But without the tape deck transformation it’s not as displayable, even the g1 soundwave looks better in robot mode. The only problem is how expensive the g1 figure is or else it’d be 100% better in every way
I'm planning on getting two of these personally, I wanna give soundwave his classic battery gun, and the second gun will make his "tank mode" more like brawl from the FOC games which is a big plus
They came out in some stream where they showed concept art for the BBMV alt modes, and this is meant to be a hover car. Except it looks barely anything like the art. The issue to me was that they wanted to make their big, square, G1 Soundwave into a smooth and sleek and smooth car without thinking about how it would really work. Side note I picked Ravage up yesterday from Walmart despite having zero interest in Soundwave and he's fun.
Yeah, either the toy designers should have worked more on getting the Soundwave figure to transform into something far more close to the concept art, or they should have changed the concept art of his alt mode into something more akin to his WFC/FOC alt mode.
@@jaydonmagan4694 I don't think making it look like the concept art would've been possible. Besides I'm pretty sure the design team made the alt modes in general, they could've just made the alt mode something that makes more sense for the design or would work better for the toy.
@@TheFourteenthPrime The way I could have seen that alt mode design working is if the toy designs actually got the arms to come forward and form that front of the alt mode like it showed in the concept art. From there, they could work on bringing the legs back to form the back and sides of the alt mode. It wouldn’t have been perfect with the concept art, but it probably would have been better than what we got with the toy alt mode.
@@TheFourteenthPrime One of my biggest complaints of the alt mode is why they didn’t have the shoulder cannon on top of it behind the cockpit instead of just on the side. It would have looked much better like that.
Making Soundwave a glider instead of another Megatron-esc hover tank would have actually been pretty cool. We have tons of earth mode/future tanks and future/space jets so making Soundwave a platform for other Deceptions to fly around on would be pretty funny.
I just picked up this figure, and although the vehicle mode is, like Emgo said, a flying slab, I still think it's one of the best bumblebee movie figures. Just a fantastic robot mode. Wish his hands moved, though.
Found him at Walmart yesterday! I was so shocked when I saw multiple on the shelf. I was able to pick the best paint job from what I could see of the robot mode. I did have him preordered on Amazon but wasn’t gonna ship til April
Thing is, I keep seeing/listening to people crap on this alternate mode for being a "slab of nothing"... I honestly don't think they're looking at it hard enough. If you look through the clear plastic of the 'fake chest' at the top, you'll see that there are seats and control panels on the inside. That's because it's not meant to be a fake chest, it's a dang cockpit. This isn't just a slab of metal or a hover tank missing parts, it's a stylized dropship, especially with how the chest-door is oriented downward so that it could just drop his partners like Ravage into a battle. (Great piano intro, btw)
I understand where you're coming from, but I have to disagree. The same could easily be said of most of the jet modes we'd gotten up until recently, simply folded up robot under jet. (Looking at you, SS Blitzwing. I know that one could've been done so much better...) While people may not exactly like that the designers didn't try to make him a beefy van or tank, I honestly prefer the dropship motif. Leagues better than just disguising as a lamp post any day, and it makes use of the ability for him to launch out his partners in crime.
Exactly! He's a dropship my dudes, and I think that's an amazing fit for a Soundwave alt mode. I've tried telling countless people that this design didn't just come out of nowhere and there is a real basis for it. Transformes Vs. G.I. Joe #1 - "I Saw Three Ships". Art by Tom Scioli
Cool intro with the piano playing the Green Goblin theme song. Yes, I heard of the meme of the BB Soundwave alt mode being the Green Goblin's glider. But the chicken cutlet and Luke Skywalkers binocular memes is new to me. I never really mind this Soundwave hovercraft design. Sure I wish it was more like the concept, were it looked like a hovercar, but it's a alien world. But the fan mode of making Soundwave into a hovertank, definitely looks better. Like how the weapons look more here, than on the sides in hovercraft mode.
Always puts a smile on my face when you upload :) Regarding the Hot Toys Green Goblin, consider looking into the Toys Era 1/6th scale Green Goblin, it's a 3rd party release but is of Hot Toys quality. Maybe watch Justin's Collection's review on him and the Thunder Toys Tobey Spider-Man. And I would LOVE to see someone repaint Soundwave into GG's glider! Also, I'm in the UK, and Ratchet is actually available now, as is SS86 Perceptor! So weird! PS. That intro was top tier, you're invited to my (potential future) wedding to entertain.
I live in Florida and I can never find cool/larger transformers at the store s mainly because alot more more want transformers more than other places in the u.s so whenever I go to Georgia to hangout with grandparents I go to the store and there I find so many more options than I would at Florida.
The alt mode since it's cybertronian,why not just call it a patrol hovercraft like the seige/kingdom version? I got confused when I got my seige/kingdom Soundwave and saw that unlike most cybertronian vehicle moves it was the weirdest to me but it's cool because it'll still turn into the light post,walkman,and a cybertronian pistol like shockwave at one point and g1 Megatron
Did you seriously call arcee bad? Studio series bee movie arcee is easily one of the best official arcee figures. She’s got a smooth and satisfying transformation and has some of the best backpack management on any arcee figure.
Oh! Ravage doesn't come out until April in Canada. I just got Ravage and Core class Shockwave from my local Walmart three days ago. I was surprised to find them to be honest. My area doesn't usually get most transformers (other than bumblebee and Optimus) until about three months after they get released everywhere else.
The point is yeah it can be called a tank if that added the peg hole at the top of the alt mode but I do consider it to be more of a hover craft. Now if they would've made the should cannon split in two then it could be placed on the undercarriage of the alt mode and be used as a live action cybertronian walkman using the cannon as batteries like the G1 figure
You say Ravage doesn't officially come out until April, but down here in Florida, my local Walmart has about 20 of them along with another 20 Shockwaves.
ignoring Core Class Bumblebee Shockwave as he will get a Deluxe Class figure later considering the Studio Series line is meant to evoke the scale of the characters from the screen whether the scale is off or not it is implied that Bumblebee Soundwave is larger than the Bayverse Soundwave in size.
The BB movie figures are slightly upscaled though if that makes sense. For example, I’m pretty sure the official height of Bayverse Optimus is about 30 feet while Knightverse is about 20
WFC (VIDEOGAME) and animated to me did cybertronian alt mode the best. I don't think people would complain if Soundwave looks like WFC (videogame) alt mode.
Haven't gotten this guy just yet but I'm really excited to get this guy. I have Wheeljack now and he's a really solid deluxe apart from the horrendous hip balljoints
I don't even hate he doesn't have a proper alt mode, yeah sure maybe they could've given him something, but the Robot mode looks amazing I think it makes up for the alt mode loss, and you can make a really messed up version of that street light mode from the first episode of G1
i dont think they really had a choice about the gun he comes with because in the first cybertron scene when he jumps down and says "decepticons attack" and stuff he has the same gun in his hand
@@beyondthemax2623 it doesn’t look exactly like one, but instead of putting the legs together in the front I put them outside the arms. If you understand what I’m saying
i think hes supposed to be a hover tank like megatron and brawl in war for cybertron (soundwave can turn into a cybertronian van and boombox in the game)
i also have that and i sorta put him in a radio/boom box mode sorta by folding up his legs to sides with his feet facing up and folding his hands into his arms and rotating his head backwards and then takimg his arms and putting up where his head that's covering the back of his head and i used his guns facing downward in the bck to help stand him up but i rotated them in way to help stand him up because pointing straight down makes him fall over and also how soon will we get a actual studio series soundwave that turns into a actual radio/boom box?
I wouldn't mind the vehicle mode as much if they did something to try and cover up those fucking leg joints. The knees plates could have looked sort of like pincers on the vehicle mode, kind of like Vanu vehicles in Planetside 2, but just seeing the joints of the legs and everything else just hanging out at the front ruins it looking like any kind of vehicle.
You know... when a missing port would save the alt mode... and ports are holes, meaning its reducing the cost of production. Someone really screwed the pooch.
Ports actually cost more in the design phase cause it's an extra step added to the tooling and an extra component needed to mill out that port in the tooling process
What's funny is that you can actually mistransform the legs so he looks even more like the Goblin's glider.
@InGoingTitan215 spread
@@Blitzwingedits1291*S W I V E L H E R E*
@@Blitzwingedits1291correction *G L O R I U S S P R E A D*
Omg that’s so funny you got me laughing so hard like Ohio sigma males 🗿🗿🗿🗿🍷🍷🍷🍷😂😂😂😂
@@eddiepadilla2240what...
I was like, "he knows how to play piano!?"
Then he started playing and I was like, "oh. Never mind."
dang man you didnt have to do him like that
Jesus man didn’t have to flame him like that
Was that The Shining?
@@therealajzaini ain’t no way you said that 💀
@@therealajzainiHe's playing the Green Goblin theme song from Spider-Man 2002.
Probably one of the best ss bee movie figures,he even fits the green goblin,i give it 9.5\10 and to me this figure is remake to g1 soundwave
i agree
Agreed
But without the tape deck transformation it’s not as displayable, even the g1 soundwave looks better in robot mode. The only problem is how expensive the g1 figure is or else it’d be 100% better in every way
@@BBBenex bro, no🤣👋🤡
@@BBBenex hell no 😂 😂
I'm planning on getting two of these personally, I wanna give soundwave his classic battery gun, and the second gun will make his "tank mode" more like brawl from the FOC games which is a big plus
Then with the spare second figure you can keep it as a permanent glider for a Green Goblin figure lol.
"Are you in or are you out?!"
"It's you who's out, Soundwave - out of your MIND!"
They came out in some stream where they showed concept art for the BBMV alt modes, and this is meant to be a hover car. Except it looks barely anything like the art. The issue to me was that they wanted to make their big, square, G1 Soundwave into a smooth and sleek and smooth car without thinking about how it would really work. Side note I picked Ravage up yesterday from Walmart despite having zero interest in Soundwave and he's fun.
Yeah, either the toy designers should have worked more on getting the Soundwave figure to transform into something far more close to the concept art, or they should have changed the concept art of his alt mode into something more akin to his WFC/FOC alt mode.
@@jaydonmagan4694 I don't think making it look like the concept art would've been possible. Besides I'm pretty sure the design team made the alt modes in general, they could've just made the alt mode something that makes more sense for the design or would work better for the toy.
@@TheFourteenthPrime The way I could have seen that alt mode design working is if the toy designs actually got the arms to come forward and form that front of the alt mode like it showed in the concept art. From there, they could work on bringing the legs back to form the back and sides of the alt mode. It wouldn’t have been perfect with the concept art, but it probably would have been better than what we got with the toy alt mode.
@@jaydonmagan4694 Probably yeah. Or at least they could've just made it a tank since the toy looks like that already.
@@TheFourteenthPrime One of my biggest complaints of the alt mode is why they didn’t have the shoulder cannon on top of it behind the cockpit instead of just on the side. It would have looked much better like that.
Making Soundwave a glider instead of another Megatron-esc hover tank would have actually been pretty cool. We have tons of earth mode/future tanks and future/space jets so making Soundwave a platform for other Deceptions to fly around on would be pretty funny.
3:09 please tell me he’s not talking about BB Arcee 😭
I just picked up this figure, and although the vehicle mode is, like Emgo said, a flying slab, I still think it's one of the best bumblebee movie figures. Just a fantastic robot mode. Wish his hands moved, though.
Found him at Walmart yesterday! I was so shocked when I saw multiple on the shelf. I was able to pick the best paint job from what I could see of the robot mode. I did have him preordered on Amazon but wasn’t gonna ship til April
Really? I can't find him anywhere
@@mrcheese6502 yeah got lucky on a stock I think cause I’ve checked 3 other Walmarts and they all still have beast wars figures and blur and kup
Damn thanks tho
Dude same! Yesterday I went into a random Walmart, and found the last studio Soundwave on the peg along with the last studio Ravage. I love it so much
@@chicomac8450 I went yesterday and they still had a ton of soundwaves and a ratchet and brawn. And the whole legacy wave
Thing is, I keep seeing/listening to people crap on this alternate mode for being a "slab of nothing"... I honestly don't think they're looking at it hard enough. If you look through the clear plastic of the 'fake chest' at the top, you'll see that there are seats and control panels on the inside. That's because it's not meant to be a fake chest, it's a dang cockpit. This isn't just a slab of metal or a hover tank missing parts, it's a stylized dropship, especially with how the chest-door is oriented downward so that it could just drop his partners like Ravage into a battle.
(Great piano intro, btw)
The cockpit feels slapped onto a brick to justify it being a vehicle, the entire rest of his "altmode" just looks like a folded up robot
I understand where you're coming from, but I have to disagree. The same could easily be said of most of the jet modes we'd gotten up until recently, simply folded up robot under jet. (Looking at you, SS Blitzwing. I know that one could've been done so much better...)
While people may not exactly like that the designers didn't try to make him a beefy van or tank, I honestly prefer the dropship motif. Leagues better than just disguising as a lamp post any day, and it makes use of the ability for him to launch out his partners in crime.
Exactly! He's a dropship my dudes, and I think that's an amazing fit for a Soundwave alt mode. I've tried telling countless people that this design didn't just come out of nowhere and there is a real basis for it.
Transformes Vs. G.I. Joe #1 - "I Saw Three Ships".
Art by Tom Scioli
@@Bakuopp Those actually look like jets though, this looks like nothing
The shoulders are hot rod shoulders, SS86 hot rod is VERY significant
Your fan mode idea is actually quite clever. I'm totally doing that
"Well he turns into a blue.... something, but hey atleast you can stick ravage in their!"
TF Wiki 2022
*WE COULD RULE THIS CITY SPIDERMAN*
Goblin hoverboard: you and I, we’re not so different, Soundwave.
Cool intro with the piano playing the Green Goblin theme song. Yes, I heard of the meme of the BB Soundwave alt mode being the Green Goblin's glider. But the chicken cutlet and Luke Skywalkers binocular memes is new to me. I never really mind this Soundwave hovercraft design. Sure I wish it was more like the concept, were it looked like a hovercar, but it's a alien world. But the fan mode of making Soundwave into a hovertank, definitely looks better. Like how the weapons look more here, than on the sides in hovercraft mode.
Always puts a smile on my face when you upload :)
Regarding the Hot Toys Green Goblin, consider looking into the Toys Era 1/6th scale Green Goblin, it's a 3rd party release but is of Hot Toys quality. Maybe watch Justin's Collection's review on him and the Thunder Toys Tobey Spider-Man.
And I would LOVE to see someone repaint Soundwave into GG's glider!
Also, I'm in the UK, and Ratchet is actually available now, as is SS86 Perceptor! So weird!
PS. That intro was top tier, you're invited to my (potential future) wedding to entertain.
the altmode is a beautifully absurd imaginary evolution of the portable cassette player-
the white parts make him look like a super sentai helper hero 😂
Yess I also thought abt that alt mode fix! They couldve easily make it some sort of a tank but they missed it lol. Glad someone finally mention this👍🏻
i saw a picture of soundwave holding choccy milk because his box art pose is also meme-able
6:24 that actually looks really good,im gonna do that if i ever buy this figure
damn Soundwave transforms into a walkman player, sick
Great review & attention to detail such as “nothing is loose”
Apparently it's based on his altmode from G.I Joe / Transformers? Idk it's shown in Baltmatrix's vid.
"Did you know what my father transformed into?! Nothing! But he did so with honor!!"
The concept art made it look like a speeder of sorts and looked more sleeker than the toy. I guess the design didn't translate well to plastic.
I live in Florida and I can never find cool/larger transformers at the store s mainly because alot more more want transformers more than other places in the u.s so whenever I go to Georgia to hangout with grandparents I go to the store and there I find so many more options than I would at Florida.
0:14 Back to formula
The alt mode since it's cybertronian,why not just call it a patrol hovercraft like the seige/kingdom version? I got confused when I got my seige/kingdom Soundwave and saw that unlike most cybertronian vehicle moves it was the weirdest to me but it's cool because it'll still turn into the light post,walkman,and a cybertronian pistol like shockwave at one point and g1 Megatron
With that intro, you should make him do the Peter Parker dance
Did you seriously call arcee bad? Studio series bee movie arcee is easily one of the best official arcee figures. She’s got a smooth and satisfying transformation and has some of the best backpack management on any arcee figure.
Oh! Ravage doesn't come out until April in Canada. I just got Ravage and Core class Shockwave from my local Walmart three days ago. I was surprised to find them to be honest. My area doesn't usually get most transformers (other than bumblebee and Optimus) until about three months after they get released everywhere else.
Love the video, as well as the figure! The opener was great and I'm liking the style you've built up
The point is yeah it can be called a tank if that added the peg hole at the top of the alt mode but I do consider it to be more of a hover craft. Now if they would've made the should cannon split in two then it could be placed on the undercarriage of the alt mode and be used as a live action cybertronian walkman using the cannon as batteries like the G1 figure
Nice Piano opening your good ngl
And it does looks like Luke Skywalker's binoculars I love it
Just got this guy tonight and I can tell you it's my new favorite Studio series figure
You say Ravage doesn't officially come out until April, but down here in Florida, my local Walmart has about 20 of them along with another 20 Shockwaves.
I have it and I love it, and my only concern is the shoulder articulation but it's actually useful, just weird at first
Geez, HE PLAYS THE PIANO
I saw someone mention that it looks a stealth air craft.
Hey man!Love your vids!
bro that intro had me dying
This looks great and when I definitely get it as my first Soundwave I’ll get Ravage too
I did a very simple mod to the shoulder gun peg to make it attach as a turret gun on the top. Looks better cause it's in the middle.
Please watch film, he had the gun on his left hand
Just ordered one off Hasbro Pulse now the wait begins
I'm gonna get this guy as soon as the Marvel Legends NWH Goblin comes out aswell
Need to get Soundwave and the Kingdom/Legacy Blaster. Didn't think I'd be getting two tape player transformers to start off the year haha
Is it me or does his vehicle mode look like a N64
The green goblin glider 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
my copy came without a hand so he only has 1 hand
Figures like the upcoming BB Movie figures honestly make you question how they're in the same toy line as VW Bee and B-127 figures.
ignoring Core Class Bumblebee Shockwave as he will get a Deluxe Class figure later considering the Studio Series line is meant to evoke the scale of the characters from the screen whether the scale is off or not it is implied that Bumblebee Soundwave is larger than the Bayverse Soundwave in size.
The BB movie figures are slightly upscaled though if that makes sense. For example, I’m pretty sure the official height of Bayverse Optimus is about 30 feet while Knightverse is about 20
WFC (VIDEOGAME) and animated to me did cybertronian alt mode the best. I don't think people would complain if Soundwave looks like WFC (videogame) alt mode.
i wish there would still be a version of soundwave as the amg sls around
Haven't gotten this guy just yet but I'm really excited to get this guy. I have Wheeljack now and he's a really solid deluxe apart from the horrendous hip balljoints
I actually ordered him off of BBTS, gonna be here soon tho.
I’ve got ravage at my local Walmart and the core shockwave, however I do live in New York
I don't even hate he doesn't have a proper alt mode, yeah sure maybe they could've given him something, but the Robot mode looks amazing I think it makes up for the alt mode loss, and you can make a really messed up version of that street light mode from the first episode of G1
If you squint your eyes, it looks like a fighter ship from Homeworld
i dont think they really had a choice about the gun he comes with because in the first cybertron scene when he jumps down and says "decepticons attack" and stuff he has the same gun in his hand
The alt mode is very much phoning it in, but to be fair, it's actually decently accurate to the concept art.
Just noticed blaster Stepping ng on the little car
I managed to find one yesterday and I love it, I like to fan mode the alternate to make it look more like a cassette player
How do you do that?!
@@beyondthemax2623 it doesn’t look exactly like one, but instead of putting the legs together in the front I put them outside the arms. If you understand what I’m saying
@@sewing3049 Oh I see
The title is literally cracking me up.
Alt mode is the only downside. But that is made up for by the best robot mode in the entire franchise! I cannot wait to own this thing!
Theoretically you could use the alt mode as a riot shield
I do enjoy me a good ol' space rectangle
i think hes supposed to be a hover tank like megatron and brawl in war for cybertron (soundwave can turn into a cybertronian van and boombox in the game)
2:29 LOL YES
Very nice figure kinda spot on and it’s better then some others from the studio series bumblebee movie figures
Gonna keep this boy in robot mode
Honestly the altmode kinda reminds me of G1/origins bumblebee's hover car mode. I think it's fine.
Soundwave looks sad. Ravage, eject! Operation: Cuddles!
What does chug toy mean?
Ah yes, the chicken fillet mode
I'm definitely gonna try and pick this guy up, he looks amazing
Personally I was thinking of maybe a stop motion of him coming to earth and he started the ufo sitings
The robot looks great. Too bad they couldn't think of an alt mode
That yellow is 3rd party? YIKES
i also have that and i sorta put him in a radio/boom box mode sorta by folding up his legs to sides with his feet facing up and folding his hands into his arms and rotating his head backwards and then takimg his arms and putting up where his head that's covering the back of his head and i used his guns facing downward in the bck to help stand him up but i rotated them in way to help stand him up because pointing straight down makes him fall over and also how soon will we get a actual studio series soundwave that turns into a actual radio/boom box?
Remember his altmode is a poppeye chicken sandwich
Man I wish it would’ve been a boombox
I found cor class shockwave and ravage at my Walmart on Tuesday
I wouldn't mind the vehicle mode as much if they did something to try and cover up those fucking leg joints. The knees plates could have looked sort of like pincers on the vehicle mode, kind of like Vanu vehicles in Planetside 2, but just seeing the joints of the legs and everything else just hanging out at the front ruins it looking like any kind of vehicle.
You know... when a missing port would save the alt mode... and ports are holes, meaning its reducing the cost of production. Someone really screwed the pooch.
Ports actually cost more in the design phase cause it's an extra step added to the tooling and an extra component needed to mill out that port in the tooling process
3:05 what arcee are you talking about?
why cant you get ravage until April? reviews for it started showing up a month ago
I always called him the Cybertronian road bump.
Hope they make a Transformers Masterpiece movie Soundwave figure but totally worth it to get
Wow that's amazing
Why wont people talk about soundwave having a sad expression on his eyes
This vid is a month old? I swear I got my ravage around that time…
I got him because I had ravage and I don't regret it
I like to call BB movie soundwave "Sadwave"
You can get the new bumblebee figures on ebay
Uhh, can someone tell me the difference between the gliders at 0:38.
All that's missing is the Spider-Man Transformer
Transformes Vs. G.I. Joe #1 - "I Saw Three Ships".
Art by Tom Scioli