler-blaster
The Alternators version of Shockwave is retool of "Meister” from the same line. Named "Shockblast” for trademark reasons, his alternate mode is a licensed, 1:24 scale Mazda RX-8, changing Meister’s standard street model into a Mazdaspeed-modified version with new front and rear fenders, doors, side skirts and a spoiler (the Japanese Binaltech version, Laserwave, is specifically marketed as a "Mazdaspeed Version II”). He features rubber tires, opening doors, hood and trunk, a detailed interior including seats and a dashboard complete with steering wheel, and a working "steering” mechanism (which is not connected to the steering wheel, though). In robot mode, his muffler unfolds to become a hand-held blaster; it can also be arm-mounted thanks to the holes near the robot’s elbow joints compatible with the muffler’s vehicle-mode mounting peg. Shockblast also features a new head sculpt with a single eye that is illuminated using some very effective light-piping, and an arm cannon made out of clear plastic that replaces his left hand. Undocumented in the instructions is a tab on the underside of each foot that can be positioned to make the figure more stable in certain poses.
Takara’s Binaltech Laserwave has quite a number of small but significant changes from the Alternators version. As usual with Binaltech releases, his car shell is partially constructed of die-cast metal rather than all-plastic, as well as having all the car body parts (including those made out of plastic) covered in a metal-flake paint. His passenger compartment has a hard-plastic steering wheel on the right-hand side of the car (as they are in Japan). He has vac-metal side-mirrors and "LWAVE” on his license plate (rather than Shockblast’s "SHKWAV”). The "steering” mechanism uses a magnet assembly to connect the steering axle to the front wheels instead of the Alternators version’s plastic insertion point. Plus it comes with a bonus large Decepticon insignia sticker that can be applied to a real car.
Shockblast was later re-released as part of a Europe-only wave of Alternators toys in the same packaging style as the second North American Alternators assortment, the latter of which Shockblast was not re-released in. Despite Hasbro re-claiming the "Shockwave” name by then, this re-release still calls him "Shockblast”.
The original Meister version of the sculpt was also released in a Binaltech-only red version (repurposed into "Zoom-Zoom” by the official Binaltech fiction) and was later retooled into Kiss Players Autorooper. The Mazdaspeed car parts, but with Meister’s original head sculpt and left hand, were later used to make the Binaltech-only Argent Meister.
Alternator ID number: 12
Binaltech ID number: BT-13
Binaltech release date: April 4, 2005
Accessories: Muffler-blaster
The Alternators version of Shockwave is retool of "Meister” from the same line. Named "Shockblast” for trademark reasons, his alternate mode is a licensed, 1:24 scale Mazda RX-8, changing Meister’s standard street model into a Mazdaspeed-modified version with new front and rear fenders, doors, side skirts and a spoiler (the Japanese Binaltech version, Laserwave, is specifically marketed as a "Mazdaspeed Version II”). He features rubber tires, opening doors, hood and trunk, a detailed interior including seats and a dashboard complete with steering wheel, and a working "steering” mechanism (which is not connected to the steering wheel, though). In robot mode, his muffler unfolds to become a hand-held blaster; it can also be arm-mounted thanks to the holes near the robot’s elbow joints compatible with the muffler’s vehicle-mode mounting peg. Shockblast also features a new head sculpt with a single eye that is illuminated using some very effective light-piping, and an arm cannon made out of clear plastic that replaces his left hand. Undocumented in the instructions is a tab on the underside of each foot that can be positioned to make the figure more stable in certain poses.
Takara’s Binaltech Laserwave has quite a number of small but significant changes from the Alternators version. As usual with Binaltech releases, his car shell is partially constructed of die-cast metal rather than all-plastic, as well as having all the car body parts (including those made out of plastic) covered in a metal-flake paint. His passenger compartment has a hard-plastic steering wheel on the right-hand side of the car (as they are in Japan). He has vac-metal side-mirrors and "LWAVE” on his license plate (rather than Shockblast’s "SHKWAV”). The "steering” mechanism uses a magnet assembly to connect the steering axle to the front wheels instead of the Alternators version’s plastic insertion point. Plus it comes with a bonus large Decepticon insignia sticker that can be applied to a real car.
Shockblast was later re-released as part of a Europe-only wave of Alternators toys in the same packaging style as the second North American Alternators assortment, the latter of which Shockblast was not re-released in. Despite Hasbro re-claiming the "Shockwave” name by then, this re-release still calls him "Shockblast”.
The original Meister version of the sculpt was also released in a Binaltech-only red version (repurposed into "Zoom-Zoom” by the official Binaltech fiction) and was later retooled into Kiss Players Autorooper. The Mazdaspeed car parts, but with Meister’s original head sculpt and left hand, were later used to make the Binaltech-only Argent Meister.
Theme:
Alternators
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2004
Country:
United States
Series:
Alternators
Date Added:
2022-02-06 20:54:08
Date Added:
2022-02-06 20:54:08
