# Shockwave (of the Transformers) gets his groove on **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675 "2004-06-10T18:27:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/1 "2004-06-10T18:27:45Z")
Ever wanted to see a Transformer breakdance? Well here you go. [http://triadfrog.home.comcast.net/](http://triadfrog.home.comcast.net/) Don’t ever say I never did nothin’ for ya. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/2 "2004-06-10T18:54:19Z")
😃 How did you happen upon this? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/3 "2004-06-10T20:46:48Z")
I was reading a wrestling columnist’s opinions on a wrestler in Germany doing a Nazi salute and all the trouble it’s gotten him in, and at the bottom he had a link to it calling it “the coolest thing of all time.” [Link.](http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/columns/article.php?columns_id=2647) ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/4 "2004-06-10T21:46:20Z")
Oh my God! It’s so awesome, I can barely stand to sit at my desk. I feel the need to bust a move/kick Decepticon ass. I miss that show. Is it still on anywhere? Nickelodeon, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/5 "2004-06-10T22:30:46Z")
OMGOMGOMG! I think I’m going to go lock myself in my room and watch that over and over and over again. Aieeeeee! Coolest. Thing. EVAR! ---
**Author:** ![av8rmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@av8rmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/av8rmike)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/6 "2004-06-10T22:55:49Z")
I can’t believe I’m going to be this geeky, but… The dancing guy (that transformed into the cassette player) was _Soundwave_. _Shockwave_ was much cooler, as he transformed into a laser gun, was purple, and battery-powered. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/7 "2004-06-11T03:05:09Z")
> [@av8rmike](#): > > The dancing guy (that transformed into the cassette player) was _Soundwave_. > _Shockwave_ was much cooler, as he transformed into a laser gun, was purple, and battery-powered. D’oh! :smack: Well, considering I’ve not seen the show for many years, I was close. That’s got to count for something. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/8 "2004-06-11T03:27:25Z")
That really is just way too cool… Nostalgia mixed with high tech… Is retrotech a word? Awesome. I could watch that continuously. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/9 "2004-06-11T03:39:01Z")
Just awesome…of course now that electronic theme is going to be running through my head all night. Wasn’t Soundwave also able to eject a casette that turned into a dog, and another that turned into a bird? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/10 "2004-06-11T05:48:44Z")
> [@Runestar](#): > > Just awesome…of course now that electronic theme is going to be running through my head all night. > > Wasn’t Soundwave also able to eject a casette that turned into a dog, and another that turned into a bird? The one that turned into a bird was **Laserbeak** , who was _supposed_ to be the little guy dancing at the end- except he can’t do that, he could only do the red and white pterodactyly thing- bit of a mistake there. The other three tapes were two which turned into regular little robots with piledriver arms and one which turned into a cat. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/11 "2004-06-11T07:30:20Z")
Ravage was the panther. Rumble was the guy whose arms turned into piledrivers. Frenzy was one of those robots who had some pretty interesting powers at least as far as the toy that you bought in the store, but the cartoon show didn’t really do anything with those powers – he had the same standard-issue laser gun that basically everyone else had. Laserbeak and Buzzsaw were the two birds. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/12 "2004-06-11T08:26:29Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > The one that turned into a bird was **Laserbeak** , who was _supposed_ to be the little guy dancing at the end- except he can’t do that, he could only do the red and white pterodactyly thing- bit of a mistake there. Nah, the tape Decep in the video was named Lazer, not laserbeak, and it looks like they made him up for the video as a sort of mascot. If you look at the bottom of the page you can see a credit for Lazer Music Production. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/13 "2004-06-11T09:47:08Z")
Dude, that’s even sweeter than ninjas. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/14 "2004-06-11T11:16:36Z")
Forgive me the slight hijack, but anybody else here still have their Optimus Prime? FWIW, Astrotrain is propped on top of my monitor (in space-shuttle configuration). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/15 "2004-06-11T11:32:21Z")
I have an Armada version of Optimus Prime on top of my G5, another one at home and a Megatron too. My original Gen 1 toys are in a box at my parents somewhere in the loft, so I should still have the original there. And the rest, Grimlock being my favourite. Now a flash animation of Grimlock bodypoppin’, that’s something i’d pay good money to see. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/16 "2004-06-11T11:58:40Z")
No workee, neither at home, nor at work. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/17 "2004-06-11T13:01:54Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > No workee, neither at home, nor at work. ☹ I had no luck with Firefox, but IE played the flash animation without any problem. For me, the best part was the brief background shot of Lazer’s statistics; strength, firepower, leadership, speed, etc, ranked 1 through 10. Back In The Day\TM\ we used those and a jerry-rigged combat system to simulate massive Autobot vs Decepticon wars in the backyard. A measuring tape to determine how far a given transformer could move on a turn, dice to determine whether the attack would hit at the given range, and so on. That was, indeed, cooler than ninjas. Cooler than ninja pirates, to be precise. ---
**Author:** ![paulberserker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulberserker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulberserker)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/18 "2004-06-11T13:12:14Z")
But was it cooler than Ninja Pirate Transformers that could play guitar so sweet it just made you want to crap your pants? Link worked fine on Safari, took a while to load though. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/19 "2004-06-11T13:41:42Z")
> [@av8rmike](#): > > I can’t believe I’m going to be this geeky, but… > > The dancing guy (that transformed into the cassette player) was _Soundwave_. > _Shockwave_ was much cooler, as he transformed into a laser gun, was purple, and battery-powered. Nope. That was Galvatron, the upgraded Megatron. I believe that Shockwave was one of the fighter jets. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675/20 "2004-06-11T13:44:47Z")
Oops. Guess I was kinda wrong. Shockwave was also a purple gun, BUT Galvatron was a purple gun too!! Destructicons were the badest-ass ones thoough. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shockwave-of-the-transformers-gets-his-groove-on/249675.md?page=2)