#Soundwave clear background transformers tv

There is molded detail on the interior of the cassette deck - two tiny spoolers and miscellaneous technical detail - but, other than that, Soundwave is fairly plain and unremarkable because he's disguised as something fairly plain and unremarkable. Sadly none of the cassette control buttons are pushable, let alone functional. There are a few 'functional' features aside from the obvious eject button: a switch on one side (marked 'R' on the model) and a freely-rotating wheel on the other (marked 'L'). Soundwave retains basically the same colourscheme as the Microchange version - silver and blue, with touches of gold and red. The second and cutest feature of this model is that the battery compartment opens to reveal a couple of batteries. The original Microchange version even came with nonfunctional headphones (with a microphone attachment), to complete the picture. There are two really cool features of this model: one, the battery cover features a belt clip, so you could actually walk round with Soundwave attached to your belt. However it was supposed to work, the end result is a fairly detailed, almost life-sized cassette recorder, about the size of a Walkman back in those days, but designed for micro cassettes such as those used by some telephone answering machines. The idea of Microchange, I gather, was for these to be life-sized Robots in Disguise - diminutive mechanoids rather than the giants of the TransFormers line, thus eliminating the need for all that contentious 'mass shifting' to make up the difference. In many ways, the quality of the brand started to drop as soon as those 'crossover' toys gave way to new, TransFormers Specific models. It's interesting to look back at how a toy brand, cobbled together from several different brands, developed over its early years. but then, Soundwave had already been available - as 'Cassette Man' in Takara's Microman Microchange line - for over a year.

Soundwave's cassette recorder mode is a prime example of everything the TransFormers brand got right at the very beginning. With Masterpiece Soundwave now available in the UK (though Toys'R'Us seem reluctant to put him on their shelves), how about a look at the original, my first ever Decepticon toy?

#Soundwave clear background transformers tv

The TV show got that wrong, too.īut anyway. Honestly, that TV show was constantly screwing things up, wasn't it?Īnd, for the record, Rumble is red. And, curiously, while Laserbeak was the spy in the TV show, he was an interrogation specialist in the toyrange, and Buzzsaw was the spy. Because, yes, even though Laserbeak was Soundwave's favourite in the TV show, he was packaged with Buzzsaw.