There were two sizes of cassettes. Small, for answering machines and some recorders and the larger which was for boom boxes and walkmans. The smaller tape actually fit the original sound wave. Cool huh? I was 12 when I saw Transforemers the movie in '86. "First we crack the shell, then we crack the nuts inside" ! Love it love the content! Thank you!
The lack of red eyes is something that I shall never forgive the Siege/Legacy Soundwave for. Is there actually an upgrade kit for that one that has the red eyes?
I'm surprised the KO was this quality. If anyone has the actual Fan Toys version, you know how quality Acoustic Wave is. It's pretty nice that a KO is so close in quality to it.
Man this brings back memories. Soundwave has been my favorite Decepticon since the G1 days. This is honestly way better looking than the old masterpiece figure. I just hope it doesn't break easily.
Wow just wow, this is the soundwave that I knew and below 200$ is actually pretty worth it it also comes with the cassettes so it’s definitely worth it😮💨
cassettes for music like these guys came in plastic containers to protect the cassettes from damage, I think it's very cool that they made basically miniature cases with the same design as the real life things
This guy and the KO of FansToys Astrotrain are just awesome figures. Hoping this KO company keeps them coming! I had the same misassembly issue with the piece connecting the legs. Super easy fix! Highly recommend picking this figure up if you're interested!
I just got him last week! Thanks for your review, and especially the tip about the alt mode button plate sticking out. What I don't understand is how to put the guns in Frenzy/Rumble's legs in cassette mode. They're obviously supposed to store in there but I can't get it to close because there's no room for the "wing"!
Damn that's crazy i'm old enough to Remember, cassette players? I still have my father's Take player with all of his cassettes. This right here is just pure nostalgia. I think I'm going to go out and buy this sound wave. Being one of my favorites
I got the first batch a year ago. one of the best figures I ever bought. My only advice is to put a G1 Cartoon Style Waterslide sticker, it looks so much better on him.
To me the OEM looks quite better but for the price, the FT not bad. As for "cartoon accuracy," the tools themselves had quite a few errors and many episodes were rushed, hence sacrificing the intricate detailing. Apart from the Decepticon logo looks bad, it's neat. Never ordered from AE. I always thought it was a scam site as they spammy af. Thanks for the review mate. The Puruna ain't bad either
1:10 I'm also technically "too young" to know what a cassette looked like, except for the fact that my parents still had a few old cassette tapes, so I knew exactly what they looked like.
Got this entire set for $80 on aliexpress. Did the leg swap at the hips and its an impeccable MP. FanToys fanboys saying anything otherwise are straight shills and clowns mad they paid much more for the exact same thing
Until seeing this video, I assumed I would never own a better quality version of Soundwave than the original G1 sitting on my bookshelf because they're so expensive. I might actually pick this one up.
Hey quick question. Did you every try and store the batteries after flipping that blue chunk out from the back? Pretty sure that decreases room in the battery pack.
When it comes to G1, with the exception of kibble management (and elimination of parts-forming), I tend to prefer toy accuracy to cartoon accuracy. Remember, that was still in the era of hand-drawn animation, meaning simplified designs were essential for the cartoon. But for something that's going to be a display piece, extra visual details are a plus in my opinion.
I'm with you. Tori accuracy is more important than cartoon accuracy which they tend to have gone to for a while.... Thought it was cool at 1st, but I go back to the toy accuracy being better
Don't know if it's the same on the ko, but with the ft one you can get the chrome barrel further into battery mode by pushing it further in when closing the handle half way before fully collapsing it, might be why you can't close the back properly
Nice. You can probably tighten those loose joint by putting a custom washer in the joint. It will make it as tight as you want without affecting the transformation
On Ravage his hind feet are "backwards" or "upside-down" and it was the same with mine. It should be a small Philips head screw. Unscrew each and looking at the paws head on grab them with fingers and turn them 180 degrees or upside-down and screw back in.
About that "or something" I mentioned, forget the Silly Putty. It will probably stick to the action figure. Dip the cube in glow in the dark paint. It'll look like energon, and it'll give off that signature shine.
Great review! Not sure if you have noticed, but you need to flip ravage's back paws. They are upside down. Line them up with his front paws and you'll see what I mean. It's an easy fix. Any word on when they will be releasing the other two cassettes?
This is really tempting, despite the wide opinion that the Tape Minions kinda suck (Laserbeak & FrenzyRumble especially). But there's also the Toy House Factory KO of ol' MP13 Soundwave that's got a couple of modifications to it.
I’m just a kid, but I’m astonished by this figure, and from a collector’s standpoint, this is gonna look beautiful on my desk. I’m gonna buy this with some bday money, I just have one question, how long did this take to ship?
i'm really not a fan of how modern MP figures heavily rely on faux-alt mode parts on their robot modes for the sake of G1 animation accuracy, such as this Acoustic Wave's faux crotch and side volume wheel. it just feels so ungenuine to the the art of transforming toy engineering in the first place... thankfully i have my good ol' MP Soundwave that i very much still prefer.
i bought the original takara soundwave but had to buy the KO cassettes as the prices for those were insane . but then as was the norm back then when hasbro did theirs they threw the lot in together . its no wonder why KO,s are so popular with takaras pricing policys
"I'm too young to know what a cassette player actually looks like." Thanks guy. Now let me just end my life because I just realized how old I actually am!
I read about the ko and I didn't trust my luck enough to get it, bought the ft instead, the qc is pretty much flawless on my copy. Honestly not sure about the quality difference between ko vs official, your copy make it seem like the ko is a steal but comments on tfw and stuff suggests otherwise
when i was a child around 1986... i had a KO Frenzy, Ravage and Lazerbeak... this KOs, can combine into a bigger Transformer... they can transform into a Cassettes , and can be placed inside a Real cassette player ... but their gimmick is that they can Combine... Ravage will split into 2 pcs, and transform into legs and feet... Frenzy will transforms into a waist and some part of the upper torso and Arms and hands... and LazerBeak will transform into main part of the upper torso, shoulders, and Head... sadly this Toy was stolen, by some neighbours from me...
I always find the term 'KO' uncomfortable when applied to a Fans Toys or X-Transbots, etc. because they're engineered from the ground up. They're not cheap copies of an official MP like 4th Party I prefer the term 'Unlicensed' for Fans Toys.
I have a couple of questions for this figure. Firstly, does this come with all the Cassetticons in this video, because a while back I saw a separate selling of just this Frenzy and one of the others, I can't recall. Secondly, does this by any chance transform off instructions into the Cybertron street lights from the first episode?
Question was wondering since I’m from Ireland we’re do I start ordering transformers officially and 3rd party website wise and will it cost more since it’s in the states and such
I've always preferred a mixture more realistic and detailed bots that could do the things that were in the cartoons and comics rather than bot that borrow the overall flat panel aesthetics from the toons which were simplified more for budget reasons than style. Thus, Not huge fan of this Soundwave over all, even with the fantastic addons and swap pieces some parts would still need some more sculpting. It's great value I say but doesn't really make me love it. The cassettes on the other hand were brilliant and contradictory to what I said about cartoon aesthetics, the smaller the bots the better the cartoon versions were to what was offered in the toy. They look fantastic and hit that "could have been a toy in 80's-90's" aesthetically.
Surprised you thought the back of MP-13 was better. The battery storage makes sense on the RP-01 (KO), and it’s less gap-y in the back. I think this was objectively incorrect.
I love RP-01 from the videos ive seen but the 140+ dollars for the casette pack alone is blatant extortion because they know people will want laserbeak, this is a great alternative
Looks good. Just not so much more good than the ancient takara to make me want to switch mine. Considering the age and simplicity and parts count of the old masterpiece, pound for pound he ranks as one of the best transformers ever made. He even holds up significantly better than the MP10 Prime that now looks like an ape in terms of proportions.
This was a nice review. As an owner of the genuine Robot Paradise version, I definitely prefer it over the MP-13 - in the robot mode, that is. It's actually funny that I originally almost did not purchase it at all. When the prototype pictures of Acoustic Wave was released, I thought that the cassette player mode looked like a cheap toy, and even though I noticed some details of the robot mode being more cartoon accurate than MP-13, I just didn't see them worth paying the price that Acoustic Wave cost. Then I saw a side-by-side video comparison and noticed how much better its robot mode really looked. As it happened, the figure was on sale in the online shop that I usually buy Transformers figures from at the time, so I took the chance and ordered it - and have not regretted it since. However, my thoughts about the alternative mode are much like yours, PrimeVsPrime. The paint quality of the figure definitely lessens its "cheap toy" effect, but when compared to the MP-13, it doesn't look nearly as much as a real cassette player. Yet, as you mentioned, it is more cartoon accurate, which I like. But I also like the appearance of MP-13 with which you could easily fool someone to think it being a real cassette player. So, I suppose I slightly prefer that one.
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There were two sizes of cassettes. Small, for answering machines and some recorders and the larger which was for boom boxes and walkmans. The smaller tape actually fit the original sound wave. Cool huh? I was 12 when I saw Transforemers the movie in '86. "First we crack the shell, then we crack the nuts inside" ! Love it love the content! Thank you!
Ah thanks so much!
Yep, regular cassettes and "micro cassettes"
This design is timeless. And so glad it has the red eyes.
The lack of red eyes is something that I shall never forgive the Siege/Legacy Soundwave for. Is there actually an upgrade kit for that one that has the red eyes?
Red is superior!
@@DankBlitzwing Dunno. Sorry. I got the Earthrise version that has the red eyes.
@@DankBlitzwing you can get the toyhax labels, alternatively, you could spend 100 dollars on the netflix one 💀
I'm surprised the KO was this quality. If anyone has the actual Fan Toys version, you know how quality Acoustic Wave is. It's pretty nice that a KO is so close in quality to it.
The quality for KO overall is very nicely done
"im not old enough to really know what a cassette is".
Guys, we've hit the peak.
I feel so bloody old now.
It’s ok, I’m sure there’s kids even younger that him that don’t remember listening to music on cds
I felt myself decaying as he said that
I'm 24, but I like cassettes and use them sometimes to make mixtapes for fun
Man this brings back memories. Soundwave has been my favorite Decepticon since the G1 days. This is honestly way better looking than the old masterpiece figure. I just hope it doesn't break easily.
Wow just wow, this is the soundwave that I knew and below 200$ is actually pretty worth it it also comes with the cassettes so it’s definitely worth it😮💨
I agree! Pretty good deal!
cassettes for music like these guys came in plastic containers to protect the cassettes from damage, I think it's very cool that they made basically miniature cases with the same design as the real life things
They are actually based off Micro Cassettes. They were used in answering machines and personnel recorders and such so these were real life.
Soundwave is in my top 5! I love your videos good job!
This guy and the KO of FansToys Astrotrain are just awesome figures. Hoping this KO company keeps them coming! I had the same misassembly issue with the piece connecting the legs. Super easy fix! Highly recommend picking this figure up if you're interested!
Worth it for £87?
@@ultranova9599 Completely!
I was debating buying the official one, but for way less and similar quality I'll definitely get this
Walmart did the G1 reissue of Soundwave a couple of years ago and still is the best.
I just got him last week! Thanks for your review, and especially the tip about the alt mode button plate sticking out.
What I don't understand is how to put the guns in Frenzy/Rumble's legs in cassette mode. They're obviously supposed to store in there but I can't get it to close because there's no room for the "wing"!
Damn that's crazy i'm old enough to Remember, cassette players? I still have my father's Take player with all of his cassettes. This right here is just pure nostalgia. I think I'm going to go out and buy this sound wave. Being one of my favorites
You’re my favourite RUclipsr, watch you every single day
I got the first batch a year ago. one of the best figures I ever bought. My only advice is to put a G1 Cartoon Style Waterslide sticker, it looks so much better on him.
To me the OEM looks quite better but for the price, the FT not bad. As for "cartoon accuracy," the tools themselves had quite a few errors and many episodes were rushed, hence sacrificing the intricate detailing. Apart from the Decepticon logo looks bad, it's neat. Never ordered from AE. I always thought it was a scam site as they spammy af. Thanks for the review mate.
The Puruna ain't bad either
Awesome review! I’ve heard lots of great things about this figure. But I personally have bad experiences with aliexpress.
Thanks so much! & ah I’m sorry to hear that :(
That sucks man. I've been lucky enough to have smooth experiences with them. My KO Acoustic Wave also got here fairly quick!
AliExpress is a wild ride, I've had a lot of good experiences but I've had some trouble too. Getting a seller recommendation is a great help.
Can’t wait for the Rise of the Beast reviews!
Loads coming up this week! :)
1:10 I'm also technically "too young" to know what a cassette looked like, except for the fact that my parents still had a few old cassette tapes, so I knew exactly what they looked like.
Me before I saw this soundwave:🙂
Me after I saw this soundwave:🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🔥🔥🔥
Got this entire set for $80 on aliexpress. Did the leg swap at the hips and its an impeccable MP. FanToys fanboys saying anything otherwise are straight shills and clowns mad they paid much more for the exact same thing
I hope studio series 86 soundwave looks like this and not a reused earth rise version
this is gorgeous
nothing beats soundwave, even optimus
Until seeing this video, I assumed I would never own a better quality version of Soundwave than the original G1 sitting on my bookshelf because they're so expensive. I might actually pick this one up.
Hey quick question.
Did you every try and store the batteries after flipping that blue chunk out from the back? Pretty sure that decreases room in the battery pack.
I will give that a go! Thank you
Would love to see a sort of tutorial on the misassembly fix. Mine just shipped our from TF Safari.
Sweet, been waiting for a review on this ko 💯
Ah thanks!
When it comes to G1, with the exception of kibble management (and elimination of parts-forming), I tend to prefer toy accuracy to cartoon accuracy. Remember, that was still in the era of hand-drawn animation, meaning simplified designs were essential for the cartoon. But for something that's going to be a display piece, extra visual details are a plus in my opinion.
I'm with you. Tori accuracy is more important than cartoon accuracy which they tend to have gone to for a while.... Thought it was cool at 1st, but I go back to the toy accuracy being better
Since the cube has a lid, maybe you could fill it with pink glow in the dark silly putty or something to make it look more like energon.
Don't know if it's the same on the ko, but with the ft one you can get the chrome barrel further into battery mode by pushing it further in when closing the handle half way before fully collapsing it, might be why you can't close the back properly
Good tip, mate!
I'm surprised you're only getting to this now. But still really cool, basically MP Soundwave 2.0
Nice. You can probably tighten those loose joint by putting a custom washer in the joint. It will make it as tight as you want without affecting the transformation
I feel like sound wave is one of the coolest as his alt mode for a decepticon is a harmless cassette player
I just got mine this week! I was really really impressed. I'm dying to get the real one, so I can just have this one displayed in its alt mode!
On Ravage his hind feet are "backwards" or "upside-down" and it was the same with mine. It should be a small Philips head screw. Unscrew each and looking at the paws head on grab them with fingers and turn them 180 degrees or upside-down and screw back in.
Mine legs also misassembled. Thanks PVP for the tips
I can't wait till you review studio series Scourge that figure looks sooo sick I'm so excited
You should look up the iacon labs chest piece, I've got it for my genuine version and it makes so much of a difference on the chest it's unreal
About that "or something" I mentioned, forget the Silly Putty. It will probably stick to the action figure. Dip the cube in glow in the dark paint. It'll look like energon, and it'll give off that signature shine.
When’s the scourge review coming
That edit at 23:25 is some David Copperfield material!
I got mine at Aliexpress too. Love the price there!
17:41 What is this Megatron toy?
Great review! Not sure if you have noticed, but you need to flip ravage's back paws. They are upside down. Line them up with his front paws and you'll see what I mean. It's an easy fix.
Any word on when they will be releasing the other two cassettes?
Soundwave was always my favorite
This is really tempting, despite the wide opinion that the Tape Minions kinda suck (Laserbeak & FrenzyRumble especially). But there's also the Toy House Factory KO of ol' MP13 Soundwave that's got a couple of modifications to it.
That looked like Rumble as his ability with the piledrivers was one to create mini earthquakes
I’m just a kid, but I’m astonished by this figure, and from a collector’s standpoint, this is gonna look beautiful on my desk. I’m gonna buy this with some bday money, I just have one question, how long did this take to ship?
i'm really not a fan of how modern MP figures heavily rely on faux-alt mode parts on their robot modes for the sake of G1 animation accuracy, such as this Acoustic Wave's faux crotch and side volume wheel. it just feels so ungenuine to the the art of transforming toy engineering in the first place... thankfully i have my good ol' MP Soundwave that i very much still prefer.
Hey i already seen a review of this and yes i think this Is the best soundwave
i bought the original takara soundwave but had to buy the KO cassettes as the prices for those were insane . but then as was the norm back then when hasbro did theirs they threw the lot in together . its no wonder why KO,s are so popular with takaras pricing policys
"I'm too young to know what a cassette player actually looks like." Thanks guy. Now let me just end my life because I just realized how old I actually am!
I love that this ko version stores two cassettes. Does the Takara version hold two also?
takara version holds 3
@@PuppyHugs oh wow, that's something I will consider. Thx
havent watched yet, is the toy accurate accessory set included?
On-model with the cartoon = Perfection
"Unfortunately, I'm not old enough to know what a cassette really and truly used to look like..."
Ouch. That stings. LoL
On my official changing all the pieces over to the toy version was hell so yeah definitely not just the KO though it didn’t cause any damage
Oh at first I thought this was a studio series 86 Soundwave because of the The Transformers The Movie logo.
I ordered him today based on this review PvP. I just wonder if the ToyHax MP “cell shaded” tape deck decal will fit on him. 🤔
when will you review rotb mirage ss?
Is this a set with 3 cassettes or is this additional? I saw a package with only 1 cassette in.
I read about the ko and I didn't trust my luck enough to get it, bought the ft instead, the qc is pretty much flawless on my copy. Honestly not sure about the quality difference between ko vs official, your copy make it seem like the ko is a steal but comments on tfw and stuff suggests otherwise
Ya think the upgrades will loosen up the more you transform Soundwave?
Now we wait for the Soundblaster redeco
Quick question what does KO mean
Awesome! Not quite as good as the original Takara. But a KO of such excellent quality is almost unsettling.
Where can we get rumble for this KO?
when i was a child around 1986...
i had a KO Frenzy, Ravage and Lazerbeak...
this KOs, can combine into a bigger Transformer...
they can transform into a Cassettes , and can be placed inside a Real cassette player ...
but their gimmick is that they can Combine...
Ravage will split into 2 pcs, and transform into legs and feet...
Frenzy will transforms into a waist and some part of the upper torso and Arms and hands...
and LazerBeak will transform into main part of the upper torso, shoulders, and Head...
sadly this Toy was stolen, by some neighbours from me...
I always find the term 'KO' uncomfortable when applied to a Fans Toys or X-Transbots, etc. because they're engineered from the ground up. They're not cheap copies of an official MP like 4th Party
I prefer the term 'Unlicensed' for Fans Toys.
I only called it that because this is a duplicate of the fans toys version. This isn’t their original release
@@PrimeVsPrime Oh oh, sorry. My mistake.
@@PrimeVsPrime it's funny huh, a KO of a third party, then you have KO upscales of KO's of originally engineered third parties
Where’d you get the takara tomy soundwave?
I love soundwave
Me too!
I have a couple of questions for this figure.
Firstly, does this come with all the Cassetticons in this video, because a while back I saw a separate selling of just this Frenzy and one of the others, I can't recall.
Secondly, does this by any chance transform off instructions into the Cybertron street lights from the first episode?
Ravage is awesome too.
Question was wondering since I’m from Ireland we’re do I start ordering transformers officially and 3rd party website wise and will it cost more since it’s in the states and such
Found a 4th party one with all the cassettes minus rumble for 100 bucks
I wish studio series Rumble had this much change detail. Much smaller, I know, but they've been kind of hit or miss with that line.
isnt this the fantoys KO?
Did he have a video drop early then get deleted ?
I've always preferred a mixture more realistic and detailed bots that could do the things that were in the cartoons and comics rather than bot that borrow the overall flat panel aesthetics from the toons which were simplified more for budget reasons than style. Thus, Not huge fan of this Soundwave over all, even with the fantastic addons and swap pieces some parts would still need some more sculpting. It's great value I say but doesn't really make me love it.
The cassettes on the other hand were brilliant and contradictory to what I said about cartoon aesthetics, the smaller the bots the better the cartoon versions were to what was offered in the toy. They look fantastic and hit that "could have been a toy in 80's-90's" aesthetically.
I prefer the Takara version.
Surprised you thought the back of MP-13 was better. The battery storage makes sense on the RP-01 (KO), and it’s less gap-y in the back. I think this was objectively incorrect.
I love RP-01 from the videos ive seen but the 140+ dollars for the casette pack alone is blatant extortion because they know people will want laserbeak, this is a great alternative
Soo COOL!🤩
Agreed!
Cautious Collector
Please review about rise of the beast scourge
Looks good. Just not so much more good than the ancient takara to make me want to switch mine. Considering the age and simplicity and parts count of the old masterpiece, pound for pound he ranks as one of the best transformers ever made. He even holds up significantly better than the MP10 Prime that now looks like an ape in terms of proportions.
mp-44 and light of peace both blow MP-10 away by a large margin. Takara's MP is also trash in comparison to RP-46
I need that Ravage!!!
It’s nice!
Well, you also have bumblebee movie ravage
This is so cool I like
Forget how they were packaged & shipped: always go w/what was portrayed in the G1 anime cartoon. So yes, RUMBLE IS BLUE/FRENZY IS RED!
#Rib/Fir
We’re did you get this
Aliexpress. I included the link in description if you’re interested :)
Okay thank you
Cool video primevsprime
@13:31 😂😂
anyone found a fix for the battery mode issue. I’ve considered sanding down part of the internal back but I’m hesitant to do so
Now if we can get the best G1 ravage I would be happy
This was a nice review. As an owner of the genuine Robot Paradise version, I definitely prefer it over the MP-13 - in the robot mode, that is.
It's actually funny that I originally almost did not purchase it at all. When the prototype pictures of Acoustic Wave was released, I thought that the cassette player mode looked like a cheap toy, and even though I noticed some details of the robot mode being more cartoon accurate than MP-13, I just didn't see them worth paying the price that Acoustic Wave cost. Then I saw a side-by-side video comparison and noticed how much better its robot mode really looked. As it happened, the figure was on sale in the online shop that I usually buy Transformers figures from at the time, so I took the chance and ordered it - and have not regretted it since.
However, my thoughts about the alternative mode are much like yours, PrimeVsPrime. The paint quality of the figure definitely lessens its "cheap toy" effect, but when compared to the MP-13, it doesn't look nearly as much as a real cassette player. Yet, as you mentioned, it is more cartoon accurate, which I like. But I also like the appearance of MP-13 with which you could easily fool someone to think it being a real cassette player. So, I suppose I slightly prefer that one.
The original figure is WAY better. Do you review FansToys in the future?
You're wrong, but it's cool.
i neeeeeeeeed
I'd rather like Fan's Toys to re-release their formers with less paint to chip, less die cast, and of course with lower prices ✌🏻
Anyone wanna help me on 21:12? And.. 22:17 ?? I just got him today and I was having a bad time transforming for it :(