When I went to the Baltimore Comic Con, I stopped by my friend Matt's place and checked out his Soundwave collection. He's taken it upon himself to get every G1 Soundwave packaging/figure variant. And I'm not talking about the periodic TRU reissue from the 2000s, but the real G1 Soundwave releases from the mid-80's heyday of Transformers. There are more packaging variants than you might think, so it's a pretty daunting task. Check out these pics of Matt's incredible collection.
Matt devoted one of those IKEA cases to his collection. The bottom shelf isn't Soundwave related (for shame!) but I'll bet as soon as he picks up his last few Soundwaves, he'll retask the shelf. Check out close-ups for each Soundwave shelf below.
Top: Soundwave, loose and boxed (US/Japan), along with his cassette buddies.
Second from Top: Soundblaster (black Soundwave) with a couple more Soundwave packaging variants. I love the Soundblaster illustration in the back.
Third from Top: More Soundwave packaging variants, with a Bruticus reissue and clear Optimus Prime.
Eventually, I want to do a Toy Tribute of his Soundwave collection, properly documenting each packaging variant. That is, assuming he doesn't make a website himself. Great collection, Matt!
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Great pics, thanks for showcasing my Soundwave collection! Here's a few notes on the various figures on display.
Top Shelf
- Bi-lingual Canadian Soundwave MIB
- Japanese Takara Microman CassetteMan MIB
- My Childhood US Soundwave loose (tapeplayer)
- Japanese Microman CassetteMan loose
- US Rubsign Soundwave loose
- Various Decepticon cassettes
- "Ghost" Rumble and Laserbeak KOs
2nd Shelf
- Japanese Soundblaster MIB
- Japanese Soundwave MIB with Headphones and Microphone
- US Pre-Rub Soundwave MIB
- Reissue Bookshelf Soundblaster loose
- Takara Ghost Starscream loose
3rd Shelf
- Multilingual European Soundwave MIB
- US Rubsign Soundwave MIB
- Takara Encore Soundwave MIB
- Snow Camo Bruticus holding WST Shockwave
- Clear Optimus KO
Bottom Shelf
- MOC Combaticon Brawl
- RID Bruticus
- Walmart Masterpiece Starscream
- 12" Darth Maul
- Microman Godzilla figures
Other Soundwaves in my collection not in the display cases:
- TRU Soundwave Reissue MIB
- Bookshelf Takara Soundwave MIB
- Bookshelf Takara Soundblaster MIB
- SDCC Soundwave MIB
- Shiantai CassetteMan Chinese KO
Soundwaves that are missing from my collection (if anybody knows where I can get these, let me know!):
- European Milton Bradley Soundwave
- Soundwave and Grimlock Japanese VSY
I hope everybody enjoys the pictures! One of these days we can document the differences between all of the different variations.
Awesome, thanks for the photos, and thank you, Matt, for the rundown on what's included. I had no idea there were so many variations out there.
As most transformers fans, I love me some Soundwave, mostly because he was one of only two genuine transformers toys that we had in our household growing up (Optimus Prime was the other).
It was so moving to get him I even remember my dad buying it for my brother and me at an Eckerd one saturday morning, my brother convinced him that we had to have it because he was the best decepticon and we wouldn't be able to find him again in stores (and I don't recall ever seeing him anywhere else either).
The rest of our ranks had to be filled out with Go-bots, or whatever cheaper knock-offs were available at the Skaggs down the road.
Fantastic collection!
Wow! I had no idea there was a transparent G1 Optimus. Thats a pretty impressive collection of oldschool toys!
Soundwave superior Constructicons Inferior!
No G2 soundwave? Shame! :D
Very nice collection of Soundwaves!
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