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SithMaster:

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--- Quote from: SithMaster on January 04, 2008, 03:33:53 pm ---Heres a project for soundwave fans.  Fit an mp3 player inside his chest.  If i could find one that didnt go over 10 dollars one ebay id have gotten one and done that mod already.

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There already is one:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/15/soundwave-transformer-gets-mp3-player-upgrade/

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Wheres the fun in that.  At least they let him still transform unlike the cassette version originally made.

Okay heres another idea.  Has anyone seen the new movie handheld game transformers?  Add one of the cheap handheld pcbs to it.  Such a great franchise and all we get are terrible optimus head computers.

Howard_Casto:
At first I really liked the soundwave sd players and then I realized how horribly out of date and cludged together the concept actually was.  He might be an mp3 player, but he looks like a cassette player, which doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense.  I would like to see this done properly, as in a complete re-design of soundwave into a mp3 player that actually looks like an mp3 player. 

It could be done to.  The key would be to use the guts of a small, sd-based mp3 player (like a sansa) but base the design off one of the larger hd-based ones, giving plenty of room for robot limbs in the guts.  My money would be on basing it on the first gen zune.  It's large and blocky, so the robot mode could resemble his original form, unlike some players (cough, cough ipod) it has plent of manly colors available, and it has plenty of natural seams on the device, which would make the mp3-mode's look a little less "mp3 player cut into 14 pieces" looking.  In leu of cassette helpers, the player's accessories could transform into helper bots.  Ravage could transform out of the dock, rumble and/or frenzy could tranform from a car kit (think the cigarette lighter adaptor) and laserbeak could transform from either the remote, or better yet, the actual sd card!  (You'd use a MICRO sd card and have the full-sized adaptor do the transforming, re-routing all the leads so that it actually works, of course.)  Making the helpers out of different accessories would help to make their robot modes a little less forced.  (Rumble and frenzy always looked ok, but laserbeak was a tad fat for a bird and ravage was the flattest cat in history.)



Blaster could be updated as well.  Far more easily actually...  take a jvc kaboom box, or something similar and hack away.  Heck make it more current and have blaster transform into a x-m radio home unit!

 :soapbox:
That would fix the scale issue as well, which always bothered me about those two toys in paticular.  You see a lot of people are confused as to what soundwave actually transformed into.  He did NOT transform into a cassette player, he transformed into a mirco cassette recorder, similar to the kinds still used in colleges today.  Now granted the design was kinda sketchy, with the control buttons on the face instead of the top, but the fact that he was supposed to be a micro recorder is evident by the words "micro cassette" written on the front of the toy and the lack of any visible speakers or headphone jack.  It was a very clever design because real MC's from the era were the same scale as the helper bots.  Then they went and ruined it by making blaster use the same size cassettes!  Since blaster obviously looked like a boom box, everyone (including the writers on the show) assumed they both used full sized cassettes and thus totally ruined soundwave!  Soundwave should fit in your hand, while blaster should be the size of a full-fledged 80's boom box.  While I understand the reason they shrunk the toy (a 3 foot tall transformer would be a little much) I still resent the fact that the helper bots were re-hashed for each toy, with rumble and frenzy having autobot re-paints, making people confused on the scale. 

Eh sorry about that... one of my toy nerd pet-peeves. 

Anyway, I really wish some kit-bashers would go ahead and make a true soundwave mp3 player design.  If somebody would do a good enough job I'd even fit in the working mp3 guts and hack the firmware for a decepticon theme. 

Howard_Casto:
I think a hand-held could be done fairly easily as well.  Take your favorite tv games plug-n-play game and install it in a transform-able gba, adding a psone lcd (or something similar) for a screen of course.  If you wanted to get fancy, you could take a gba micro and install it in the first-gen gba and then you'd have a true portable player. 


Hmm... I might have to do that one myself.  :)


Another idea for an update of the old bots might be an updated reflector.  With today's digital camera's it might be possible to make them a working (although probably pretty crappy) digital camera.  It'd be tough to make a camera with working guts split into three seperate robots though. 

Just a reminder, most of these ideas have been explored in the real gear line, but the end results were both non-working, and rather cheesy looking.  They also lacked a bit of thought in the realism of the design.

http://hasbro.com/default.cfm?page=ps_results&prevpage=browse&keyword=real+gear&x=0&y=0

Booster x10 is a prime example of this.  They take a player that looks fairly soundwave-ish and have it transform into laserbeak? On top of that the "screen" is both blank and has a seam down the middle of it, totally ruining the illusion.  And what's up with the bluetooth headphone?  Boy I know I sure love to pretend it's 1950 and listen to my mp3s in glorious MONO sound.  ;)

SithMaster:
Actually the micro would work well perhaps with that real gear handheld on that page you linked.

I completely agree about making soundwave into a zune.  I think the main problem with him in the cartoon was the same as megatron in certain eps.  He could be held by a human and a giant robot without looking out of scale.

SirPeale:
Bumping this for NY_IN_TX.  Discussions will include the ending Movie line, and the upcoming Animated line.

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