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(Can I just unilaterally declare this toy is SG Buzzsaw and have it officially be so, or so I have to do a new strip where he's a little golder than he was previously?) They are held in by nothing more than teensy-tiny bumps and friction.Īnyway, I already have identities figured out for the non SG Buzzsaw/SG Ratbat guys in this set, so I guess look forward to those, if you're a Transformers Collectors' Club subscriber. Man, no wonder everyone loses this guy's ears. And so I spent the first few minutes of opening this guy unscrewing him open so I could set things right and then screw him back together again. My Ratbat came misassembled, with his tippy-toes pointed inside his own cassette mode torso in such a way that you can't flip them out for bat mode. I'm guessing the many, many stock image photographers did not get a copy of these instructions, because there is a myriad of hilariously mismatched guys-and-accessories image sets. There's a fold-out instructions booklet that features recolored Soundwave's box art in gold and simple instructions for everybody, because everyone's pretty simple, because these are 19 dudes. Inside the packaging is the usual plastic tray that the toys sit in, but this plastic tray is flocked in purple so it looks like velvet. The whole thing comes in a special packaging that looks like a larger black Soundwave with a cassette player inside that says "LINKIN PARK/TRANSFORMERS MIX" on it. Who's Buzzsaw? Who's Laserbeak? WHO KNOWS! And because this set comes with both Buzzsaw and Laserbeak, and because everyone is solid gold plastic, it means you get two identical guys. Linkin Park got the chance to design their own color scheme for Soundwave and four of his friends, and they went for solid gold plastic. Of course, no matter way you slice it, I still have this group of expensive butterscotch-colored Transformers. See those other guys, including the duplicate Laserbeak/Buzzsaw? I have the ability to make them new characters, though the magic of of a certain corner of canon which I uniquely wield. See that gold Ratbat? Totally civilian-mode SG Ratbat. Generally that time comes after he's drawn a bunch of official comics about tape cassette guys and these new gold tape cassette guys either fill in some blanks or offer potential for the future! See that gold Laserbeak/Buzzsaw? Totally SG Buzzsaw. There comes a time in a man's life when he's willing to buy limited-edition Linkin Park crossbranded Transformers robots. Have I ever mentioned that? I probably have. I understand why this is a thing that has occurred, but it's still something Ratbat's engineering suffers that the others don't, to the best of my recollection.Īnd he's leader of the Decepticons. He's got little sculpted cassette spools in his chest right next to his actual cassette spools in his shoulders. The only thing that bugs me about him is his fake kibble. And he's way less fragile-feeling than Ravage. He's just a tiny bit more complicated than them, but not so much that it's annoying. And, like the condors, it's pretty amazing that it works. You don't pop those gold chrome weapons into him at the end - those parts are built into him from the start.
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Just like the two condors and Ravage, all his parts are integrated into his transformation. WHICH HE'D DAMN WELL BETTER BE, CONSIDERING. Meanwhile, I'll find Bigfoot.Īnyway, Ratbat himself is pretty great. It was kind of funny to see some folks claiming they'd just buy Ratbat separately, loose, on eBay, from those who only wanted the Black Soundwave. Nobody's buying him for the black Soundwave, and if they were, they probably also want, you know, Ratbat. And, hey, I have pornlord money now, so pornlord money spent!Īnd, yeah, it's not like it's going to be lucrative to unload the unwanted 90% of this arrangement on eBay. I don't expect to see Ratbat released in any other manner - would Toys"R"Us USA bother with a black Soundwave and a bat? - and so a bullet was bitten. But Masterpiece Soundblaster and his one exclusive little guy is about $150 depending on where you get him from. I paid about $70 to get Enemy and Wingthing. I paid $20 to get Fall of Cybertron Buzzsaw. I've bought Soundblasters to get exclusive Recordicons before, but the Soundblaster-to-Recordicon ratio has never been quite so staggering. As I've stated previously, the two kind of look the same if you squint. Masterpiece Ratbat comes with Masterpiece Soundblaster, who is Soundwave with his blues swapped out for black. In fact, I'm pretty sure I'd be in pretty big trouble. Ratbat is an expert at shrewdly spending resources, and so I don't think he'd be pleased by how much I paid just to get him.