There’s another Transformers live-action movie called Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen coming out on June 26. While I enjoyed the first Michael Bay-directed Transformers film, it did have many flaws, not the least of which was the gnarly look of the Transformers themselves in their robot forms.

While I sort of got used to the fact that Optimus Prime had lips and that Bumblebee was a Camaro instead of a Volkswagen Beetle, the look of Megatron never worked for me as he didn’t even remotely resemble any previous incarnation of the character.

Now, another fan-favorite character, Soundwave, looks like it will be butchered courtesy of Bay.  Soundwave was famous for his monotone voice and ability to transform into a cassette player (complete with transforming Decepticon “tapes”).  You probably remember him looking like this:

Now take a look at what Hasbro has lined up for the product line for the new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen film:

What… is… THAT?! No, seriously. Soundwave? What? More proof:

And instead of transforming into this:

He’s going to transform into this:

HUH? Why even bother calling him Soundwave?

It’s the same nonsense Michael Bay pulled with Megatron. Yes, I realize that he wanted everything to “make sense” by only transforming into items that didn’t violate physics.  So Megatron turning into a small gun or Soundwave turning into a cassette player wouldn’t make sense.  But we are talking about robots from another planet traveling through space and landing on Earth.  Would it be such a stretch to say they could not only transform their shape but also their size?  Not much of a leap, in my opinion.

Michael Bay – Why must you torture us so?

Pictures from Action-Figure.com and Transformers Classics.

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