New Grey Prototype Pictures for Transformers Siege Soundwave, Prowl and more

Soundwave's mold looks really good without the battle damage. I'm hoping that they do what they did with Magnus and tone the battle damage way back for Soundwave cause that robot mode and also "space-barge" mode look great imo. And if they don't, I wouldn't be surprised if they release that mold in Studio Series with Ravage and call it "Cybertronian Soundwave" from the Bumblebee movie, cause that actually looks fairly close to that version of the character as well

I NEED that Soundwave in my collection Laserbeak is awesome and Ravage is... fine. But I will probably change him out for my Universe Ravage from Hound. Ptery guy looks cool and so does Prowl. Chromia is cool too.

Soundwave is delightful and will be mine. Chromia, eh, she looks alright but I'd rather have one of the combining versions of that transformation scheme. Prowl looks gorgeous but the shins being made from clear plastic makes me nervous.

I still really don't like that Soundwave at all even here in just grey. Never been fond of his design in general (too boxy for me) but I don't think all that detailing works for him. And yes that alt-mode is still junk

Soundwave is a buy on site! I do wish that G1 cassettes could fit in him but I doubt it though. I'm not really feeling those Spy Patrol, Laserbeak is okay but Ravage looks terrible. The MP cassettes will still remain my defaults regardless.

Still not a fan of Prowl in either mode. Rescue Patrol is cool and So is Chromia.

Cobotron wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:IS that the first time we've seen Ironhide in physical form, and not a render? He was shown at Toy Fair, right?

Hope those forearms are gonna be red.

We have seen painted samples before, where they were red.

Ok. I thought so. They look like prototype grey in those shots, so hopefully that's just a factory sample.

I'm hesitant to say that's the case just because a bunch of figures on display had these "Deco Sample (Not Final)" stickers which I suspect they would have stuck on Ironhide if he wasn't finished.



And the fact that the gray arms are on both the bot and the vehicle and both are in molded colors and factory painted I'm just not so sure these are samples. Hopefully they're simply supposed to be painted red instead of molded and they yanked these out of the factory before it could be done. I also wish the light gray on the shoulders and wheels were darker, but who knows.

And man, Soundwave is armed to the teeth. Shoulder canon, rifle, microphone(?) gun and all three combining into one long gun thing (probably looks better treated like a shoulder mounted bazooka or something) plus a pair of guns that can flip out from under his forearms. Pretty good for a communications officer.

Emerje

Soundwave really could have used slide out hands like the G1 toy rather than the hollows but probably picking him and his cassettes up All the others not for me. might wait to see the studio series Bumblebee movie version (tho i'm pretty sure a SS or bumblbee movie toy will have a tape deck mode tho I like the Siege one for having a cybertronian mode)

Oooh, Prowl is lookin fine. So sleek compared to the rest of the overly wrinkly-looking Siege line so far.

YoungPrime wrote:Soundwave is a buy on site!

Which site will you buy them on?

The MP cassettes will still remain my defaults regardless.

But arent those obscenely huge for a voyager soundwave?

william-james88 wrote:

YoungPrime wrote:Soundwave is a buy on site!

Which site will you buy them on?

Hehehehehehehehe

[quote=“william-james88”][quote=“YoungPrime”]The MP cassettes will still remain my defaults regardless.[/quote]
But arent those obscenely huge for a voyager soundwave?[/quote]
Lord knows Ravage ain’t too huge.

And what is the deal with trying to do multiple quotes from the same post? I can’t get it to work right.

Loving Soundwave but not overly keen on the combo is guns make though :/

Oh man, that backpack on Chromia was really minimized after removing the combiner peg...

Soundwave looks awesome. It's going to take me a while to get used to the cassetteybois, though.

Has there been any confirmation that Bumblebee's Cybertronians will come to the movie lines including Studio Series? It doesn't seem like a good fit, especially with all of the G1 characters in the other lines. If you want Cybertron Soundwave, I think Siege will be your best bet.

I'm also guessing that the Cybertron sequence is just a couple minutes in the movie, but that's even more off-topic.

I plan to use TR Rumble and Frenzy with Soundwave since I think they'll still scale better than Micromasters would, but I'm eager to replace Ravage and Lazerbeak with their Siege counterparts.

Just received my first siege figures yesterday... sideswipe and hound and they're solid, fun toys. The worn paint marks battle damage isn't too jarring,

They have a certain heft and an improvement on the classics releases (I didn't bother with the Combiner wars iterations). For their time the classics were pretty awesome but a lot of the transformations were too fiddly something the seems to have improved since CW...

re these prototypes, looking forward to them.. TR sound wave was a good figure but totally out of place scale wise. Also like the fact he has a g1 inspired hand gun. His alt mode is a bit weird but it kinda fits in with deceptions being flyers...

Not quite understanding chromia's disappearing back pack in the pix... seems like it's removed completely in some shots.

Prowl reminds me of prime's smokescreen

Hope they release a larger variety of micromasters.

DecepticonFinishline wrote:Oh man, that backpack on Chromia was really minimized after removing the combiner peg...

The best thing that could've been done was have a combiner peg that could attach or detach from the figure.

The rescue patrol seems to be a retool of the combat patrol

Looking at Soundwave's articulation and transformation joints I think I can safely say... Cassette player mode it completely do-able. Maybe even intended

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

YoungPrime wrote:Soundwave is a buy on site!

Which site will you buy them on?

Hehehehehehehehe
[quote=“william-james88”] [quote=“YoungPrime”] The MP cassettes will still remain my defaults regardless.

But arent those obscenely huge for a voyager soundwave?[/quote]
Lord knows Ravage ain’t too huge.

And what is the deal with trying to do multiple quotes from the same post? I can’t get it to work right.[/quote]
This site seems to like to mess with that, doing stuff like randomly delete the bracket from one of the tags or inject an extra closing tag. In this case it seems to be outright ignoring an opener tag and possibly double-counting a closer.

MP Ratbat's the same size as his original toy

I doubt it but I really, really hope the new cassettes are compatible with the MP/G1 cassettes. I do love me some cross compatibility.

RiddlerJ wrote:

DecepticonFinishline wrote:Oh man, that backpack on Chromia was really minimized after removing the combiner peg...

The best thing that could've been done was have a combiner peg that could attach or detach from the figure.

Except a combiner peg won't do you any good if there is no 5mm port to attach a hand or foot. That was the other thing removed when Siege Chromia was designed.

Black Hat wrote:I doubt it but I really, really hope the new cassettes are compatible with the MP/G1 cassettes. I do love me some cross compatibility.

These casettes are much smaller.

william-james88 wrote:

Black Hat wrote:I doubt it but I really, really hope the new cassettes are compatible with the MP/G1 cassettes. I do love me some cross compatibility.

These casettes are much smaller.

Ah, that's a shame, bother.

william-james88 wrote:

Black Hat wrote:I doubt it but I really, really hope the new cassettes are compatible with the MP/G1 cassettes. I do love me some cross compatibility.

These casettes are much smaller.

I was hoping to say the same about them being compatible with TR Leader Class SW & Blaster, but obviously for the same reasons, they are much smaller.

The amount of translucent plastic in Prowl's legs worries me. I don't think they've changed it for the Mass market release either.

HasbroToyShop.com has Siege Deluxes for $10 plus 20% off with code ALLNEW and free shipping if you order enough.
This price may be a mistake and may not last.

I just got Hound, Cog and Skytread for about $25 total shipped free!

I submitted this as a news item already.

Bonfireben wrote:HasbroToyShop.com has Siege Deluxes for $10 plus 20% off with code ALLNEW and free shipping if you order enough.
This price may be a mistake and may not last.

I just got Hound, Cog and Skytread for about $25 total shipped free!

I submitted this as a news item already.

Thanks! I got Hound and Sideswipe for 16.94! Wish I'd waited one day on Cog.

Bonfireben wrote:HasbroToyShop.com has Siege Deluxes for $10 plus 20% off with code ALLNEW and free shipping if you order enough.
This price may be a mistake and may not last.

I just got Hound, Cog and Skytread for about $25 total shipped free!

I submitted this as a news item already.

Awesome, that is a heck of a deal. i only wanted Skytread, but even paying shipping it was less than $15. However someone could potentially get all four deluxes for $32 shipped, that is amazing!

Of course one has to wonder, if it's not an error, is Hasbro aware that perhaps there is some severe defect with this product and they are just trying to unload it quickly? I mean I know I just ordered Skytread, which has known defects, but I'm not sure about the others.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:

DecepticonFinishline wrote:Oh man, that backpack on Chromia was really minimized after removing the combiner peg...

The best thing that could've been done was have a combiner peg that could attach or detach from the figure.

Except a combiner peg won't do you any good if there is no 5mm port to attach a hand or foot. That was the other thing removed when Siege Chromia was designed.

They could've left the ports attached too.

What I meant was when they were retooling Chromia, to basically leave the option for her to be a combiner but if people weren't interested in that feature or hated the backback, to just be able to slide that part off.

o.supreme wrote:

Bonfireben wrote:HasbroToyShop.com has Siege Deluxes for $10 plus 20% off with code ALLNEW and free shipping if you order enough.
This price may be a mistake and may not last.

I just got Hound, Cog and Skytread for about $25 total shipped free!

I submitted this as a news item already.

Awesome, that is a heck of a deal. i only wanted Skytread, but even paying shipping it was less than $15. However someone could potentially get all four deluxes for $32 shipped, that is amazing!

Of course one has to wonder, if it's not an error, is Hasbro aware that perhaps there is some severe defect with this product and they are just trying to unload it quickly? I mean I know I just ordered Skytread, which has known defects, but I'm not sure about the others.

Cog appears to be out of stock already, added him to the cart, but wouldn't let me proceed. I did just order the other 3 at the discount and once they arrive, I'll be returning them to Target where I found all 4 deluxes last week.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Bonfireben wrote:HasbroToyShop.com has Siege Deluxes for $10 plus 20% off with code ALLNEW and free shipping if you order enough.
This price may be a mistake and may not last.

I just got Hound, Cog and Skytread for about $25 total shipped free!

I submitted this as a news item already.

Thanks! I got Hound and Sideswipe for 16.94! Wish I'd waited one day on Cog.

HOLY SCRAP! I jumped on that deal! Thanks for the post Bonfireben!

They each came to $7.99 before tax with the ALLNEW promo code. Unbelievable!

Somebody made a big boo boo at the toyshop. Hope they get to keep their job at least until after the holidays.

All gone now. I had SS and ST go out of stock in my cart. Hound is out as well.

I'll play the F5 game for a few. Bummer, what a steal.

I got Sideswipe, Skytread, and Hound. I'm waiting for a shipping confirmation before celebrating.

yeah I guess one way to look at it is...If they come back and say "oh sorry, we messed up", and cancel all those orders, and offer a 20% off coupon (that wont be good for any new product) as compensation, that's one way to know they weren't just trying to dump defective product quickly.

RiddlerJ wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:

DecepticonFinishline wrote:Oh man, that backpack on Chromia was really minimized after removing the combiner peg...

The best thing that could've been done was have a combiner peg that could attach or detach from the figure.

Except a combiner peg won't do you any good if there is no 5mm port to attach a hand or foot. That was the other thing removed when Siege Chromia was designed.

They could've left the ports attached too.

What I meant was when they were retooling Chromia, to basically leave the option for her to be a combiner but if people weren't interested in that feature or hated the backback, to just be able to slide that part off.

Hopefully Generations Select will do a less-stupid Chromia release.

Thanks to due diligence from fellow Seibertron user, Bonfireben, we've learned of a massive sale on Siege Deluxe figures! We don't know at this time if it's a glitch or human error but the prices for the deluxes are currently $10! They are all currently out of stock (as of writing, the only Siege figures in stock are the Micromaster packs for $9.99)

There is also a new promo code that can be used to get 20% off (ALLNEW) and if the order is over $14.99, then its eligible for free shipping.



Does this deal sound too good to be true? Keep an eye out for restocks and try to grab a bargain if you can. Let us know if you succeed in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.

william-james88 wrote:

Black Hat wrote:I doubt it but I really, really hope the new cassettes are compatible with the MP/G1 cassettes. I do love me some cross compatibility.

These casettes are much smaller.

Which is disappointing. Not exactly unexpected because of them being Micromasters, but still. I think the G1 cassettes are basically the right size compared to Generations figures going by the cartoon: Smaller than minibots but not by too much.

On the other hand, with them being smaller you would probably be able to stick at least 2 in TR Soundwave's chest because it was designed for toys larger than the G1 cassettes.

Everything was sold out other than the micromasters, but was able to get them with the promo code and free shipping, so was still worth getting them.

The "HASFAM18" code also works for the same discount and it works on everything, not just new stuff. Got all three Micro Master sets and tossed in PotP Tailgate for $8 each.

Emerje

Man, HTS was raided faster than I could imagine. I was able to pick up one of the micromaster sets, but every deluxe sold out as I was trying to purchase them. This was one heck of a deal, which makes me question wether or not this was intentional. If it was, Hasbro seems to be heavily in the holliday spirit, if not, someone isn't going to have a job at Hasbro much longer.

It probably was intentional, but it's so shocking that I can hardly believe it. What a steal.

starrhero wrote:Man, HTS was raided faster than I could imagine. I was able to pick up one of the micromaster sets, but every deluxe sold out as I was trying to purchase them. This was one heck of a deal, which makes me question wether or not this was intentional. If it was, Hasbro seems to be heavily in the holliday spirit, if not, someone isn't going to have a job at Hasbro much longer.

It probably was intentional, but it's so shocking that I can hardly believe it. What a steal.

Yeah, I'm a little skeptical to.

I was just on TFW2005 bashing HTS for being so slow when it came to releasing new figures. And how I rarely even shopped there anymore then a half hour latter BAM!

Someone posted news that HTS had them and the dlx's were only $9.99, $7.99 with the promo and free shipping. I manage to get Prime, Meg, Sideswipe and Tread. Which were the main ones I wanted anyway (along with Shockwave).

Soooo... the official reveal and promo pics of the Firestormers set I thought I saw was just a dream, wasn't it?

That's... unusual, for my dreams. Imagining a realistic toy reveal.

Jeddostotle7 wrote:Soooo... the official reveal and promo pics of the Firestormers set I thought I saw was just a dream, wasn't it?

That's... unusual, for my dreams. Imagining a realistic toy reveal.

Eh, it happens. I dreamed there was a Combiner Wars Armada Sideways once. Out of curiosity, what did your dream come up with for them, mold and member-wise?

In other news, while I personally did not do anything about that deal, I feel I can fairly confidently say I'm getting Skytread and Hound for Christmas because of this, having passed the info on before everything sold out.

I nabbed three of the deluxes with no problem! I am thankful for the local tip I got about them.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Jeddostotle7 wrote:Soooo... the official reveal and promo pics of the Firestormers set I thought I saw was just a dream, wasn't it?

That's... unusual, for my dreams. Imagining a realistic toy reveal.

Eh, it happens. I dreamed there was a Combiner Wars Armada Sideways once. Out of curiosity, what did your dream come up with for them, mold and member-wise?

It was mostly matching the rumors - Siege Sideswipe mold repainted in G2 colors, Skytread repainted for Slamdance. Don't know if my brain came up with anything for the Battlemaster though.

A lot of people seem to be quite pleased with Siege Hound right now, so I thought I'd share some of my own opinions of the figure. He does look VERY cool. I had originally intended to pass on him, sticking with my Autobot Specialists Hound (redecoed Universe 2008/Classics 2.0/Henkei mold). When I saw him in store, though, I couldn't resist.

Siege Hound is a solid figure. There isn't a lot of obvious gapping in the robot mode, which is quite refreshing. He sports a very dark green this time around, a bit darker than I think we're used too, but the same too can be said of the red used on Siege Sideswipe. Maybe this is part of how Hasbro conveys the "darker and grittier" direction they're going with in Transformers: SIEGE, along with the painted on "battle damage" details. Hound's accessories are great too. He's got his shoulder cannon/holo-emitter, a rifle, and an ammo clip. The three can be arranged in several different configurations. I do wish that, instead of the ammo clip, the shoulder cannon had a missile or something to put in it. It looks kinda "empty" as is, and putting his gun in there leaves him without a handheld weapon.

Hound's Transformation is fun and mostly intuitive. I got hung up on figuring out where to put his arms in alt mode for a while, though. I don't use the instructions unless I absolutely have to. After studying some pictures of Hound in "Jeep" mode for a while, I figured out home the arms work. It's a little sad that they just kind of contort a bit and lazily lay under everything else in vehicle mode. At least they do tab in, but I feel like they could have used some empty space in there a little more creatively. I also have some issue with how the legs fold out and back in during transformation. There's definitely a bit of clearance issue getting them past the roll cage. It's not horrible, and there are a few joints that can help, but you still end up having to "bend" some plastic around other plastic just a bit to get things where they need to go (unless I'm missing something really big).

I'm not sure yet if Siege Hound will be my "display" Hound in the future. I'm sticking with the Autobot Specialist version for now. I did give him the Siege version's gun, though. There is a lot to like about Siege Hound, but I feel, for me at least, the Specialist version has such a good grasp on both the G1 cartoon silhouette, colors, and details that it's hard to really surpass it, especially when Siege Hound skews more G1 toy accurate with the bronze stripe detailing and the stars on the shoulders. I'll post some comparison pics later tonight of Siege, Autobot Specialist, and Unite Warriors Hound.

I'm so over hts having things on sale but never in stock. I was excited when I saw this but lost it when I saw where

I got messaged at work by a member in a Line chat saying the deluxes were at HTS at $9.99. I didn't believe him, went to look at HTS as I was ending my lunch break, saw it was true with the 20% off coupon on top of it, and jumped.

I was going to wait to find them in stores, but at $8 a deluxe and a total of $33.89, when the total would be around $85, I couldn't say no to $50 off.

so now, just to keep an eye on Leaders, battlemasters, and micromasters in stores. Wasn't concerned about getting the micromasters online yet, they can wait for the store.

That moment when you spent all day searching for Siege deluxes just to have them pop up and sell out in the span of driving home... I could punch a kitten right now. Ten kittens!!!

Cheetron wrote:I'm so over hts having things on sale but never in stock. I was excited when I saw this but lost it when I saw where

It's a problem whenever an online store has something on sale - big runs on the inventory are unrestrained by proximity, physically going through the aisles, and checkout lines.

Normally I'm all over this stuff - but I missed this until it was too late. All out of stock except Micros. Bummer....