Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01570

I decided to pick up the latest Transformers and G.I.JOE crossover vehicle which is Megatron as a COBRA H.I.S.S. tank with the action figure of The Baroness. I was pretty excited when I saw this because I always thought that the Transformers and G.I.JOE were from the same universe and wished that they would cross over. Several years back there were some great comic books put out that reimagined that very thing where COBRA discovered the dormant Transformers and converted them into their vehicles. They only seemed to use the Decepticons for that which conveniently set things up for G.I. JOE to find the Autobots and work with them to battle COBRA and the Decepticons. I have heard rumors that another one of these crossover vehicles will be coming and they are going to use Soundwave with the Dreadnoks Thunder Machine vehicle. I’d be first in line to get that one.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #01567

Hasbro put out a series of non transforming Transformers toys and I picked up a few of my favorite characters. Soundwave was always one of my favorites because he had all those cool little tapes and his voice was a synthesizer. He was strong and a great spy for the Decepticons. He turned into a little tapedeck that fooled people all the time. The tapes he had fit into the tape deck chest cavity, too. As a kid in the 80’s who had different tape recorders and such this was something very cool. He’s recently been reissued and there is a Shattered Glass variant out there as well, Shattered Glass is an alternative history of Transformers where the Decepticons are the good guys and the Autobots are the evil ones.