@@chromethang1911 oh no I care about using words accurately. If people don't stick to what wirds mean it means they have no value. Words are an extremely good tool. To misuse that tool can only create confusion, therefore defeating the point of words. But hey if you want to sound stupid be my guest.
The perfect example of the "good but boring" vs "bad but interesting" argument indeed, I have both and yeah, you learn to love both for different reasons.
The hexagon accessories with Universe 08 Blaster, based on their description in Soundwave's Cybertron toy blurb, are apparently supposed to be Cybertronian versions of Bouncing Betties. They're giant-ass bombs! EDIT: I think the majority of the Cybertron Soundwave mold's issues could have been solved by not having the nosecone as a dangly bit on his wrist. They could have incorporated it into his feet somehow, which also would have given him better feet to stand on.
@@misterbadguy7325 And the Fun Publications continuity, for that matter! He shows up in the panel where Nexus Prime performed The Shrouding to make multiverse crossovers less common.
Blaster's alt mode may not be helpful to the Autobots, but I think it perfectly reflects who he is. He's a partybringer, a friend, a fun-loving goofball who wants to bring joy, not pain. So taking the form of a device meant to entertain is perfectly in character.
The fun part is, Earthspark if bringing back Energon-style Shirt-and-Pants combination but without making them complete bricks like Crash Combiners. Now we just need an insert-to-unlock feature and maybe bring back firing missiles.
fun fact as he got repainted into twincast if anyone's wondering what's with that name... it actually makes more sense in japan cause: for simple short context in japan blaster's japanese name is broadcast
The thing I like about the Legacy Blaster is the hand with the finger, it doubles perfectly as a relaxed trigger finger along with being able to press his chest button
Blockrock may be a reference to GB Blackrock, a fairly important human in the Marvel comics who had a lot of panel time along side Blaster in his story arcs.
Here's a fact smack the Hexabricks are aparently BOMBS so the DJ dude Blaster carries around a bunch of nukes that convert into either more destructive weaponry or B I R D ahhhh yes the best reprosentation of his character
Love the little detail at 12:35 where the autobots are taken aback, purely affronted by the instantaneous appearance of Universe Blaster. Good one Thew!
Hey man... Blaster was the reason the distress signal was able to get out to Optimus Prime in time (during the 86 movie)... He was indispensible to the Autobot cause, even though he did transform into a brick. haha
Looking back it's so funny how we had multiple lines of "it's G1-inspired but still modern and full of repaints because a purely G1 nostalgia line wouldn't sell" and then at some point they were like "fuck it G1 nostalgia lines forever"
I've never had one but for whatever reason Universe Blaster feels really nostalgic to me. I think as a kid that might have been my first exposure to Blaster so it doesn't even feel that weird to me. Sometimes a dramatic clash between design and personality is just fun too
"What even IS a cassette, anyway?" Oh shut up, modern media children. 80s nostalgia will never go away, you've seen movies from the 80s and 90s, you don't have to have actually USED a cassette to know what one is anymore than one of us old geezers needs to have used a rotary phone to know what IT is.
I always felt that Blaster would be far more fitting as a gameboy or a “portable brick game player” with his cassette cons as different Game cartridges, and he could still rival Soundwave as 80’s things that were everywhere
Poor Blockrock only has one appearance in fiction, in the _Recordicons_ comic strip made by David Willis and published in the Collector's Club magazine. In it, he's lonely that the other members of the Blaster and Soundwave sidekick crew won't hang around with him. Probably because he turns into a bomb.
It is so weird seeing a Blaster recolour on Cybertron Soundwave, it's hilarious when seeing this with an Autobot Symbol on him. It's almost like seeing if Soundwave decided to side with the Autobots and renamed himself Blaster. Storywise, that would explain it, but we all know that's not the intention of this release. lmao
I still put Titans Return Blaster at the top of my list. I know that line wasn't the most popular, but I love the idea of the headmaster being able to carry Blaster around as a boombox, set him down behind enemy lines, then transform into a fortified base until he's needed to fight, at which point he assumes his robot mode.
The best thing about Kingdom Blaster is that lesser seen Hasbro beast; a spring! Yes, an actual play feature! Press a button, something happens. Amazing. A lost art.
10:46 “My eye is aware that there’s a robot in there, But my mind can barely assemble it.” I’m oh so impressed by Thew’s means of address, That my own may just start to resemble it.
Love your nails this video, Thew. They are ALWAYS on point. And yeah, the hexagon chonks are all bombs. His (and by extension Soundwave's) buddies just turn into actual explosives. Like a K-class Condor but with less horrible implications
When I was a kid in the 80s and still believed in religion, I used to pray every sunday in church for months, "Please give me Blaster." Eventually I got him as a hand-me-down, and he was disappointingly gangly. MUCH happier with the Legacy version! Great review, Thew, as always!
I couldn't bring myself to buy Kingdom/Legacy Blaster because I already have UniqueToys Soundmixer, who's of the same scale and on the same level of articulation that already does everything the Kingdom/Legacy one can do aside from the tapes. Ironically if Kingdom/Legacy Blaster had functional wrist swivels that might have tipped the odds in its favor, but oh well. SS86 is going to reissue it with a supposidely non-translucent Eject so maybe third time's the charm?
New listings for the SS86 line suggest another Blaster repaint for 2024. Hopefully this one will have cel-shaded opaque blue plastic, as well as gunmetal grey instead of the black parts. Maybe some silver on those boombox speaker shin panels?
Cybertron Soundwave just annoyed me at the time, and then I thought the Blaster repaint was horribly wrong, so I never got it. I remember at the time just unscrewing the backpack wings and having a more sensible Soundwave... but still with crap hanging off his arms. Still, the hex bomb/accessory/partner gimmick was pretty cool.
I didn't give legacy Blaster a second thought when I first saw him on shelves, but then I got him for christmas and discovered that hey, he was absolutely amazing!
on the universe blaster the neck can actually invert the hinge and tab down into the chest i grew up with the thing and took forever to figure that out
WOW. I never heard any TF reviewer so perfectly criticize AND compliment a toy SIMULTANEOUSLY. I have to go get that stealth fighter blaster now LOL --- And the new beats are soundin KILLER!
Legacy Twincast was my first legacy figure and the mould has proven to be some of my favorite tf figures ever. I’m a huge blaster and twincast fan and I’m slowly making my rounds trying to get every blaster and twincast ever made.
Someone probably pointed this out, but the Cybertron soundwave/blaster has a double hinge that lets the head sit lower to the chest. I discovered that after owning him for years
I think a fun intended play feature for Kingdom Blaster is that if you attatch the rifle to any of the ports on the legs in alt-mode, you can position it to look like a radio antenna; much like core soundwave
Legacy Blaster is genuinely a fantastic figure. Just a perfect translated transformer figure. Great design, great transformation, great Altmode and comes in multiple colours at this stage.
Exceedingly fun review, as always! Thank you! These are both nifty, but what I really want is a Blaster that can use his Vintage cassettes, too. Come on, Takara, where's our official Masterpiece Blaster? (HINT, HINT.) And I hate to ACKTCHYUALLY you, mate, but Rumble / Frenzy DID swap colours in the same shot, in the Battle of Autobot City. Soundwave ejects his li'l pals, and TWO blue cassettes come out, then one of them turns red-and-black mid-flight. (Then it shows TWO red-and-black humanoids flying toward the comms tower along with Ravage & Ratbat, then a blue humanoid and a red-and-black humanoid arriving at the tower, for added WTF-ing.)
My ONE problem with the Legacy Blaster is basically that I was always a comics kid more than a cartoon kid. Blaster to me is the guy who rebelled against Grimlock's rule and went rogue together with Goldbug. I want those eye visors, damnit! [sigh] but I guess not even third party makers care about the comic, because there doesn't seem to be a head replacement anywhere, as far as I can find.
Back when Titans Return was a thing and I was trying to get back into collecting (because I love Headmasters and a line-wide Headmasters gimmick is my kryptonite), I really wanted the TR Blaster. I remember it being kinda special that for once, Blaster was designed first and Soundwave was the repaint. Also, I dug that TR Blaster's "base mode" looked like a concert arena, complete with a light rack. I couldn't get it because I had a lot of money problems in 2017 (missed out on Chromedome, Highbrow, and Brainstorm--I only managed to get Hardhead, and I never did get the TR Voyager Prime that was later redecoed into Octane), but I appreciated the effort. Thanks for a year of great videos, Thew. You've been sweet to us for ages, and we're proud to support you.
for legacy blaster in box box mode the volume knob is on his left side and if you look closely at it, it has 11 notches around it and blaster is on max volume. so he is always tuned up to 11
YES!!!!! love both these toys so much, so glad you’ve took a look at them both. Personally I like to think of Universe Blaster as his sister Karmen, if only because it lets me have a toy of Karmen in my collection.
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You know Cybertron Soundwave is such an objectively evil design when he looks even _more_ like a Decepticon in red.
Me when I don't understand the word 'Objective'.
@@mikathomo391me when im super anal about grammar for no reason
@@chromethang1911 oh no I care about using words accurately.
If people don't stick to what wirds mean it means they have no value.
Words are an extremely good tool. To misuse that tool can only create confusion, therefore defeating the point of words.
But hey if you want to sound stupid be my guest.
@@chromethang1911 also it's not even gramma, is it? I just want people to use the correct words for my previously stated reasons.
@@mikathomo391It's sad how the internet is so anti-intellectual.
It's taking me a lot to get used to Thew facing left.
Its hurting my soul but we'll get there
The perfect example of the "good but boring" vs "bad but interesting" argument indeed, I have both and yeah, you learn to love both for different reasons.
The hexagon accessories with Universe 08 Blaster, based on their description in Soundwave's Cybertron toy blurb, are apparently supposed to be Cybertronian versions of Bouncing Betties. They're giant-ass bombs!
EDIT: I think the majority of the Cybertron Soundwave mold's issues could have been solved by not having the nosecone as a dangly bit on his wrist. They could have incorporated it into his feet somehow, which also would have given him better feet to stand on.
Sidenote, the Japanese Soundblaster repaint's "cassetticon" is named "Hell Buzzsaw"
@@t0xxical13And he's Logos Prime, who was all but stated to be a member of the Thirteen in the Galaxy Force/Cybertron continuity.
@@misterbadguy7325 And the Fun Publications continuity, for that matter! He shows up in the panel where Nexus Prime performed The Shrouding to make multiverse crossovers less common.
Blaster's alt mode may not be helpful to the Autobots, but I think it perfectly reflects who he is. He's a partybringer, a friend, a fun-loving goofball who wants to bring joy, not pain. So taking the form of a device meant to entertain is perfectly in character.
🎵Blast Christmas, I gave you my spark🎵
🎶But the very next day, you snuffed it away🎶
not gonna lie
sometimes i miss the fun gimmick filled era of the unicron trilogy
The fun part is, Earthspark if bringing back Energon-style Shirt-and-Pants combination but without making them complete bricks like Crash Combiners. Now we just need an insert-to-unlock feature and maybe bring back firing missiles.
UT were my transformers as a kid, so, yeah.
fun fact as he got repainted into twincast if anyone's wondering what's with that name... it actually makes more sense in japan cause:
for simple short context in japan blaster's japanese name is broadcast
The thing I like about the Legacy Blaster is the hand with the finger, it doubles perfectly as a relaxed trigger finger along with being able to press his chest button
Thew went from looking like my metal cousin to looking like my sweet little nan....
Beard an all😂
Blockrock may be a reference to GB Blackrock, a fairly important human in the Marvel comics who had a lot of panel time along side Blaster in his story arcs.
“That while extensible perfection can be achieved
Only you can say what really makes you happy”
-Thew Adams
Here's a fact smack the Hexabricks are aparently BOMBS so the DJ dude Blaster carries around a bunch of nukes that convert into either more destructive weaponry or B I R D ahhhh yes the best reprosentation of his character
When Blaster has had enough and decides to show why he;s really called Blaster.
@ChimeraMK my guy went from Blaster to B L A S T E R bro
The only appropriate accessories for the sound system duos. Nuclear Weapons and b i r d
Love the little detail at 12:35 where the autobots are taken aback, purely affronted by the instantaneous appearance of Universe Blaster. Good one Thew!
I always thought Blaster was one of the more underrated Autobots. I loved him in the G1 series and the Movie.
I know what we can modernize Blaster into.
A portable speaker.
Titans Return Blaster was sort of an iPhone dock
@@hurricane567 that's one idea, but a portable speaker keeps the name importance.
The Beats (R) Pill (TM) (C)
I just got the Cybertron Blaster recently. He is a bit crusty but its such a fun design. I grew up with Cybertron
What a bizarrely apt way of describing him
I remember watching Blaster's fight in the movie frame by frame. So much packed into so little. Awesome.
I'm sure this video is going to be a Blast.
Nice
Hey man... Blaster was the reason the distress signal was able to get out to Optimus Prime in time (during the 86 movie)... He was indispensible to the Autobot cause, even though he did transform into a brick. haha
Looking back it's so funny how we had multiple lines of "it's G1-inspired but still modern and full of repaints because a purely G1 nostalgia line wouldn't sell" and then at some point they were like "fuck it G1 nostalgia lines forever"
"Made out of triangles and bullshit" Thew's Christmas 2023 quote
I've never had one but for whatever reason Universe Blaster feels really nostalgic to me. I think as a kid that might have been my first exposure to Blaster so it doesn't even feel that weird to me. Sometimes a dramatic clash between design and personality is just fun too
"What even IS a cassette, anyway?"
Oh shut up, modern media children. 80s nostalgia will never go away, you've seen movies from the 80s and 90s, you don't have to have actually USED a cassette to know what one is anymore than one of us old geezers needs to have used a rotary phone to know what IT is.
I always felt that Blaster would be far more fitting as a gameboy or a “portable brick game player” with his cassette cons as different Game cartridges, and he could still rival Soundwave as 80’s things that were everywhere
Poor Blockrock only has one appearance in fiction, in the _Recordicons_ comic strip made by David Willis and published in the Collector's Club magazine. In it, he's lonely that the other members of the Blaster and Soundwave sidekick crew won't hang around with him. Probably because he turns into a bomb.
It is so weird seeing a Blaster recolour on Cybertron Soundwave, it's hilarious when seeing this with an Autobot Symbol on him. It's almost like seeing if Soundwave decided to side with the Autobots and renamed himself Blaster. Storywise, that would explain it, but we all know that's not the intention of this release. lmao
unexpected shoutout to the Yangtze River Dolphin, this guy's all over it!
“Blast Christmas I gave you my heart”
Something I've always thought they could do with Blaster is change his altmode to a bulky '50s Chopper bike.
12:17 I thought Blockrock was an homage to G.B. Blackrock from the G1 Marvel Comics?
"Biggest nerd and dopest Chad" I identify as both 🤣
You know, in all honesty, he should’ve gotten a core class release as well
Block-Roc because;
He be a Block.
The "Roc" is a Bird of Middle-Eastern Mythology, nowadays seen mostly in Japanese Fantasy Stories, Games, and Anime.
Blaster! Blaster! Blaster of soundwaves, he's pulling your wires.
I like socks as a gift now.
Exactly! They're warm and comfy, and that's one less necessity you'll need to spend your own money on.
Blaster be like;
"The FUNKIEST Bot on Cybertron!"
Or
*[Mortified from the scream and wails of Scrounge melting to death]*
Oh! I know this! Universe Blasters weapons and bird transform into bombs.
Comes with Steeljaw and Stripes?
I still put Titans Return Blaster at the top of my list. I know that line wasn't the most popular, but I love the idea of the headmaster being able to carry Blaster around as a boombox, set him down behind enemy lines, then transform into a fortified base until he's needed to fight, at which point he assumes his robot mode.
Universe B looks like a Seeker and his birdie is Da' Bomb. Kingdom Blaster looks just normal.
"Blast christmas, I gave you my heart, the very next day, you gave it away".
I love how hasbro didn’t even bother to change anything about universe soundwave to make him different as blaster. He’s just red soundwave.
The ghost of Christmas blast
I kinda want a legacy Cybetrton Soundwave in the future
Always a good day when thew uploads
Hope your Christmas has been great Thew. Love me some Blaster goodness.
"Those of you whose knees don't hurt yet..." That hit home.
that cybertron design looks awesaume tho. kinda wish hasbro took a second crack at it with more articulations and stuff.
The Cybertron Soundwave mould was so almost there man, the robot and the vehicle mode is amazing but the kibble managment kinda sours the taste
The nosecone at least could have been handled better, the cockpit isn't so bad because it at least FEELS like a shield.
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas Thew. Thanks you for all the excellent videos over the year, and looking forward to more in the upcoming year.
i've kind of always wanted Cybertron Soundwave, his design looks so cool!
The best thing about Kingdom Blaster is that lesser seen Hasbro beast; a spring! Yes, an actual play feature! Press a button, something happens. Amazing. A lost art.
10:46 “My eye is aware that there’s a robot in there,
But my mind can barely assemble it.”
I’m oh so impressed by Thew’s means of address,
That my own may just start to resemble it.
The opening for these videos makes me nostalgic for the halcyon days of 2012-ish. Seriously. Brings a smile to my face.
Shout out to the yangtze river dolphin, rest in power
Love your nails this video, Thew. They are ALWAYS on point. And yeah, the hexagon chonks are all bombs. His (and by extension Soundwave's) buddies just turn into actual explosives. Like a K-class Condor but with less horrible implications
See, Blockrock will fall out the bomb hatch and transform so enemies think they're safe, then Blaster will drop the actual bombs on them!
When I was a kid in the 80s and still believed in religion, I used to pray every sunday in church for months, "Please give me Blaster." Eventually I got him as a hand-me-down, and he was disappointingly gangly. MUCH happier with the Legacy version!
Great review, Thew, as always!
“Block rockin beak”
Thank you, I needed that 😂
I couldn't bring myself to buy Kingdom/Legacy Blaster because I already have UniqueToys Soundmixer, who's of the same scale and on the same level of articulation that already does everything the Kingdom/Legacy one can do aside from the tapes. Ironically if Kingdom/Legacy Blaster had functional wrist swivels that might have tipped the odds in its favor, but oh well. SS86 is going to reissue it with a supposidely non-translucent Eject so maybe third time's the charm?
Blaster and his little friends are the kind of characters that I don't care I'll love them no matter what
I had Universe 2.0 Blaster when I was little, and I loved him dearly, in spite of the many hand injuries he caused by his obscene pointiness
New listings for the SS86 line suggest another Blaster repaint for 2024. Hopefully this one will have cel-shaded opaque blue plastic, as well as gunmetal grey instead of the black parts. Maybe some silver on those boombox speaker shin panels?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Thew!
Cybertron Soundwave just annoyed me at the time, and then I thought the Blaster repaint was horribly wrong, so I never got it. I remember at the time just unscrewing the backpack wings and having a more sensible Soundwave... but still with crap hanging off his arms.
Still, the hex bomb/accessory/partner gimmick was pretty cool.
a planet key tattoo would go unbelievably hard. Happy Holidays Thew!
13:05 I can't believe you called the Universe one "Satan's moon cup" and I'm the only one who is mentioning it. You glorious bastard.
And that's what, I call... a robot in disGUIIIIIISE!
The music you used for the cybertron transformation really fitted the chaos of it
I didn't give legacy Blaster a second thought when I first saw him on shelves, but then I got him for christmas and discovered that hey, he was absolutely amazing!
on the universe blaster the neck can actually invert the hinge and tab down into the chest i grew up with the thing and took forever to figure that out
WOW. I never heard any TF reviewer so perfectly criticize AND compliment a toy SIMULTANEOUSLY. I have to go get that stealth fighter blaster now LOL --- And the new beats are soundin KILLER!
w..was that a bucky o hare reference.....wasnt expecting that today
I love how this episode is late for Christmas
God, do I miss the weird years though. Thank goodness for the Legacy line.
Legacy Twincast was my first legacy figure and the mould has proven to be some of my favorite tf figures ever. I’m a huge blaster and twincast fan and I’m slowly making my rounds trying to get every blaster and twincast ever made.
Someone probably pointed this out, but the Cybertron soundwave/blaster has a double hinge that lets the head sit lower to the chest. I discovered that after owning him for years
"the needs of the thew"... embarrassed to truthfully say i did not see that one coming.
well played.
Yeah, that OG Blaster is obscenely big. Even more egregious was Takara keeping that same size with Twincast.
I think a fun intended play feature for Kingdom Blaster is that if you attatch the rifle to any of the ports on the legs in alt-mode, you can position it to look like a radio antenna; much like core soundwave
Legacy Blaster is genuinely a fantastic figure. Just a perfect translated transformer figure. Great design, great transformation, great Altmode and comes in multiple colours at this stage.
You should flip Goldbug's backpack upside down for maximum G1 hoodie effect. We also still need your albums of the year.
I am currently pooping
🎵Blast Christmas, I gave Thew my heart and something something something, I was too lazy to write the resssst🎵
A Bucky o Hare reference? And here I was starting to believe I was the only person who ever saw that show. And yes my knees do hurt :D
Great way to close out the year
I used to have both of them as a kid, good to see them again
That universe mold really only does work if it’s Soundblaster. Also thanks for reminding me there was a time Blaster was a leader type.
I’ve passed on reviewing universe 2.0 blaster so many times. I’m glad someone has. Him and reveal the shield strafe are a nightmare
I'll make sure to knock back an extra Guinness for you on NYE, Thew.
Happy Holidays.
The needs of the Thew outweigh the needs of the many is a statement I can get behind!!
Exceedingly fun review, as always! Thank you! These are both nifty, but what I really want is a Blaster that can use his Vintage cassettes, too. Come on, Takara, where's our official Masterpiece Blaster? (HINT, HINT.)
And I hate to ACKTCHYUALLY you, mate, but Rumble / Frenzy DID swap colours in the same shot, in the Battle of Autobot City. Soundwave ejects his li'l pals, and TWO blue cassettes come out, then one of them turns red-and-black mid-flight. (Then it shows TWO red-and-black humanoids flying toward the comms tower along with Ravage & Ratbat, then a blue humanoid and a red-and-black humanoid arriving at the tower, for added WTF-ing.)
My ONE problem with the Legacy Blaster is basically that I was always a comics kid more than a cartoon kid. Blaster to me is the guy who rebelled against Grimlock's rule and went rogue together with Goldbug. I want those eye visors, damnit! [sigh] but I guess not even third party makers care about the comic, because there doesn't seem to be a head replacement anywhere, as far as I can find.
Back when Titans Return was a thing and I was trying to get back into collecting (because I love Headmasters and a line-wide Headmasters gimmick is my kryptonite), I really wanted the TR Blaster. I remember it being kinda special that for once, Blaster was designed first and Soundwave was the repaint. Also, I dug that TR Blaster's "base mode" looked like a concert arena, complete with a light rack. I couldn't get it because I had a lot of money problems in 2017 (missed out on Chromedome, Highbrow, and Brainstorm--I only managed to get Hardhead, and I never did get the TR Voyager Prime that was later redecoed into Octane), but I appreciated the effort.
Thanks for a year of great videos, Thew. You've been sweet to us for ages, and we're proud to support you.
What a blast from the past
Cybertron blaster was one of my first transformers figures I remember him being tricky as a kid but one of the coolest looking in both modes
for legacy blaster in box box mode the volume knob is on his left side and if you look closely at it, it has 11 notches around it and blaster is on max volume. so he is always tuned up to 11
The lights do look great Thew! Hope you're having a lovely holiday season.
YES!!!!! love both these toys so much, so glad you’ve took a look at them both.
Personally I like to think of Universe Blaster as his sister Karmen, if only because it lets me have a toy of Karmen in my collection.
also his Microman Microchange toy has a working FM/AM radio built into him that was gutted when he was turned into a Transformers toy.
The G1 Blaster Ghettoblaster Version was always my favourite.