You know Cybertron Soundwave is such an objectively evil design when he looks even _more_ like a Decepticon in red.

It's taking me a lot to get used to Thew facing left.

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.

not gonna lie sometimes i miss the fun gimmick filled era of the unicron trilogy

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😂

🎵Blast Christmas, I gave you my spark🎵

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

“That while extensible perfection can be achieved Only you can say what really makes you happy” -Thew Adams

"Made out of triangles and bullshit" Thew's Christmas 2023 quote

"Biggest nerd and dopest Chad" I identify as both 🤣

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!

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.

I always thought Blaster was one of the more underrated Autobots. I loved him in the G1 series and the Movie.

“Blast Christmas I gave you my heart”

I like socks as a gift now.

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.

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 know what we can modernize Blaster into. A portable speaker.

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

I just got the Cybertron Blaster recently. He is a bit crusty but its such a fun design. I grew up with Cybertron

You know, in all honesty, he should’ve gotten a core class release as well

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

The ghost of Christmas blast

Blaster! Blaster! Blaster of soundwaves, he's pulling your wires.

unexpected shoutout to the Yangtze River Dolphin, this guy's all over it!

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

Blaster be like; "The FUNKIEST Bot on Cybertron!" Or *[Mortified from the scream and wails of Scrounge melting to death]*

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.

Universe B looks like a Seeker and his birdie is Da' Bomb. Kingdom Blaster looks just normal.

Oh! I know this! Universe Blasters weapons and bird transform into bombs.

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

Always a good day when thew uploads

“Block rockin beak” Thank you, I needed that 😂

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.

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.

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.

12:17 I thought Blockrock was an homage to G.B. Blackrock from the G1 Marvel Comics?

Hope your Christmas has been great Thew. Love me some Blaster goodness.

Shout out to the yangtze river dolphin, rest in power

"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.

Blaster and his little friends are the kind of characters that I don't care I'll love them no matter what

Something I've always thought they could do with Blaster is change his altmode to a bulky '50s Chopper bike.

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

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.

"Blast christmas, I gave you my heart, the very next day, you gave it away".

I love how this episode is late for Christmas

The music you used for the cybertron transformation really fitted the chaos of it

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

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

I used to have both of them as a kid, good to see them again

I kinda want a legacy Cybetrton Soundwave in the future

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.

Great way to close out the year

The opening for these videos makes me nostalgic for the halcyon days of 2012-ish. Seriously. Brings a smile to my face.

i've kind of always wanted Cybertron Soundwave, his design looks so cool!

The needs of the Thew outweigh the needs of the many is a statement I can get behind!!

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.

a planet key tattoo would go unbelievably hard. Happy Holidays Thew!

"the needs of the thew"... embarrassed to truthfully say i did not see that one coming. well played.

w..was that a bucky o hare reference.....wasnt expecting that today

God, do I miss the weird years though. Thank goodness for the Legacy line.

"this one looks like Blaster ... this one looks like Satan's moon cup"😂😂😂

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!

Always extra exciting when you do something I own

that cybertron design looks awesaume tho. kinda wish hasbro took a second crack at it with more articulations and stuff.

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.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Thew!

"Those of you whose knees don't hurt yet..." That hit home.

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

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

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.

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

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 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

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'll make sure to knock back an extra Guinness for you on NYE, Thew. Happy Holidays.

Thew, your videos are always such a delight to watch. Please keep rocking on my man!❤

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.

You should flip Goldbug's backpack upside down for maximum G1 hoodie effect. We also still need your albums of the year.

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

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

And that's what, I call... a robot in disGUIIIIIISE!

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?

🎵Blast Christmas, I gave Thew my heart and something something something, I was too lazy to write the resssst🎵

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!

What a blast from the past

The lights do look great Thew! Hope you're having a lovely holiday season.

Happy New Year to Thew! Been enjoying your videos since 2011.

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!

'satans mooncup' is devastating

You always have the best transformation montage music. Keep it up Thew!

Your attitude and passion is truly delightful, its brightened my day and you've got a subscriber from me :) thanks for what you do!

I've seen the 80s movie 100 times as a kid how did I never notice the eject transform into rewind seen 🤯

Yeah, that OG Blaster is obscenely big. Even more egregious was Takara keeping that same size with Twincast.

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

I anticipated a "Block Rockin' Beats" reference and I was not let down lol (in the next review I will be expecting a Prodigy reference)