Videos of Ultimate Bumblebee's Transformation

Skowl wrote:Front paged and credited, sorry it took so long - this news day has been nuts.

skywarp-2 wrote:Third Post!!

After review of the video, it looks complex but falls short, its detailed but not enough for the size it is, and the proportions are off, and the arms having to hang back on a string kinda seems really cheap, they could have engineered it a better way then that.. the chest should have an Automorph feature that pops his head out of the engine hood section, and the back comes down and the grill splits apart and you snap it into place on the torso, so his chest looks like it does in th movie, so he looks like he does in the movie... Who the heck engineered this guy?? 1st Graders?? Not only that his hand should be there and the gun attach with some sort of magnet mechanism that gives the light on the gun power when combined with the hand, that way you don't have a one arm Bumblebee "all" the time..

I took this from an earlier Post:

Ultimate bumblebee looks like Ultimate Crap!!! I here is a comparison image:


On the left you see the way the car grill is supposed to seperate and become more of the chest versus just a huge slab of the car front folded down as the chest.. and not to mention the stumpy gun arm, which is way to short and looks like he had his hand shot off and is awaiting it to return like Mazinger!!

The chest is way too Bulky, the arms are ok, but I dislike the gun arm because its too short and not longer then the other arm by a 1/3 of an inch..Instead its shorter then the other arm by 1/3 of an inch.. i think..

The other thing I noticed was the legs look similar to bot mode, Nice feet, good thigh area with the car kibble matching somewhat, and from the review pics ...sport articulation, but they are way to bulky, from the side view you can see it..



Come on, its 2007!!! they should be able to do better then this!!! if you stretched out Bumblebees legs, then this design would be thinner, and look a little closer to the movie bots legs..

The helmet and face... this is where I have constantly voiced my disdain over the fact that they are selling an Ultimate Bublebee with no face sheild option included.. what a joke!! come on!!! its simple build the face sheild into the top head and hasve it so we can pull it down over the face...duh... or give us a head that we can substitute.. but geez..


And one more thing......Bumblbee has BLUE eyes!!! not red.... comeon Hasbro.. do you really expect me to buy it cause it makes noise, and moves a little bit, and has a few phrases from the movie, in which bumblebee is mute??

I'll Pass on that piece of trash in plastic form...

ion fact I can't stand 1970s Deluxe Bumblebee, his articulation is crap, and I went online and saw they are selling deluxe toys now under "revision 2" which there are minute details about 1970s bumblebee that have been done.. the first run has a black face, the next has silver... and the chest is a little better, but not much.. so if you get the first run deluxe BB its before a revision was made.. be aware!! In my view they need to Revise BB like 20 times till they get him right!


Bottom line on the Ultimate BB, not worth the money and the effort..IMHO!

Liege Evilmus wrote:

skywarp-2 wrote:Third Post!!

After review of the video, it looks complex but falls short, its detailed but not enough for the size it is, and the proportions are off, and the arms having to hang back on a string kinda seems really cheap, they could have engineered it a better way then that.. the chest should have an Automorph feature that pops his head out of the engine hood section, and the back comes down and the grill splits apart and you snap it into place on the torso, so his chest looks like it does in th movie, so he looks like he does in the movie... Who the heck engineered this guy?? 1st Graders?? Not only that his hand should be there and the gun attach with some sort of magnet mechanism that gives the light on the gun power when combined with the hand, that way you don't have a one arm Bumblebee "all" the time..

I took this from an earlier Post:

Ultimate bumblebee looks like Ultimate Crap!!! I here is a comparison image:


On the left you see the way the car grill is supposed to seperate and become more of the chest versus just a huge slab of the car front folded down as the chest.. and not to mention the stumpy gun arm, which is way to short and looks like he had his hand shot off and is awaiting it to return like Mazinger!!

The chest is way too Bulky, the arms are ok, but I dislike the gun arm because its too short and not longer then the other arm by a 1/3 of an inch..Instead its shorter then the other arm by 1/3 of an inch.. i think..

The other thing I noticed was the legs look similar to bot mode, Nice feet, good thigh area with the car kibble matching somewhat, and from the review pics ...sport articulation, but they are way to bulky, from the side view you can see it..



Come on, its 2007!!! they should be able to do better then this!!! if you stretched out Bumblebees legs, then this design would be thinner, and look a little closer to the movie bots legs..

The helmet and face... this is where I have constantly voiced my disdain over the fact that they are selling an Ultimate Bublebee with no face sheild option included.. what a joke!! come on!!! its simple build the face sheild into the top head and hasve it so we can pull it down over the face...duh... or give us a head that we can substitute.. but geez..


And one more thing......Bumblbee has BLUE eyes!!! not red.... comeon Hasbro.. do you really expect me to buy it cause it makes noise, and moves a little bit, and has a few phrases from the movie, in which bumblebee is mute??

I'll Pass on that piece of trash in plastic form...

ion fact I can't stand 1970s Deluxe Bumblebee, his articulation is crap, and I went online and saw they are selling deluxe toys now under "revision 2" which there are minute details about 1970s bumblebee that have been done.. the first run has a black face, the next has silver... and the chest is a little better, but not much.. so if you get the first run deluxe BB its before a revision was made.. be aware!! In my view they need to Revise BB like 20 times till they get him right!


Bottom line on the Ultimate BB, not worth the money and the effort..IMHO!

I just have to ask after reading all this(thank you), what's your take on the price of Cybertron Supreme StarScream?

I know it's a figure past, but to me that guy sucked more than Energon Omega

Predaprince wrote::-x

What a piece of cr@p!

AbsumZer0 wrote:Wow. I knew it'd be a shelf warmer after I first heard about the price but I didn't know it was going to suck quite this terribly. For 90 bucks and with all the hype I figured we might get something like a simplified Robosapien, or, at the very least something as interactive as a Furby. Instead we get something with LEDs and pre-recorded sounds whose shoulder and 'wing' joints wiggle slightly when a song is played. And the voice... WTF? Did they just grab anyone at the office to do it? I wonder how much of the $90 price tag is actually going towards licensing the song 'Whip It'.

It's just really, really hard to make a gigantic transformer that transforms *and* does extra "flashy stuff" that customers expeect from that price range.

fabiobasile wrote:I call for Masterpiece Bumblebee!

Get the guy that designed MP Optimus and the other guy that designed MP Starscream, stick them in a room for six months with hot pockets and Arizona Green Tea and don't let them come out until they make something worth buying.

proximus wrote:I'm a little underwhelmed. There aren't any figures like it that's for sure, but I can't help feeling a little unimpressed. Maybe I was expecting Asimo or something lol.

fabiobasile wrote:I call for Masterpiece Bumblebee!

Get the guy that designed MP Optimus and the other guy that designed MP Starscream, stick them in a room for six months with hot pockets and Arizona Green Tea and don't let them come out until they make something worth buying.

Redimus' Ego +1 wrote:I think he looks OK. The moving wings (and most of the other electronic gimmicks) are just lame, and the doors on string, well it's unique. I also think the guy managed to mistransform the front, that didnt look right.

I actully dont mind the face, the face looks good.

skywarp-2 wrote:

Redimus' Ego +1 wrote:I think he looks OK. The moving wings (and most of the other electronic gimmicks) are just lame, and the doors on string, well it's unique. I also think the guy managed to mistransform the front, that didnt look right.

I actully dont mind the face, the face looks good.

sorry but no thats how the chest actually looks..

Redimus' Ego +1 wrote:

skywarp-2 wrote:

Redimus' Ego +1 wrote:I think he looks OK. The moving wings (and most of the other electronic gimmicks) are just lame, and the doors on string, well it's unique. I also think the guy managed to mistransform the front, that didnt look right.

I actully dont mind the face, the face looks good.

sorry but no thats how the chest actually looks..

The thing was falapping about as he moved it, surely hasbro managed to devise a way to stop that. I still think it looks mistransformed. Look at how he transformed the legs, he obviously wasnt 100% sure how it transformed.

g2grimmy64 wrote:What the hell? I thought it was supposed to transform by itself?

Nemesis Primal wrote:You know, I think I like it. I'm hesitant about the price tag, so it'll probably be somehing I don't pick up right away, but the transformation looks to be satisfying, and I know I'm gonna get mocked for saying this, but the animatronics actually amuse me.

It looks like his gun arm got caught on his chest in that one video, though... Not sure if that's user error or a design flaw.

Either way, it's big, it's detailed, it looks to have nice articulation, and it sings and dances. I'm calling this good enough, but I'm hoping for it to go on sale at some point.

Autobot032 wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:You know, I think I like it. I'm hesitant about the price tag, so it'll probably be somehing I don't pick up right away, but the transformation looks to be satisfying, and I know I'm gonna get mocked for saying this, but the animatronics actually amuse me.

It looks like his gun arm got caught on his chest in that one video, though... Not sure if that's user error or a design flaw.

Either way, it's big, it's detailed, it looks to have nice articulation, and it sings and dances. I'm calling this good enough, but I'm hoping for it to go on sale at some point.

Oh I happen to think animatronic portion is absolutely adorable. Just not $90.00 adorable.

Swerve wrote:"Ultimate Bumblebee - The mute that won't shut up."

Swerve wrote:It doesn't help that it looks like the person transforming it is retarded and is going to break the figure with every hard pull of the plastic parts.

I was expecting more from this figure. No wonder Hasbro hasn't shown us a transformation video with his snap off, snap in, things literally held on to the figure with string, oops his arm keeps falling out while I am trying to make him do his sounds. I was seriously considering this figure but now I'll wait until he goes clearance and I still may not get him. I don't have a ton of space to display all my figures and this one may not even be worth it after that video.

I'm also trying to figure out why he says several phrases. I thought he became mute in a fight with Megatron on Cybertron before volunteering to track down the allspark, all prior to him coming to Earth. I wonder if the packaging for this figure will feature the phrase:

"Ultimate Bumblebee - The mute that won't shut up."

Flashwave wrote:

Swerve wrote:It doesn't help that it looks like the person transforming it is retarded and is going to break the figure with every hard pull of the plastic parts.

I was expecting more from this figure. No wonder Hasbro hasn't shown us a transformation video with his snap off, snap in, things literally held on to the figure with string, oops his arm keeps falling out while I am trying to make him do his sounds. I was seriously considering this figure but now I'll wait until he goes clearance and I still may not get him. I don't have a ton of space to display all my figures and this one may not even be worth it after that video.

I'm also trying to figure out why he says several phrases. I thought he became mute in a fight with Megatron on Cybertron before volunteering to track down the allspark, all prior to him coming to Earth. I wonder if the packaging for this figure will feature the phrase:

"Ultimate Bumblebee - The mute that won't shut up."

The bio for the Hardtop says that it hurt to talk, not that he couldn't. While ratchet was rebuilding BB's Muscle Car as a 2007,(That's what this is) He msy have decided while he was at it, we'd fix his vocalizer.

Gaijin wrote:Bumblelator want to know why Bumblelator's body look like crap... It's not fair! No one cares for Bumblelator... Sure, no one help Bumblelator. Bumblelator drag ownself to CR chamber.