Finally I am finished with my Classics Minibots. I now have bashes for all minibots from Seasons 1-3 (Excluding Bumblejumper/Bumper because he was not an official character). Feels good to have these all finally done.
I own Cybertron Brakedown, and never liked him to start with. But now that I see how awesome that Bumblebee looks like... I hate Brakedown. And wish he was that Bumblebee xD
I like Cybertron Brakedown. His mold is very versitile. I used it for Bumblebee, Cliffjumper and even the autobot clones Fastlane and Cloudraker. Even have one more that I was planning to make into a Sweep. Using Brakedown for Bumblebee was actually inspired by Dreamwave's Transformers/G.I. Joe miniseries. The August 2003 issue of Toyfare magazine did a write-up on the comics and included character designs. There was a Don Figueroa scetch of Bumblebee as a Harley Davidson WLA with sidecar and the robot mode had a huge wheel on his shoulder and looked a little like Brakedown. So, that is hy I made him. And Cliffjumper is almost always a variation on a Bumblebee, so that is why I made him that way too.