Toy Review - Beast Hunters DLX Ratchet

[griffin]

Series - Transformers Prime
Sub-line - Beast Hunters
Size/class - Deluxe
Wave - 3
New/remould/redeco - Heavy Remould
Released here - not yet (globally March/April 2013)
Approximate Retail Price - $23-$30 (US$15 in America)
Approximate Size - 14cm
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - Armoured Ambulance
Main Features/Gimmicks - splotchy plastic colour, spiky
Main Colours - Brown, light brown, white, silver, blue, green
Main Accessories - Drill weapon

[griffin]

Put simply, Hasbro ruined a fairly decent toy by making this monstrocity.

This should have been the mould release they do later of a mould, giving it a new head and colour, and making it a new character... as it doesn't feel like Ratchet, even a tiniest bit. Giving it a completely new head and completely resculpted, this toy should have been called Dinobot, and Ratchet should have been released with a Ratchet head and Ratchet colours.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

On the plus side, he has more paint now...

[i_amtrunks]

I'll be doing exactly what you said Hasbro should have done Griffin. This will be my Dinobots toy and that's what I'll call him.

[GoktimusPrime]

Wow... f'ugly is the word!
BH is kinda turning out to be like "Transformers Prime: Generation 2."

[Sinnertwin]

Ratchet? More like Ratsh**

[Sky Shadow]

It really does look like Dinobot II with Dinobot's weapon. Maybe there will be a less hideous recolour.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Put simply, Hasbro ruined a fairly decent toy by making this monstrocity.

Wow... f'ugly is the word!

I feel this way about quite a few of the BH figures. Typical we have these turning up on our shelves yet so many excellent Generations figures are slated to never reach our shores

[The_Damned]

I feel this way about quite a few of the BH figures. Typical we have these turning up on our shelves yet so many excellent Generations figures are slated to never reach our shores

too true

[Zommael]

I got this today as it was the last one in Target. I really like it. Transformation is intuitive but engaging, colours are cool, and despite what Griffin said above, it does still feel like Ratchet to me, especially with the ambulance markings. In vehicle mode it literally looks like Ratchet's vehicle mode with some sort of upgrade adding the rocky bits to it. The colours are cool as, particularly with the orange swirl, they make the tan parts look like they are sandstone or even bleached bone.

I think he's actually a three way homage, both to Dinobot and to Jurassic Park? He reminds me of the vehicles from that movie, which of course had a Kenner toyline like Beast Wars did.

In robot mode he is sturdy and has good articulation. He's also one of the best proportioned robot modes in terms of human-like shape I've seen for a while. His legs are actually in proportion to his upper body! I think one of my favourite things is that he has only a small amount of Hasbro metallic gray (the dullest colour on Earth) that shows through in this mode. The majority is still the tan colour.

A very good toy and an entertaining homage.