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Thanks to the folks over on 78dm.net we have our first in-hand images of Transformers Prime "Beast Hunters" Wave 2 Deluxe's Ripclaw and Starscream. Check out the images mirrored below.

Update: Additional images of Starscream have added courtesy of HK-TF. See bottom of post.

Looks good ......untilllllll you get to Starscream. Darnit - why would they just not retool the awesome deluxe mold we already have... oh, I get it...money money money...... That thing is so freaking small next to first edition. After I review they toy, it's going straight to my 5 yr old..... He will most likely love it, and I suppose in the end that is what Hasbro cares about.

god i cant wait to get ripclaw, and damn that starscream is tiny, and ugly.

Ripclaw doesn't look nearly as brightly colored as she did in her stock photography.

And, wow, is Starscream SHORT.

Wow...just wow. Starscream is SO SMALL.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this Starscream is terrible! Unlike Ripclaw, his colors look just as bad, if not worse than the stock photos.

I was planning on getting Ripclaw anyway, but the coloring is much better in these photos and probably even better in person. Her robot head is exactly like Ser-Ket's from the Rage of the Dinobots comic. I'm assuming that a remolded Predacon head into a bat is inevitable.

Possible spoiler (speculation) alert!

The dragon head of Ripclaw looks just like the Predacon that attacked the Dinobots in Issue #2. Again, Ripclaw looks just like Ser-Ket minus the coloring and aforementioned head. Is it possible that Ser-Ket was the Predacon that attacked them? Or does she become a dragon? This is just my guess but this figure and packaging information seem to fit together with Ser-Ket too well. It says she's a girl after all and the comic is supposed to tie in directly with TFP Season 3. Just wanted to see if anyone else was thinking this too.

Ripclaw is awesome, but Hasbro should be ashamed of that sorry excuse for a Starscream figure. Terrible mold in terrible colors. Why they didn't just retool the excellent FE mold they already have is beyond me.

Rhinox23 wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again, this Starscream is terrible! Unlike Ripclaw, his colors look just as bad, if not worse than the stock photos.

I was planning on getting Ripclaw anyway, but the coloring is much better in these photos and probably even better in person. Her robot head is exactly like Ser-Ket's from the Rage of the Dinobots comic. I'm assuming that a remolded Predacon head into a bat is inevitable.

Possible spoiler (speculation) alert!

The dragon head of Ripclaw looks just like the Predacon that attacked the Dinobots in Issue #2. Again, Ripclaw looks just like Ser-Ket minus the coloring and aforementioned head. Is it possible that Ser-Ket was the Predacon that attacked them? Or does she become a dragon? This is just my guess but this figure and packaging information seem to fit together with Ser-Ket too well. It says she's a girl after all and the comic is supposed to tie in directly with TFP Season 3. Just wanted to see if anyone else was thinking this too.

Ripclaw is a clone of Ser-ket, I think I recall reading something like that. I think it's in the toy's bio?

RAcast wrote:

Rhinox23 wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again, this Starscream is terrible! Unlike Ripclaw, his colors look just as bad, if not worse than the stock photos.

I was planning on getting Ripclaw anyway, but the coloring is much better in these photos and probably even better in person. Her robot head is exactly like Ser-Ket's from the Rage of the Dinobots comic. I'm assuming that a remolded Predacon head into a bat is inevitable.

Possible spoiler (speculation) alert!

The dragon head of Ripclaw looks just like the Predacon that attacked the Dinobots in Issue #2. Again, Ripclaw looks just like Ser-Ket minus the coloring and aforementioned head. Is it possible that Ser-Ket was the Predacon that attacked them? Or does she become a dragon? This is just my guess but this figure and packaging information seem to fit together with Ser-Ket too well. It says she's a girl after all and the comic is supposed to tie in directly with TFP Season 3. Just wanted to see if anyone else was thinking this too.

Ripclaw is a clone of Ser-ket, I think I recall reading something like that. I think it's in the toy's bio?

Ok thanks. That makes sense. This also pretty much guarantees a repaint/remold into Ser-Ket then. Although I could see Takara doing this and not Hasbro, but who knows what Beast Hunters they have planned down the line.

Ripclaw's beast mode looks better than I thought! But that robot mode, especially the head sculpt...

Very glad I preordered her.

As for Screamer, yes, he's fugly, but for whatever reason I'm digging the new mold. Probably scale... I need to see him next to BH Soundwave, because literally the only thing I dislike about FE Starscream is that he's just a little too tall. This one is a far inferior mold but I'll probably get it anyway, because I get crazy when it comes to scale.