Toy Review: Beast Hunters DLX Ripclaw

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(Please post photos, comments or even a fully comprehensive review - these are just brief details to get you started)

Series - Transformers Prime
Sub-line - Beast Hunters
Size/class - Deluxe
Wave - 2
New/remould/redeco - New
Released here - not yet (globally March 2013)
Approximate Retail Price - $23-$30 (US$15 in America)
Approximate Size - 14cm
Allegiance - Predacon
Alt-mode - Dragon
Main Features/Gimmicks - splotchy plastic colour, spiky, rubbery
Main Colours - Aqua, red, bronze
Main Accessories - snapping claw

[ILikeSoundwave]

I really like this figure,I'm just worried about the soft rubber head.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I really like this figure,I'm just worried about the soft rubber head.

Lick it to keep it moist.

I really want one of these. Beast mode looks good, robot mode also looks good. And its a girl!

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Got mine today And I quite like it. Pretty unimpressive transformation and loose legs let her down. I wonder why her dragon head is all rubber? that seems a stranger idea.

I would have liked her shoulder guards to have been attached with ball joints, as the angle required for them to sit over the arms in robot mode is a little bit and I also wished the head came out of the neck cavity a bit more than it does.

Despite all that though I like the look of the robot mode and REALLY like her Dragon mode. I am going to make her a Gargoyle. the instructions are incredibly useless, even going to the point of skipping a step required for her back and they are made even worse by them using very grey prototype that manages to blur any definition between parts. On the second part pf step three I had trouble seeing what I was looking at.

Instructions are getting more and more ridiculous as we go on. Massive poster sheet as well. I am also curious why a new-born clone has loyalty feelings to another clone.

I do like the fact that she is armed with a Half-Life Gravity gun!

She will be my Gordon Freeman!

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

going to pop in some action poses. Well, one is a standing pose...



The tail claw/gravity gun works really well with smaller figures. I wonder if the brave knight can take down THIS dragon and save the maiden?

[crankcase76]

i do like this BH, especially the dragon mode on her.

[Seraphim Prime]

This is a fantastic figure, and one I have been going back to again and again for the last month or so because of the unique transformation and the way the rear dragon legs combined to form the robot legs.

It's great to have another female figure in the mix as well.

I love it.

[CBratron]

I wonder why this mold was never repainted into Ser-Ket. She would've been more popular simply by virtue of having some fiction to back her existence as a toy.

[shockNwave]

Picked this toy up recently and I'm surprised there are few comments for such an awesome figure that would have to be the best deluxe in the series. A bummer that many missed out on Ripclaw. Shame Hasbro shame.

The tail on her robot mode adds so much stability that I can put her in a running pose.

Also love the snapping claw with the button placed at the centre of the three talons instead of on the outside of the weapon.

And while I'm on about the claw; when attached to the hand her arm looks like a monstrous chaos limb which just adds to her menacing appearance.

A small gripe though for the restricted arm movement caused by her shoulder guards.