Shockwave is known as a cold and logical, powerful and deadly Decpticon. He's loyal to Megatron and is often depicted as a science officer and/or commander left to watch over Cybertron in Megatron's absence. But of course there are so many different interpretations of these characters you can take your pick. This version is the Fall of Cybertron version and he transforms into a Cybertronian mobile artillery mode.
His sculpt in robot mode is very nice. There is tons of detail including lots of lines etched into his body including on the large window on his chest which even has a fine grill pattern on the back side if you look close. Even the black area his head sits on is sculpted to look like thick cabling. One thing that is unique about Shockwave among transformers is that he has no face. Being coldly logic he knows that as a mighty robot this is unnecessary so instead has a head dominated by one cold unblinking eye. This simplistic but effective design has always...
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