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Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpieces MP-13 "Soundwave" (Japan Import)

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In broad strokes, Masterpiece Soundwave's conversion is the same as the original's - hands into the arms, arms behind the back, legs folded up around the side, head tucked away - but the entire process is far more complex, with a lot more twisting, folding, opening and closing involved, and all in an effort to reconcile two designs that never had to worry about lining up before.

The set included the tape case from his original Japanese release, but featured noticeably lighter orange stickers in tape mode. Due to the brand unification, nearly all Hasbro Masterpiece releases after Generations MP-10 Optimus Prime are imports of TakaraTomy toys above with new slip-covers. He and Ravage can now both fit inside Soundwave at the same time, as this edition marked the first Hasbro release of Soundwave with the double-wide chest-door created for his Japanese Soundblaster retooling in 1987. After a vicious beating from rival "businessmech" Thunderhoof's goons, Gnashteeth had Scorponok overload the D. Destro's accessories include Soundwave in the form of a non-transforming tape deck and three " Mini-Con Deployers" – micro-cassettes capable of being placed within the Soundwave toy.The set also includes a sculpted representation of Soundwave's cassette player mode that can be displayed next to the robot. Despite his slight rarity, Laserbeak is easy to find because his box is much lighter than any of the other figures'. To quickly repair the vessel, Megatron inserted a Dark Energon cube into its power core, quickly repairing all the damage. Some time later, Megatron came under the influence of The Fallen, who sought to be freed from the sarcophagus that was his trans-dimensional prison. In the process, the Pretender also learned that both America and Russia allegedly had a Cybertronian in their individual custodies, but Soundwave dismissed them as rumors, preferring to focus on the trail of the AllSpark and the Star Harvester.

The figure's stickers, however, retain Soundwave's blue coloration instead of being changed to work with Soundblaster's black. Soundwave was the Decepticons communications officer who appears as a major antagonist of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and one of the three tertiary antagonists (alongside Shockwave and Laserbeak) of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The toys are larger, more detailed, more complex to transform, and more poseable than their original versions, but their appearances have been kept as close to the original on-screen characters as possible.Soundwave was secured and put on a plane bound for Odessa, Texas, however the plane was shot down by Buzzsaw, and then Bumblebee's team had Dirt Boss and Soundwave's minions to contend with as well. The pewter version of the figure has a potential problem with connector peg breakage, due to said pegs often getting a layer of pewter paint before being forced into a socket, leading to sticking and tearing.

Included with the Hasbro Toys"R"Us-exclusive version of Masterpiece Soundwave, Laserbeak features a slightly brighter shade of red paint, and comes with a clear version of his micro-cassette case. He features multi-directional joints at the neck, shoulders, wrists, hips, and ankles; plus swivel biceps, elbows, knees, and a bit of ab crunch. The cubes were interchangeable, but not all of them were "compatible", so to speak—Unicron's light-up feature didn't work on the more opaque plastic of the other toys.They were significantly smaller than the cubes used by Transformers from before the Great Upgrade and colored blue. The design of the hips is weird - they have the range of a swivel/hinge joint, but it's accomplished by having two hinges: one in the hip joint itself, to move the legs laterally, and another in the top of the thigh, to move the leg forward and back.

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