Besides his Generation One form, the only other transformations I can get behind for Soundwave was being a Cybertronian satellite and a reaper drone. They fit him well. All these other ones just don't cut it in my opinion. He needs to be a mobile espionage vehicle.
@@notgray88 I agree 100%. It suited him perfectly; a satellite capable of espionage and communication. Plus being a cybertronian space craft gave him excellent mobility for his role.
Im not the only one who dug the satelite! lol. The deluxe movie one is with my 2007 baddie line up from the studio series line but he looks outta place.. The dotm voyager shockwave looks good with the SS guys but a tad short. Hes like brawls height. Im sure he'll get a ss makeover, but soundwave will probly just get his mercedes form i bet..
Unfortunate fact: the Siege mold of Soundwave can't transform into his cassette player mode on its own because of some mold limitations, which the Netflix Soundwave got modified with.
I actually really dig the box ship, but I wish we had some examples of it in the fiction. The lamp mode is 100% what I got him for, so I'm happy as a clam anyway!
I just picked up Soundwave and his Cassette pack of Laserbeak & Ravage. I really appreciate that the designers gave him his lamp post mode considering that's the 1st time you see Soundwave in the Original Cartoon. I also like that they gave him his "secret" tape deck mode. I'm not a fan of his ship mode, but his robot mode more than makes up for it. Thanks for the review. Awesome job.
This is low-key my favorite Soundwave ever. There's something desperate and out of energy about him. He feels like a terrific update of G1 in that way.
I love the Siege line! I bought Optimus Prime and Sixgun with my christmas money and I love then both equally. Optimus especially. Since I work at Walmart we have access to the special versions of Optimus Prime and Megatron with the cartoon style paint-job. Very cool
Man Sal THERE IS a pictur that can bee seen on the side of the box with a black light that shows how to transform him into a litteral lamp. Also on the bottom side flap inside the box
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“Secret mode!” They made it possible to turn into a boom box?? Oh, it’s just his lamppost mode. EDIT: the “tape deck mode” doesn’t count since it’s a fan mode and obviously not intended by the designers
It would've been really cool for him to have his cassette player mode also. Soundwave with 4 different configurations. Now that would be wicked awesome.
Shocking to believe just how Machinima-accurate Siege Megatron was. Especially in robot mode, with the perfect G1 proportions and the tank treads on his back...
7:21 Oh my Primus, that's the same waist flip mechanism the Cybertron Voyager Soundwave mold uses! Also similar to the waist transformation from the original Armada Starscream mold (not the Generations one)...
Lamp post, reminds me of BIG when the robots transformed into buildings. Also to be fair he actually did pull off the Lamp post in one of the earlier eps. when they where on Cybertron and Bumblebee and Wheel Jack were stealing energon rods. Great review for including it to make it a full review Keep up the great reviews
As much as I like G1, I really wish they would do different and more obscure characters rather than keep doing the same characters over and over again. It gets boring over time.
Although the alt mode is not my favourite (at least it looks Cybertronian), this version of Soundwave is one of my favourites. Love the proportions, love the articulation, love his colours, and love his cassettes. Mine is currently in storage and I love the mold so much I'm tempted to get another or Soundblaster. SOUNDWAVE SUPERIOR
Okay, so I tried it and for some reason it fits VERY loosely in Megatron's back ports, and only sticks out an inch above his backpack. I'm sure you can tighten the connection if you really wanted to, but it's not as good as I thought it would be. It's not a bad idea though!
Thanks for trying it out. Just waiting on mine and I cant wait to see it myself. Oh you should take a pic and put it on fb groups and I'll be able to see it lol.
FINALLY someone thought that. Made that comment to another guy who reviewed Soundwave toy. Made same comment about Megatron backpack covers it a bit. BUT, I think that's what Hasbro intended the grey gun for. I personally like it.
I found him at a Walmart late last week. I expected the shelf to be barren like usual, but there he, and Starscream sat. I love both figures. FoC Soundwave was my Soundwave before, but this guy easily replaces him. Guess I'll have to order his cassettes though.
Lamp post mode is my favorite mode, because it's his super secret spy mode that no one could ever figure out. Also I always wanted a Soundwave with this mode because it's dumb, thats why I love it.
Are you looking forward to Studio Series Shatter? I know that I can’t wait for her to release. 27 step transformation! She’s going to be a fairly complex figure and I am going to love her!
Finally, a lamppost mode! I'd rather have a proper tape deck mode than the ship mode. Yeah, we've had a few good tape deck Soundwaves recently, but I figure it's a shame to give us a cassette-holding torso and not give us a proper tape deck alt mode. But even if his only alt mode was a Furby, I'd probably get this guy just for the robot mode.
the lamppost mode doesn't actually look like the original lamppost so it doesn't really matter as far as i'm concerned. the g1 figure can pull it off quite well though.
@@seeeabaasssiliketransforme9904 Shockwave's G1 mode is a gun. If you flip the spaceship mode with the siege version upside down and don't put the extra pieces on him, he looks a lot like the gun. :)
17:06 That reminds me. I was looking for melee weapons that soundwave might use and saw someone on reddit plug both cassettes into his left arm as a shield, and took the extendable gun as a handle and put the smaller extendable gun in a slot on the bigger gun. Giving him a scythe and a shield. Just google soundwave melee weapon, go scroll through images, and you might find it
The legs for laserbeak can actually fit on his forearms (but not securely) using groves on either the right or left forearm if you don't want to use the peg and have laserbeak with legs
Idk about anyone else but the scratches in the windscreen look to me like the screen's been totally shattered or very near so, really giving off a '86 Movie dead Optimus vibe. I think just a few scratches near the corners would've made more sense
So, does anyone else think that going into robot mode, leaving his backpack in place of his head, does he not look like a sound wave/WALL-E love child? I'm hearing waaaaaalleee in sound waves voice lmao
This has probably already been said or you probably already know this or both but the lamp-post mode is from the original cartoon whenever it showed them in a flashback on cybertron before they went to earth and that was actually his canon alt mode (timeline wise) before he had a cassette player mode.
It sucks that soundwave's lamp post mode never was revealed again since the begining of Generation one season one transformers. That would've been a pretty cool 3rd mode for a G1 soundwave.
He really should come with at least one cassette, Buzzsaw or something. Or if they don’t want to use a big name guy to repaint later, hell give him the true Decepticon hero: Autoscout
Hasbro-
“Just fold it a bit ......
Make it look like a space brick ....
Yeah that’s it 💡
"Bricks....In...Spaaaaaccceeee!"
"It hovered in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't."
Oh, wait...
Since you don't have to be aerodynamic in space, I guess it makes sense, unless Cyberyron actually has an atmosphere.
Sig Urther
Really ??????
This made me laugh too loud
We forgot an alternate mode
"LIE IT ON IT'S BACK AND CALL IT A SHIP, IT WORKED FOR SHOCKWAVE"
And TR sixshot
-Gun- Upside Down submarine mode? 🤓
- Hasbro
Eh, I'll probably skip buying Soundw-
14:00
... TAKE MY MONEY!!!
hahaha same, though for me, seeing laserbeak perched on him later on sealed the deal LOL
@@bw8362 You mean perching a birdbot on his arm? Unless I'm missing something, it's _possible,_ but it's pretty precarious.
Ravage, Laserbeak Eject 📼
@@jpnoy
Operation... destruction
got the same tought
Besides his Generation One form, the only other transformations I can get behind for Soundwave was being a Cybertronian satellite and a reaper drone. They fit him well. All these other ones just don't cut it in my opinion. He needs to be a mobile espionage vehicle.
Satelite mode is the best in my opinion. Makes the most sense for his personality,
KDTON S4 wfc or foc?
@@notgray88 I agree 100%. It suited him perfectly; a satellite capable of espionage and communication. Plus being a cybertronian space craft gave him excellent mobility for his role.
Im not the only one who dug the satelite! lol. The deluxe movie one is with my 2007 baddie line up from the studio series line but he looks outta place.. The dotm voyager shockwave looks good with the SS guys but a tad short. Hes like brawls height. Im sure he'll get a ss makeover, but soundwave will probly just get his mercedes form i bet..
Eh, I've always preferred him as a blocky ground vehicle. RID2015 and WFC
Finally! Can't wait for your review on Siege Starscream, EmGo.
ah yes, "Him"
Yes indeed " him him "
🎶Him🎶
“Him”
It already came out
I think that Soundwave's alt mode is a dropship for minicons
Finally, a sensible interpretation.
It's from first ep of G1 cartoon.
@@-supernova-8164 no no im talking about the spaceship/dropship and the lamp mode i already knew about it
It’s a B R I C K
Or some sort of communications frigate. Which makes sense for Soundwave.
Soundwave's chest looks like my phone screen.
Oofers man
You should be more careful, then. :P
SAAAME
Is it a iphone ?
Oof
Fun Fact/Tip:
Blacklights can be used to detect and mark scorpions in the dark.
@Mother Russia 18 people would disagree with you.
Jerry Gaming that’s pretty cool
Could it be possible to use a blacklight to detect and/or mark Xenemorphs?
@Mother Russia stfu
Fun fact: Use the blacklight on the bed, and you’ll see awesome Jackson pollock painting
Unfortunate fact: the Siege mold of Soundwave can't transform into his cassette player mode on its own because of some mold limitations, which the Netflix Soundwave got modified with.
They should have just combined the two cylinder weapons and maybe used the other as a scope
Well, I've seen a pic of the third weapon being used as a trumpet. Like at Starscream's "coronation".
You likely could combine the two main weapons, sadly the scope option, while cool, does not work
you can but the handle of one of the battery guns into the other weapon's barrel extend the grey weapon to form a hammer
Upgrades people upgrades!
Ok then, you could just make one on your own
I like this mold, especially the vehicle mode. It reminds me his satellite mode in rotf in my opinion.
I actually really dig the box ship, but I wish we had some examples of it in the fiction. The lamp mode is 100% what I got him for, so I'm happy as a clam anyway!
Hoooray for lamp post. It’s a thing damn it! It’s a thing.
Definetly will be my go to alt mode for this figure
Drunken Assassin coulda shoulda woulda
@@nuckenfuts7750 with the power of upgrade kits, its possible! (That makes him a quad changer too)
wish it was a boombox
Idea for "lamp post" mode... Just bend his knees and stock him with weapons!!! He'd make a great gun turret for Megatron or other decepticons.
I just picked up Soundwave and his Cassette pack of Laserbeak & Ravage. I really appreciate that the designers gave him his lamp post mode considering that's the 1st time you see Soundwave in the Original Cartoon. I also like that they gave him his "secret" tape deck mode. I'm not a fan of his ship mode, but his robot mode more than makes up for it. Thanks for the review. Awesome job.
This is low-key my favorite Soundwave ever. There's something desperate and out of energy about him. He feels like a terrific update of G1 in that way.
Yup! Soundwave will always be my favourite decepticon
His extra little grey gun I put on megatrons back as his pistol tip 🤷🏼♂️
I love the Siege line! I bought Optimus Prime and Sixgun with my christmas money and I love then both equally.
Optimus especially. Since I work at Walmart we have access to the special versions of Optimus Prime and Megatron with the cartoon style paint-job. Very cool
One of my favorite Transformers, really happy to see him accurately portrayed in the Bumblebee movie. Travis Knight superior, Michael Bay inferior.
👍👍👍👍👍
Yeah the Bumblebee movie was rather good. BB's not my favourite but I still enjoyed it immensely over the last Bay movie. Plus Soundwave looked good.
I seem to recall his lamp mode on a Cybertron scene on the tv series as a autobot drove by...anyone else?
Man Sal THERE IS a pictur that can bee seen on the side of the box with a black light that shows how to transform him into a litteral lamp. Also on the bottom side flap inside the box
Man Sal yeah, the first episode
Yes, the first episode of transformers G1
Man Sal That dug right into my memories
jazz
The ship mode looks like it's meant to be the Star Wars equivalent of a big rig.
The "lamp post mode is close to
Soundwave's G1 Cybertron form.
that's the point
That's what it's supposed to be
I don’t get the negativity this dude is a masterpiece a complete must buy figure
Netflix
I thought s9, then the legacy came out 😁😁
EmGo's Transformers Reviews N' Stuff: calling cockpit jokes appropriate since 2009.
edit: corrected the name of the show
edit2: corrected the year(was 2019, thanks Jake)
2009 actually
@@jakecruz9301 ooh, which review?
@@themoagoddess1820 The Fallen
@@joeymcm04 thank you
I like how Plugging a transformed laserbeak onto an outstretched level arm makes him look like hes landing on soundwave
Yes, the perched Laserbeak is always a good move for any Soundwave figure
@@wingedbluj1674 agreed
i know exactly who Soundwave meant when he said "HIM", sneaky Soundwave, setting up Starscream to save his own buttplate
“Secret mode!” They made it possible to turn into a boom box??
Oh, it’s just his lamppost mode.
EDIT: the “tape deck mode” doesn’t count since it’s a fan mode and obviously not intended by the designers
The upgrade kit fixes it tho
I'm 20 years old why am I feeling the urge to buy this entire line starting with soundwave all the way to optimus.
7:53 "You do know why it's called a cockpit..."
Captain Marvel😂
Nooooo you just spoiled the movie!
the spiderman far from home trailer spoiled way more.
@@theobserver887 sorry I didn't mean to
With shockwave's extra pieces Soundwave says ( heavy weapons mode initiated operation annihilation).
I can’t read that “Ann” word
It would've been really cool for him to have his cassette player mode also. Soundwave with 4 different configurations. Now that would be wicked awesome.
You can make it with the upgrade kit
SoundWave: Lazer Beak eject, Rumble, eject, Ravage eject, Commence operation Stealth Strike!
Eram Ferguson you just took the words out of my mouth before I started the video
Shocking to believe just how Machinima-accurate Siege Megatron was. Especially in robot mode, with the perfect G1 proportions and the tank treads on his back...
The neck thing is dumb tho
My favorite character. He is superior
Soundwave superior Autobots inferior.
Megatron must be stoped no matter the cost
Soundwave superior shockwave inferior (sue me)
The new commander class jetfire will be superior and the omega supreme will be super superior
G1 superior, bayverse inferior
7:21 Oh my Primus, that's the same waist flip mechanism the Cybertron Voyager Soundwave mold uses! Also similar to the waist transformation from the original Armada Starscream mold (not the Generations one)...
Lamp post, reminds me of BIG when the robots transformed into buildings. Also to be fair he actually did pull off the Lamp post in one of the earlier eps. when they where on Cybertron and Bumblebee and Wheel Jack were stealing energon rods. Great review for including it to make it a full review
Keep up the great reviews
As much as I like G1, I really wish they would do different and more obscure characters rather than keep doing the same characters over and over again. It gets boring over time.
Me too, but hey, at least these are some really good figs. (I need a Star Saber!)
@@redthree603 Prefer Star Saber over Optimus Primal.
This is why I'm glad studio series is a thing
@@mdredheadguy1979 Yes.
Yup, and I wish they wouldn’t reuse the same, G1-ish designs. I’m tired of seeing a blocky white Megatron
We need a lot Decepticons in Siege in my opinion at least. I'd love a Siege Scorponok or Runabout and Runamuck.
Imagine Soundwave in a dark alleyway and you see the light piping of his eyes
Although the alt mode is not my favourite (at least it looks Cybertronian), this version of Soundwave is one of my favourites. Love the proportions, love the articulation, love his colours, and love his cassettes.
Mine is currently in storage and I love the mold so much I'm tempted to get another or Soundblaster.
SOUNDWAVE SUPERIOR
Would Soundwave gray gun look good on Megatron back as his shoulder barrel?
That's brilliant! Imma try that rn!
Okay, so I tried it and for some reason it fits VERY loosely in Megatron's back ports, and only sticks out an inch above his backpack. I'm sure you can tighten the connection if you really wanted to, but it's not as good as I thought it would be. It's not a bad idea though!
Thanks for trying it out. Just waiting on mine and I cant wait to see it myself. Oh you should take a pic and put it on fb groups and I'll be able to see it lol.
FINALLY someone thought that. Made that comment to another guy who reviewed Soundwave toy. Made same comment about Megatron backpack covers it a bit. BUT, I think that's what Hasbro intended the grey gun for. I personally like it.
@@danielbarron1779 I tried it on my Megatron and it fits perfectly. And it looks awesome. Just the right height for me.
Just got the Netflix version, his alt mode is his cassette player!
I bought it, a cool Soundwave. Made a hammer or pickaxe from his "pistols". It looks better than a staff.
Play fast forward and rewind buttons are exactly what is needed on space ships and lamp posts
I like that soundblaster has the bigger chest just like the og toy
I see it now! The combined gun is a cyberinsecticide sprayer for when the Insecticons get out of line!
I heard Snowcat will be in this Siege series too... I can't wait for the Mad Yodeler.
Duskbringer I can feel my wallet getting lighter already...
I found him at a Walmart late last week. I expected the shelf to be barren like usual, but there he, and Starscream sat. I love both figures. FoC Soundwave was my Soundwave before, but this guy easily replaces him. Guess I'll have to order his cassettes though.
What state do you live in?
I would contest anyone who says this figure has any genuine alt-mode, but that robot mode is so money.
What are the chances that we get WFC Rumble and Frenzy???
It might be a little while
I hope so, also hoping maybe a remold for Blaster and eject and rewind
Oh that would be great!
Probably the same as a WFC Bumblebee
Most likely gonna be in the next line, like the insecticons with prime wars.
With laser beak's "talons" and the groves on the side of Soundwave's arm you can actually somewhat clip laser beak to Soundwave
I know, but using the peg makes sure he actually stays on.
is it normal for one cassette to fit better in Soundewave than the other one or is that just a problem with the ones that I bought?
I honestly like his ship mode. Most of the people complaining are g1 fanboys
The secret transformation mode was actually his original mode on cybertron in 1984
Yes, it was in the very first episode of the cartoon
Lamp post mode is my favorite mode, because it's his super secret spy mode that no one could ever figure out. Also I always wanted a Soundwave with this mode because it's dumb, thats why I love it.
I need this
His design is logical.... wait wrong “Wave”
Are you looking forward to Studio Series Shatter? I know that I can’t wait for her to release. 27 step transformation! She’s going to be a fairly complex figure and I am going to love her!
Finally, a lamppost mode! I'd rather have a proper tape deck mode than the ship mode. Yeah, we've had a few good tape deck Soundwaves recently, but I figure it's a shame to give us a cassette-holding torso and not give us a proper tape deck alt mode. But even if his only alt mode was a Furby, I'd probably get this guy just for the robot mode.
the lamppost mode doesn't actually look like the original lamppost so it doesn't really matter as far as i'm concerned. the g1 figure can pull it off quite well though.
Hey emgo, when u did the first size comparison, u had ur shockwave upside down😂, oh...right
Daniel Diaz what?
@@seeeabaasssiliketransforme9904 Shockwave's G1 mode is a gun. If you flip the spaceship mode with the siege version upside down and don't put the extra pieces on him, he looks a lot like the gun. :)
Solar Paradox oh the shockwave I was confused. -\_(‘ ‘/)_/-
@@seeeabaasssiliketransforme9904 It's alright, happens to all of us. :)
Good ol sixshot styled
“Submarine mode”
"Ravage eject" .
I like to have the legs transformed for ship mode in lamp post mode. In the tv show, his legs formed a single piece.
17:06
That reminds me.
I was looking for melee weapons that soundwave might use and saw someone on reddit plug both cassettes into his left arm as a shield, and took the extendable gun as a handle and put the smaller extendable gun in a slot on the bigger gun.
Giving him a scythe and a shield.
Just google soundwave melee weapon, go scroll through images, and you might find it
He did transform into a street light in the first cartoon on cybertron after all
correct
I can honestly say that this figure was an example of maybe A little too much battle damage effect. My personal opinion tho
It kind of looks like this Soundwave would have a military boat or submarine as his Earth alt mode. I think that would be a cool change.
The legs for laserbeak can actually fit on his forearms (but not securely) using groves on either the right or left forearm if you don't want to use the peg and have laserbeak with legs
yeah, but the peg keeps him on.
I think the alt mode of soundwave is giant Luke Skywalker's landspeeder thing
Love that you can do the Lamp post form as well
Idk about anyone else but the scratches in the windscreen look to me like the screen's been totally shattered or very near so, really giving off a '86 Movie dead Optimus vibe. I think just a few scratches near the corners would've made more sense
8:58 I like how Hasbro put that lamp post mode in. It's a nice knod to the g1 cartoon 😊
SOUNDWAVE!? A LAMP POST!? WHAT!?
Awesome figure! I’m so glad I got it.
its also a PK-E METER MODE. the one used by The Ghostbusters in tracking ghost!
Now that I look it, Soundwave's alt-mode sort of resembles his traffic light disguise in the first episode of the Sunbow series.
That's what it's supposed to be
2 Box throws in one video. You spoil us.
Wow,more awesome light pipping on Soundwave. Just like Shockwave.
So, does anyone else think that going into robot mode, leaving his backpack in place of his head, does he not look like a sound wave/WALL-E love child? I'm hearing waaaaaalleee in sound waves voice lmao
To quote a line from the Captain Marvel movie... "You do know why they call it a cockpit?"
This has probably already been said or you probably already know this or both but the lamp-post mode is from the original cartoon whenever it showed them in a flashback on cybertron before they went to earth and that was actually his canon alt mode (timeline wise) before he had a cassette player mode.
I know. I watched G1 :)
Hasbro really pulls all the plugs on these designs, even the ones we thought would be bad turn out to be amazing
I was waiting for this review for a while. Thank you EmGo
The lamp post mode is from first ep of g1 cartoon on cybertron scenes.
I am so disappointed I can not find this guy anywhere online.
Love that little him segment 😂🤣😂
Hoping they do a squakbox for this guy since all the micromaster teams are meant to combine and squaktalk and beast box did just that.
Huh light post mode....
Wow, endless fun on that mode right everyone? But on a plus side. LIGHTPIPING !!!!
I have figured out what to do with the "extra gun". You give it to Megatron! Specifically in the tread port closest to the fusion cannon.
If you put his cassettes in his chest he’s technically a dropship for his casseticons
Soundwave always has the best gimmick. I may need to collect this version despite his alt mode because that is a fine looking robot.
Not sure if anyone else said this but there are indentations on Soundwave's arms for Laserbeak's feet, you don't have to use the peg.
but the peg actually keeps him on his arm.
It sucks that soundwave's lamp post mode never was revealed again since the begining of Generation one season one transformers. That would've been a pretty cool 3rd mode for a G1 soundwave.
That extra grey gun was probably made to be put on Megatron’s back to make him look more G1
Soundwaves arms are molded to fit laserbeaks feat. Instead of using the peg
When is Soundwave hungry?
When he's got a RUMBLE in his tummy .
Ill see myself out.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You don't get it, Emgo ... to slap squares onto Wave is his Sam Bridges from Death Stranding cosplay mode.
He really should come with at least one cassette, Buzzsaw or something. Or if they don’t want to use a big name guy to repaint later, hell give him the true Decepticon hero: Autoscout
The end was the best lol nice poses
The combined gun mode is a little lackluster, but I can see it as a harpoon launcher.
I am definitely getting this, you dont got money for the MP ver? This is your closest alt.