Posted January 5, 2013 at 8:04 pm

Hasbro's new direction for the Transformers Prime toyline is called Beast Hunters, which was a title that was first used for Beast Machines in its preliminary stages. The forgotten Predacon race of Transformers dragons has returned! And the Autobots and Decepticons apparently have covered themselves in spikes and shit to combat them! I found the new spikey Bumblebee first, and I think he was a pretty successful execution of this concept, but I'll talk about him later. Soundwave, though, I dunno.

Soundwave himself is heavily retooled from the original Transformers Prime Soundwave. The yellow and dark blue parts on Beast Hunters Soundwave remain from the original tooling, but everything else is new. The result is kind of a mess, I think. I'm not really sure what's going on, and it kind of detracts from Soundwave's sleek design. On the other hand, he does transform into something that now looks less like those things the President uses to kill civilians in other countries!

Beast Hunters Soundwave comes with a new grappling claw weapon as well! It's one of those spring-loaded missile launcher deals but with a string. It's not pictured because I forgot about it.
So let's sum up: Ravage comes with a Soundwave that's kind of a mess and possibly ultimately forgettable. He transforms exactly the same way, but he's got more stuff on him. And he has a grappling hook. Maybe I'll come around on him later? Right now, he's just hard to visually resolve.
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