![]() In eight out of every ten cases, pewter Soundblaster came packaged with the right leg of this wave's Grand Maximus build-a-figure. The full-color version is actually cast in transparent red plastic and painted over entirely save his chest-window. This time, the figure was available in a variant metallic silver "pewter" color scheme, at the same ratio of one each per standard case. Soundwave's PVC was recolored into his black Headmasters incarnation, Soundblaster, for the sixth SCF Act. More information on Decoy Soundwave at TFU.info.Unsurprisingly, this red figurine is much rarer. Like all Decepticon Decoys, he was a randomly-chosen pack-in available with the carded Throttlebots, Stunticons, Combaticons, and Terrorcons, and was, very early on in the promotion, available in an alternate red coloration that was only packed in with the Throttlebots. The Soundwave figurine was later brought over to Hasbro markets as part of the Decoy promotion, largely identical to the Japanese release except for the fact that the number on his back was replaced with a simple "checklist" number (36, in Soundwave's case). A peach-colored version of Soundwave could be found packed in various other multi-packs the following year, and in numerous other colours as part of the blindpacked Transformers Ramune line. The figure features a number etched into its back which is the sum total of Soundwave's Tech Spec ratings, which served some function in the gameplay the figures were used for. This small purple rubber figurine of Soundwave was released in Japan as part of a large multi-pack of similar figures, which were used as playing pieces for Transformers board games. Destron Hero Collection 22 (multi-pack, 1985).More information on Transformers Gum Soundwave at a Japanese fan blog.This Soundwave figure was later re-released in 1997 by a Korean company named Toon Town, in a two-pack with the "Transformers Gum" version of Optimus Prime. Although Transformers Gum versions of some of Soundwave's cassettes would later be released, they proved too large to fit in Gum Soundwave's chest he could, however, accommodate the smaller cassettes released as part of Kabaya's other candy toy model kit series, Transformers Choco. ![]() Although armed with only one of his guns and lacking the ability to store it in his battery compartment like the original toy could, he retains his opening chest door. Released in the first wave of the series and standing at about four inches tall, he was moulded from red, black and grey plastic and featured stickers for detail. ![]() A model kit of Soundwave was available as part of Kabaya's Transformers Gum range of figures. ![]()
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