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News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:32 pm

Another movie, plus a new paint scheme equals new Human Alliance toys for the Autobot characters, Bumblebee and Skids. Homaging his 2007 Movie variant, Stealth Bumblebee, Bumblebee's Dark Of The Moon Human Alliance figure has a very similar color scheme. The figure is paired with a black shirt Sam Witwicky. The other Autobot is Skids, who's Human Alliance figure is deco'd in his Black and Green DOTM apparel. The clown is paired with Elita-1, completing the Arcee triplet in the Human Alliance scale. They're driven by Tech Sergeant Epps! Check out the images below!

Bumblebee with Sam Witwicky

Autobot Skids and Elita-1 with Tech Sergeant Epps

(Courtesy of TFclub Taobao)

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by **OptiMagnus** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:37 pm

Very nice paint apps, I must say. However, I won't be getting these two. The only HA I want so far is Roadbuster.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:54 pm

great more repaints of shelf warmers, thanks hasbro.

News Credits: 4 · by **Swiftknife24** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:06 pm

Definitely getting Skids; hoping they'll do Mudflap to go with him!

Speaking of which, they only HA currently released that I haven't got IS Mudflap/Simmons/Chromia! I thought eBay included the prospect of bargains! Grrr :lol:

News Credits: 4 · by **Swiftknife24** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:07 pm

Definitely getting Skids; hoping they'll do Mudflap to go with him!

Speaking of which, they only HA currently released that I haven't got IS Mudflap/Simmons/Chromia! I've only seen REALLY expensive ones online! I thought eBay included the prospect of bargains! Grrr :lol:

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:19 pm

Since Sideways Sneak Attack went down the pooper, this is the next best thing.

by **Prime Riblet** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:13 pm

I am really happy I grabbed the HA figures from the TF2 line. These current figures are not on my wish list whatsoever.

by **TimothyR** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:49 pm

if hasbro was going to repaint bumblebee..

Why in the hell wouldn't they give him his DOTM paint job.. this one looks like garbage.

they could've repainted it and sculpted a new abdomen.. and voila... a decent dotm human alliance bumblebee.

also.. i wonder how many people will pick up skids.. especially since last time most of us bought him thinking we'd also get a chance at getting human alliance mudflap, but that wasn't possible for a large percentage of us.

it would've been nice if this first wave had a new mold.. unless this is wave two with roadbuster being one.

i really wish they would've handled this size class better.. releasing two figures in each wave and one of them is always bumblebee is incredibly annoying.

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:10 pm

The Human Alliance line really went down the crapper... Skids looks decent for Skids, but unless you don't already have the first HA Skids, what's the point? Great, a pimped out Chevy Beat that's the same character...that's a must have figure! 8-}

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:28 pm

Dear Hasbro,

Have you learned nothing from Tuner Skids and Tuner Mudflap?

Making repaints of already maligned characters does nothing but produce shelf warmers.

Repainting $35 figures of characters few people really like is just not a sound sales tactic.

On top of that Skids and Mudflap, it has been stated, are not even supposed to appear in the current movie, thus dipping their sales potential even further.

The Bumblebee looks nice, but I can find HA BBs all day long in ever store in my usual hunting grounds, in movie accurate colors that aren't selling. Having multicolored options can be fun with Legends figures, and even deluxes, I guess, but at $35, out-of-left-field repaints are high on the skip list for most of us.

Sincerely,

Your Pal,

rpetras

News Credits: 2 · by **Stockade** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:19 am

Bee looks good in alt mode with all black on yellow, but man in bot mode he looks bland, lack of some major paint apps and detail! Oh well i have 1 HA Bee dont need another and Skids is Junk! no way i would have that.

by **RiddlerJ** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:35 am

Great. No one can get a Warpath or Windcharger, but we'll always have a Movieverse Skids clogging the shelves. #-o

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:46 pm

rpetras wrote:Dear Hasbro,

Have you learned nothing from Tuner Skids and Tuner Mudflap?

Making repaints of already maligned characters does nothing but produce shelf warmers.

Repainting $35 figures of characters few people really like is just not a sound sales tactic.

On top of that Skids and Mudflap, it has been stated, are not even supposed to appear in the current movie, thus dipping their sales potential even further.

The Bumblebee looks nice, but I can find HA BBs all day long in ever store in my usual hunting grounds, in movie accurate colors that aren't selling. Having multicolored options can be fun with Legends figures, and even deluxes, I guess, but at $35, out-of-left-field repaints are high on the skip list for most of us.

Sincerely,

Your Pal,

rpetras

I agree with everything here except the part about Bumblebee looking nice. It think it looks terrible. Alt mode is okay, I guess, but bot mode looks like the dark of somebody dropping trou's moon. How's this for a black repaint, I didn't wipe! :lol:

I hope that thought is in the back of your minds every time you hear DOTM now...

Anyhow...the HA black repaints are really some of the worst black repaints I've ever seen...in large part because they keep almost all the bot parts their original colors instead of just being the secondary accent color. Lame.

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 2:37 pm

Well, all I can say is that at least now the Halloween Donald Duck Crossover finally has some company. :SICK:

Seriously, how the heck did that BB make it off the concept page and into actual production? I'm betting that no less than 4 people had to look at and sign off on that before sending it to mass production. That's at least 3 lapses in judgement more than Hasbro should be putting up with. :BANG_HEAD:

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:14 pm

Anyone need a tissue box? There's a hell of alot of crying in this thread.

This is the first repaint of HA Bumblebee and HA Skids. This gives people a second chance at the figures who missed them.

The HA line is wicked. For these to be the 2nd and 3rd repaints to be incorporated into this line is pretty impressive considering things.

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:52 pm

Sorry, Blurrz, but for those that "missed" HA Bumblebee & Skids: just go down to Target and pick them up on clearance, or go to TJ Maxx or Marshalls to pick them up discounted, or order them off Amazon...all of these options will run you less than MSRP. In other words, we don't really need a "second chance" at these figures... And they're not very desirable repaints for most the rest of us.

*PS...
Typically I don't care about Hasbro putting out figures I don't want because all I have to do is not buy them and problem solved, but considering we're seeing first hand what happens to later figures in lines when the shelves are littered with earlier waves not selling...well considering how many of these are lying around at discount already, obviously they weren't the best sellers the first time around so I can only imagine how they'll warm the second time around...and while DOTM (aka Brown Eye) figs are pretty crappy in general, I might have interest in HA Soundwave and would rather not have to pay online prices because it never made it to retail thanks to piles of bad repaints.