Hasbro’s Transformers War For Cybertron: Siege line is currently in stores and offers fans the next chapter with an all-new trilogy of toylines planned for the next three years. Transformers War For Cybertron: Siege continues where the Prime Wars trilogy left off, and introduces Battle Masters, which are similar to Targetmasters that can combine with other weapons and figures, and these have blast effects that work with other Transformers figures such as Soundwave.
Thank you to Hasbro for providing Soundwave, Ravage and Laserbeak for review. These were sent out as part of their Transformers 35th Anniversary PR box.
Availability: March 2019
Soundwave is given a very detailed sculpt that includes battle damage deco on the front of the cassette player door and lower legs, which is a detail that you normally don’t see on this character. Transformers War For Cybertron: Siege takes the level of detail on these Transformers toys much further than Hasbro has introduced before, including new sculpted details as shown on the figure and complete paint applications.
Soundwave stands at roughly 6-1/4″ tall in robot mode, and can transform into a space ship, and a third mode called the lamppost mode, which is shown that is hidden on one of the flaps from the bottom of the box.
In robot mode, he can store Ravage or Laserbeak in tape mode inside his chest, as well as stored on his shoulders. The shoulder mounted cannon is also removable and his two blasters can be stored on either his hands or on his back. His head sculpt is nicely done and he has yellow translucent eyes and light can pass through the top of his head to allow them to light-up. There is a lot of detail in this mode, including the front of the cassette player that has the battle damage, and the only Decepticon logo on his body.
His weapons can also connect to form a Sonic Compression Mega-Blaster, which two hands are required to hold it, and because of the size he’s limited as to to how he can be displayed like this.
In spaceship mode, (which is harder to transform then it looks and we actually had to look at images online rather than use Hasbro’s instruction manual as it was hard to read at times), he can fly around through space and report back to Megatron and other Decepticons. This mode has some nice details such as a cockpit, tiny blasters, and pegs to store the Micromasters and blast effects on. The angled pods tend to fall easily, and the cannon and blaster can be stored on them. The cassette player is in the back, so in this mode you cannot see it facing forward.
The lamppost mode is actually unnecessary, and is not even shown on the official product instructions. Most fans might not want to transform him in this mode, but it at least worth mentioning in this review.
Ravage and Laserbeak are nicely done and are part of the Micomasters line. Each figure is painted in their respective G1 colors, and sized appropriately to Soundwave. In their beast modes, they can be displayed anywhere or on Soundwave in either robot or space ship mode.
Overall, Soundwave, Laserbeak and Ravage are all excellent figures with some great sculpting and deco applied. Transformers fans of any era should be picking up these figures, as the quality alone is well worth it. You can find these in stores (if you’re lucky enough to find these on store shelves), but we would appreciate it if you support us through one of our valued partners as mentioned below:
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The backdrop used was The Arc that Hasbro offered one year at San Diego Comic-Con, which came with Dinobot movie figures that were repainted.