It would not be Christmas without looking through Transformer product catalogs !!!

Yes, for a few years Transformers took my attention away from GI Joe. Really they were just a gateway between GI Joe and WWF LJN which would soon take over my entire attention. Anyway, I remember leading up to Christmas staring at this catalog thinking about which ones I wanted and how I could use them. I mean really, if you have new troops coming in you have to think ahead and have a plan for their insertion to the battle, right. Too much Sun Tzu too early ......

 

This was the first year that TF hit and I was caught in the excitement. There were cartoons, commercials and comics promoting them, how could I resist ?!?! These were the offerings .....

 

Transformers Soundwave ... the second best Decepticon !!!

In this corner.......from Cybertron.....iiiittssssssss SOUNDWAVE!!!

OK....its the robot heroes version....

But I like these little dudes and a G1 Soundwave is not in the budget....at least I haven't scored it cheap yet :)

I, as a  child, put Megatron above all other Transformers. He was cool, bad and I could use him as a gun in my other play! But I always had a real soft spot for Soundwave. In the cartoon he had a cool voice and was Meg's right hand man. He came with cassettes that ejected and were his minions. His head looked like the Decepticon logo. His batteries changed into GUNS!! How cool is that.

Cool. Real Cool.

Check him out!!