New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance

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Transformers Dark of the Moon saw Soundwave leave the safety of his orbital post and join his fellow Decepticons in battle on the Earth's surface. In doing so he was forced to abandon his satellite alternative mode and choose one more appropriate for his new surroundings, which turned out to the stylish Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.

Seibertron.com is pleased to present all three flavors of Transformers Dark of Moon Soundwave: Cyberverse Legion, MechTech Deluxe, and Human Alliance with Laserbeak and Dylan Gould. Which version of Soundwave do you find superior? Click any of the links or images below to view the corresponding figure's full high quality gallery.

Soundwave (Deluxe Class, MechTech)
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Soundwave (Human Alliance, MechTech)
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Laserbeak (Human Alliance, MechTech)
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Mr. Dylan Gould (Human Alliance, Humans)
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Soundwave (Cyberverse, Legion Class)
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Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1328988)
Posted by RhA on December 31st, 2011 @ 3:03am CST

HA Soundwave looks so awesome, it hurts. Gets better every time, it seems.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1328989)
Posted by scypris115 on December 31st, 2011 @ 3:15am CST

I like the deluxe version best :grin:

, sure its got kibble but not as much as that HA Soundwave... :SICK:

When are ya gonna put up a gallery of Que/Wheeljack? hope his gallery is as good as these figures, great pictures! :APPLAUSE:

now I REALLY want deluxe Soundwave!

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1328994)
Posted by Samsonator on December 31st, 2011 @ 4:07am CST

For my money, the clear winner here is Deluxe. Fairly accurate vehicle mode, and a robot mode that, while not the most screen accurate, just looks best comparitively. I might get HA Soundwave to give my HA Bee some cannon fodder, with the added bonus of a Dylan for Sam to knock around, but if I only get one of 'em, you can bet it will be Deluxe.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1328998)
Posted by Poyguimogul on December 31st, 2011 @ 4:40am CST

That DLX soundwave... :APPLAUSE:

<(Soundwave is Superior! I'm compatible with G1 Weapons!)

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1328999)
Posted by Autobot032 on December 31st, 2011 @ 5:09am CST

Samsonator wrote:For my money, the clear winner here is Deluxe. Fairly accurate vehicle mode, and a robot mode that, while not the most screen accurate, just looks best comparitively. I might get HA Soundwave to give my HA Bee some cannon fodder, with the added bonus of a Dylan for Sam to knock around, but if I only get one of 'em, you can bet it will be Deluxe.

According to what I heard from a friend, one of the convention panels said that the Deluxes had to capture as much of the CGI model as possible. So, basically, DX Soundwave is pretty accurate.

He's also a pain to transform.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329003)
Posted by Baha08 on December 31st, 2011 @ 5:52am CST

HA Soundwave still makes me sad though, it's like they tried too hard to save money so not only did they not paint him (Hell they could have gave him the dark gray the Legion Class Soundwave had) but they shrunk him down that he is towered over by HA Jazz. And HA Jazz was compact and he roughly reaches up to BB's head.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329006)
Posted by Autobot032 on December 31st, 2011 @ 6:04am CST

Baha08 wrote:HA Soundwave still makes me sad though, it's like they tried too hard to save money so not only did they not paint him (Hell they could have gave him the dark gray the Legion Class Soundwave had) but they shrunk him down that he is towered over by HA Jazz. And HA Jazz was compact and he roughly reaches up to BB's head.

I can't speak for the HA version, but the Deluxe is fine as is. The way he transforms, you'd chip or rub off all of the paint, in time. He'd look awful.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329008)
Posted by Baha08 on December 31st, 2011 @ 6:06am CST

Yeah Deluxe isn't too bothersome but they could go with the dark plastic used on legion Soundwave. Though HA Soundwave looks off, and I bet anything if they engineered the legs like they did to Jazz it wouldn't be as bad.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329012)
Posted by Va'al on December 31st, 2011 @ 7:11am CST

Hm.

I guess I will get the Deluxe after all.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329105)
Posted by Noideaforaname on December 31st, 2011 @ 1:07pm CST

Finally, more DOTM galleries!

I like the Legends and HA (incidentally, I have Barricade in those two classes, too), so I'll get those... whenever they get released.

While I'd like a Deluxe Soundwave to go with my WfC and eventual Prime SWs, I don't like this one at all; that tab "floating" between the legs just kills it. I'll have to pass on that one. Besides, I have plans for a custom movieverse Deluxe.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329106)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on December 31st, 2011 @ 1:11pm CST

Everyone's going for the Deluxe, and so am I. I'm not much of a HA collector anyway. Where's Legion Laserbeak?

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329110)
Posted by kirbenvost on December 31st, 2011 @ 1:34pm CST

I've been considering the deluxe, but that is a horrible unpainted shade of grey, so I'm not so sure. However, then I see an image like this, which admittedly still pretty dang awesome:

So maybe I will still get it. Perhaps they'll do a better repaint later, who knows.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329118)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on December 31st, 2011 @ 2:04pm CST

Movie Trilogy Soundwave superior:

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329157)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on December 31st, 2011 @ 4:05pm CST

the deluxe version is ruined by the bad coloring and the back kibble, HA is just horrible all around & legends has balancing issues from what ive heard, horrible coloring & a bad head sculpt. These are 3 soundwaves that i will not be hunting down, even if they do G1 style repaints. I never would've thought that id ever say those words but thanks to bay i just did. Well at least ill be saving $50.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329178)
Posted by Seibertron on December 31st, 2011 @ 5:05pm CST

Your responses are very interesting to me. I was very disappointed in the deluxe class figure. The delay with these figures might have built up a level of expectation in my head that was unobtainable. Aside from the lack of paint in the Human Alliance Soundwave, I was overall rather pleased with it and think it comes much closer to matching his on-screen appearance than the deluxe class pulls off. Neither figure is perfect unfortunately, which is a bummer because Soundwave is my all-time favorite Transformers character. Hopefully this isn't the last movie Soundwave mold that we see. I think Hasbro can do better.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329182)
Posted by Doubledealer93 on December 31st, 2011 @ 5:26pm CST

i am getting human alliance and deluxe. =P~

wannnntttt =P~

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329198)
Posted by Va'al on December 31st, 2011 @ 6:52pm CST

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Movie Trilogy Soundwave superior:

I have to say, that one does look much better..

Might wait till then.
(When is then?)

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329199)
Posted by BATTOUSAIXD on December 31st, 2011 @ 6:52pm CST

HA soundwave looks better the more I see it and the deluxe looks good as well. I'll have to get both of them

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329207)
Posted by Treetop Maximus on December 31st, 2011 @ 7:01pm CST

How the hell did Ryan obtain all three? :???:

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329209)
Posted by Seibertron on December 31st, 2011 @ 7:07pm CST

Treetop Maximus wrote:How the hell did Ryan obtain all three?

Cyberverse Legion Soundwave is available at retail currently at Target and Walmart stores.

Takara Tomy's Human Alliance Soundwave was released in Japan two or three weeks ago and is currently sold out at BBTS: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail

Takara Tomy's Deluxe Class Soundwave came out a week or two ago in Japan and was available at BBTS starting last week: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329218)
Posted by Treetop Maximus on December 31st, 2011 @ 7:46pm CST

Oh, that explains it. Thanks for answering! :lol:

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329334)
Posted by Va'al on January 1st, 2012 @ 7:29am CST

Seibertron wrote:Your responses are very interesting to me. I was very disappointed in the deluxe class figure. The delay with these figures might have built up a level of expectation in my head that was unobtainable. Aside from the lack of paint in the Human Alliance Soundwave, I was overall rather pleased with it and think it comes much closer to matching his on-screen appearance than the deluxe class pulls off. Neither figure is perfect unfortunately, which is a bummer because Soundwave is my all-time favorite Transformers character. Hopefully this isn't the last movie Soundwave mold that we see. I think Hasbro can do better.

I guess the comments could also be seen as a compliment to the lighting and photography skills.

I don't think Soundwave (Deluxe) looks as bad as in previous pictures. Not amazing, but not bad. JelZe's post though kind of stopped me from going into frenzy mode. :grin:

I do agree that the waiting time has hyped up the figures and possibly lowered expectations.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329456)
Posted by Seibertron on January 1st, 2012 @ 1:47pm CST

Va'al wrote:I guess the comments could also be seen as a compliment to the lighting and photography skills.

Thanks Va'al! I appreciate the compliment. I treat all of the Transformers toys the same, regardless of how I personally feel about them. Wheelie gets as much love as Overlord in my book.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329533)
Posted by Lockdown91 on January 1st, 2012 @ 6:03pm CST

Only really interested in the deluxe. Anyone know when he's supposed to be on the shelves in the UK?

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329567)
Posted by Samsonator on January 1st, 2012 @ 8:48pm CST

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

NowI will have to get the regular one (for custom painting, maybe) AND the Trilogy version. That thing is totally Movie Soundblaster

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329756)
Posted by WasPWNator on January 2nd, 2012 @ 12:46pm CST

DOTM Soundwave is growing on me (though I do think his satellite mode was much better) but his alt mode in all these figures just looks like it hadn't been painted yet. I don't like that shade of grey at all.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329762)
Posted by Seibertron on January 2nd, 2012 @ 1:14pm CST

WasPWNator wrote:DOTM Soundwave is growing on me (though I do think his satellite mode was much better) but his alt mode in all these figures just looks like it hadn't been painted yet. I don't like that shade of grey at all.

It's a weird shade of grey. Usually grey color schemes are one of the easiest color schemes for me to photograph, but not with this shade. I had to take a lot of photos with varying levels of saturation and contrast to get the best pictures my camera could take.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1329814)
Posted by Dead Metal on January 2nd, 2012 @ 4:34pm CST

Call me crazy, but to me the best looking one is the Legion version.

The HA one looks horrible and stores all of it's mass in his torso, plus it's unpainted.

The deluxe is pretty cool sculpt wise, but the fact that he's almost completely grey and has a completely silver painted face without any colour differences anywhere on his body just make it look cheap and tacky. It's the Sideways of DOTM.

The Legion version isn't very screen accurate nor does it have a lot of paint, but it's a crappy, tiny, cheap toy in a class that is known for that, so it gets a free pass.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1330843)
Posted by Bounti76 on January 5th, 2012 @ 10:12pm CST

I already have Legion Soundwave, got that a few weeks back. Which one I get will depend on which I see on the shelves first, HA Soundwave or Deluxe, but both are cool to me. The only thing in the galleries that bothered me was Soundwave's bio on his HA package....it kind of makes it seem like Soundwave and Laserbeak were under human control, when the movie pretty much explicitly stated it was the other way around....I only hope that's the Japanese packaging bio, and we'll get one that makes Soundwave awesome again.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1332948)
Posted by Noideaforaname on January 12th, 2012 @ 2:55pm CST

Finally got a hold of a Legends Soundwave, though I noticed he's slightly different from the one in the gallery. Mine has added detail to the car grill and some of the other vents.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1332962)
Posted by Delicon on January 12th, 2012 @ 3:23pm CST

As always, great pics. I like my Soundwaves big (seriously, other than the Cybertron Soundwave, why so many freakishly tiny SW's since G1?) so I'll be going with the Human Alliance version.

I do have to say though that through the last 2 movies, Soundwave was one of the worst characters in terms of getting screen accurate figures, especially his ROTF molds. These as I said are better than the last films so that is at least a plus.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1333026)
Posted by Seibertron on January 12th, 2012 @ 5:44pm CST

Noideaforaname wrote:Finally got a hold of a Legends Soundwave, though I noticed he's slightly different from the one in the gallery. Mine has added detail to the car grill and some of the other vents.

Can you post a pic? I'd love to get a variant of this figure if mine is different.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1333084)
Posted by Noideaforaname on January 12th, 2012 @ 7:42pm CST

Not my picture, but you can see the lattice-type pattern on the chest-grill. They're also on the air vents on the side and hood, though unpainted.

Pretty damn intricate for the size-class.

Re: New Toy Galleries: Transformers Dark of the Moon Soundwave Cyberverse, Deluxe, and Human Alliance (1333094)
Posted by Seibertron on January 12th, 2012 @ 8:13pm CST

Noideaforaname wrote:Not my picture, but you can see the lattice-type pattern on the chest-grill. They're also on the air vents on the side and hood, though unpainted.

Pretty damn intricate for the size-class.

Wow. That's cool. Thanks for pointing this out. Thanks to you, I now realize that I have the variant as well (I have an extra sealed). The later variant has 12341 stamped on the back while the other one has 12161. Interesting. Even odder is that I think I bought the variant with the lattice-type pattern first when the figure first came out, but the stamped number on the back shows that the variant with the pattern came second. Can anyone else confirm which one came first?