vic2993 via Planet Iacon on Facebook has shared something awesome with us. He has shared our first look at the toy for Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Shockwave! The image is small, but comes from a Hasbro catalog. It indicates Shockwave will come with two gimmicks – a spinning Hyperflux Cannon, which is his gun arm. It appears to close up for a more show accuate look. The second gimmick is advertised as snap-on Beast Armor – in other words like Beast Hunters Smokescreen, Shockwave will have the option of shedding his Beast Hunters spikes to look more like his on-screen appearances so far.
A vehicle mode is also seen, Shockwave appears to transform into a tank or artillary unit of some description.
Hopefully this is one toy we can see more of at the US Toy Fair 2013 this weekend along with all the other upcoming good stuff.
Autovolt 127
^This.
The moral of the story: Don't believe nothing until you watched it.
rosewater
Are there any photos of Shockwave without the armor on? I want to see how close to the show model he is.
BB Shockwave
Orange and Purple are complementer colors, hence this color choice. Ask any painter.
Stepper
Yah,Shockwave not in it's Purple colour bt in Orange colour is like a bit funny.
Noideaforaname
This is why we need a list of exact quotes stickied somewhere. All these stories keep getting spread and there's nowhere to fact-check.
CelticMutt
Who says he even mentions being leader of the Preds instead of just being one?
RazorclawX
Rippersnapper looks more or less the same to me… beside the fact he doesn't look like an egg with arms, legs, and a tail.
shroobmaster
Actualy a guy asked "will there be any defections/side changers" and they said "don't see why not".
AKA a guy asked for spoilers and they gave a non-answer, what everybody else in the industry does and should keep doing.
knightmare6
So that's Shockwave… huh, so that's Shockwave… those colors… he looks like he fell into a puddle of melted crayons…
Pravus Prime
Shockwave looks like it'll be good toy, especially with the removable armor.
Fort Max
Face it, they're making it up as they go along. It's incredibly old school in that respect.
Back on topic, this toy looks cool, looking forward to seeing more of this at toyfair and hopefully more like it as well.
Mechafire
Hilarious.
Stardust262
"There will be a Dinobot-esque defection in Season 2"
Noideaforaname
We need a list of what the Prime creators have said. I keep hearing conflicting claims ("it's about being a Prime", "it's called 'Prime' because we couldn't think of anything better"; "we rushed season 2 because Hasbro wanted dragons", "we ran out of material in season two"; "no repaint characters", "oh Dreadwing? yeah that repaint thing only applied to Starscream")
Mechafire
The Prime creators say a lot of things.
Wheeljack_Prime
Didn't Orci say "you're getting combiners, don't worry"?
TylerMirage
Looks promising…
Gingerchris
Personally speaking it's that while prices are rising the figures are getting smaller and more hollow supposedly to save plastic costs, and then they add in this ugly armour stuff. It may be removable but I'm still paying for it.
In some ways I wish the armour wasn't removable because then I'd not want this figure at all.
orangeitis
While I do disagree with that last line, even if GW is Voyager, I'm still using Leader-size Predaking.
Anguirus
"I am Predaking! I am leader of the Predacons!"
"Where are your troops?"
"Troops?"