Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another ToyHacks.com sponsored video. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please consider hitting that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing, but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Now on to the decals. And the set we're looking at in this video is for War for Cybertron Kingdom Core Class Soundwave. And this decal set includes two decal sheets, one on foil and one on vinyl backing. So now let's go ahead and grab those tweezers and get the Haxing Core Class Soundwave. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Okay, I got Soundwave transformed into his cassette player mode, got his weapons laid out there and the two decals sheets here. Now if I'm a little quieter than normal, it's because it is 7.30 here on Friday morning, the day after Thanksgiving, and my family is still passed out from their food coma from yesterday. So bear with me if I'm a little bit more mellow than usual. So I've got both of the decal sets here. The smaller one looks like it's just some red stripes that are going to go around the weapons and I believe Soundwave's forearm. So I'll probably do those last. But the main decal sheet right here is this one on foil backing. It looks like we do have a couple options right there for the window on Soundwave's chest or you know the front, the cassette door. Now taking a quick look at Soundwave in cassette mode, I love this. This is so G1 aside from the way they have his feet sticking up like cat ears. I don't understand Hasbro and why they cannot fix feet to where they transform right. It's better just to miss transforming and have it looking like that. But still this is a great figure and probably one of my top 10 for the year. I'm actually working on that list right now. Now somebody posted about this guy on Facebook the other day and another person commented that he would not buy this figure just for the simple fact that this little laser beak does not transform. Well buddy, you're missing out on a pretty cool figure. So now let's go ahead and get this guy all toyhacks up. I do love what toyhacks does for these modern Soundwave figures. I've got all my other ones toyhacks up except the Netflix version. I've got that decal set in. I just have not had the time to get it applied. So first things first, let's take a look at the window here. Now this window right now is translucent black plastic which really doesn't look bad and even if you have laser beak in Soundwave's chest here with the red facing out, oops, you still don't see it that bad. I mean it's there but it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb. But still I like to hide the tapes on the inside and I think I'm actually, let's see, I'm going to go with the blue. It's just more of an animated look. So get our fine tip tweezers here, fine net corner. Be very careful as you peel and there's also, if you see it, there's a cut section right there because you're going to have to place that decal around that little gold arrow. I do like the paint applications on this guy. So let's see how to get this peeled and get that arrow punched out. These tiny ones can sometimes be a problem. There we go. Very, be gentle, be very gentle. Let's see if we can go ahead and peel that off of the whole thing. There we go. So that little scrap there will just stick on the back because if I don't, I'll probably find it on my body later on. I've actually had toy hacks decals pop off, totally disappear and then I found them a couple days later when I'm in the shower or something stuck on the back of my arm. All right. So there we go. We've got that decal off. You can see the little hole cut. So now we're just going to line it up on the door. So we've got to line it up on over the arrow and around the edges of the door. I have to add music to this video because you might be able to hear my dog. He's laying below me snorting and chewing on something. So there we go. I got that on actually pretty good. I don't like the fact it covers up the Decepticon logo, but there are extra Decepticon logos right here. Let's go ahead and apply one of those and catch that edge. So nice Decepticon logo. Get that right in the middle. It's actually a small Decepticon logo. I may see if I can find a bigger one. So there we go. We've got the door done. I do like that blue. Let's see what's next. I've got the toy hacks sticker map over here on my computer. Let's see. He's got... So I'm looking at robot mode. Let's switch over to player mode. Okay. The next thing we're going to do is we're going to add some speaker decals right up here on the corner and those are these right there. So let's see how that matches up. Let's go ahead and peel this one right here. So it doesn't go that way. It's for this side right here. Line that up. Set it down. And there we go. Now I like it. It looks like a speaker. You got the little holes, but I think my light, it's very reflective. So you might not be able to see all the details with the light, but there's one. I like doing the toy hacks of these core class figures like this because they're a lot simpler to do than some of the larger figures.  So there we go. There's the speakers. What's next? We got the record battery decal right there and that's a nice throwback to the G1 toy. Get that peeled off and that's going to go right here in this blue section right between the two gray pieces.  So there's our record battery decal. Next up is the other one on the opposite side. It says stereo micro cassette recorder. It's going to go right here. See if I get that straight. I did not. So I never really press hard unless I am sure. There we go. And I believe that is everything for the micro cassette mode. I like that. That looks good. Nice throwback to the Generation 1 toy. So let's go ahead and get it transformed into robot mode, super simple transformation just like G1. Pop those legs around, flip those feet down, swing the arms out and get the head out there. So there you go. There's sound wave in robot mode. Great looking sound wave. I love this figure. This is one of my, like I said, one of my favorite core class figures. They knocked it out of the park with this guy. So let me go ahead and switch over to the robot mode sticker map. Okay, first things first is we're going to put some decals on his thighs. It looks like this one's, I guess, sliding off a little bit. It's on that mushroom peg, sliding forward and I've got the legs backwards. There we go. That looks a lot better. So thigh decals are these red ones right here.  Sorry about that. I actually had a phone call while I was recording and it stopped recording. I need to put this in airplane mode. I keep forgetting about that. So anyway, we got these red decals right here. Make sure the yellow arrow is facing down and we'll put this thigh decal. If you can see, there is an indentation right here that lined up. Now this piece has a little bit of a curve to it. So you kind of get your thumb in there, get that pressed in good. So there we have one thigh done. Okay, you can get out this other one and do the same thing. Find that little indentation there and there we go. So we got the sound waves, thigh decals. Next up, it looks like we've got new decals that are going to cover up the paint applications right here on the shoulders. Now I thought that looked pretty good, but it looks like we're going to get some with a little bit more detail. So get that peeled off and see how I'm going to get that turned around more of an angle. Line it up, press it down and there we go. So yeah, that makes a little bit of a difference. Go ahead and do this here on the other side as the shoulder's done. What do we have left?  They get in this little slot right there. See where the little three rectangles are? That's where those go. So let's get that peeled. Thanks to it went on easier than I thought. You can sometimes hear me holding my breath when I put these on. Don't want to breathe too hard and knock it off the tweezers. Yes, I never sleep in.  Usually early morning is the best time to shoot reviews before my wife and Dylan get up. So I can have a little bit of peace, just me and the dog. So there we have that. And that pretty much covers all the decals for sound way. But we got some cool interior decals for the inside of his chest. So let's go ahead and pop this door open. So right here on the inside is this decal here, which shows an Energon cube being filled up. If you can catch that, it's got some nice shiny foil pink metallic details there. I like that. So if you're familiar with the G1 cartoon, which you should be if you're watching my channel, you remember that Soundwave was the one that always produced the Energon cubes. So there's that decal. We're going to put this right here inside the door. That lined up just right. This is going to go on the edge because we've got these little hinges down there. Sometimes these are hard to get in just right. Okay, there we go. Cool. So there's that readout. He can actually, you know, he's looking at his chest is see how the Energon project reduction is going. So now here's a really cool one. We've got buzz saw. So I I like this poor old buzz saw just doesn't not get any love in the mainline anymore. I couldn't tell you when's the last time I actually had a buzz saw figure Titans return maybe when they turned into those little PDAs or whatever. So buzz saw is going to go right here. That actually line didn't grab. There we go. That lined up pretty good. So now we got buzz saw inside sound waves. You can have laser beak and buzz saw in that's pretty cool. So I dig that. That's pretty creative. All right. So that's sound wave taking care of now. That decal sheet is completed.  So now and I was wrong. We've got these red stripes to also put on sound wave here and let me double check. The red stripe is going to go around the forearm. So let me see exactly where that's going to go. Okay. It looks like it's going to fit right in to that groove that goes all the way around the forearm. So pulling out the vinyl decal sheet. We got two smaller ones which I believe those are going to be for the weapons and these long ones here are going to be for the form. So go ahead and pull those off. Nice thin red strip. And for these, I like to always start on the edge, which of course I guess makes sense. Got lined up just right. I don't have my glasses on this morning so this is a little bit more of a challenge. You see these fine details. I'm looking over the camera to do this so you guys can have a decent show. I guess I could have kept that in camera. Alright. Let's bring this down a little bit more because I'm having a fit getting this one applied. There we go. There we go.  And now bring it all the way around. Keep it nice and tight. Oh come on, stick, stick. Alright. Got that one in. Another very G1 inspired decal. I like that. So now let's do the other one and I'll save you some time. I'll apply it and edit it out so you guys don't have to watch me struggle so much again. Yeah, that one went on a lot easier when I wasn't trying to look through the camera and over the camera at the same time. So there is sound wave complete. Now we'll move on to the weapons. And for these decals it looks like there's two left. One's going to go on the blaster and then one's going to go on his shoulder cannon. So let's go ahead and peel this one here. This is a little thicker and this is going to go on the back of his concussion blaster. This will go right in that groove. Here on the back, once again, if I can get it to stick and then bring it around, it has a little bit of lip on it. There we go. It's going to go under and attach just like so. Whoops, did not mean to hit the camera. I apologize. So there we go. He's got an extra red stripe on his concussion blaster. Now for the shoulder cannon, I guess the red stripe is going to go right there on the front. So the shoulder cannon is only getting one stripe where the concussion blaster has two. You've got the painted stripe from the factory and the toy hacks one. Just one for the concussion blaster. Same thing, same size decal and it's going to go right in that groove. There's everybody, it's out, Black Friday shopping right now. Not me, it's what the internet's for. All right, so there is the concussion blaster all decal up. Let's go ahead and pop that on Soundwave's shoulder and put his weapon in hand. And there you go guys. Here you have Kingdom Core Class Soundwave all toy hacks up. And as usual, they did a fantastic job. Adds a little bit more personality to this already awesome transformer figure. And I love it, especially all the G1 throwbacks. So guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new videos. So if you're in any position to help out the channel, I do offer channel memberships here on YouTube and I want to give a huge shout out to all my current channel members because it's your support that helped keep this channel growing. Once again guys, this is Patriot Prime signing out.


Alrighty. So we have some amazing footage for you guys from Carowinds fans only. Again, go check them out on Facebook and YouTube. Some awesome behind the scenes shots for you. Huge thank you to Carowinds and Carowinds fans only. So this coaster is looking absolutely insane. So I'm just gonna provide my quick reaction to everything and then there's a couple of interviews at the end of this video. One provided by Carowinds fans only and one provided by Carowinds. So hope you guys enjoy that. So stay tuned for those. But I wanna say, I really wanna stress, I honestly thought Yukon Stryker was gonna have one of the most beautiful stations of 2019. Well, I'm easily at this moment, again, that could change. We don't know what the station for Yukon Stryker is gonna look like, but Cobrad Stryker has peeled ahead for me on the most beautiful station. I am in love with the way it looks. I love that like kind of modern barn look they went after. I think it's stunning. I'm absolutely in love with it. It was so awesome to see that in the videos today. And I'm super excited. Anyways, Cobrad Stryker is gonna be absolutely insane for 2019. I can't wait to go ride this in spring. From what we know, this thing is on time. Train should be arriving or have already arrived. We're not quite sure, but I believe they are arriving any day now and they'll begin testing very shortly. They're hooking up the electrical as you'll learn in the interview right now. So yeah, this is super exciting. Both Yukon Stryker and Cobrad Stryker are gonna start testing soon. Yukon Stryker is obviously a little bit behind because they have more track work to do, but I am so excited for Cobrad Stryker. It looks absolutely stunning. Anyways, enjoy the interviews and the questions that are being answered in the videos coming. Thanks for watching guys. Don't forget to hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't, and share this video for obvious to watch. Have a good one, bye. Okay, the guys working behind me are electricians. They're actually working on the electrical systems and they're hooking up the LSMs. The LSMs, if you look along the back burner to the right, you'll see that the white is the bottom block it looks like up there. Inside that there's more of the wire. They make a basically great magnet and that's what actually launches the train. This is actually launched too. So, the train will come in from this side over here moving that direction, okay? So it'll come into this and it'll look at the speed. It'll accelerate through here at about 35 miles per hour and it'll finish the ride out. This is actually launched too. It goes from 35 to 50 miles per hour. 35 to 50, so it comes in. 35 miles per hour goes out again. The question was, are we running the LSMs at maximum capacity? We're running the LSMs at their highest efficiency point. So, what we'll do is when we tune the ride that we'll actually control it so the ride will only go 50 miles an hour when it leaves with a full load in it. So an unloader train might get a little bit faster but it's really all about control. You can't overspeed the train going through here because it's designed that the highest efficiency point is about as fast as you're gonna be able to go anyway. The use is a lot of power. It's an expensive system, so you want to be as efficient as you can with what you're trying to do. The question is, how does the system know? Does it weigh the train every time? It does not weigh the train every time. When we set it up, what we like to do testing was we call them water dummies. It's a ballast, it's a weight that you put in the car. Each ballast, your weight will hold 170 pounds. It's just standard for the average weight of a person and we'll set it up for that. And then what we'll do is we'll overfill them to about 200 pounds, see what it does. So we'll do some experimental testing with it, which you have to do that on every ride anyway, especially one of this sort. You get your control system too then because you don't want a rollback. A rollback happens if you don't have enough power to get the ride where it's supposed to go and it goes up and doesn't quite have enough energy to complete the ride and then a rollback, okay? Let's talk about some of the safety features with a rollback. If a rollback happens right here, you'll see there's a platform over here and there's a platform right here and it's at the low spot. So if a rollback does happen, or let's say we have a power failure in the middle of the ride, this is where the train will stop and this is where we can unload the people. Nice and safe. There'll be stairwells that come down off the platform. We don't expect and we don't anticipate this to happen very often, but safety is one of the most important things we do. We have to anticipate what's going to happen when the train's going to stop and it's going to start again. Why don't you explain all the features that they're looking at with the coaster? This coaster with the five inversions is kind of laid out so we can see what they're looking at here. The train will stop with grabbing. You can use an LSM to back the train up, or lower train down, which you can. Yep, you can do all that. The different elements here. Okay, let's see if I can do this. Quick sense. The big loop over there, that's good. Just got five different inversions, okay? That's your first element. You're going to do the first loop over there. You're going to load it to the ground. I'm not sure I can do this.   You're really close to the ground. You can see it right there. You come back over there, you look around again. You come through this roll right here. You go way down there towards the building. You're hitting up a lot of your speed here and you're going to find your energy.   You're going to be again up to about 60 miles an hour.  That little hump right there, at this pace, it's going to be one of the hottest things you can get to do by surprise. I can't wait to ride this thing.  You've got the loop around you. All right, you go up through there. You get through the top hat, you come back around, you get through the loop. You get through another element backwards. Not backwards. You get through another element, you twist the other way.  Okay, that was kind of, that was very disjointed for me. That's okay. We have the model over here. Okay, we have to have a model of the ride over here. It's all done with a 3D printer by Bob. He was at the MyAPA show. They sent it to us. There's nothing like actually seeing that model. You can actually take your figure and trace it around exactly where things are going, how things twist and turn. There's something special about that model. Figure it out, let me know. Don't share it with your friends. It's just a little bit of something out there. You can actually do it, just to make sure we'll figure out pretty quick. It's kind of cool, it's kind of cool. All right. Well, let me tell you what we got going on. I haven't done an update in a while here, but as you can see, if you look around here, you can see that all the steel tracks up right now. It's all set in place. We've actually started grouting base plates and there's something right here close to us you can look at. All the track is up, the side track's in, the transfer track's in, the side track. You can call it different things. We've got track right here. We are at the base of launch two. This is the second launch in the coaster. And as you can see, all the big loops at the top, we come into the launch right here at about 35 miles an hour. We've already jumped to 50 miles an hour. Finish the ride out here. This is about the big way through the track. So this is where you step on the accelerator and go again. Start in earnest next week with the props. Props should arrive Monday or Tuesday and then start loading those into the, once you come out of the station, you've got some JoJo roll. You'll actually set up in the launch bar. A little free show for you. Then you'll actually launch.