Rumor/Leak on next Lego TF: Soundwave!

Platypus Prime

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So Lego Soundwave costs about $180, which gives you 1505 bricks you put together to make three transformable bricks and one small nontransforming brick. Assuming I have this right...

We need to find a way to install electronics that can go haywire during an update, so the brick made of bricks can get bricked.

Brickception...
 
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Sabrblade

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Is this because of his presumably turning into a tank? I wouldn't expect to see him turn into an Abrams or anything, but I don't see why a Megatron who turns into a Cybertronian tank would be any more unlikely than any of the Lego Star Wars tank sets.
Guess it's worth mentioning that Joe Kyde pretty much confirmed at BotCon that Lego will not be touching Megatron, period.
 

Anonymous X

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I had no intention to buy this, or any of the previous Lego figures, but I'm still actively annoyed that Soundwave's bundled with Laserbeak, and not (as is proper tradition*) Buzzsaw. Bah.

* except in Japan, obv.
 

Fullstrength Motleypuss

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I had no intention to buy this, or any of the previous Lego figures, but I'm still actively annoyed that Soundwave's bundled with Laserbeak, and not (as is proper tradition*) Buzzsaw. Bah.

* except in Japan, obv.
The great thing is, with this being Lego, you can easily substitute yellow or gold pieces for the red!
 

Platypus Prime

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Well, a great many kids in the 80's probably just took the bird and called it Laserbeak anyway, so they probably went with the more famous one for name recognition, like Hasbro keeps doing.

Which could lead to an expansion of the Rumble/Frenzy meme to be "Laserbeak is Red, Buzzsaw is Gold"* with that * going to a subnote saying *unless your parents were the sort who said 'you already have that one in a different color' and wouldn't buy the extra cassette pack, so you had to improvise.
 

Sabrblade

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It's not cowardice, it's policy. Lego doesn't touch real-world present-day military vehicles like tanks, which as far as Hasbro is concerned is Megatron's official altmode. And Lego especially won't make a tank that transforms into what is basically Space Hitler. Like, Megatron's helmet is literally a polygonal-stylized Nazi helmet.
 

Platypus Prime

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Forget the tank, take a long thin grey piece, stick a single black piece on the back, put a long black piece under that, and then on top of the long grey one, put a short black block and a longer black one. Now you have a Lego G1 Megatron GUN mode!
 

Agent X

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Hot Take:

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LBD "Nytetrayn"

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LBD Nytetrayn may have been being facetious with that, but this is good information to bring up now and again.

(An Animated Megatron would be neat.)
I had hoped my reputation would precede me in such matters by now.

Which, I dunno, I guess it 50% did?

It's not cowardice, it's policy. Lego doesn't touch real-world present-day military vehicles like tanks, which as far as Hasbro is concerned is Megatron's official altmode. And Lego especially won't make a tank that transforms into what is basically Space Hitler. Like, Megatron's helmet is literally a polygonal-stylized Nazi helmet.

Okay, is it the character they won't touch, or his common alt mode? Because it was the former that prompted my response.

Because just in the last couple of years, we've got a bull Megatron and a tiltrotor aircraft. I feel like they could find something for him.

Also, I don't think they're so bothered by the Nazi thing that they can't work around it to some degree, re: LEGO Indiana Jones.

 

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LordGigaIce

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It's not cowardice, it's policy. Lego doesn't touch real-world present-day military vehicles like tanks, which as far as Hasbro is concerned is Megatron's official altmode. And Lego especially won't make a tank that transforms into what is basically Space Hitler. Like, Megatron's helmet is literally a polygonal-stylized Nazi helmet.
Dude's helmet is a Stahlhelm, yeah, but in fairness that was the inspiration for Darth Vader's helmet too and Lego Darth Vader exists... but then again Vader never turned into a Nazi-aligned pistol either so... yeah... it's tricky.

Like the Danes got occupied by the Nazis and Lego is a Danish company. I get it.

Okay, is it the character they won't touch, or his common alt mode? Because it was the former that prompted my response.
What's funny about Megatron from a character perspective is that whenever someone deems it necessary to give him a character beyond "Saturday morning cartoon villain" he either ends up a revolutionary who goes too far and falls into tyranny of he ends up a straight up fascist. And sometimes both.
Like IDW Megs was very clearly patterned after a mix of Lenin and Stalin who later realized his good intentions had gone very wrong and tried to make amends... a lot of the IDW 'Cons are very Soviet coded in all the good and bad ways... but then IDW has the Decepticon prison camp Grindcore. And while the Soviets had their gulags, IDW Grindcore was very explicitly Auschwitz coded. And Megatron had a few rants about organic "racial inferiority." So he's a Soviet allegory who has elements of Nazi allegory worked in.
And IDW Megs did a lot to set the tone for how he's understood going forward. Aligned, Cyberverse, TFO, and ES Megs are all playing on a variation of IDW's take.

Megatron truly is someone who can be whatever version of historic tyranny you want him to be, or he could just be evil for the lulz (which is, frankly, sort of refreshing lately after so much emphasis on giving him depth over the past two decades).

How comfortable Lego is with that may depend. They're quite happy to do Star Wars, Marvel, and DC sets, some of which are based on factions or characters with real world authoritarian leanings. The after-mentioned Darth Vader/Galactic Empire being very Nazi coded. I'm pretty sure Lego Red Skull and Red Guardian exist, to cover the right and left sides of totalitarianism.

But they don't have the added handicap of being tied to designs that Lego just won't make, period, like a Walther P-38, or a tank, or even a realistic helicopter gunship.

Like I guess they could do something like TFO Megatron with a space tank alt mode that's so clearly not a real tank it's fine... but also... this line is very G1 heavy, and they'd probably want to do G1 Megatron specifically.... who doesn't have a great alt mode option given Lego's conditions.
 
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Haywire

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The other reality is, how many more of these will Lego make? The 18+ sets tend to be one-offs, and the fact that we even got 1 Lego Transformer, let alone 3, is pretty awesome! They could probably stop there and call it good.

..though if they did want to do more Lego Decepticons, there's always the Constructicons...
 

Stepwise

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Brothers Brick and Brickset have the announcement up.

Looks really cool, and turned out better than Bumblebee. $180ish, so I probably won't go for it until the price comes down. (Hopefully.) Also looks like 6 pieces could be swapped out to get Buzzsaw instead of Laserbeak.
 

Platypus Prime

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Oh...saw the promo video, THAT'S a 'sound brick'...

Well, I can't say they didn't choose an appropriate toy to include it with!
 


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