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[El Duque]

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.

[ebeforei]

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.

[Doubledealer93]

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

[Sabrblade]

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

And, wow, is Starscream SHORT.

[RAcast]

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

[Rhinox23]

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.

[GuyIncognito]

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.

[RAcast]

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?

[Rhinox23]

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.

[Henry921]

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.