>>10754565The difference is that the tapedeck brick actually facilitates soundwave's design and more importantly has had a much more satisfying transformation as a toy.
I'm not even against soundwave BEING a dropship, that's a super fucking cool thing do with him as a dude that carries minibots, but siege COMPLETELY flops at the idea.
His tape door, which could've been the very basis of him being a dropship, is completely wasted, it doesn't turn him into any real unique or identifiable shape, it barely hides the fact that it's just a robot laying down. His crotch and thighs and arms are just floating there! Doing absolutely nothing! They even proceeded to keep aspects of the tapedeck design and do NOTHING with them. I genuinely dont understand how you can look at this and think it looks like much of anything at all, much less think it's better than something that clearly integrates every aspect of his design.
It would be 1000x better if they made it look like a spacey higgins boat and actually used his door as a door, instead of whatever the fuck this is.