This just in from Botcon 2013 – an eagle eye scout by the name of Bulkhead just spotted palettes of Masterpiece Soundwave cases being brought into the TFCC store area of the dealer room. Looks like MP Soundwave will be making his first appearance this weekend. Stay tuned.
UPDATE: According to Karl Hartman, these were in fact cases of the Japanese MP-13.
Lumpy
That makes sense. There was a convention here last weekend, and a guy had some Japanese MP-13's but the shipping case said Hasbro.
CURAMEN
The Asia release of MP Soundwave came in a Hasbro box… The American release will not be for sale at Botcon.
Timothy.R
At this point, I think it's obviously not the hasbro version..
Autovolt 127
That would be cool if it was the Hasbro one.
shibamura_prime
Maybe a FunPub staffer was just helping a dealer with their supply of Takara MP-13s…?
Stygian360
The yellow visor and MP-02 listing yet coupled with Japanese lettering on the box, leading one to believe this is MP-13, make this one confusing bit of news.
Victorysabre
Here's one more botcon staffer assuring you there are no hasbro mp soundwaves at the club store. I wish!
DrawerDemon
Headline says "Masterpiece Soundwave To Debut At Botcon This Weekend!"
Click to this thread, Karl Hartman says,"we believe they are simply the Japanese release, and not the American version. "
These things, they do not match…
EDIT: Apparently, fixed. Thanks, mods!
BenjaminXavier
Yeah, there's no way the US version would be marked "MP-13"
tehKOREANdude
…adds another hundred to the botcon budget
scubaboy31
Maybe this should be taken off the front page now before it gets out of hand. No news here.
xBigbotx
Don't believe it until I see photos
Thundershot
Annnnd if that's not a reputable source, I don't know who is.
Ah well…
Autobot City Comics 2008
Thank you!!! Just like yesterday I was the first to say starscream was the free bee didn't get that rather someone else did so they owe me 2 more but whtever !!
ArmedonLSD
have fun this weeken!
Deceptigtar
now this guy i will take his word for.
Karl Hartman
Sorry to burst your bubble, but those skids were not going to the TFCC store. I moved two of them myself. They were in transit to a holding room for another vendor. I had to do a double take on it as well, but even though they are in Hasbro shipping cases, we believe they are simply the Japanese release, and not the American version.
Karl
Rotorstorm
Bet theres some turd who goes and buys 10 at once so he can flog them on.
Sy-Rein
Just a thought here and not to piss on anyone's parade and please excuse me if this is not what you saw. But I saw something similar and had the same thought at a Vancouver meetup a few months ago. I saw a couple dealers unloading boxes labeled "Hasbro" & "MP Soundwave" and I thought "OMG, they have Hasbro MP SW." What those boxes ended up being were the Hasbro Asia version of takara's MP Soundwave.
videriant
So what further news did we get that re-opened this thread?
EDIT: Saw the front page. So what did Bulkhead and Sol give us that they got the news credit instead of Autobot City Comics?