Full High Resolution Gallery Of Masterpiece Bumblebee Now Available

As someone who sincerely dislikes Bumbledouche in all his various incarnations, I suppose I could still see my self begrudgingly picking this up... Heavily discounted. They need to release some more Decepticons! Give us an updated Megatron!
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And then figure out a way I can smuggle him through customs into Australia!

MegaDump wrote:As someone who sincerely dislikes Bumbledouche in all his various incarnations, I suppose I could still see my self begrudgingly picking this up... Heavily discounted. They need to release some more Decepticons! Give us an updated Megatron!
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And then figure out a way I can smuggle him through customs into Australia!

They could do a MP G2 Megatron

He looks amazing!

Pre-ordered from my usual place!

I assume this will be his height more or less:

Could the battlemask be the one DonFig designed to waaaaaaaay back in DW comics? The one that simulates the original visor + mouth guard for BB?

Anyway, late November to early December ETA so might be playing with him this coming January 2015.

Given this time window, the upcoming Ultra Magnus would probably be released on April or May 2015

zodconvoy wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:Pre-orders up at Anime-Export

http://www.anime-export.com/product/18568

40 bucks

What's their shipping to the US? I really don't feel like signing up for yet another site just to find out that their shipping prices are insane.

Try amiami or hobbysearch

glad I held out for this over some of the alternative options.

I'm one of the many who've felt the TF lines have been over-saturated with Bumblebees in recent years, but this little guy looks pretty great. I assume the face-change gimmick will be to put a G1 toy face on him, and that'll be nice but isn't all that necessary for me. Still, makes it easier for the Goldbug repaint.

Loving that we're getting Spike too! I'm a big fan of the Exo-suit design and it'll be real nice to get a proper version of it. Still wanting that GI Joe retool for EDC Spike though please Hasbro! Hasbro?

Amazon has the face plate up.

MegaDump wrote:As someone who sincerely dislikes Bumbledouche in all his various incarnations, I suppose I could still see my self begrudgingly picking this up... Heavily discounted. They need to release some more Decepticons! Give us an updated Megatron!
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And then figure out a way I can smuggle him through customs into Australia!

Just don't go through WA customs and you have a better chance.

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HLJ Pre-Order is up

The Masterpiece Bumblebee news train just keeps on chuggin' along! We now have a picture explaining what both the face gimmick is, and what the Amazon exclusive faceplate is. Drumroll please? G1 toy accurate masked faceplate!

Bumblebee will see release in November and seeing all of these pictures just makes it more and more difficult to wait for his release!

Fellow Seibertronian Down_Shift has posted a picture, courtesy of Amazon.co.jp, of the add on piece in question and we've mirrored the image for you here, below.



Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

This?

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Bumblebeebattlemask.jpg

Looks good. Hope the panels in alt mode won't be fidgety. I would like to see a scale. If he is too large, that could ruin everything.

zodconvoy wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:Pre-orders up at Anime-Export

http://www.anime-export.com/product/18568

40 bucks

What's their shipping to the US? I really don't feel like signing up for yet another site just to find out that their shipping prices are insane.

They are pretty good into Canada.

Keep in mind that they do not include the coin or the Amazon exclusives.

eToys include the coin but no Amazon add on, and for about $4-$5 more.

RobotKingdom might be the best place for most. If you order more than one, perhaps to split shipping with a friend or in the hopes of selling one off in the future, then this is your best bet.

zodconvoy wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:Pre-orders up at Anime-Export

http://www.anime-export.com/product/18568

40 bucks

What's their shipping to the US? I really don't feel like signing up for yet another site just to find out that their shipping prices are insane.

They are pretty good into Canada.

Keep in mind that they do not include the coin or the Amazon exclusives.

eToys include the coin but no Amazon add on, and for about $4-$5 more.

RobotKingdom might be the best place for most. If you order more than one, perhaps to split shipping with a friend or in the hopes of selling one off in the future, then this is your best bet.

That faceplate thing isn't really a face, is it? Apart from that it looks good, although the exo-suit doesn't seem to have much in the way of functional knees.

November 19th release + inevitable delay = may be available in time for Christmas.

It's like they're making all of my wishes come true with this. Didn't I say something about a battle mask on the podcast?

I still don't understand why Bumblebee is so much more expensive at BBTS than HLJ and the others. Can someone explain it to me? I usually get Hasbro releases and don't get Takara stuff until it's already here in the USA. Are the taxes and tariffs really that high for a retailer like BBTS?

Mykltron wrote:That faceplate thing isn't really a face, is it?

That's the original toy's face. http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/1/1 ... eg1toy.jpg Bumblebee didn't get a head matching his cartoon model until the pretender and action master versions. And then they ignored those and switched him back to the battle mask face for g2.

Man it's awesome. I don't think I've ever been this exited for Bumblebee.

Just one thing, did they put in the whole face-plate swapping gimmick, exclusively for the amazon battle-mask? That's a little excessive. Or will there be a different face with the toy to swap out, cos from the picks it doesn't look like that.

User897 wrote:I still don't understand why Bumblebee is so much more expensive at BBTS than HLJ and the others. Can someone explain it to me? I usually get Hasbro releases and don't get Takara stuff until it's already here in the USA. Are the taxes and tariffs really that high for a retailer like BBTS?

Because, GREED.

Dead Metal wrote:Man it's awesome. I don't think I've ever been this exited for Bumblebee.

Just one thing, did they put in the whole face-plate swapping gimmick, exclusively for the amazon battle-mask? That's a little excessive. Or will there be a different face with the toy to swap out, cos from the picks it doesn't look like that.

I just relooked at the pics, there's two faces with the toy. One mouth closed/serious, one smiling/mouth open

User897 wrote:I still don't understand why Bumblebee is so much more expensive at BBTS than HLJ and the others. Can someone explain it to me? I usually get Hasbro releases and don't get Takara stuff until it's already here in the USA. Are the taxes and tariffs really that high for a retailer like BBTS?

Is shipping cost being taken into consideration?

Stormrider wrote:

User897 wrote:I still don't understand why Bumblebee is so much more expensive at BBTS than HLJ and the others. Can someone explain it to me? I usually get Hasbro releases and don't get Takara stuff until it's already here in the USA. Are the taxes and tariffs really that high for a retailer like BBTS?

Is shipping cost being taken into consideration?

i can understand why their prices are higher, even though i think they're expensive. they have to buy the thing, ship it over to the US, pay import taxes, and on top of that they have to make a profit too.

Changing faces is kinda interesting, though it's not something I look for on TF toys. That battle mask looks stupid though. I don't care how much of a throwback that is, at least put a pair of eyes on it.

Beeeeeeeeeee! I neeeed you!

Never thought I'd hear myself say that. These pictures make me happy. His face looks a little chubby though? I guess that's kind of accurate. Anyway, this is probably as close to the perfect G1 Bumblebee they could do, so I'm perfectly content with it.

Siger wrote:Changing faces is kinda interesting, though it's not something I look for on TF toys. That battle mask looks stupid though. I don't care how much of a throwback that is, at least put a pair of eyes on it.

It has a blue visor, you just can't tell because it's not painted.

Let's see who can find the pettiest, most minor detail to complain about.

GuyIncognito wrote:Let's see who can find the pettiest, most minor detail to complain about.

I hate the particular shade of gray they used for this prototype's left knee joint!

wilcosu35 wrote:

Stormrider wrote:

User897 wrote:I still don't understand why Bumblebee is so much more expensive at BBTS than HLJ and the others. Can someone explain it to me? I usually get Hasbro releases and don't get Takara stuff until it's already here in the USA. Are the taxes and tariffs really that high for a retailer like BBTS?

Is shipping cost being taken into consideration?

i can understand why their prices are higher, even though i think they're expensive. they have to buy the thing, ship it over to the US, pay import taxes, and on top of that they have to make a profit too.

Last I heard, the US doesn't pay import taxes. At least, that's what a lot of people claim.

durroth wrote:

Siger wrote:Changing faces is kinda interesting, though it's not something I look for on TF toys. That battle mask looks stupid though. I don't care how much of a throwback that is, at least put a pair of eyes on it.

It has a blue visor, you just can't tell because it's not painted.

Ok, thanks for the info. I hope it looks good cause I still don't like the design of that mask. Very pointless to have if it doesn't look good, no?

Meh.

just. meh.

it was Meh when they announced the figure, it is stille meh with the pictures, it is still meh with the gimmick face changing thingy and the character in exo-suit (spike would be more logic since he was bee's partner and not Daniel) and it is still meh with the g1 face thing.


but now that we are certain that yellow bug will be released, can someone give us a masterpiece on G1 JAZZ for crying out loud!!!

Deathscythetransform wrote:it is still meh with the gimmick face changing thingy and the character in exo-suit (spike would be more logic since he was bee's partner and not Daniel)

Who said that it isn't Spike?

Lucky for those who ordered the Amazon exclusive. I wish I could.............only managed to get a hold of one via another Japan store and now this "bug" is all sold out.

durroth wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:Man it's awesome. I don't think I've ever been this exited for Bumblebee.

Just one thing, did they put in the whole face-plate swapping gimmick, exclusively for the amazon battle-mask? That's a little excessive. Or will there be a different face with the toy to swap out, cos from the picks it doesn't look like that.

I just relooked at the pics, there's two faces with the toy. One mouth closed/serious, one smiling/mouth open

Oh wow, you're right, now that I look at them again I can totally see the difference. I think I'll go with the smiling face, unless the final version doesn't look as good as the serious one.

the changing face and facemask will probably come in handy when they do the Goldbug repaint too. Although I'd like Goldbug's face to have a bit more of a defined mouthguard, more like Prime or Soundwave than the toy accurate G1 Bee's quite flat face.

edit: wonder if it will be Goldbug, or if they'll got for a similar G2 style Bee?

craggy wrote:the changing face and facemask will probably come in handy when they do the Goldbug repaint too. Although I'd like Goldbug's face to have a bit more of a defined mouthguard, more like Prime or Soundwave than the toy accurate G1 Bee's quite flat face.

edit: wonder if it will be Goldbug, or if they'll got for a similar G2 style Bee?

Thoguh he's also a VW Bug, Goldbug has a whole different body-type from Bumblebee that mere headsculpt change simply wouldn't cut it.

Sabrblade wrote:

Deathscythetransform wrote:it is still meh with the gimmick face changing thingy and the character in exo-suit (spike would be more logic since he was bee's partner and not Daniel)

Who said that it isn't Spike?

I read it was not confirmed that the character was either Daniel or Spike.
Hope that's spike.

At first I was going to cancel my preorder and cut my losses with this line as I have literally NO desire to get the exo-suit. But the more I see of the bee, the more I want it. Can someone tell me how to preorder this item and get the additional faceplate?

Sideshow Sideswipe wrote:Can someone tell me how to preorder this item and get the additional faceplate?

The faceplate is an Amazon Japan exclusive, so unless you know someone in Japan or you have some means of ordering from Amazon Japan, you'll have to settle for the version without the faceplate or wait for scalpers to put the Amazon version on eBay.

GuyIncognito wrote:

Sideshow Sideswipe wrote:Can someone tell me how to preorder this item and get the additional faceplate?

The faceplate is an Amazon Japan exclusive, so unless you know someone in Japan or you have some means of ordering from Amazon Japan, you'll have to settle for the version without the faceplate or wait for scalpers to put the Amazon version on eBay.

I find that all the Asian retailers have "amazon Japan" exclusives. and Japanese retailers does not. strange. RK would have them but HLJ would not.

Also BBTS and US retailers sells them too. at a price increase.

I'm sure that at least one 3rd party company will make a kit with a diverse selection of alternative face designs and expressions. I'm interested only in the two cartoon ones though.

Cyberpath wrote:I'm sure that at least one 3rd party company will make a kit with a diverse selection of alternative face designs and expressions. I'm interested only in the two cartoon ones though.

Like bumblebee O face? No thanks!

Looks absolutely fantastic, I can imagine it in color.

I got someone on 4chan's /toy/ board to photoshop some color onto the prototype. I like it!



I think the second head is the Classics one. That's 4chan for you.

In the less than surprising news, we just received word from site sponsor BigBadToyStore that there will be a collector coin for the upcoming Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-21 Bumblebee. They have listed a pre-order for the Collector Coin version, which can be found by clicking here, it will run you five more dollars at $79.99. No image of the coin or it's package at this time.

Note - At this point the collector coin is confirmed to be included. The extra exclusive Battle Mask is NOT included, but if we are able to get the part it will be included for no additional cost.
Product Number: TAK11828
Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds

I have little interest in the coin and barely excitement for the battle mask. When MP Sideswipe first came out I was drooling over the alternate pile drivers. But it seems like every Masterpiece going forward is going to have an Amazon exclusive, but so far none of them are must have's for me (and perhaps that is a good thing for me).

Why do't they just sell it complete at retail anyway?

fenrir72 wrote:Why do't they just sell it complete at retail anyway?

Because retailer pay extra for exclusives. When I first preordered MP Bumbleebee back in June, the price was $79.99 then they lowered it to $74.99 so the $79.99 for the coin and possible battle mask isn't bad. I was willing to pay that much before so I look at it this way: it's a $5 raffle for a chance to get the mask and the coin is a bonus prize.

Here's the latest Transformers Masterpiece MP-21 Tweet from Takara Tomy designer Shogo Hasui, a closer look at the included Excel suit. His tweet identifies the occupant of the suit as Spike. Check out the image mirrored below:

MP-21 Bumble, scheduled for release in November, comes with Spike wearing an exo-suit. While small-scale, it can transform to vehicle mode without parts forming, and has good posability.

El Duque wrote:Here's the latest Transformers Masterpiece MP-21 Tweet from Takara Tomy designer Shogo Hasui, Spike in his Excel suit. That's right, contrary to previous info Hasui's Tweet identifies the occupant of the Excel suit as Spike. Check out the image mirrored below:

The MP-21 Bumble of the month will be released, spike wearing the suit Excel is attached.
While small-scale, in addition to complete transformation without replacement to vehicle mode, posing also enabled some.

Well of course it was Spike.