![]() Takara quickly realized that if they bundle the tapes with re-releases of Soundwave and Blaster fans will buy these much more expensive toys just to get the cassettes. There are like 50 of them now and most of them have actually appeared in TF fiction. Fans love the classic cassette-tapes so they keep releasing club-exclusive recolors as new characters. Then Takara (the company which produced Transformers in Japan) saw the Botcon toy and was all "Ooh, we likey!" and recolored the classic G1 Soundwave like it, adding more neon green and bright blue. Then in 2012 there was a Botcon toy of Sir Soundwave - this time turning into a van and sporting an awesome headband. When Transformers started doing its Shattered Glass thing in 2009 they appropriated this funky color scheme for their mirror-U Soundwave. ![]() 'classic', Soundblaster-colored and "Sonic White" Soundwave whose cassette-deck mode was solid white (like an iPod, get it?) and sported only a few blue highlights. This guy has actually had three toys, can you believe it? In 2007 Takara released a MP3-player version of Soundwave in 3 color schemes. He is a beat-laying urban poet with a chilled-out attitude. Sir Soundwave is Soundwave's Shattered Glass (mirror universe) double. We now move back to characters who are Soundwave, sort of. I think he looks rather nifty! I call him Sinewave out of the aforementioned need to call him something. Notably: He succeeded where all others had failed. He appeared in the episode " Dash" as one of the final guardians trying to prevent a kid-appeal-yellow car type from gaining access to Galvatron's lair. The 2004 Armada cartoon featured a lot of classic G1 character-models re-used as background characters, much like Squarewave above. I call him Squarewave out of a need to call him something when referring to him.Īnd then there's this guy, who is not Soundwave at all. If it was him he'd be 6' tall though, so it's probably not him. Model re-use like this was pretty common for the Mainframe TV series we saw bits-and-pieces of Soundwave used for several other background characters (most noticeably his head) but this guy used his whole body (minus his shoulder-canon) and though colors were changed, the end result is still really, well. Mainframe made several changes to the computer model when it appeared in Beast Machines, mostly stripping off details. This is a re-use of a computer-model Mainframe Entertainment created 2 years prior for " The Agenda", a Beast Wars episode which featured Soundwave's comatose semi-corpse as a background prop. This guy appears in a flashback during the Beast Machines cartoon as a Transformer who sacrifices himself to save a kid-appeal ethnic stereotype. If you were part of the online fandom during the late 1990's you might even remember this guy who is not Soundwave. In some continuities (universes) Soundblaster is a separate character. (The expanded chest compartment even shows up on his character model, look!) ![]() In Headmasters Soundwave died during a duel with his Autobot counterpart Blaster and was rebuilt into Soundblaster (or if you were in Malaysia New Soundwave) He sports a brand-new black paintjob and his toy was reissued in these colors with an expanded chest-compartment capable of holding two of his cassettes at once. ![]() In Japan they had 3 more series, the first of which was called Headmasters. In America we had a 3-episode miniseries which ended the series. In 1987 the Transformers cartoon branched into two pieces. However if you think sex is boring without frogs and get your underwear out of vending machines you probably remember Soundblaster. Soundwave in particular kept flashing back between this and a more toy-based blue depending on the issue. However if you were a Transformers fan past 1987 (when the cartoon ended) chances are you were reading the Marvel Comic and you remember Soundwave this way: Bright purple and with a pretty, pretty mouth.Ī lot of the Marvel Comics character models got funky colors in their character reference sheets which caused them to appear in funny colors throughout the rest of the comic. This is Soundwave in the 1984 cartoon, chances are that when you think of Soundwave you think of him. This article is about various uses of Soundwave's character model, including Soundwave's various 'looks' and some generics/recolor characters who are not Soundwave but share his bodyframe. Often imitated, never equaled, no one could forget his signature style. Ah Soundwave! You remember Soundwave, right? The stalwart, stoic guy with the cool voice and all the mini-cassettes inside? Sure you do, he's Michiyamenotehi Funana's favorite obscure Transformer! The crowd goes nuts when he takes the stage and our cries and screams are music to his ears.
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