It requires Hasbro to stop making coveted characters as exclusives or limited run figures for starters, those are always going to command high prices because Hasbro made them artificially scarce. They'll continue to do it because people will always buy them because of FOMO, its a genie you can't put back in the bottle sadly.
@@windowbewbs9064 what if there was an effort, albeit smaller than all people to actually do just that. If it was done on sites like TFW and Seibertron how much luck would it have? Do they even entertain scalpers to begin with?
I love my Netflix soundwave, my most favorite figure in my collection, joints are still solid after almost a year owning him besides one of the shin panels being a bit loose, I got mine for around 60 bucks and now that I know that he’s going for THAT!!!, im glad I got him when I did!
I am still very frustrated about netflix soundwave, I was looking forward to it so much, but my pre order on it got canceled without even notifying me because they couldn't handle the number of orders.
They had a bunch at my local Walmart and bought one not even thinking of it. Went back to grab one to keep in box and all gone. Now seeing how soundwave is doing which is crazy
I was lucky to find mine at Wal-Mart. What is driving me insane is Hasbro not restocking the rest of the seacons especially tentakill and overbite, Im looking for the whole set without paying arm and leg for it
@@joshuaromerogonzalez945 initially yes. But Hasbro released them on their Hasbro pulse store. They have restocked 4 out of the 6 often but overbite and tentakill have hardly been restocked
@@joshuaromerogonzalez945 then wtf are they both doing? Hasbro just got 4 seacons restocked recently minus overbite tentakill. I just bought them 2 weeks ago. Why wouldn't Hasbro tell Takara we need more of these so start making em
So glad I happened to find one. It really sucks how that one was so hard to find for some reason. I had no issues finding any of the rest of the Netflix line
I got my Soundwave off Ebay for around $60 months ago while he was still available. Wasn't too happy about it either since I had to overpay just to get him, but the seller probably didn't get a whole lot from the upsale after paying for the toy and shipping it to me. I also had an ebay coupon to help lower the price to something around $50. Compared to now that was a really good deal. Really hope this guy gets a reissue. Hasbro is insane to not re-release one of if not the most recognizable characters from their entire brand. The fact that he was so hard to get is total bs too.
I wad lucky to find the last one at my local Walmart and I have yet to see one since. I am looking at my Soundwave and Blaster figures right now on my bedside table, and they are awesome. I lucked up and found my Blaster at the same Walmart.
Netflik,Soundwave voyager class needs a reissue period.When it came out i checked my local wal-mart and i never see it on the shelves.I even sign up at there website to get a notice for restocks and soon as i checked it,sold out quickly.Which i'm sure scalpers were using bots to buy them up to flip.Soundwave is a popular character it never made sense to me they gave the toy one run with such high demand.It's a good thing blaster is being sold at most retailers i hope the preorder i have get's shipped.
The Netflix Soundwave is a alright retool. Robot mold is great, but has some kibble left over from Siege. but alt mold is a bad rush job. Hopefully they make a retool of Blaster which is much more solid in Alt mold.
I think overall Netflix Sound wave *was* hard to find. It sounds like Walmart overshipped it to some parts of the US and basically not at all to other parts, and it seemed to sell out online pretty quickly. I never had an opportunity to acquire one for MSRP.
I found him right away in Wal mart. I don't have any issues with him or his transformation. I was also lucky to get Thunderhowl for a very reasonable price off Ebay. He is still in his box. It's weird how some figures command ridiculous prices ((cough....Greenlight....cough...Siege Ratchet)) and others you can't give away.
The one thing that bugs me about NF Soundwave is that he’s the only way to get an “earth mode” Laserbeak. I ended up getting Soundblaster instead, since I was a fan of the Headmasters anime and he looks cool enough next to my other Decepticons.
wow I knew Kingdom Soundwave would increase in value over time but Wow. I opened mine and did a video on it to help raise awareness for the blind. It is a pretty great Soundwave. Only gripe is that it doesnt have a removable battery compartment to put his guns inside of.
AH PRIMUS DAMN IT! Now I'm never gonna get the toy! Well it would make sense. It is the best Soundwave toy we ever got in history. Considering we'll never see it in England stores.
I visited two neighboring states in 2020 when this netflix soundwave came out until I found mine in the second state. a week later, I found one at my local wal-mart. A week later, he gone and never got re-stocked.
Just an FYI: there is actually a chance that Netflix Soundwave is getting reissued in Legacy, as we got a listing for "PR (package refresh) Soundwave" (this is the listing that people are still mistaking for "Prime Soundwave" btw). I wouldn't get hopes too high though, leakers seem to think that its more likley to be a clean redeco of Siege Soundwave. Prices are pretty crazy though, its crazy how certain items will skyrocket in such a short time. Sadly, most of ER post wave 1 was like this due to the pandemic.
@@Dylan_Cito Yeah, they clarified that Walmart has exclusive rights to the ER mold, so at least for now, a repack is off the table. The Siegewave does look pretty slick all cleaned up tho.
I got him for 70 off EBay and idk if it was worth buying because of the issues it has and it is just the Siege Soundwave retooled to have a cassette mode but at a super high price and the only chug Soundwave I could get that wasn't the IPod Soundwave from back then that played music
Wow! Didn't know that Soundwave was going for that much. Saw him about 4 or 5 times in my area. I got him the 2nd time I saw him. Same with bumblebee. Weird how some things just sky-rocket in prices.
I mean we maybe gonna get deluxe or voyager legacy soundwave, even tho is maybe the prime version but after we see what happen to bulkhead and arcee probably he gonna use siege chest body but limb and head is new I hope because i cant get the netflix and siege version
Glad I managed to pick this guy up in store when I had the chance. Missed out on the Siege version but once I got my hands on the Netflix one I was kind of glad I skipped out on the other one.
I still can't believe they didn't at least restock this figure. It's Soundwave, it'll sell, just sell it! Same with Bumblebee! Why do this to customers? Who gains from this?
As a CHUG collector, I tend to fiddle/pose/transform my figures often. I actually don’t like it when they become a rarity, because then I have to hesitate when handling them. I managed to score a Netflix Soundwave by hitting refresh on his Walmart.com page every so often on one of my days off. Now I guess I’ll have to handle him with kid gloves.
I spent weeks/months trying to find that SoundWave in various Walmarts. None of them ever got them in stock. That figure was ridiculously hard to get. The collectors in my area I’ve spoken to said the best we ever got was the Siege SoundWave that turned into a space hauler. I’ve only seen one Blaster and Springer on the shelves too so I grabbed them as soon as they came out and haven’t seen them restocked since. Still plenty of Elita1 still sitting on the shelves though
You may say it wasn't hard to find, but I really think it all depends on where you were located. I checked every Walmart in my area regularly for Soundwave and never saw it. I really think Walmart did a horrible job of distributing bc I've heard from all sorts of people with the same experience. I will never pay more than a 50% markup for any product so count me out on the after market. Happy bidding to all you looking to pick Soundwave up.
I was at a toy show last weekend and saw a Netflix Soundwave and the dealer wanted $180 for it. I have one, found it at Walmart and haven’t opened it yet. I’m waiting to see If hasbro will rerelease this figure in legacy voyager wave 2 and if so I’m going to try an sell it right away.
Sound wave has always been my favorite deception kind of upsetting how the price skyrocketed before I could get one cause in my opinion you can’t have sound wave with his tapes
Im gonna be real. Im absolutely happy with my Siege Soundwave with his cassettes. Sure he can fit only one but he is also a departure from a tape deck that has no reason being in a pre earth series. It makes no sense to me he is a tape deck on Cybertron. That and he poses well and has probably the better battle damage.
Dang..when it was on shelves I easily could have picked up 2 more but I didn't for the sake of others looking for him. Sometimes these prices make you say hmmm... Siege soundwave is on it's way up as a result of Netflix Soundwave being 'rare'.
The thing with Netflix Soundwave is that it's really not that great of a figure. The biggest problem is that the legs transform backwards. The knees are supposed to be on the inside in tape-deck mode which fills in the narrow part of his torso, but on the Netflix figure they point outward, creating ugly lumps on the sides of the altmode and necessitating an extra pair of panels on the backs of the legs to fill in those gaps. The Core Class transforms correctly (aside from the feet, of course.) The back of the tape-deck mode is also a complete mess, he's got vestigial skis on his arms and the Decepticon sigil tampograph seems to be crooked on every copy. Netflix Soundwave is notable because it's, so far, the only tape-deck Soundwave released at mass-retail without an intrusive gimmick like a Titan Master head, and I'm glad I managed to find one at retail, but it could easily be out-done by a new version if Hasbro ever makes one. It's definitely not worth the inflated eBay prices.
hey proto what if cyberverse toys are not over yet because i know that rise of beast optimus prime is repackage into cyberverse adventures does that mean hasbro could continue cyberverse adventures or it's just repackage movie figures
The sad part is it's not even a great figure. I don't like how fragile the chest window looks. I don't like the lack of red paint. I don't like how they stuck with the crappy hollow arms from the siege version. I don't be like how they used both silver and grey plastic. But at the same time it's the best chug Soundwave.
How do we as a community combat price scalping?
It requires Hasbro to stop making coveted characters as exclusives or limited run figures for starters, those are always going to command high prices because Hasbro made them artificially scarce. They'll continue to do it because people will always buy them because of FOMO, its a genie you can't put back in the bottle sadly.
Don't pay those prices
@@FoolyCoolyBlackLagoony well, Hasbro mostly stopped doing this throughout Kingdom, with the exception of Terrorsaur.
And to combat scalping, that requires everyone to collectively stop feeding scalpers, something that I don't think will ever happen...
@@windowbewbs9064 what if there was an effort, albeit smaller than all people to actually do just that. If it was done on sites like TFW and Seibertron how much luck would it have? Do they even entertain scalpers to begin with?
Oh. Wow. I'm happy I got mine when I saw it
Dude, I love these videos. Really sets you apart as one of the defining personalities in this fandom. Much love
That soundwave made me start collecting ko masterpiece.
I have 2 🥳🥳🥳
Proto you know I love transformers finance ! My man
I love my Netflix soundwave, my most favorite figure in my collection, joints are still solid after almost a year owning him besides one of the shin panels being a bit loose, I got mine for around 60 bucks and now that I know that he’s going for THAT!!!, im glad I got him when I did!
Glad I got that Soundwave when I did! Smythes Toys in the UK had it just down the road from me so I reserved it and flew down there!
It boggles the mind that repaint happy hasbro made this mold one and done. Meanwhile we get repacks of the same peg warmers over and over again.
I am still very frustrated about netflix soundwave, I was looking forward to it so much, but my pre order on it got canceled without even notifying me because they couldn't handle the number of orders.
TFSource did the same to me. Hoping it gets rereleased for Legacy.
I feel your pain bro. GameStop canceled my kingdom Galvatron preorder that was almost 11 months old.
@@YakBat lol look at what they released for legacy😭
@@me-xl5kc yes that shit hurt. It's like they're purposely just trolling us at this point.
They had a bunch at my local Walmart and bought one not even thinking of it. Went back to grab one to keep in box and all gone. Now seeing how soundwave is doing which is crazy
Good luck to my mate who wanted one
And I thought the Nemesis Prime was high.
I was lucky to find mine at Wal-Mart. What is driving me insane is Hasbro not restocking the rest of the seacons especially tentakill and overbite, Im looking for the whole set without paying arm and leg for it
Literally
The Seacons weren't Hasbro's per se, they were Takara
@@joshuaromerogonzalez945 initially yes. But Hasbro released them on their Hasbro pulse store. They have restocked 4 out of the 6 often but overbite and tentakill have hardly been restocked
@@philsavage7153 Hasbro merely distributed them, their production is on Takara
@@joshuaromerogonzalez945 then wtf are they both doing? Hasbro just got 4 seacons restocked recently minus overbite tentakill. I just bought them 2 weeks ago. Why wouldn't Hasbro tell Takara we need more of these so start making em
Netflix Soundwave WAS hard to find. I only saw it once and snatched it when I did. I know so many who looked but could never find it.
I couldn’t find either Bumblebee or Soundwave. But I could find the other Netflix figures easily.
Thats crazy the wal marts around around me they would set for a while
I finally bought my Netflix Soundwave for approximately $60 when they showed up on march 1st on Hasbro UK's eBay page, but they sold out very fast.
Same. Man, these scalper prices are wild to me.
So glad I happened to find one. It really sucks how that one was so hard to find for some reason. I had no issues finding any of the rest of the Netflix line
I got mine than seen him restocked once than never again but soundwave is a must have
I got my Soundwave off Ebay for around $60 months ago while he was still available. Wasn't too happy about it either since I had to overpay just to get him, but the seller probably didn't get a whole lot from the upsale after paying for the toy and shipping it to me. I also had an ebay coupon to help lower the price to something around $50. Compared to now that was a really good deal. Really hope this guy gets a reissue. Hasbro is insane to not re-release one of if not the most recognizable characters from their entire brand. The fact that he was so hard to get is total bs too.
This thing needs a mainline reissue. At this point, I am willing to repaint it myself
Will not let go of my Netflix Soundwave even for 150 complete loose lol
No doubt they re-release this figure or a revised one for the Studio 86 line.
Oh wow I caught a deal lastnight then! Caught a Studio series Hotrod, core class Soundwave and the Walmart exclusive Soundwave still sealed for $144!
I wad lucky to find the last one at my local Walmart and I have yet to see one since. I am looking at my Soundwave and Blaster figures right now on my bedside table, and they are awesome. I lucked up and found my Blaster at the same Walmart.
Netflik,Soundwave voyager class needs a reissue period.When it came out i checked my local wal-mart and i never see it on the shelves.I even sign up at there website to get a notice for restocks and soon as i checked it,sold out quickly.Which i'm sure scalpers were using bots to buy them up to flip.Soundwave is a popular character it never made sense to me they gave the toy one run with such high demand.It's a good thing blaster is being sold at most retailers i hope the preorder i have get's shipped.
This is why preferring battle damage is great - the Soundwave I like is so much cheaper!
The Netflix Soundwave is a alright retool. Robot mold is great, but has some kibble left over from Siege. but alt mold is a bad rush job. Hopefully they make a retool of Blaster which is much more solid in Alt mold.
Thank goodness I got this Soundwave before the price suddenly skyrocketed
For me it was extremely hard to find. Took me over a year to finally find looking once or twice per week. Very much a pain.
i got him on the 27th on my birthday when i went shopping he was an impulse purchase but I don't regret it one bit its my favourite g1 style figure
I think overall Netflix Sound wave *was* hard to find. It sounds like Walmart overshipped it to some parts of the US and basically not at all to other parts, and it seemed to sell out online pretty quickly. I never had an opportunity to acquire one for MSRP.
I was lucky enough to find Soundwave him on the self at Wal-Mart. I still have him sealed but he shall be opened!
I got two: one for me and one for a good friend on Christmas. I don't like how some gray parts start to have a green tint
Dang, and I just sold one for 80 bucks.
Scalpers are a scourge on the hobby.
I found him right away in Wal mart. I don't have any issues with him or his transformation. I was also lucky to get Thunderhowl for a very reasonable price off Ebay. He is still in his box. It's weird how some figures command ridiculous prices ((cough....Greenlight....cough...Siege Ratchet)) and others you can't give away.
I never saw Soundwave in store. I only saw seige Soundwave once so at least I have him.
It wasn't easy to find in my area. I spent weeks running from Walmart to Walmart hunting. Even getting friends and family hunting to never find it.
in my place Indonesia the retail price is always 100 bucks
The one thing that bugs me about NF Soundwave is that he’s the only way to get an “earth mode” Laserbeak. I ended up getting Soundblaster instead, since I was a fan of the Headmasters anime and he looks cool enough next to my other Decepticons.
For the Netflix Soundwave, there are scalpers hoping to get as much as $300 for him.
😳
wow I knew Kingdom Soundwave would increase in value over time but Wow. I opened mine and did a video on it to help raise awareness for the blind. It is a pretty great Soundwave. Only gripe is that it doesnt have a removable battery compartment to put his guns inside of.
It's too bad, there's still characters from Cyberverse i would love to see come out in a deluxe, Wheeljack especially
Dude I got 3 of those Netflix Soundwaves 2 open and 1 in box, I only paid 40 for each
AH PRIMUS DAMN IT! Now I'm never gonna get the toy! Well it would make sense. It is the best Soundwave toy we ever got in history. Considering we'll never see it in England stores.
Hope Botbots Series 6 comes out soon.
I visited two neighboring states in 2020 when this netflix soundwave came out until I found mine in the second state. a week later, I found one at my local wal-mart. A week later, he gone and never got re-stocked.
I hate scalpers so damn much. But then I do have to redirect some of my hate at hasbro for not doing the obvious and restocking/reissuing soundwave.
Just an FYI: there is actually a chance that Netflix Soundwave is getting reissued in Legacy, as we got a listing for "PR (package refresh) Soundwave" (this is the listing that people are still mistaking for "Prime Soundwave" btw). I wouldn't get hopes too high though, leakers seem to think that its more likley to be a clean redeco of Siege Soundwave.
Prices are pretty crazy though, its crazy how certain items will skyrocket in such a short time. Sadly, most of ER post wave 1 was like this due to the pandemic.
Bad news, it's actually the siege mold with no battle damage :(
@@Dylan_Cito Yeah, they clarified that Walmart has exclusive rights to the ER mold, so at least for now, a repack is off the table. The Siegewave does look pretty slick all cleaned up tho.
@@windowbewbs9064 yeah but still need a ER mode, maybe if they use soundblaster's mold.... That would be great, i consider his mold pretty neat.
I can retire now.
I got him for 49 bucks on the aftermarket. Got bumblebee for about 25. But damn! Ohkay
I got him for 70 off EBay and idk if it was worth buying because of the issues it has and it is just the Siege Soundwave retooled to have a cassette mode but at a super high price and the only chug Soundwave I could get that wasn't the IPod Soundwave from back then that played music
Wow! Didn't know that Soundwave was going for that much. Saw him about 4 or 5 times in my area. I got him the 2nd time I saw him. Same with bumblebee. Weird how some things just sky-rocket in prices.
I mean we maybe gonna get deluxe or voyager legacy soundwave, even tho is maybe the prime version but after we see what happen to bulkhead and arcee probably he gonna use siege chest body but limb and head is new
I hope because i cant get the netflix and siege version
Ughh, I sold my Soundwave for $60 a couple months after it came out, should've held onto it
Glad I managed to pick this guy up in store when I had the chance. Missed out on the Siege version but once I got my hands on the Netflix one I was kind of glad I skipped out on the other one.
what ever happened to the spoiler pack nemesis prime? like i couldnt find one in the walmaets around me, had to get him from a collection store
I still can't believe they didn't at least restock this figure. It's Soundwave, it'll sell, just sell it! Same with Bumblebee! Why do this to customers? Who gains from this?
scalpers
I was licky to find one at my wal mart Im waiting for blaster
As a CHUG collector, I tend to fiddle/pose/transform my figures often. I actually don’t like it when they become a rarity, because then I have to hesitate when handling them.
I managed to score a Netflix Soundwave by hitting refresh on his Walmart.com page every so often on one of my days off. Now I guess I’ll have to handle him with kid gloves.
I spent weeks/months trying to find that SoundWave in various Walmarts. None of them ever got them in stock. That figure was ridiculously hard to get. The collectors in my area I’ve spoken to said the best we ever got was the Siege SoundWave that turned into a space hauler. I’ve only seen one Blaster and Springer on the shelves too so I grabbed them as soon as they came out and haven’t seen them restocked since. Still plenty of Elita1 still sitting on the shelves though
At this point I will be happy if the Legacy prime Soundwave is just the Netflix one with the prime colors
You may say it wasn't hard to find, but I really think it all depends on where you were located. I checked every Walmart in my area regularly for Soundwave and never saw it. I really think Walmart did a horrible job of distributing bc I've heard from all sorts of people with the same experience. I will never pay more than a 50% markup for any product so count me out on the after market. Happy bidding to all you looking to pick Soundwave up.
I was at a toy show last weekend and saw a Netflix Soundwave and the dealer wanted $180 for it. I have one, found it at Walmart and haven’t opened it yet. I’m waiting to see If hasbro will rerelease this figure in legacy voyager wave 2 and if so I’m going to try an sell it right away.
Sound wave has always been my favorite deception kind of upsetting how the price skyrocketed before I could get one cause in my opinion you can’t have sound wave with his tapes
I had it preordered on HLJ but missed a few emails from them, and they canceled it. Still, it's gonna be re-released, surely.
I finally buckled and got the shattered glass prime/ratchet only set me back $120... I'm probably going to get soundwave when taxes come in...
Ahora trata de entender lo frustrante que es para mí intentar conseguir esta figura siendo yo alguien que vive en Latinoamérica JAJAJAJA
I need one :(
Im gonna be real. Im absolutely happy with my Siege Soundwave with his cassettes. Sure he can fit only one but he is also a departure from a tape deck that has no reason being in a pre earth series. It makes no sense to me he is a tape deck on Cybertron. That and he poses well and has probably the better battle damage.
Dang..when it was on shelves I easily could have picked up 2 more but I didn't for the sake of others looking for him. Sometimes these prices make you say hmmm... Siege soundwave is on it's way up as a result of Netflix Soundwave being 'rare'.
Speak for yourself I remember watching the fan base apart over this figure
Transformers
Nooooooooooo
The thing with Netflix Soundwave is that it's really not that great of a figure. The biggest problem is that the legs transform backwards. The knees are supposed to be on the inside in tape-deck mode which fills in the narrow part of his torso, but on the Netflix figure they point outward, creating ugly lumps on the sides of the altmode and necessitating an extra pair of panels on the backs of the legs to fill in those gaps. The Core Class transforms correctly (aside from the feet, of course.) The back of the tape-deck mode is also a complete mess, he's got vestigial skis on his arms and the Decepticon sigil tampograph seems to be crooked on every copy.
Netflix Soundwave is notable because it's, so far, the only tape-deck Soundwave released at mass-retail without an intrusive gimmick like a Titan Master head, and I'm glad I managed to find one at retail, but it could easily be out-done by a new version if Hasbro ever makes one. It's definitely not worth the inflated eBay prices.
hey proto what if cyberverse toys are not over yet because i know that rise of beast optimus prime is repackage into cyberverse adventures does that mean hasbro could continue cyberverse adventures or it's just repackage movie figures
The sad part is it's not even a great figure. I don't like how fragile the chest window looks. I don't like the lack of red paint. I don't like how they stuck with the crappy hollow arms from the siege version. I don't be like how they used both silver and grey plastic. But at the same time it's the best chug Soundwave.