User blog comment:Darth Phazon/Ridley? IDK..../@comment-24835190-20140429170957

I hate to disappoint you, but that shadow definitely looks like the original Ridley, not the Meta version. If you pause the Direct video correctly, you can see part of his claws, or just one part, and right next to his claws, it's a little bit of his purple skin, not gray.