Soundblaster did appear properly in Cyberverse. A former Decepticon who lost a beatboxing contest to Soundwave and took it way too personally. He left Cybertron and became a mercenary.
My favorite Soundblaster memory: him peeking out of a big box in The Headmasters' hilarious English dub saying "I'm the best spy there is, I'm a master of this game."
@The Abyss the English dub was an unofficial Hong Kong dub. Any bot who's name started with a B was called Billy. Blur and Blaster were called Billy several times throughout it.
Whats funny is that, thanks to the Netflix Soundwave that can transform into the cassette player, the Soundblaster repaint that transforms into the spaceship is now suddenly valuable.
I actually like the Troop Transport alt mode so I went with Soundblaster and his double wide tape deck when they were first released for the 35th Anniversary, since I already had a Robots in Disguise Soundwave deluxe and got the Vintage G1 Reissue to collect ALL THE TAPES.
The soundblaster that transforms into a spaceship sky rocketed in people wanting it because they released a new version that had the mercenary logo because of the Netflix series and the original one that was released because of a celebration, had a decepticon logo
I think he was just referring to the character being used in the Netflix show as the first time a lot of fans were introduced to the concept of the character, not the first time he showed up in a Hasbro market. You have a point about it not being mentioned in the video, though. Normally he includes every release and appearance.
For me Soundwave gets rebuild but still calls himself Soundwave while Soundblaster is a different Character I mean his Rival is named Blaster so why the Pit would he name himself SoundBLASTER?
@@tigerbread78 From what I've read, the English dub scripts were hastily translated from more-readily-available Chinese scripts (since the dub was recorded in Hong Kong), rather than the original Japanese. That's why the names are so bizarre.
Some Takara Executive: What can we do to make Soundwave look cooler? Some other Executive: Make him black and have a fat tape deck? Some Takara Executive: YES THATS IT!
Another fun fact, in cyberverse soundblaster finally made another appearance as once being a decepticon turned mercenary. Who worked for trypticon until the dinobots stopped them from destroying cybertron.
Well, Soundwave isn't exactly *supposed* to have character.... You realise that in most continuities his complete lack of personality literally *is* his personality, right? EDIT: Well, that and his complete devotion to Megatron
Well Soundblaster now properly appears in Cyberverse and well this iteration is definitely my favorite version of him as there doesn't seem to be any indication that he's Soundwave's clone, he's just a petty jerk that hates that Soundwave is a better DJ than him.
Up until 2015 when I got Masterpiece Soundblaster, the term to me was always best-in-class (well, consumer-class) PC sound cards up until the 21st century.
"Galvatron has reused some of Soundwave's parts, along with some other new parts, and has reconstructed another Soundwave, and renamed him New Soundwave." I love how some random Japanese fanboy who got his start writing doujins about Smokescreen being G2 Smokescreen accidentally fucked up the Thirteen. Though, frankly, I find Logos a better character than about two-thirds of those guys.
I think I am one of the few people that considers Logos Prime to be a member of the Thirteen in my Personal Cannon Mostly because I dont like this guy tfwiki.net/wiki/Thirteenth_Prime existing and this guy tfwiki.net/wiki/Alpha_Trion_(disambiguation) being part of them
@@kripdom7778 I tend to dislike gods that have a set in stone mythos in fictional media ends up making them blander and is always more fun multiple cultures having their own stories of the same gods, and ok that I really dislike gods being written as physical beings instead of ethereal beings that can't be proven or disproven of having existed for me this makes them lost a lot of godhood and seem like just overpowered characters
@@ryanmatthews3609 Optimus being one of the original Primes just isn't my thing, I like when he's just a dockworker/archivist. And I think Logos works well as Thirteen, being very mysterious, and fulfilling a role of representing a type of Cybertronian (bonded mechs, since he has a deployer. All the other Primes represent a type or aspect of Cybertronian culture, such as beastformers, minicons, combiners etc but it's not clear what Optimus' "thing" is.
Much like Nemesis Prime, even Soundwave looks much cooler in black. ^_^ I was first introduced to Soundblaster through the "English Dub" of Headmasters myself, so I've always known him as "New Soundwave" for a time. Still, I will agree that the name Soundblaster sounds WAY cooler. :)
I can't think of Soundwave having another voice than he did in the first series. But when he was destroyed and rebuilt as Soundblaster, it sort of saved his character in "The Headmasters". He became a different versjon, so a new voice didn't really matter after the 2 first episodes...
I've had this idea of Soundblaster recently as part of my fanfic called Transformers: Reimagined, where he was a clone of Soundwave created by the Russian government on Earth and had a rivalry with Soundwave with Soundblaster calling Soundwave "Blue Boy" until they made up and became partners in crime, and Soundblaster even joining the Decepticons. But Idk just wanted to share that idea.
Speaking of obscure characters, will Cog be next? I didn’t know about him at all, and he was mostly just a background character in War for Cybertron until he saved his autobot comrades from being destroyed by Deseeus. It was both impressive and tragic to see a background character play such an important role all of the sudden, just to be seemingly killed off.
Did you know that Soundblaster actually appeared in transformers cyberverse, not as a multidimensional duplicate but a separate character who just shared the same body type as soundwave still partnered up with Buzzsaw. A former decepticon turned mercenary after being humiliated by Soundwave in the past and coming back to cybertron in the present day to get his revenge on Soundwave by wanting to destroy him but first he took the one thing soundwave actually cared about, laserbeak. Actually forcing him into his own chest compartment along with Buzzsaw.
"Many viewers are likely to have met for the first time, this past year when he appeared in Netflix's War for Cybertron," Me: *laughs maniacally in Animated*
I feel like Logos Prime could be Liege Maximo's actual Prime name and Liege Maximo is only used because they put more blame on Megatronus for some reason who becomes the Fallen (aligned continuity, maybe modern G1 like WFC trilogy)
You know, I once had the idea to reconcile the Logos Prime/Soundblaster idea with the finalized 13 Primes list. Namely, have Logos Prime and Soundblaster be aliases and forms used by Amalgamous Prime.
Funny... Back in the day when Hasbro had that Ask Vector Prime thing someone asked Vector Prime this: "What is the true identity of Logos Prime? There is reason to suspect that he may be one of the Thirteen, but he is not listed in the Covenant of Primus. Is he one of Thirteen in another guise *(Amalgamus Prime perhaps),* or is he another entity altogether? If so, who is he and what is his role?" The answer was: "Dear Logos Fan, Logos Prime is indeed his true identity. His absence from The Covenant of Primus should not be taken as evidence otherwise; the Covenant which you refer to is fundamentally a Uniend document, whereas Logos' tale was told in Primax 206.24 Gamma." However the Multiverse is big really big so I'm pretty sure this could be true somewhere
I’m still disappointed that Hasbro refused to let Logos Prime be in their lineup of the Thirteen. It really felt like they kinda disregarded some of the earlier lineups of who is the Thirteen and made their own list with the ones they specifically wanted or were kinda forced on them. I think Logos should have had his time to shine
I remembering hear about this dude from The Headmaster cartoon. And him as a rebooted Soundwave has been interesting ever since. But his appearance in the Siege anime, as a mercenary, and the Takara Generations Selects figure... looks really cool.
Man the transformers love re coloring themselves to make new characters, first starscream and all the seekers, then megatron to galavtron in the unicron trilogy, Soundwave to Soundblaster, heck even nemesis prime and ultra magnus are re colors of Optimus
Even worst Netflix LOVE to recycle all those clones OVER and OVER and over and over(sometimes they're just recoloring like Exhaust they don't even change his head like in the toyline!!!)...giving them more space than...oh I don't know...SCORPONOK???-_-
@@Pleyway Toys are a thing the show is another...weird that they have the urgency to change the sex of a character but NOT the character! And not the toys(Isn't that right Cyberverse?)
@@drstephenstrange897 They're either too cheap, too lazy, or ran out of time to make new CGI models. Similarly, in Beast Wars, many of the toys went unused in the cartoon because Mainframe couldn't create that many new models in the given time for the budget they had. Some characters didn't get "Transmetals" upgrades for the same reason.
@@KasumiKenshirou Yeah that kind of ticked me off. They chose to use Tigatron instead of Wolfang, because all they had to do was alter Cheetor’s character model. Rhinox didn’t get a transmetal form and kind of faded from importance as Beast Wars went on. I guess I can kind of understand Scorponok and Terrosaur because they were pretty one-dimensional characters, but Rhinox should have at least gotten a transmetal form.
Great Stuff! It was weird hearing a different kind of voice coming out of someone that looks exactly like Soundwave. I don’t think it will be the last time either.
I admit that Soundblaster really has my interest, would like to have his Masterpiece toy and 25th Anniversary Siege toy; either one that had Decepticon mark or Mercenary mark. I like idea that Soundblaster is his own character and been Soundwave clone.
I loved Blasters attitude in Seige. I would love to see him interact with Soundwave. The two are so different. Sound has nothing to prove but Blaster seems to have a lot to live up too. I can’t imagine being referred to as a failed experiment. Maybe he inherited some of the superiority chip that Soundwave did.
Sound blaster was probably the most clever thing in siege and the only original aspect is being he’s both unhinged and a underworld boss, everything else is basically just saying Shockwave created him as a clone of Soundwave
I was hoping to see a mention of trademarks. I knew Sound Blaster as an audio card upgrade to IBM PCs to give capability of playing music and audio clips. Sound Blaster Pro compatibility was practically a de facto standard for early MS-DOS gaming. I always wondered if Creative Labs, makers of the cards, had any trademark beef with Hasbro over it. Maybe the markets were just too different, toys and computer accessories? Or by the time the robot came to the US, there wasn't much of a market for add-in sound cards, since most PCs had passable audio chips integrated into their mainboards.
If the items being named are different enough, trademarks don't really apply. After all, there's HP computers existing side by side with HP steak sauce
Would have been neat if Creative & Hasbro worked together for a Soundblaster figure. An MP3-player Sound Blaster Soundblaster would be pretty cool if he’s modelled after one of Creative’s digital-to-analogue converters with the “cassettes” being based around the various sound cards.
Not that it's any improvement; they even widened the whole torso on the Netflix/Earthrise Soundwave, and the Tape Minions STILL get stuck. I can't even use Rumble & Ratbat in the compartment of my Soundblaster.
To be honest Logos Prime largely overlap with Quintus Prime and Soundwave did get tentacles in recent depictions, so it seams that they simply wanted for him to be more then just evil Vector.
Chris McFeely survived an assault from the entire Thomas the Train fandom on Twitter and yet he still came through to give us a video. What an absolute fighter.
@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 He insulted us for being mad at the new reboot (which highly disrespects the original books). And then went as far as to claim the Transformers fandom has never complained about a highly respected part of the franchise being changed into something that it isn’t (i.e. every character in the Bay movies). A lot of fans didn’t handle it well, which is unfortunate. But that said, his initial comment was a bit uncalled for. I don’t blame him for not understanding, but he needn’t be rude. Oh well... that’s the internet for you.
Good video on Soundblaster. You know I too had my own of Soundblaster as a separate character, but instead of a clone, Soundblaster wound be portrayed as a sister of Soundwave as well as one of Unicron's sleeper agents. But that's mostly my opinion.
Another excellent episode of the basics chris, as usual. I think for the next one, if it comes by popular demand, we need to look at the basics on the Bumblebee look-alike, who is more gung-ho than the yellow scout, Cliffjumper.
Your mention of the logo change on the latest version got me thinking. I have the 35th Anniversary version (WRC-S63) with the Decpticon logo. Had no idea they also brought him out in the Selects line! I thought I had all the Siege figures already! 🤦🏻♂️
Man... I got a damn nostalgia with that siege soundblaster toy... Cause of the hallows parts it's arms got cracked easily so me and my dumbass thoughts tried turning him into a corpse/injured soldier I had a scissor to damage one of his arm more to make it look he got blown up
considering how many toys soundblaster has, it’s honestly a shock how little time he’s had in the spotlight. i actually thought he wasn’t obscure enough for obscure character month but i guess i was proven wrong, lol.
One of my favorite bits of lore of the Transformers series is about giving the redeco toys the element of being clones of more famous characters of the continuity. Is there a Basics episode on Redeco/Clones?
Chris please please please do "cerebros " I know hes obscure and only in 3 episodes of generation one ,but I'm so so interested in him and especially his "alt" mode as everywhere I've tried looking for his alt mode he doesn't have one? Keep up the amazing amount of quality videos going, as it's been essential in my life since video one 👌🏼
His alt mode is a "communications room" in Fortress Maximus's city mode. There's a picture of it here: tfwiki.net/wiki/Cerebros#Generation_1 He basically folds his arms over his chest and bends over, sticking his feet in a hole in Fortress Maximus.
Soundblaster did appear properly in Cyberverse. A former Decepticon who lost a beatboxing contest to Soundwave and took it way too personally. He left Cybertron and became a mercenary.
This video was made before that
@@barbw1974 Yes, I know.
@@barbw1974 Yes, I know
He could never keep a beat
@@barbw1974 Yes,i know
My favorite Soundblaster memory: him peeking out of a big box in The Headmasters' hilarious English dub saying "I'm the best spy there is, I'm a master of this game."
Ah yes, the solid snake strategy
@@strangent404a7 does that mean if Soundblaster dies (again) does Scorponok go 'Soundblaster. Soundblaster? SOUNDBLASTER?!'?
Please I need to know where to find that
Ha ha ha ha I'm looking for that, that sounds hilarious
@The Abyss the English dub was an unofficial Hong Kong dub. Any bot who's name started with a B was called Billy. Blur and Blaster were called Billy several times throughout it.
Whats funny is that, thanks to the Netflix Soundwave that can transform into the cassette player, the Soundblaster repaint that transforms into the spaceship is now suddenly valuable.
I actually like the Troop Transport alt mode so I went with Soundblaster and his double wide tape deck when they were first released for the 35th Anniversary, since I already had a Robots in Disguise Soundwave deluxe and got the Vintage G1 Reissue to collect ALL THE TAPES.
The soundblaster that transforms into a spaceship sky rocketed in people wanting it because they released a new version that had the mercenary logo because of the Netflix series and the original one that was released because of a celebration, had a decepticon logo
So the decepticon logo one became rarer and more wanted
"For the first time this past year"
MP13B Masterpiece Soundblaster: "...forgot about me there, dood?"
I think he was just referring to the character being used in the Netflix show as the first time a lot of fans were introduced to the concept of the character, not the first time he showed up in a Hasbro market.
You have a point about it not being mentioned in the video, though. Normally he includes every release and appearance.
True story
"It's been a while"
*generic cheering noises*
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
Catch the Wave, New Soundwave maaaaaaaan!
@@TheSypherMan hell yeah
Canned laughter. But nice joke
I rather him to be a separate character than Soundwave!
Yeah cause Soundwave is still strong and powerful enough to destroy all the Autobots and doesn't need a upgrade.
I agree! I also prefer that for the villains introduced in the 86 movie. Keep them separate.
Me too
For me Soundwave gets rebuild but still calls himself Soundwave while Soundblaster is a different Character
I mean his Rival is named Blaster so why the Pit would he name himself SoundBLASTER?
Yeah and also I feel like just because he got a new paint job and some upgrades doesn’t mean he should change his name
I immediatley thought of the "faker" scene from Sonsic Adventure 2 with Soundwave and Soundblaster.
Oh my god, the colors are even kinda similar 🤣
Soundblaster: Soundwave not superior enough to be Soundblaster's inferior.
Unironically the best part of Siege.
Best part of Siege was Soundblaster, and the best part of Earthrise was Scorponok.
yeah there wasn’t a ton going for that show lmao
The best thing in earthrise was galvatron cause he hasn't been in a transformers show for ages and he was best by far
Too bad his and Soundwave's voices are awful. I don't know how you screw up a synthesized voice, but they did it.
SoundBlaster us loyal to Galvatron and Megatron
He'll always be New Soundwave to me.
Same haha
Same
samezees
Virgin Soundwave vs. Chad Soundblaster
Well who are you
Oh yes the epic final battle between Soundwave and Billy. Where they both just stood perfectly still shooting each other.
"Billy" "Sparkle" They didn't even TRY to translate the names properly, did they?
@@tigerbread78 From what I've read, the English dub scripts were hastily translated from more-readily-available Chinese scripts (since the dub was recorded in Hong Kong), rather than the original Japanese. That's why the names are so bizarre.
@@tigerbread78 Oh and of course, Spaceship Bruce.
@@OnDavidsBrain lol how I could forget that?
I was honestly hoping there would be a mention in the video for Soundblaster's botched name translation "New Soundwave".
Some Takara Executive: What can we do to make Soundwave look cooler?
Some other Executive: Make him black and have a fat tape deck?
Some Takara Executive: YES THATS IT!
You just summed up the '80s my friend.
Hey the tape deck was one of the better gimmicks, so why NOT improve it?
Another fun fact, in cyberverse soundblaster finally made another appearance as once being a decepticon turned mercenary. Who worked for trypticon until the dinobots stopped them from destroying cybertron.
Either as an upgrade or a separate entity, I just want more Soundblaster!
How do you make a cool character like Sound wave cooler?
*Dress him in black.*
Great. Atleast someone recognizes soundblaster as cool
Why did I feel like soundblaster had more character than soundwave? In the siege cartoon
Anyone had character in the Siege cartoon?
@@MDestron2282 elita-1 and megatron to me were pretty good. Also bumblebee should've been Hot Rod. That was literally hot rod in IDW
Well, Soundwave isn't exactly *supposed* to have character.... You realise that in most continuities his complete lack of personality literally *is* his personality, right?
EDIT: Well, that and his complete devotion to Megatron
@@tracytron7162 Agree.... but why is his voice so bad? By the 21st century tv shows should be able to at least equal 80s vocoders.....
@@MDestron2282 Agreed, but your comment was about character, not voice acting -_-
Well Soundblaster now properly appears in Cyberverse and well this iteration is definitely my favorite version of him as there doesn't seem to be any indication that he's Soundwave's clone, he's just a petty jerk that hates that Soundwave is a better DJ than him.
Up until 2015 when I got Masterpiece Soundblaster, the term to me was always best-in-class (well, consumer-class) PC sound cards up until the 21st century.
"Galvatron has reused some of Soundwave's parts, along with some other new parts, and has reconstructed another Soundwave, and renamed him New Soundwave."
I love how some random Japanese fanboy who got his start writing doujins about Smokescreen being G2 Smokescreen accidentally fucked up the Thirteen. Though, frankly, I find Logos a better character than about two-thirds of those guys.
Japan is living in a whole other world of transformers and it’s wild man. I love it lol
Yeah, the 13 primes are probably my least favorite aspect of TF lore.
@@n.maximo5505 out of my curiosity, how come?
I think I am one of the few people that considers Logos Prime to be a member of the Thirteen in my Personal Cannon
Mostly because I dont like this guy tfwiki.net/wiki/Thirteenth_Prime existing and this guy tfwiki.net/wiki/Alpha_Trion_(disambiguation) being part of them
@@kripdom7778 I tend to dislike gods that have a set in stone mythos in fictional media ends up making them blander and is always more fun multiple cultures having their own stories of the same gods, and ok that I really dislike gods being written as physical beings instead of ethereal beings that can't be proven or disproven of having existed for me this makes them lost a lot of godhood and seem like just overpowered characters
Siege was the first time I'd ever heard of Soundblaster. In fact, the first time they mentioned him, I thought they meant the Autobot Blaster.
They got away with that name in Japan because Blaster’s name was Broadcast. Which better explains why he was renamed Twincast.
Same
I love Logos Prime so much, he's really fascinating and I wish more was done with his lore.
He might be Liege Maximo's actual Prime name sort of like the Fallen and Megatronus
wish he was still apart of the thirteen primes rather than one of the aligned created primes solus, micronus, and amalgamous.
@@ryanmatthews3609 I find them interesting as well, but Logos had a ton of potential, I'd rather he be the Thirteenth instead of Optimus tbh.
@@Soundwave._ really? why so? i mean there is already a thirteenth prime.
@@ryanmatthews3609 Optimus being one of the original Primes just isn't my thing, I like when he's just a dockworker/archivist. And I think Logos works well as Thirteen, being very mysterious, and fulfilling a role of representing a type of Cybertronian (bonded mechs, since he has a deployer. All the other Primes represent a type or aspect of Cybertronian culture, such as beastformers, minicons, combiners etc but it's not clear what Optimus' "thing" is.
Much like Nemesis Prime, even Soundwave looks much cooler in black. ^_^ I was first introduced to Soundblaster through the "English Dub" of Headmasters myself, so I've always known him as "New Soundwave" for a time. Still, I will agree that the name Soundblaster sounds WAY cooler. :)
I've read that Soundwave's (and Cassette-Man's) color scheme was based on the original Sony Walkman, which was also blue and silver.
I can't think of Soundwave having another voice than he did in the first series. But when he was destroyed and rebuilt as Soundblaster, it sort of saved his character in "The Headmasters". He became a different versjon, so a new voice didn't really matter after the 2 first episodes...
I've had this idea of Soundblaster recently as part of my fanfic called Transformers: Reimagined, where he was a clone of Soundwave created by the Russian government on Earth and had a rivalry with Soundwave with Soundblaster calling Soundwave "Blue Boy" until they made up and became partners in crime, and Soundblaster even joining the Decepticons. But Idk just wanted to share that idea.
Pitch that idea to hasbro
Really enjoyed "Obscure Characters Month." Thank you for what you do!
Speaking of obscure characters, will Cog be next? I didn’t know about him at all, and he was mostly just a background character in War for Cybertron until he saved his autobot comrades from being destroyed by Deseeus. It was both impressive and tragic to see a background character play such an important role all of the sudden, just to be seemingly killed off.
Just when you thought you couldn't be cooler than Soundwave, BAM, Soundblaster comes in!
You will suffer for your comment, as well as your ability to remain loyal to our one true leader, Megatron.
I really really liked the WFC Siege version 😄
no one cares jk jk dude me too
I didn’t care for his voice, but I loved everything else
@@KnightroBlue22 yeah
Same
I like that in the show they even said he doesn’t like being a failed soundwave clone
I already knew of soundblaster before netflix, but since then he’s become one of my favorite transformers ever!
Thanks for finally getting round to my own Basics episode, McFeely!
So cool, this is why I love the Transformers universe, so intricate, so much depth...
Did you know that Soundblaster actually appeared in transformers cyberverse, not as a multidimensional duplicate but a separate character who just shared the same body type as soundwave still partnered up with Buzzsaw. A former decepticon turned mercenary after being humiliated by Soundwave in the past and coming back to cybertron in the present day to get his revenge on Soundwave by wanting to destroy him but first he took the one thing soundwave actually cared about, laserbeak. Actually forcing him into his own chest compartment along with Buzzsaw.
"Many viewers are likely to have met for the first time, this past year when he appeared in Netflix's War for Cybertron,"
Me: *laughs maniacally in Animated*
Me: *Laughs in The Headmasters.*
*Laughs in Logos Prime stan*
facts
*Laughs in TFWiki*
*Laughs in Angry Birds Transformers*
Soundwave's final stand is 10/10 most epic battle ever wow
Soundblaster inspired a whole string of ideas for my transformer stories. To one of my best muses, Soundblaster: You are not a failed experiment.
I feel like Logos Prime could be Liege Maximo's actual Prime name and Liege Maximo is only used because they put more blame on Megatronus for some reason who becomes the Fallen (aligned continuity, maybe modern G1 like WFC trilogy)
You know, I once had the idea to reconcile the Logos Prime/Soundblaster idea with the finalized 13 Primes list. Namely, have Logos Prime and Soundblaster be aliases and forms used by Amalgamous Prime.
Huh, you felt it fit Amalgamous Prime too? Would like to see this approach taken to somehow make Logos canon again.
@@rikajougasaki3296 Good to know I’m not the only one. Too bad this idea isn’t likely to happen..
Funny... Back in the day when Hasbro had that Ask Vector Prime thing someone asked Vector Prime this: "What is the true identity of Logos Prime? There is reason to suspect that he may be one of the Thirteen, but he is not listed in the Covenant of Primus. Is he one of Thirteen in another guise *(Amalgamus Prime perhaps),* or is he another entity altogether? If so, who is he and what is his role?"
The answer was: "Dear Logos Fan,
Logos Prime is indeed his true identity. His absence from The Covenant of Primus should not be taken as evidence otherwise; the Covenant which you refer to is fundamentally a Uniend document, whereas Logos' tale was told in Primax 206.24 Gamma."
However the Multiverse is big really big so I'm pretty sure this could be true somewhere
I like Soundblaster and other obscure characters, I love the idea of a mob boss bot in Transformers Siege!
I’m still disappointed that Hasbro refused to let Logos Prime be in their lineup of the Thirteen. It really felt like they kinda disregarded some of the earlier lineups of who is the Thirteen and made their own list with the ones they specifically wanted or were kinda forced on them. I think Logos should have had his time to shine
yeah they need to think bout what there doing and bring logos back.
I remembering hear about this dude from The Headmaster cartoon. And him as a rebooted Soundwave has been interesting ever since. But his appearance in the Siege anime, as a mercenary, and the Takara Generations Selects figure... looks really cool.
Man the transformers love re coloring themselves to make new characters, first starscream and all the seekers, then megatron to galavtron in the unicron trilogy, Soundwave to Soundblaster, heck even nemesis prime and ultra magnus are re colors of Optimus
Even worst Netflix LOVE to recycle all those clones OVER and OVER and over and over(sometimes they're just recoloring like Exhaust they don't even change his head like in the toyline!!!)...giving them more space than...oh I don't know...SCORPONOK???-_-
The nature of it being more cost effective to release the same toy but in different colors.
@@Pleyway Toys are a thing the show is another...weird that they have the urgency to change the sex of a character but NOT the character! And not the toys(Isn't that right Cyberverse?)
@@drstephenstrange897 They're either too cheap, too lazy, or ran out of time to make new CGI models. Similarly, in Beast Wars, many of the toys went unused in the cartoon because Mainframe couldn't create that many new models in the given time for the budget they had. Some characters didn't get "Transmetals" upgrades for the same reason.
@@KasumiKenshirou Yeah that kind of ticked me off. They chose to use Tigatron instead of Wolfang, because all they had to do was alter Cheetor’s character model. Rhinox didn’t get a transmetal form and kind of faded from importance as Beast Wars went on. I guess I can kind of understand Scorponok and Terrosaur because they were pretty one-dimensional characters, but Rhinox should have at least gotten a transmetal form.
I like how serious blaster was against sound wave!!👍👍👍
I remember when they had him show up in Animated, and my sister and I both lost our minds with excitement!
Now sound blaster is gonna be looking for those damn chaos emeralds
Great Stuff! It was weird hearing a different kind of voice coming out of someone that looks exactly like Soundwave. I don’t think it will be the last time either.
Never a fan of his name, but always a fan of a Sounwave-like entity! Always a welcomed character/upgrade!!!
I admit that Soundblaster really has my interest, would like to have his Masterpiece toy and 25th Anniversary Siege toy; either one that had Decepticon mark or Mercenary mark.
I like idea that Soundblaster is his own character and been Soundwave clone.
I loved Blasters attitude in Seige. I would love to see him interact with Soundwave. The two are so different. Sound has nothing to prove but Blaster seems to have a lot to live up too. I can’t imagine being referred to as a failed experiment. Maybe he inherited some of the superiority chip that Soundwave did.
I’ll always see him as logos prime and soundwave’s ancestor
who?
Great video. I loved him in Siege, and I cannot wait for the Selects toy with the mercenary insignia
"So What Do You Think?"
"Does It Come In Black?"
😋
I always loved Soundblaster and every time I saw him and Soundwave together I was forced to make a very difficult choice.
Sound blaster was probably the most clever thing in siege and the only original aspect is being he’s both unhinged and a underworld boss, everything else is basically just saying Shockwave created him as a clone of Soundwave
You cant go wrong with a new black and red paintjob
This is trippy lol. Soundwave is one of my favorites. Thanks for this.
Soundwave: Superior!
Soundblaster: Mega Superior!
What a fun birthday episode
I was hoping to see a mention of trademarks. I knew Sound Blaster as an audio card upgrade to IBM PCs to give capability of playing music and audio clips. Sound Blaster Pro compatibility was practically a de facto standard for early MS-DOS gaming. I always wondered if Creative Labs, makers of the cards, had any trademark beef with Hasbro over it. Maybe the markets were just too different, toys and computer accessories? Or by the time the robot came to the US, there wasn't much of a market for add-in sound cards, since most PCs had passable audio chips integrated into their mainboards.
If the items being named are different enough, trademarks don't really apply. After all, there's HP computers existing side by side with HP steak sauce
Would have been neat if Creative & Hasbro worked together for a Soundblaster figure. An MP3-player Sound Blaster Soundblaster would be pretty cool if he’s modelled after one of Creative’s digital-to-analogue converters with the “cassettes” being based around the various sound cards.
I really, really, REALLY wish they had given Siege Soundwave the double chest drawer. Only being able to hold one is a pain.
Not that it's any improvement; they even widened the whole torso on the Netflix/Earthrise Soundwave, and the Tape Minions STILL get stuck. I can't even use Rumble & Ratbat in the compartment of my Soundblaster.
Technically they did, although it gets a bit too snug.
I would like to see soundwave and soundblaster compete against one on one!!
Thanks for your reply!!👍
Shame, no Singapore dub mention of “New Soundwave”
Watching through the video seeing pretty standard stuff then
Sound blaster is the alias of a Prime
What
Good thing we finally got to see him in animation for the first time.
Sound blaster did make an official appearance in cyber verse as a mercenary working for Trypticon to destroy cybertron
To be honest Logos Prime largely overlap with Quintus Prime and Soundwave did get tentacles in recent depictions, so it seams that they simply wanted for him to be more then just evil Vector.
Coincidentally, "Mad Machine" is the name of a song from another Japanese mecha anime from the 1980s, Bubblegum Crisis.
Soundblaster will always be Mafia Boss Soundwave to me.
Chris McFeely survived an assault from the entire Thomas the Train fandom on Twitter and yet he still came through to give us a video. What an absolute fighter.
What Thomas related incident happened there?
@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 He insulted us for being mad at the new reboot (which highly disrespects the original books). And then went as far as to claim the Transformers fandom has never complained about a highly respected part of the franchise being changed into something that it isn’t (i.e. every character in the Bay movies). A lot of fans didn’t handle it well, which is unfortunate. But that said, his initial comment was a bit uncalled for. I don’t blame him for not understanding, but he needn’t be rude. Oh well... that’s the internet for you.
soundwave and soundblaster are my 2 most fav transformers
I believe he's better known by the name of "New Soundwave."
The English dub is cursed
When I heard of him, I thought that he was some combination of Blaster and Soundwave. Dunno why I thought that...
I remember when I was kid, I made up a Transformer called Soundblaster and years later I found out that he already existed.
I’m here I’m November and sound blaster appeared in cyberverse
Good video on Soundblaster. You know I too had my own of Soundblaster as a separate character, but instead of a clone, Soundblaster wound be portrayed as a sister of Soundwave as well as one of Unicron's sleeper agents. But that's mostly my opinion.
I have my own idea for how I'm going to depict Soundblaster in my Transformers fanfiction.
I always wanted Soundblaster to be parts of Soundwave and Blaster rebuilt together after they got destroyed. The name would make more sense then.
Strong finish to Obscure Characters Month Chris!
This makes me think that we’re going to see more obscure characters have roles in upcoming Transformers media.
Finaly one of my favorite Transformers of all time
LOVED Obscure Characters Month Chris, let's definitely do it again next year : )
I ALXAYS WANTED A SOUNDBLASTER, SOUNDWAVE IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER, BUT I LIKE MORE S.B COLORS
Another excellent episode of the basics chris, as usual. I think for the next one, if it comes by popular demand, we need to look at the basics on the Bumblebee look-alike, who is more gung-ho than the yellow scout, Cliffjumper.
Your mention of the logo change on the latest version got me thinking. I have the 35th Anniversary version (WRC-S63) with the Decpticon logo. Had no idea they also brought him out in the Selects line! I thought I had all the Siege figures already! 🤦🏻♂️
It’s ironic that you upload this right after I get done watching the basics on warpath video again lol
I love his colors red and black is cool and g1 sound wave design is nice
Who loves it when they make repaints
Me
Awesome color scheme and the character on Netflix was great. More more more than meets the eye.
Man... I got a damn nostalgia with that siege soundblaster toy... Cause of the hallows parts it's arms got cracked easily so me and my dumbass thoughts tried turning him into a corpse/injured soldier I had a scissor to damage one of his arm more to make it look he got blown up
Excellent video my friend I have mp soundblaster and love the color
Soundblaster is just shadow the hedgehog of transformers
Their only similarity is the colour scheme. In actuality, I think Shadow the hedgehog of the Transformers would be Drift.
What makes Soundblaster more amazing then Soundwave, BLACK PAINT!!!!!!!!
YES!! another coffe+McFeely coffe
I would love if you do the basics on powerglide! He’s my favorite character.
considering how many toys soundblaster has, it’s honestly a shock how little time he’s had in the spotlight. i actually thought he wasn’t obscure enough for obscure character month but i guess i was proven wrong, lol.
One of my favorite bits of lore of the Transformers series is about giving the redeco toys the element of being clones of more famous characters of the continuity. Is there a Basics episode on Redeco/Clones?
Once again a great video and I am currently looking for this guy to add to my display.
A awesome basics on Soundblaster
Say what u want,I will always love both,but soundblasters black and red colors are just awesome and i just call it recolored soundwave
Holy shit
I picked up the galaxy force soundblaster from a garage sale yesterday for 5$!!
I couldn't for the life of me figure out who it was till now
Another great run down...I never had the chance to get the original one. I did get the one from Fall of Cybertron and Titans Return.
Can't wait for The Basics of Astrotrain
Chris please please please do "cerebros " I know hes obscure and only in 3 episodes of generation one ,but I'm so so interested in him and especially his "alt" mode as everywhere I've tried looking for his alt mode he doesn't have one? Keep up the amazing amount of quality videos going, as it's been essential in my life since video one 👌🏼
His alt mode is a "communications room" in Fortress Maximus's city mode. There's a picture of it here: tfwiki.net/wiki/Cerebros#Generation_1
He basically folds his arms over his chest and bends over, sticking his feet in a hole in Fortress Maximus.