The ever-helpful 2005 Boards member D-Drive has shared some exciting news with us – it seems that little rumor going around a while ago about upcoming Voyager Class toys in the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters series was halfway true, because wave 2 is adding Shockwave into the mix! Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Voyager Wave 2 will feature Shockwave alongside wave 1’s Optimus Prime and Predaking. No pictures are available as yet – possibly something to look forward to at the US Toy Fair?
The full listing text from Diamond is reproduced below:
TF PRIME BEAST HUNTER VOYAGER AF ASST 201302 (C: 1-1-1)
The Autobots and Decepticons from the world of Cybertron have battled for aeons; now, their war comes to Earth with the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Voyager Action Figures which add a new faction to the mix – the Predacons! These figures, in a larger scale, feature the traditional robot-to-vehicle or robot-to-monster transformations, plus detailed sculpts that make these the most realistic Transformers yet! Choose from figures including Shockwave, Optimus Prime, and Predaking. Window box packaging.
Mechafire
He's a wave 2 Voyager… which is the next wave. I think it's safe to say we'll see him at Toy Fair.
Autovolt 127
If it's comming out in the spring we'll totally be seeing these at the Toy Fair.
Sumner Sturgeon
With the timing of this particular announcement, I think Toy Fair is a closer guess. You do have a point, though– it seems like Hasbro prefers to stagger all its announcements across Toy Fair, Botcon, SDCC, and NYCC these days, leading to each con having a rather small amount of reveals.
Gilgamesh
Nah, they hardly reveal too much good stuff at botcon these days.
NemiMonkey
Knowing Hasbro they'll make us wait til Botcon.
Barricade24
This is my guess as well.
Gilgamesh
I'm wishing hard for the upcoming Toy Fair in a week or two.
mandiprime97
Awesome, will definitely pick this guy up.
Anti Spark
When will out first chance to see this figure be?
Prime Jetscream
But then he'd be out of scale with the PRID voyagers.
However, BH Prime is about Grimlock-sized, so it isn't unlikely.
Autovolt 127
He probably might.
RedAlert Rescue
All this talk of Poking eyes out with sharp objects… seems to have been given new meaning by Thundershot's post.
MrHolister
As much as it would help business for Hasbro with third party companies coming out with pretty awesome Shockwaves lately, I'm surprised we haven't had a pic leak yet. I mean, they already let Smokescreen out of the bag, and that was pretty big news to me. I'm hoping something comes out soon, so I know whether to pre-order or preorder a certain third party "shockwave" I've been eyeballing…
BTW, I do love Shockwave's look in Prime, so I'm excited for this. (Plus he'll be a heck of a lot cheaper than the third party ones, even though they are sometimes worth the extra cash…)
TylerMirage
A Voyager Shockwave? OhmygoshHGNGHGHHHHH…
Roadblock1977
I already put in my preorder. I'm getting too lazy to physically go to the stores and pick them up.
fake
why does it say second quarter for Shockwave. Might have to split up my order then.
The F.N.G.
This isn't FoC Shockwave, though, so it doesn't matter if Grimlock is bigger than Shockwave in the game.
RatTrap1985
FOC Grimlock is far bigger than shockwave in the game.
Aeronnz
I hope he's at least as big as FOC Grimlock…
soundwave144
i said i wasnt goin to buy into this bh line because i didnt care for the bw and bm toys from the past. granted that the generations versions of said characters were better, i just dont care much for the four-legged animal tuning into a four limbed biped. but MAN!!! shockwave?!? friggin awesome! ive bought two figures from the bh line and im happy with the colors and the spikey appearance on some of the bots. honestly when i first heard about the series turning to this, i thought…well, itll be a while before i see another tf series, but im hooked already. i also like the idear of what someone said a couple of pages ago. bring on a NEW mold for some galvatron love!! if in fact he does make it on the show. ur knockin it outta the park hasbro!