Thanks to Seibertron.com member mattj972 for pointing out that Amazon US currently have a sale on for the Platinum Edition Predaking for just $49.99.  If you are within the US, shipping is free as well, but international orders are also available.  So if you have been holding off on getting this figure, now could be the perfect time to treat yourself or to buy that Christmas gift.

Mastermind Creations have posted new images on Facebook  of Leo Dux (Razorclaw) who makes up the main torso of their Feral Rex (Predaking) third party toy.

Mastermind Creations have revealed a new colour image of the upcoming Feral Rex combiner (Predaking) Bovis (Tantrum) via their Facebook page.

Hasbro have released some new official stock images of the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters figures for both Optimus Prime and Predaking. You can view the new images along with the previous ones after the jump.

Unique Toys have posted the first images of their grey prototype of War Rhino (Tantrum) from their upcoming Beasticon set.  The Beasticon will comibine into War Lord AKA Predaking.

With both Unique Toys and Mastermind Creations both releasing third party Predaking figures which will you decide to get?

Unique Toys have updated their Facebook page with some new colour images of the prototype of their upcoming third party Divebomb figure.  The toy, known as War Lord Hawk, is not the only 3rd party Predaking figure being released as Masrtermind Creations recently showed off the first image of the 2nd figure from their own set Not-Divebomb (Ferocicons). You can compare the images after the jump.

Unique Toys - War Lord - Hawk

Mastermind Creations - Ferocicons - Not-Divebomb

The Hobby Ark Toy Store have posted some new pre-orders listing on Facebook for some for upcoming Transformers Prime Beast Hunters figures from Takara Tomy. The figures include the first listing for Shockwave as well as stating that Optimus Prime will have a different deco to the Hasbro version and will feature a blue sword.  Here are the details

Pre-order open for Takara Transformers Prime Beast Hunters toys is open:

1) G11 Hunter optimus prime, voyager class, price=sgd$60, eta=april

*blue color packaging, paint different from Hasbro. Blue sword & green window.

2) G12 dragotron (predaking), voyager class, price=sgd$60, eta=april

3) G13 shockwave, voyager class, price=sgd$60, eta=april

4) G14, Hunter Bumblebee, deluxe class, price=sgd$35, eta= April

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YouTuber The7thParallel has posted a video review of Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Voyager Class Predaking, who has been released in his native Canada. You can view the review below.

ACToys.net have posted a plethora of new in-hand images of Transformers Prime Beast Hunters toys, espeically Smokescreen.  You can view all of the images, there are over 50, be clicking on the headline of this story

The group behind the "not-Predaking" figure has been revealed as the new Singapore based 3rd party group "Unique Toys". According to UT's facebook page, the official name of the figure will be War Lord - Beasticon and they have announced that the first figure to be released will be Hawk (Divebomb). To accompany the announcement, the group have posted some line-art of what will be box-art for the figure which you can view below.

New third party Facebook page Meteor Operation posted two images last night of a new third party Predaking release which had previously not been seen.  The figure is apparently from an unknown third party figure with an early prototype being shown (seen below).  The information which accompanied the images was "

War Lord- Beasticons ~~ From an reliable source we get an very big info ,that one of the unknown third party company will be releasing this War Lord,the G1 NOT-PREDAKING conbiner, consist of five members. And the releaseing date yet to be confirmed.

Update: Thanks to Mark Brady for pointing out that this figure is either the same one as, or based on, the scratch built custom by rosedjs over on TFW2005.com.  You can view his finished painted figure here.

Thanks to Big Bad Toy Store, we can now share two new images of the upcoming Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Predaking figure which includes a first-look at the toys robot form.  The images, which can be viewed below, confirm that the toy is also a homage to the Transformers Cybertron Scourge figure, or as he was known in Japan?Transformers Galaxy Force Flame Convoy?

The robot mode has a head sculpt which fits in very well with the recent Transformers Prime designs, though for a voyager class figure, he almost looks as if he has been scaled down.  The final version of the toy we expect to see paint-application changes, especially on the silver dragon heads, though Hasbro have designed to figure to not require that many paint applications to help keep down the cost.

BBTS have updated their website with some image of the upcoming Kreo figures.  First up is a look at Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Beast Blade Optimus Prime.

Following on from that, BBTS have also posted a series of images of the new Combiner (gestalt) figures coming in the new year including Devastator, Superion, Bruticus and Predaking

Following on from the previous news story from NYCC which contained the preview trailer for season 3 of Transformers Prime which will contain the subtitle "Beast Hunters", we can bring you some preview images of the first Predacon toy, Predaking, thanks to TFW2005.

The images of the figure, which can be viewed after the jump, have been mirrored from TFW2005 as that website is currently serving malware and is unsafe for visitors until the admnistrators remove the infected files.  If you visit the website you will receive a warning in your browser regarding the malicious trojan software which has probably been uploaded as a result of a vunerability within the v-Bulletin platform which runs the website.  Once the site becomes available again you will be able to find the original images here, but until that time simply click on the heading of this news article in order to view the mirrored imges.

Predaking is the leader of the Predacon, a third group of Cybertronians who, according to the hints within the preview video as well as the background stand, are the "Decepticons ultimate weapon".  The toy of Predking is a homage to both the original Generation One Predacons, in terms of colour scheme, as well as Transformers Galaxy Force Flame Convoy (Transformers Cybertron Scourge).

The figure is only shown within his dragon form, though if you look closely you will see the shape of the head quite clearly.  We have enlarged one of the images to help highlight this which you can view below.

At New York Comic-Con  it was revealed that the new Beast Hunters series will be a sub-line for the third season of Transformers Prime and will feature the introduction of a new "faction" Decepticons called the Predacons who will be lead by Predaking, a large black and orange dragon.

The first figure from the series, Predaking was shown off at the event (see the next news story for details) as was the preview for the show which has since been uploaded to the official Transformers channel over on YouTube.