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Hasbro's official Transformers website has received a Beast Hunters facelift, and along with it revealed a few upcoming figures. So far we've found a Lazerback redeco called Vertebreak, Arcee's Upgraded Beast Hunters figure, and Huffer. As one would expect Arcee features a new weapon and line's signature spiky armor. At the moment Huffer is shown as the PCC version, but he does have a Beast Hunter bio. We also have some new images of the Legion Class Terrorcons Blight, Windrazor, and Rippersnapper. Click here to visit the website, lots of new games and content.





Bios:

Grimwing with Blackbeak:
The most honorable warrior among the Predacons, Grimwing seeks glory through chivalrous combat with a worthy foe!

Semi-intelligent companion to Grimwing. Does not always offer the best advice.
Fires a powerful claw that grips and crushes targets.
Can fly and fight independent of Grimwing.

Skystalker:
Skystalker is an ice-cold Predacon warrior with the power to annihilate all who stand before him!

Perfectly silent - ideal for sneak attacks.
Can be temperature adjusted to melt or freeze targets.
Can generate a blinding flash of light on impact to disorient enemies.

Vertebreak:
The powerful Vertebreak wants nothing more than to smash all Autobots and those that stand with them!

Emits a disturbing sonic alarm before firing that can cause some robots to involuntarily flee in terror.
Missiles deliver circuit-scrambling shocks that causes the target to attack their allies.
Secondary short-range blasts can permanently reduce a target's intelligence.

Hun-Gurrr:
Nothing can stand before the rampaging rage of the two-headed terror known as Hun-Gurrr!

Blight:
This incredibly powerful warrior crushes all opposition with one blow from his mighty hammer!

Rippersnapper:
This sarcastic savage loves to pick fights he can finish with a single shot from his powerful Shattersteel Bow!

Windrazor:
Windrazor is a cold-hearted warrior who cares only for destruction!

Ultra Magnus:
The Elite AUTOBOT special forces commander is ready to bring the battle to the PREDACONS with the mighty Forge of Solus battle hammer.

Arcee:
The ultimate AUTOBOT hunter is on the prowl for some PREDACONS to pound into submission!

Autobot Ratchet:
The dedicated AUTOBOT scientist is through hiding in his lab. He is armored up and ready to take the fight to the PREDACONS!

Huffer:
The AUTOBOT construction engineer builds fortifications that can withstand a brutal dragon fire blitz!

Prowl:
Prowl backs up his strategic genius with his heavy-hitting Justice Hammer!

Trailcutter:
TRAILCUTTER is a skilled wilderness warrior with an impenetrable force field!

Wallpapers:

1. I'll wait for the Abominus set.
2. Is Lazerback gonna be the Predacon Bumblebee?
3. Not sure what to make of Arcee just yet. Need more pics.

Meh. Repaints already. And with so many figures just being remolds of existing characters, I can skip so much of this line.

Nice to see that Prime vs. Megatron image though. As far as I know that's the first time we've seen OP's upgraged form in CG. Beefy. Not quite Fatimus... Beefimus.

Vertebreak looks cool.

Lazerbeak homages RiD Bruticus and now his repaint homages the G1 Predacons. Cool.

And those Legend combiner Predacons...

I'll definately get the PRID version of Arcee (to use as Chromia) but I'm on the fence about the Beast Hunters version. I need more pics. Don't like the weapon.

Vertebreak is an awesome name, and a pretty cool toy. Whilst I wish they were Deluxes, the Legion Terrorcons are pretty beast as well.

need to see more pics of arcee before i make a decision.

Hm, I was thinking of something more like a Sheena inspired leopard print scheme for Arcee. Oh well.

I am seriously digging those Terrorcons. I always thought Blot looked awesome. This Beast Hunters Abominus will fit right in with my Classics/Universe/Generations/Reveal The Shield Decepticons.

man that optimus vs meg shot is cool. im not sure how megs is gonna fair in a one on one with op these days. op is just as big, probably able to take some firepower now like megs can instead of just dodging shots, he has the jet booster thing on his back, and he has the star saber in addition to arm cannons, while megs dark star saber is el gon-o. HA now megs looks scrawny next to prime.

plus op has a faceplate so now the race is on to see which third party will make bh op have black/blue windows and a faceplat head.....

probably going to pass on Laserback for Vertebreak instead. Liking the colours much better from these pics.

BH Arcee? I can wait for Generations now that I've got the FE version.

Terrorcons? looking darn good. It's also so awesome that they've made a whole 2 different weapons for Cyberverse toys.

Arcee I'll need more pics of, but I probably won't get her.

Vertebreak is awesome, but unless he's in the show he can hang on the shelf forever more.

Since we're on the Website Update, if you get a little lag (like I did) you can spot the new background for the website, which includes Optimus Prime, Megatron, Arcee, Soundwave, Bumblebee, Knock Out, Ratchet, Starscream, Bulkhead, and Shockwave about to go head to head (to head to head to head...). Doesn't have Optimus' changed model, but I thought it was noteworthy.



Edit: Now I'm not so sure it's particularly new, as I went back to the Transformers Website and it was different than before, but I never noticed it.

Vertebreak sure looks tiggerific!

Seriously, whats not to like.

Thanks to Prymestriker for posting this in another thread!

So, I just went through the whole laboratory mission and there is a really cool video when you reach the main lab at the end. It shows Hun-Grr, Rippersnapper and Twinstrike running through the lab. Then there's a long slow stalking type walk by Skystalker (see what I did there). Then at the end Predaking breathes fire and they all escape through the hole he just opened. Also, it starts off with Shockwave running away from them and firing behind him before he hides. Pretty cool. Skystalker especially looked really sweet. This was all in a form of CGI so they all looked great and I must admit I really dig the bright colors on the Terrorcons. All of the Preds look pretty good together.

One last note, there is a section of "beast armor" Autobots where Huffer was listed along with all of the other ones already mentioned. Prowl was also shown, though the picture was actually cyberverse Smokescreen.

I really enjoy these viral ad campaigns and cannot wait for Beast Hunters! Though this makes me even sadder that it will end as soon as we all really get into it.

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.

already beating it like its a dead horse

Spikes, studs and motorcycles? Yes, please
However... I'm not too keen on the animated hot rod -esque weapon

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.

So... many... Cyberverse... bows! Anyone who gets more than a couple small figures will be rolling in them

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Hm, I was thinking of something more like a Sheena inspired leopard print scheme for Arcee. Oh well.

the legion repaint Flamewar is pretty close already, I'm sure anyone could do it to the deluxe.

dear god optimus got fat, what did he do eat bulkhead?

Hmmm the Predacons combine, but not into Predaking.

These things looks lame - the alt mode and bot mode are just too similar in some cases.

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.