Decepticon Microcassettes: Where’S Soundwave?
August 25th, 2009
A robot that turns into a microcassette player seems like an awfully dumb idea – once it transforms it’s so small that even a 10-year old can smash it to bits – but Takara & Hasbro have pulled it off. The robot was originally called – drum roll please – Cassetteman; fortunately his name was changed to the infinitely more awesome Soundwave. Part of what makes Soundwave such a hit are his microcassette minions, aka cassettetrons.
J-List is now offering a pack that features 4 of Soundwaves’ minions…but without a Soundwave toy to go along. That’s like Billy Lee without Jimmy Lee. A Single Dragon. That’s just bad and wrong. Oh yeah pics:
I can’t read Japanese so I’m going to take a guess and say that that’s Rumble on the far left, followed by his palette-swap, Frenzy. Unless it’s the other way around. But I’m quite sure that the T-rex is Overkill, and the falcon of course is the infamous Laserbeak.
Cram that into your little heads, kids: a microcassette (ask your elders what that is) that turns into a dinosaur. How’s that for imagination. If Transformers was conceptualized today, these four would probably be micro SD cards. Which would make Soundwave a card reader. Good thing that’s not the case. These diabolical storage media can be yours for a mere $45 (USD) at J-List. They’re listed as Vol. 3 of a collection, but J-List doesn’t have Vol. 1 & Vol. 2. No Soundwave toy either.
[via Random Good Stuff]
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I love transformers, I watched it when I was a kid and was so happy when I found it here: http://www.homegardenncs.com/rd_p?skipRedirect=1&p=191614&t=9532&a=18067-transformers&c=&gift=16893
You were correct in the names of the first three names. For some reason, the caption under Laserbeak says “Condor”
However, when you look closely at the caption it looks like a text field that was being edited. Maybe it was supposed to read “Re-za-bi-ku”
Weird.