Review: #424
Name: Soundwave
Brand: Transformers
Allegiance: Decepticon
Line: The Last Knight
Year of Release: 2017
Size Class: Tiny Turbo Changer (Wave 1)
Mold Status: new
CAR MODE:
Soundwave comes in a blind bag although thanks to a letter printed on the packaging, you can pick him out if you wanted to.
Soundwave transforms into a superdeformed silver car approximating the alternate mode he had in Dark of the Moon.
He has painted black wheels and side windows... which just makes the unpainted windshield stick out all the more.
As a Tiny Turbo Changer, Soundwave is very small, above is a comparison against RiD (2015) Legion Heatseeker. Note that the wheels are molded, Soundwave does not roll.
A passable alternate mode given his size and the simplicity.
TRANSFORMATION:
Transforming to robot mode is very simple but given the size, it's more than you would hope. The front flips to form his legs, you then rotate the waist around, pull out the sides for his arms and then flip him over to reveal the rest of the robot.
ROBOT MODE:
Soundwave's robot mode is a massive shellformer but given the size, easily forgivable.
He uses the front of the vehicle as his feet, allowing him to stand solidly on the table.
The figure is made from a softer more rubbery plastic yet it still has intricate sculpting. The only other paint application is the red on his visor.
While in vehicle mode, he seemed to just be slightly smaller than a Legion figure, in robot mode it is more telling that he is supposed to be tiny.
Articulation is extremely limited, while the shoulders are balljoints you can only hope to swing them forward and back.
Given the cheap price, Soundwave's robot mode is half decent.
OVERALL:
The biggest thing going for the Tiny Turbo Changers are the cheap prices yet still transform into two reasonably decent modes. While the vehicle mode is weird with half painted windows (would have preferred none to be painted at all), the robot mode has excellent sculpting and instantly recognizable as the character.
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