Transformers Bumblebee Movie Japanese Trailer and Poster #BumblebeeMovie

Fellow Seibertronian What's Crackin sent us a notification of what appears to be a new poster for the upcoming Transformers Bumblebee Movie, due in cinemas / movie theatres this December 2018. Sourcing it to the UIP Philippines Facebook page and confirmed by others too, the image shows Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld) looking up to Bumblebee, who is squatting down to be closer, while both are overlooking the Californian city night lights in the background.

This is not on the same level as previous Paramount ventures with digital image manipulation, but there are still elements of ..not very good work happening, between the stars and the logo positioning and font work. Nonetheless, take a look below!

I told you guys I'd give you some news, even if it was like just a poster, that wasn't produced the greatest. Anyway thanks again!

New screenshot from Empire!

Thanks to a news notification from fellow Seibertronian EvasionModeBumblebee, we have a new image from the upcoming Transformers Bumblebee Movie, featuring the titular character himself as he sits quite uncomfortably on a couch!

The image, which is also part of the footage that was shown during the San Diego Comic Con panel, is part of a light-hearted scene where Bumblebee is trying to be gentle and careful in making himself at home in Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld)'s house - and clearly not doing his best job of it. Think the garden scene with the Autobots in the 2007 movie, but ..you know, done well.





Also in Bumblebee movie news, a new still has appeared courtesy of an old source (YouTube user laszlo ven), showing Dropkick and Shatter in their muscle car modes - confirming that in the previously seen shot director Travis Knight was indeed leaning on one of the Decepticons in the movie. Check it out below, and join the buzz!

"Think of the garden scenen but you know done well"

Gee Va'al, but I can't think it'd be easy for FIVE big robots (and in different sizes no less) that CLEARLY tower over every house in the average neighborhood, to make themseves comfortable in a single house, inside or out.

Quantum Surge wrote:"Think of the garden scenen but you know done well"

Gee Va'al, but I can't think it'd be easy for FIVE big robots (and in different sizes no less) that CLEARLY tower over every house in the average neighborhood, to make themseves comfortable in a single house, inside or out.

I was very tongue in cheek, but I also honestly do think that there is a clear parallel between the two scenes and while with the 2007 version gave me second hand embarrassment, the Bumblebee one made me giggle.

Va'al wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:"Think of the garden scenen but you know done well"

Gee Va'al, but I can't think it'd be easy for FIVE big robots (and in different sizes no less) that CLEARLY tower over every house in the average neighborhood, to make themseves comfortable in a single house, inside or out.

I was very tongue in cheek, but I also honestly do think that there is a clear parallel between the two scenes and while with the 2007 version gave me second hand embarrassment, the Bumblebee one made me giggle.

As much as I enjoy the first movie, the part that makes me roll my eyes at the most in that scene is the 'blown transformer' part when Sams dad is surveying the damage.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Va'al wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:"Think of the garden scenen but you know done well"

Gee Va'al, but I can't think it'd be easy for FIVE big robots (and in different sizes no less) that CLEARLY tower over every house in the average neighborhood, to make themseves comfortable in a single house, inside or out.

I was very tongue in cheek, but I also honestly do think that there is a clear parallel between the two scenes and while with the 2007 version gave me second hand embarrassment, the Bumblebee one made me giggle.

As much as I enjoy the first movie, the part that makes me roll my eyes at the most in that scene is the 'blown transformer' part when Sams dad is surveying the damage.

"I think there's more than meets the eye with you"

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Double Post

Over on online retailer Amazon.com, we have three new listings for Transformers Bumblebee Movie related products, and we're looking at a younger audience still with the Junior Novel (in both book and audio book formats) plus a Transformers: Bumblebee Reader!

The latter in particular is a level 2 passport to reading young book, and sports the title A Car for Charlie - meaning you can have the minibots in your life get ready for the movie, if you choose to share it with them, read up on the story before heading to the cinema (as the book is out in November, which also means it may contain spoilers for the movie itself!). Check out the listings below.

Transformers Bumblebee: The Junior Novel

Bumblebee is back in this all-new action-packed junior novel!

Features an 8-page full-color insert with scenes from the movie!

Product details

Hard Cover: $9.99
Paperback: $6.99
Age Range: 8 – 12 years
Grade Level: 3 – 7
Series: Transformers Bumblebee
Page Count: 144 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date: November 20, 2018

Transformers Bumblebee: The Junior Novel Audio CD
Product details

Grade Level: 4 – 6
Series: Transformers Bumblebee
Audio CD
Publisher: Blackstone Pub; Unabridged edition
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Language: English

Product details

Age Range: 4 - 8 years
Grade Level: Preschool - 3
Series: Passport to Reading Level 2
Paperback: 32 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (November 20, 2018)
Language: English

I'm CONFUSED about his car door wings in robot mode. Do they exist or not? They're not visible in the movie footage I've seen so far and he's even shown from the rear with no sign of them at all yet they appear on art like on that book and on the large Bee statue thingy at conventions and such and are on the toys. I'm usually against noticable kibble but I'm so used to seeing them on movie Bee that I find him a bit plain when they ain't there. Also that book cover art oddly looks like a person in a suit... especially with how big the head looks.

Not sure if this is the correct place to share, but one of my local Meijer stores was putting up this decoration in the toy asle.

Thanks to Entertainment Weekly Online we have a new screencap from the upcoming film, Bumblebee: The Movie. In this scene you can see Charlie (Played by actress Hailee Steinfeld) and Bumblebee. It looks as if she is comforting him which tells us a great deal about how different the mood of this film will be compared to the previous live action flicks. If you can remember from the movie trailer Bee looked pretty freaked out about landing on Earth. Of course this is just a speculation on what is happening. We will find out when this movie hits theaters on December 21, 2018.

So Charlie being comforting to Bee makes the movie automatically different from the other movies. I guess that means Infimity War having death automatically makes it more different than all the rest of the otherwise similarly made MCU films (except for Phase 1)

Quantum Surge wrote:So Charlie being comforting to Bee makes the movie automatically different from the other movies. I guess that means Infimity War having death automatically makes it more different than all the rest of the otherwise similarly made MCU films (except for Phase 1)

go hate on the movie (that hasn't even released) somewhere else.

Quantum Surge wrote:So Charlie being comforting to Bee makes the movie automatically different from the other movies.

Well... yeah?

I guess that means Infimity War having death automatically makes it more different than all the rest of the otherwise similarly made MCU films (except for Phase 1)

...Still yep. (Not the presence of death per se, but the fact that half the cast gets killed off at the end of the movie (is that still a spoiler?) makes it tonally different than other MCU films, on the whole.)

Things like death (in a franchise that avoids it much of the time), or characters expressing kindness, or in fact any genuine emotion whatsoever, can and will drastically change a movie's tone compared to generic kill-the-bad-guys-we're-so-cool action stuff. Doesn't mean the action stuff is bad, just that this is different, whether you personally think so or not.

Quantum Surge wrote:So Charlie being comforting to Bee makes the movie automatically different from the other movies. I guess that means Infimity War having death automatically makes it more different than all the rest of the otherwise similarly made MCU films (except for Phase 1)

I think the bad guy winning definitely makes Infinity War far different than any other Marvek film. Thanks for that great comparison, it means this TF film will indeed be different than the rest.

william-james88 wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:So Charlie being comforting to Bee makes the movie automatically different from the other movies. I guess that means Infimity War having death automatically makes it more different than all the rest of the otherwise similarly made MCU films (except for Phase 1)

I think the bad guy winning definitely makes Infinity War far different than any other Marvek film. Thanks for that great comparison, it means this TF film will indeed be different than the rest.

The bad guy did kinda win in Civil War too. He was taken into custody, but his goal was met.

Quantum Surge wrote:So Charlie being comforting to Bee makes the movie automatically different from the other movies. I guess that means Infimity War having death automatically makes it more different than all the rest of the otherwise similarly made MCU films (except for Phase 1)

whats wrong with this movie being different

I like how clean this design is!

I feel for the actors having to do these kind of scenes when there's nothing to act against, still looks like Hailee is doing alright with it though

SHIPPERS ARE COOOMING

We've got some interesting rumours now for Bumblebee: The Movie. Thanks to blog, Discussing Film, we've learned that possibly the movie not just opens on Cybertron, but will also feature several classic bots as well! The rumours also go further and say that these will feature cgi models that resemble their G1 looks. A few names are also hinted at, fan favourite names at that. These are Shockwave, Soundwave and Cliffjumper.

Take everything with a pinch of salt though, as anything could change. To fully be certain, we'll just have to watch the film when it debuts on December 21st this year!

Here is one snippet from the article.

So what iconic transformers can you expect to see in 'Bumblebee'? Fans will have a fun time scanning the battlefields on Cybertron for many instantly recognisable characters. Three that stand out in the film are Soundwave, Shockwave and Cliffjumper. Note that these are only brief cameos and most of them are not speaking roles

The article aslo points out how they will potentially look in the movie, but again this is not confirmed.

Fans of Transformer’s “Generation 1” will be pleased for the film will showcase many iconic autobots and decepticons- all which sport designs identical to their 1980s cartoon counterparts

What do you make of these rumours? Let us know in the comments below!

I don’t think I can say much since we haven’t seen how they actually look, but I’m hoping they retain the feel of the previous movie TFs. From what we’ve seen so far, I think they will. I’m intrigued by Shockwave, a mix of his G1 and DOTM forms could be pretty cool looking

I’m SUPER excited to see the Cybertronian modes for the movie bots, though! I remember one of the DOTM novels had Optimus and Starscream in that opening scene on Cybertron, and I was a little disappointed that we didn’t see them in that scene of the movie.

Right off the bat, I feel that these will just be generics that look visualy similar. I mean yeah we have seen some prequel material (that seems obsolete) where these characters were shown on Cybertron, but they didn't look exactly G1 inspired. I mean, CJ was Bumblebee but in red, Soundwave had his ROTF design, and Shockwave was in his DOTM design (which changed overtime).

a soundwave boom box? it would be very fitting for the time period

the key word is most of them dont have voice roles

meaning that they really dive deep into the lore of cybertron and thus the war will also be included and there will be voice acting for some of the listed characters

once again this makes my hopes for this movie go up and higher

fruityrobo wrote:the key word is most of them dont have voice roles

meaning that they really dive deep into the lore of cybertron and thus the war will also be included and there will be voice acting for some of the listed characters

once again this makes my hopes for this movie go up and higher

Or like, Soundwave gets a single generic line during the 30-to-90-second Cybertron sequence.

Personally I'm guessing it's somewhere in between those two, but we I wouldn't advise getting your hopes too high for a lore deep-dive, since this movie is pretty definitively about the emotional core of a relationship on earth.

Qwan wrote:

fruityrobo wrote:the key word is most of them dont have voice roles

meaning that they really dive deep into the lore of cybertron and thus the war will also be included and there will be voice acting for some of the listed characters

once again this makes my hopes for this movie go up and higher

Or like, Soundwave gets a single generic line during the 30-to-90-second Cybertron sequence.

Personally I'm guessing it's somewhere in between those two, but we I wouldn't advise getting your hopes too high for a lore deep-dive, since this movie is pretty definitively about the emotional core of a relationship on earth.

I'm thinking along those lines as well, cybertron is just starting the plot. We'll see snippets of battles then prime will tell bee to get to earth.

Even if just a cameo I look forward to a movieverse Cliffjumper, always loved the guy.

Three that stand out in the film are Soundwave, Shockwave and Cliffjumper. Note that these are only brief cameos and most of them are not speaking roles

So they stand out by not getting to speak? Uhhh okay then.

As much as I do think that this will be a good movie. I do hope they don't focus too much on Bumblebee. Don't get me wrong I don't wanna sound negative but Bee gets to be in everything and is often a main character with a lot of merch. I just wanna see some of the others get the spotlight outside of the big 3.

With only two villains in the film, I'm hoping that they get some development more than previous villains in the movies...or movies in general these days.

WreckerJack wrote:

Three that stand out in the film are Soundwave, Shockwave and Cliffjumper. Note that these are only brief cameos and most of them are not speaking roles

So they stand out by not getting to speak? Uhhh okay then.

As much as I do think that this will be a good movie. I do hope they don't focus too much on Bumblebee. Don't get me wrong I don't wanna sound negative but Bee gets to be in everything and is often a main character with a lot of merch. I just wanna see some of the others get the spotlight outside of the big 3.

most of them are not speaking roles

So at least some of them Speak I presume that these cameos are brief and are small generic war lines like.

"Take cover!", "He's over there!", "Watch that sniper!" Those kind of lines.

You do know they also don't have to speak to standout regardless anyways for example Cliffjumper could be an Autobot that get's killed by Shockwave in front of Bumblebee or something.

Also it's Bee's movie he is the main character so of course the focus will mostly be on him, after that it will be the Decepticons of the movie, then Optimus since he's more then a cameo although still not that big a presence overall, then the cameos which can either be characters in the background as screen fillers or minor characters that get a couple of minutes and lines to themselves. (Like Say Barricade is an after credits scene or something)

That's not including the human characters as well since there is Charlie who will most certainly have a lot of spotlight, her family and friends including that male friend or brother, Burns and the rest of Sector Seven and who knows who else.

We have some new, potentially spoiler-filled news from the upcoming Transformers Bumblebee Movie, due in cinemas this December 2018, in the form of an auction of a movie prop over on Screenused.com!

Their latest issue is auctioning off a Willys Jeep which is supposed to be the first alt mode for Bumblebee himself, in the opening - though not the opening opening, as we saw that it will be set on Cybertron here - as we saw in the trailer, and as confirmed in the San Diego Comic Con 2018 footage from the panel (while pursued by John Cena / Agent Burns, and Blitzwing). All of this happens before he takes on the iconic Volkswagen beetle mode. You can check out the auction below, and some screencaps from the trailer to confirm the alt mode jeep parts, and join the conversation!

When will we get that bee in toyline? So potentially, bee could go through three alts in the movie. Going from the jeep, to the vw and, if rumours are correct, the '77 camaro.

Ooohhhhhhhhhh

I don't need another car...I don't need another car...I don't need another Jeep ...

that Bee looks very Swindley

Interesting. So question 1 is will there be a toy? Question 2 is, new mold, or a remold/redeco of a previous Hound or Swindle? The Universe Hound that came with Ravage looks like it would actually work pretty well with the grill placement and shoulder wheels.

I want a Studio Series toy with this version of BB so badly.
And it's an easy recolor into a classics Hound. Just change the head, too

TF-fan kev777 wrote:The Universe Hound that came with Ravage looks like it would actually work pretty well with the grill placement and shoulder wheels.

Lunatic Prime wrote:And it's an easy recolor into a classics Hound.

That mold is very probably too old to use for normal retail anymore.

Sabrblade wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:The Universe Hound that came with Ravage looks like it would actually work pretty well with the grill placement and shoulder wheels.

Lunatic Prime wrote:And it's an easy recolor into a classics Hound.

That mold is very probably too old to use for normal retail anymore.

WHY?
They even rereleased Energon Grimlock in the AoE line.

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:The Universe Hound that came with Ravage looks like it would actually work pretty well with the grill placement and shoulder wheels.

Lunatic Prime wrote:And it's an easy recolor into a classics Hound.

That mold is very probably too old to use for normal retail anymore.

WHY?
They even rereleased Energon Grimlock in the AoE line.

As part of a store exclusive boxed set, not a normal retail figure.

Sabrblade wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:The Universe Hound that came with Ravage looks like it would actually work pretty well with the grill placement and shoulder wheels.

That mold is very probably too old to use for normal retail anymore.

WHY?
They even rereleased Energon Grimlock in the AoE line.

As part of a store exclusive boxed set, not a normal retail figure.

So what's the point?

TF-fan kev777 wrote:The Universe Hound that came with Ravage looks like it would actually work pretty well with the grill placement and shoulder wheels.

This one would also work:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:The Universe Hound that came with Ravage looks like it would actually work pretty well with the grill placement and shoulder wheels.

That mold is very probably too old to use for normal retail anymore.

WHY?
They even rereleased Energon Grimlock in the AoE line.

As part of a store exclusive boxed set, not a normal retail figure.

So what's the point?

The point is that it's a figure from a time when Hasbro was in a different toy industry economy with different budget levels and conformities that they adhered to. Things have changed a lot since then, most drastically around 2012 when the Generations line suddenly had all of the FOC toys made smaller. Universe Hound was a figure made for a different time in a different economy with different budgetary conditions than those of today, hence why most figures from several lines ago that get surprisingly reused in lines from much later nowadays end up being either store exclusives, convention exclusives, or initiatives taken by Takara without Hasbro.

Sabrblade wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:The Universe Hound that came with Ravage looks like it would actually work pretty well with the grill placement and shoulder wheels.

That mold is very probably too old to use for normal retail anymore.

WHY?
They even rereleased Energon Grimlock in the AoE line.

As part of a store exclusive boxed set, not a normal retail figure.

So what's the point?

The point is that it's a figure from a time when Hasbro was in a different toy industry economy with different budget levels and conformities that they adhered to. Things have changed a lot since then, most drastically around 2012 when the Generations line suddenly had all of the FOC toys made smaller. Universe Hound was a figure made for a different time in a different economy with different budgetary conditions than those of today, hence why most figures from several lines ago that get surprisingly reused in lines from much later nowadays end up being either store exclusives, convention exclusives, or initiatives taken by Takara without Hasbro.

So both classic Hound molds (Legends and Deluxe class) could be used and put into some kind of special edition box. Where's the problem now? I never said anything about how they'll release a retooled mold for BB.

Variations the nice way of putting things when a bumblebee figure has the potential to be more like hound than the baynus, combiner wars & siege figures. Might be another use for the MP Hound recolor as well as anime, swindle or the ehobby figure. only problem is when I get a MP hound I'm going to want a truck (transformable or not) with a green goblin head on the front of it...

blackeyedprime wrote:Variations the nice way of putting things when a bumblebee figure has the potential to be more like hound than the baynus, combiner wars & siege figures. Might be another use for the MP Hound recolor as well as anime, swindle or the ehobby figure. only problem is when I get a MP hound I'm going to want a truck (transformable or not) with a green goblin head on the front of it...

I have no idea what you are talking about in the first and in the last sentence.

blackeyedprime wrote:Variations the nice way of putting things when a bumblebee figure has the potential to be more like hound than the baynus, combiner wars & siege figures. Might be another use for the MP Hound recolor as well as anime, swindle or the ehobby figure. only problem is when I get a MP hound I'm going to want a truck (transformable or not) with a green goblin head on the front of it...

YESSS!!! Maximum Overdrive for the win

xRotorstormx wrote:

blackeyedprime wrote:Variations the nice way of putting things when a bumblebee figure has the potential to be more like hound than the baynus, combiner wars & siege figures. Might be another use for the MP Hound recolor as well as anime, swindle or the ehobby figure. only problem is when I get a MP hound I'm going to want a truck (transformable or not) with a green goblin head on the front of it...

YESSS!!! Maximum Overdrive for the win

I will provide the coke!

Bumblejeep!!

And that part of the first trailer is finally explained!