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.
 

lastmaximal

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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.)
 

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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