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Matt,

I’m pretty sure he turned into a jambox\boombox\ghettoblaster and not a walkman.
Isn’t the term “walkman” patented by Sony?

Technically, he wasn’t a “Walkman” per se, but he was a really small tape deck, hence the term “Walkman.” Not unlike how iPod is used by many to refer to all MP3 players (by most of the general public anyways).

Soundwave definitely turned into a Walkman - I actually had a cheap Hong Kong knock off as a kid. The Transformer that morphed into the ghettoblaster was, well, Blaster.

Hi Matt,

That cautionary statement in picture “転載禁止” means “Prohibited to reprint”.
But I don’t understand why such kind of picture is used for advertisement at bigbadtoystore site.
Would they want to keep secret that product?