#cassette cryptid

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They gave The Wave man the hinge cut outs from the original toy! Such a cool detail!

TF1 's reminds me of Ready Player 1's version of the Iron Giant, specifically in the elbows/forearms

Also good god the booba

[cassette-cryptid]

In the TF One trailers, have you noticed they cut the scene right before Soundwave speaks every time?

It's really bugging me and I don't know why

[cassette-cryptid]

Update on big chungus Soundwave:

I've spent about 2 hours taking him apart (the screws were rusted in) and trying to diagnose the problem with why he was playing at about .45x speed.

I thought it was the potentiometer at first because this thing probably hadn't been lubricated since when it was made in 1986 and I didn't feel like lubricating it all, so, just turn up the speed on the motor, right? Nope.

The motor is too old to have an external potentiometer.

So I started messing around with the (now loose) tape deck with and without tapes on it. As it turns out, the resistance from the tapes themselves was causing a rubber band to slip. So I'm replacing the rubber bands with the closest that I have on hand, I'll tell y'all's how it works out

[cassette-cryptid]

Ahoy-Hoy!

If you've been following me for a while you know I own a rather rare piece of Transformers merch, the 1985 working cassette deck Soundwave statue.

I had ordered it working, but when I got him, he was playing at just less that half speed

So I took him apart to diagnose the issue, but the project has been shelved for months due to my workspace having to be moved

My question for y'all's is,

should I finish him this week and get him running normally, or should I just put him pack together?

Yes

No

*Yes 2!*

Voting ended onOct 10, 2024