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Flashwave wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Ha, I get it, because "Vertebreak" sounds like "Vertebrate", and he's a bad guy, so he would break stuff. I love puns in names.

Probably involves breaking your spine, yes.

Transformers characters don't have anywhere near enough terrible puns in their names as it is. I'm glad to see someone at Hasbro is remedying this.

So, we've got Waves 3 and 4 revealed... my guess is we get the retools/redecos of Lazerback (again) and Ripclaw to fill out the numbers in Wave 5. Doesn't look like we're getting any deluxe scale Dinobots, I'm sad to say.

Still, plenty of bad guys to work with, which is always a plus in my book. I'll probably get Arcee so I can have all the revealed Autobots, but I'll need to see it in person before I'm absolutely sure. They didn't bother to make her nearly as distinct as the retools of Bumblebee, Wheeljack, and Ratchet.

I still can't believe how bad Ripclaw's colour scheme is. She looks like a test production shot. It's like the designers were having a big argument over whether they should pick fire dragon colours or poison dragon colours and some boss rolled on by and told them to do both.

Is all that stuff just for the US? 'Cause I'm in the UK, and I'm not getting half as much, even when I switch the location setting to "United States."

Where's Huffer? I don't see him anywhere.

Handels-Messerschmitt wrote:I still can't believe how bad Ripclaw's colour scheme is. She looks like a test production shot. It's like the designers were having a big argument over whether they should pick fire dragon colours or poison dragon colours and some boss rolled on by and told them to do both.

GuyIncognito wrote:Where's Huffer? I don't see him anywhere.

I went through the lab game again to get a screenshot of Huffer.

Also, this should connect to the video of the Predacons escaping the lab: http://beasthunters.transformers.com/en_US/research. I'm not sure if this will work though.

Rhinox23 wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:Where's Huffer? I don't see him anywhere.

I went through the lab game again to get a screenshot of Huffer.

Also, this should connect to the video of the Predacons escaping the lab: http://beasthunters.transformers.com/en_US/research. I'm not sure if this will work though.

Beast Hunters Huffer, my fluffy read end. That's PCC Huffer there. Taking the lazy way out, Hasbro?

Handels-Messerschmitt wrote:I still can't believe how bad Ripclaw's colour scheme is. She looks like a test production shot. It's like the designers were having a big argument over whether they should pick fire dragon colours or poison dragon colours and some boss rolled on by and told them to do both.

The color scheme is my favorite thing about that figure. Why does it have to conform to some old fantasy trope like "dragons must be either fire, poison, or ice and have corresponding colors?"

GuyIncognito wrote:The color scheme is my favorite thing about that figure. Why does it have to conform to some old fantasy trope like "dragons must be either fire, poison, or ice and have corresponding colors?"

I'm not saying that it must, I'm saying that it looks like the designers couldn't decide on what it should look like. It's just weird to me that they would pick bold red, orange, green and blue in equal measure. It doesn't even really look like brightly coloured lizards/birds/frogs because it doesn't have a pattern, it just has parts in different colours. Something so simple as only being put together a bit more coherently would work wonders. It could make the choice of colours work.