New Transformers Prime Cyberverse Play Set Revealed: Bumblebee Battle Suit

And another shelfwarmer. I hope we get alot more of these, then they could all combine into a massive city.

So, Bumblebee becomes an instant fan favorite in 1984 by being the little guy that everyone could supposedly identify with, endures as such for over 2 decades, leading to his starring role in the Bay films, whereupon he gets about half-a-dozen toys that milk said appeal by...making him several times larger than he should be. Of course.

It's More Than Meets The Irony! (TM)

Just look like a mess of bits to me.

i want that drill and Ratchet. my collection needs a medic and a harvester.

YESSS!! just what we all NEEDED.. a bumblebee to put another bumblebee into/.... pretty soon i;ll need to wear sunglasses when going down to transformers aisle because of the sea of yellow reflecting the store lights into my eyes....

Yuck- that thing is UG-ly. I must say the two "Battle Suits" Optimus and B- are terrible. Maybe you can morph them into a larger playset for your cyberverse.

That Star Hammer and Drill set though- sweetness.

i wil see what happens with this one
however the WJack set and theDriller set look better and better

Is a shame they didnt make a driller cyberverse set for movie shockwave ( hell or even a bigger one ), but we have his cyberverse fig so guess that can be used on primes energon driller set.

Meh, I'm not liking these Cyberverse sets as much as the DotM ones.

I've recently become a big fan of the Prime Cyberverse toys, but I am concerned with how many autobot toys there are compared to decepticon. It'd be nice if the Decepticons could have their own battle suit as well to even the odds... But unlikely in my opinion based off the way Hasbro has been thinking as of late.

Va'al wrote:

Hillarious, just freakin hillarious, and yet so true, except for the liking Bumblebee part!

There are so many other vehicles and bases that could be made for Cyberverse, yet they give us this... thing. It doesn't even make sense, nor does Optimus Maximize for that matter.

ANOTHER bumblebee? I'm shocked....just, simply, shocked!

why does he look like a repaint of optimus maximus??
god help us because soon well get prime in yellow and bb on red/blue

but seriously know i know why they banned 3rd party stuff at botcon especially is this is what theyre revealing (sarcasm or maybe not)

secondly i think theres potential for customizers here and im hoping we get a megatron version at some point.now that id get behind.

Bumblevivisector wrote:So, Bumblebee becomes an instant fan favorite in 1984 by being the little guy that everyone could supposedly identify with, endures as such for over 2 decades, leading to his starring role in the Bay films, whereupon he gets about half-a-dozen toys that milk said appeal by...making him several times larger than he should be. Of course.

It's More Than Meets The Irony!™

ftfy

2 Problems with Power Loader Bumblebee

1. Why would Autobots be using death mechs?
2. Why did it have to be Bumbleebee?

Hasbro do more 'Cons, it is ridicolous that wave usually contain 3-5 Autobots and only 1 con. Do something like the first wave of Cyberverse Commanders and have equal sides

It's a 'Bee within a 'Bee.

Beeception.

Va'al wrote:

It's so true.

Someone at Botcon should ask the Hasbro reps if they're aware of how much Bumblebee actually shelfwarms and if so, why they keep saturating every wave with Bumblebees.

Anyway, these armor suit things are weird, especially if they get no explanation in the show. I'd rather see more bases instead, but I'm sure kids will love them regardless.

If they came out with battle suits named Fortress Maximus and Scorponok, that would be awesome, it would make sense, and it would sell a ton of units. Instead we get Optimus Prime and Bumblebee piloting Optimus Prime and Bumblebee.

And Hasbro wonders why sales drop.

You know, if they stopped with things like this, they'd probably save money, and their products would cost slightly less which means more people would buy them, which means an increase in revenue.

I should know, I watched five minutes of a financing program on tv a couple of years ago.

The weapon mode looks cool from what you can see in the box art.

Why do robots need jumbo exo-suits anyway, and why do they have to make them look like any particular character. They should have just made it more generic so it would be more compatible with other characters. It's goona look wierd having another bot controlling an oversized BB mechsuit

As an old fan of tranformers and bumblebee Im looking forward to this set.

this set will sell enough units to allow for other sets to be built/made.

Im getting more and more excited about microbot sets (the old ones) and these legion class playsets.


It may "shelfwarm" due to the buyers for certain unintelligent retail stores, but i think Hasbro is on the right track and doing the best they can in getting out product everyone might like at some point.

seems like a lot of negativism has been expressed to what is something that i see as a positive trend.

toys must change in order to capture new kids interests, and we are only along for the ride.
If they ever start making serious figures under something like a DC Direct version of transformers I could see complaining more about toys made for adults that were marketed incorrectly.

But I really think adults that also like what are designed for kids/young adults need to be as flexible as possible to really exist for a long time in this hobby.

I mean the Bumblebee suit appears to have a "howitzer type gun platform" for a base mode for bee to fire away from.

Really this isnt far from ideas that put out Erector and other microbot bases.

I see a lot of complaints are maybe just not liking power suits and bee himself.

Me, i like them now and again.

Bumblevivisector wrote:So, Bumblebee becomes an instant fan favorite in 1984 by being the little guy that everyone could supposedly identify with, endures as such for over 2 decades, leading to his starring role in the Bay films, whereupon he gets about half-a-dozen toys that milk said appeal by...making him several times larger than he should be. Of course.

It's More Than Meets The Irony! (TM)

lol, not to mention losing the "everyone could identify with" vibe by making him a mute.

CyberAutobotProwl wrote:It may "shelfwarm" due to the buyers for certain unintelligent retail stores, but i think Hasbro is on the right track and doing the best they can in getting out product everyone might like at some point.

seems like a lot of negativism has been expressed to what is something that i see as a positive trend.

toys must change in order to capture new kids interests, and we are only along for the ride.
If they ever start making serious figures under something like a DC Direct version of transformers I could see complaining more about toys made for adults that were marketed incorrectly.

But I really think adults that also like what are designed for kids/young adults need to be as flexible as possible to really exist for a long time in this hobby.

I mean the Bumblebee suit appears to have a "howitzer type gun platform" for a base mode for bee to fire away from.

Really this isnt far from ideas that put out Erector and other microbot bases.

I see a lot of complaints are maybe just not liking power suits and bee himself.

Me, i like them now and again.

The main problem is that Hasbro is oversaturating the market with Bumblebee figures. Every case of deluxes has 3 Bumblebees, with 1 of each of the other figures, or two if we're lucky. In my area, most of the Toys R Us stores (there are several) have a minimum of 20 Bumblebees on the shelf in deluxe class alone, spanning 3 different lines, and this is immediately after a major clearance sale It's absolutely ridiculous, and I don't know why/how Hasbro hasn't realized that they're releasing way too many. If they would even out the case assortments, then everyone (including kids) could have a variety of figures instead of just a wall of Bumblebees every time you step into the store. Everything else sells out right away because the collectors rush in and get them, because they know there's only 1 per case. At this point, the retailers are not to blame because they don't have control over case assortments. I'm sure they're just as sick of Bumblebee as we are. And the general public can't be that far off either, judging by how many Bees are still on the pegs.

So I'm fully expecting this Bumblebee Battle suit to be 3 per case with 1 Optimus Prime or something ridiculous like that. My beef is that it's yet another Bumblebee, instead of something new. The problem is that the toys are not changing, they're stagnating by releasing endless versions of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime in every single wave, and not giving other characters a chance.

Twitchythe3rd wrote:It's a 'Bee within a 'Bee.

Beeception.

BWOOOOOOOOOONG

Okay I get the too much bumblebee part. I totally support that. But are you guys seriously blaming Hasbro for releasing so little Decepticons? Do you even watch the show? There's barely any decepticon if it's not for the shit-load of vehicons. Let's see here's some so far and what toy will they be release in :-

Megatron - Commander,Deluxe,Voyager
Starscream - Commander,Deluxe,Voyager
Soundwave - Deluxe
Knockout - Legion,Deluxe
Breakdown - Legion,Voyager
Vehicon - Legion,2 Deluxe
Airachnid - Deluxe
Dreadwing - Commander,Voyager
Skyquake - Commander,Voyager

Forgive me if I miss a 1 or 2 but that's pretty much every Cons in TF Prime. I dont see why you're complaining. From what I see all the Cons already got their toy form. They even release 2 version of Vehicons for christ sake. Yes we all agree that Megs should have a Leader class but then again we dont know that for sure yet. Who knows when TF Prime hits Season 3 we will be getting one.

So...Yeah...Conclusion? I dont think any complaint is needed about the fact there are too little of Cons. And if you do want to blame someone, blame the producers of TF Prime.

PS : Unicron is pure evil but he's not in Decepticon so...Yeah xP....

kirbenvost wrote:

CyberAutobotProwl wrote:It may "shelfwarm" due to the buyers for certain unintelligent retail stores, but i think Hasbro is on the right track and doing the best they can in getting out product everyone might like at some point.

seems like a lot of negativism has been expressed to what is something that i see as a positive trend.

toys must change in order to capture new kids interests, and we are only along for the ride.
If they ever start making serious figures under something like a DC Direct version of transformers I could see complaining more about toys made for adults that were marketed incorrectly.

But I really think adults that also like what are designed for kids/young adults need to be as flexible as possible to really exist for a long time in this hobby.

I mean the Bumblebee suit appears to have a "howitzer type gun platform" for a base mode for bee to fire away from.

Really this isnt far from ideas that put out Erector and other microbot bases.

I see a lot of complaints are maybe just not liking power suits and bee himself.

Me, i like them now and again.

The main problem is that Hasbro is oversaturating the market with Bumblebee figures. Every case of deluxes has 3 Bumblebees, with 1 of each of the other figures, or two if we're lucky. In my area, most of the Toys R Us stores (there are several) have a minimum of 20 Bumblebees on the shelf in deluxe class alone, spanning 3 different lines, and this is immediately after a major clearance sale It's absolutely ridiculous, and I don't know why/how Hasbro hasn't realized that they're releasing way too many. If they would even out the case assortments, then everyone (including kids) could have a variety of figures instead of just a wall of Bumblebees every time you step into the store. Everything else sells out right away because the collectors rush in and get them, because they know there's only 1 per case. At this point, the retailers are not to blame because they don't have control over case assortments. I'm sure they're just as sick of Bumblebee as we are. And the general public can't be that far off either, judging by how many Bees are still on the pegs.

So I'm fully expecting this Bumblebee Battle suit to be 3 per case with 1 Optimus Prime or something ridiculous like that. My beef is that it's yet another Bumblebee, instead of something new. The problem is that the toys are not changing, they're stagnating by releasing endless versions of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime in every single wave, and not giving other characters a chance.

Wait until the next Transformers show. It will be Bumblebee: the Last Transformer(or Bumblebee and Friends). Alone in a universe that has hunted the Transformers into extinction Bumblebee fights for personal survival. He searches for the Matrix of creation, not sure if it exists or not.
Only with the matrix can he hope to bring his race back from the brink of oblivion.
Scouring the galaxies with a band of space faring dolphins Bumblebee must outwit the humans who hunt him for his demise and the other alien species who hunt him for reward.

Get ready to spend, every toy will be either Bumblebee or one of those awesome human figures that have zero articulation
Bumblebee will come in all class sizes, and some new ones just for this line. The series will last for no less than 5 years. We shall call this the sea of yellow.
I see this as the only course of action. Let's face it Bumblebee is the most popular and clearly the only one that kids want, so why not engineer the toy line and series in that fashion?

That may not be much of an exaggeration.

CrimsonPrime wrote:Okay I get the too much bumblebee part. I totally support that. But are you guys seriously blaming Hasbro for releasing so little Decepticons? Do you even watch the show? There's barely any decepticon if it's not for the shit-load of vehicons. Let's see here's some so far and what toy will they be release in :-

Megatron - Commander,Deluxe,Voyager
Starscream - Commander,Deluxe,Voyager
Soundwave - Deluxe
Knockout - Legion,Deluxe
Breakdown - Legion,Voyager
Vehicon - Legion,2 Deluxe
Airachnid - Deluxe
Dreadwing - Commander,Voyager
Skyquake - Commander,Voyager

Forgive me if I miss a 1 or 2 but that's pretty much every Cons in TF Prime. I dont see why you're complaining. From what I see all the Cons already got their toy form. They even release 2 version of Vehicons for christ sake. Yes we all agree that Megs should have a Leader class but then again we dont know that for sure yet. Who knows when TF Prime hits Season 3 we will be getting one.

So...Yeah...Conclusion? I dont think any complaint is needed about the fact there are too little of Cons. And if you do want to blame someone, blame the producers of TF Prime.

PS : Unicron is pure evil but he's not in Decepticon so...Yeah xP....

Rumble : Deluxe

DISCHARGE wrote:Wait until the next Transformers show. It will be Bumblebee: the Last Transformer(or Bumblebee and Friends). Alone in a universe that has hunted the Transformers into extinction Bumblebee fights for personal survival. He searches for the Matrix of creation, not sure if it exists or not.
Only with the matrix can he hope to bring his race back from the brink of oblivion.
Scouring the galaxies with a band of space faring dolphins Bumblebee must outwit the humans who hunt him for his demise and the other alien species who hunt him for reward.

Get ready to spend, every toy will be either Bumblebee or one of those awesome human figures that have zero articulation
Bumblebee will come in all class sizes, and some new ones just for this line. The series will last for no less than 5 years. We shall call this the sea of yellow.
I see this as the only course of action. Let's face it Bumblebee is the most popular and clearly the only one that kids want, so why not engineer the toy line and series in that fashion?

Not to mention it would save on voice acting.

So, am I the only one looking at these exo suits and thinking "Oh boy! Baseformer Repaint Fodder!"? Anyone? Maybe an avenue for someone to sell a replacemtn head instead of the helmet?

Flashwave wrote:So, am I the only one looking at these exo suits and thinking "Oh boy! Baseformer Repaint Fodder!"? Anyone? Maybe an avenue for someone to sell a replacemtn head instead of the helmet?

Personally, I am not a fan of exo-suits that look like the characters piloting them. I like the weapon mode, not the Bumblebee mode, and no I don't want this thing repainted into another Bumblebee just for repaints sake.

The Drill tank and Starhammer are both interesting playsets, this thing is really weak. I guarantee you this thing beat out a much nicer toy that we will never know about.

I like bumblebee, I really do. He was actually one of my favorite characters in the movie series. But currently there's two problems. 1. He sucks in Transformers: Prime and 2. They make way too many toys of him. You'd think they'd realize that there's always 20 bumblebees on the shelf that are never bought.

CrimsonPrime wrote:Okay I get the too much bumblebee part. I totally support that. But are you guys seriously blaming Hasbro for releasing so little Decepticons? Do you even watch the show? There's barely any decepticon if it's not for the shit-load of vehicons. Let's see here's some so far and what toy will they be release in :-

*snip*

FE had limited release and was cut short, the ones on the shelves now are shortpacked, and we haven't even seen finished versions of the others (I don't believe we've seen anything of Airachnid yet). And of course, Dreadwing's just a repaint of Skyquake.