First Full Look at Transformers: Prime Bumblebee!

[Peter_Van]

Thanks to General Joes, we have our first look at Transformers: Prime Bumblebee! The image is from Hasbro's booth at the Licensing International Expo, taking place right now in Las Vegas, Nevada. We previously saw the head and upper torso design of Bumblebee in Advertising Age way back in March. If you don't want to be spoiled by the design direction of the series, don't click through. If you're itching to find out, then please do so! Read the Full News Story Here

[Liege Evilmus]

I like it. It's like movie BB but with more traditional armor.

 

I can apreciate them wanting to stick with the movie style as apose to switching it up constantly, and this works.

 

Much Much better then the bubblegum offerings of the last series :thumb

 

-sad that it looks like they're moving the ben 10 style to GIJoe though :(

[Lord_Onslaught]

:agree

 

Definitely looks like an animated version of the movie Bumblebee, but how about the rest of them?

 

Hasbro really needs to stop this, even though I know they would rather wait until Botcon to announce and show

[Blitz-Wing]

So Movie + WFC = Prime?

 

This is the best they can do? Why not just leave the movie out of it? :shrug

[FREEFALLL666]

So Movie + WFC = Prime?

 

This is the best they can do? Why not just leave the movie out of it? :shrug

I am of the opposite view, this is awesome, FINALLY we get to ditch the G1 look and get us some decent designs, I actually see this as more of a WFC earth mode. This is showing a direct reboot, I mean I grew up with G1 and even then I preferred the box-art and the original comic designs for the robots and still see the toons as a let down visually. Seriously what distinguishes the G1/2 designs from Power Ranger Zords? nowt much, whereas the Beast Wars -> R.I.D. designs (not the g1 releases in those lines) are very close to the movie designs. Hell take say Scarem, remove legs, add wheels and you have a close competitor for a Movie scout.. First time I got into collecting as a pseudo adult was through seeing Primal and Megatron from Beast Wars and thinking they were rip-off designs.. Now I look at them as far superior to 99% of G1.

[Lord_Onslaught]

So Movie + WFC = Prime?

 

This is the best they can do? Why not just leave the movie out of it? :shrug

 

 

The movie and WFC is a way for G1 to stay G1 as it evolves.

 

Even though I would rather see G1 updated, I am glad to see, that Hasbro wised up and dropped the Animated crap. Realized that appealing to only kids was a bad move

[Blitz-Wing]

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to be G1'ed or anything... just not wanting to see anything else movie-wise is all. Was hoping for something original.

[Liege Evilmus]

well, they tried that between TF1 and TF2 and while most of the fans liked it, lets face in, in ratings and sales Animated was a flop.

 

I'm gonna be happy if they keep a movieish style. I like the look of the robots, and in all honesty am sick and tired of "the next new thing" every year or two.

 

There's still lines like Generations out there for collectors who like a variety too though (like myself0.

 

The movie makes money, the movie has alot of room for expanssion, here's hoping they take advantage of it.

[Lord_Onslaught]

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to be G1'ed or anything... just not wanting to see anything else movie-wise is all. Was hoping for something original.

 

I can respect that, like me I don't want to see anything about minicons.

[robo_rob]

I like it (go figure) movie-ish with nice rounded aesthetics.