SDCC 2013 Coverage: Preview Night Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Gallery

Neat-o! Still waiting to see some new stuff (i.e. Armada SS), but I'm guessing they're saving those reveals till later?

Ironically enough (with Abominus set so close on the horizon), I'm starting to see more Hun-grr figures in stores (Target & TRU)... though, it's still anyone's guess if the individual Abominus figs will appear before the set hits shelves (nice one, Hasbro ).

Is Hulk Optimus just a green version of the Voyager? I think it had a shield, too...

EDIT: Nevermind... I think Hulkimus is supposed to be the upscaled Commander fig.

They really should've used Legion Cliffjumper, Arcee, Air Vehicon and/or Airachnid instead of Bumblebee and Smokescreen if they really wanted to make an impression with these upsized figures. Not only are that BB and SS two of the worst looking figures in the legion class but they've both been recolored to death recently. Both have the Beast Hunters releases, they both have playset releases, Target exclusive releases, normal repaint releases and then SS has two new character repaints and BB has how many releases without the Beast Hunters upgrades. Sinnertwin and Cutthroat are great choices but BB and SS just show how bad an idea this can be.

I'm also a little upset that Blot has gotten TWO recolors already but Sinnertwin and Hun-Grrr don't have any (not including the giftset or the GO! releases). That makes three extra Abominus legs and one extra arm. I just hope they try to balance it out more and recolor some of the others into Sparkstalker and Flamefeather to go with Cindersaur (who didn't seem to be in the pictures anywhere).

As for that upsized Optimus Prime...is that green the new Allspark blue or something? I'm fine with the translucent green windshield and sword on the current voyager and I'm ok with the shield and sword on this "new" one but the solid green on Prime is just awful. It really does make him look like he's slowly turning into Toxitron. That Predaking looks fantastic with it's new parts though.

Help me out here guys, Armada Starscream?
- Upscaled Legion Beast Hunters Optimus?
- Upscaled Legion Terrorcons?

WHAT's GOIN On!!!??!

Thanks for the explanation Alpha Weltall,

I seem to have missed a few very interesting defelopments.
Also pretty sure a huge amount of the fandom doesn't like that simle-transformation story. But I happen to be one of those who actually like that.
I think I'll be getting most of these upscaled Commander class figures. I don't mind simple transformations as long as both modes look good and there's decent articulation in robot mode.

+ Armada Starscream is my second favorite Seeker mold, Great news in my book!

Yikes. I'm so glad I'm mostly bailing on this line. These upscaled Legion toys aren't appealing to me at all. The only upcoming figure I might get from BH is deluxe Prowl, and he's based on the Smokescreen mold.

That said, who's the dark blue & grey dragon guy with the orange beak? He looks a LOT like a beastified Dreadwing. Which would be pretty sweet in concept, though not something I'd be adding to my collection.

kirbenvost wrote:That said, who's the dark blue & grey dragon guy with the orange beak? He looks a LOT like a beastified Dreadwing. Which would be pretty sweet in concept, though not something I'd be adding to my collection.

Darksteel, a repaint of Grimwing. He's exclusive to Target as part of the Predacons Rising line.

Two new reveals were on display this afternoon in Hasbro's display area at SDCC. This time around it's the newest versions of the Transformers Prime Weaponizers Bumblebee and Optimus Prime in new Beast Hunters colors, packaging and with new accessories. Bumblebee even comes with a remolded head featuring his mouth! Check out these brand new pics of Talking Bumblebee and Tracker Optimus Prime by clicking here.

Prime actually looks good in green.

Hope be has some voice clips actually recorded by Will Friedle.

Optimus Prime? Or Johnny Canuck Prime? He looks like he should be wandering the North Cascades!

Optimus looks like fun(HUGE SWORD!)
Reminds me of that conversation with Sabrblade about a green Optimus.

Bumblebee is very cool looking.