I'd probably go with Titans Return, but there are so many options spread throughout my shelves. I really like all the various original deluxe versions with different Renderform heads (even if they are no longer Bumblebee). Enjoy the little legends guy, but he no longer scales with the newer legends, nor nearly the articulation.

 

Surprised there's no love yet for Thrilling 30 Bee. The deluxe is nothing to write home about (it's okay) but I think the legend is downright great. If he had a neck joint and a few paint apps I'd have a hard time imagining a better lil Bee.

I guess it helps that I'm fond of the WFC-inspired bot mode that Andrew Griffith used on his IDW run, which that toy resembles.

Plus it comes with a lil helicopter! What's not to like!?

 

I can't remember if there is a Classics Bee that does it right and does not have stripes. United was close but chromed it up.

 

I found it for a lower price than the regular version.

 

Don't have one yet. I'd LOVE to get the repro G1 Bumblebee but I haven't seen any of them.

Thanks Hasbro. Your distribution is stellar as always. -_-

 

Takara’s t30 goldbug for idw/chug and legends tr bee for normal chug though the paint chip on the hood and face is annoying.

 

The original Classics release...with wheels from a G1 OP:

 

If we're talking about official Hasbro/Takara releases, then I would say Titans Return Bumblebee. But my definitive Bumblebee is Mech Planet Hot Soldiers HS-09. I have very few 3P figures in my collection. I normally try to go with official Hasbro/Takara. But with Bumblebee, I had to go with Mech Planet Hot Soldiers HS-09.

Since Bumblebee is a Volkswagen Beetle in the upcoming movie, I really hope Hasbro/Takara takes advantage of this short term licensing arrangement with Volkswagen to make an official Legends scale straight up G1 Bumblebee for our CHUG collection. It would be a huge missed opportunity if they don't.

 

Titans Return Bumblebee

 

30th bee

 

TR Legends Class Bumblebee is mine after I did the upper arm swap where the back window kibble is facing backwards. I liked Classics 1.0 Bee, but I never really liked him being a big deluxe figure. In G1, Bumblebee was always portrayed as the smallest of Autobots so that's why I like TR being at the smaller Legends scale.

 

Still Classics. Thrilling 30 Goldfire as a separate character since Goldbug isn't just a Bumblebee upgrade in some continuities like IDW's G1.

 

Legends Bumblebee w/ Spike

 

I have 3 Bees. My favorite looking is Rage Over Cybertron WFC Bee. My only problem with him is that he’s too large for a CHUG collection. So I got T30 Bee because he’s kind of a smaller looking Legends version of that Deluxe Bee, except that his head is so tiny and has no neck articulation. So finally I grabbed TR Bee who for Legends scale for a CHUG collection I think looks best of all, but he doesn’t really fit the Cybertron aesthetic of my collection the way the other two do. I think I’ll never be happy with my Bumblebees.

WFC though, he may be crap for scale in a CHUG collection but he looks right at home with MP:

 

TR 'Bee for me.

 

That’s the one I like.

 

'06 Classics, for now and possibly forever.

Bumblebee, along with Gen. Warpath, is to blame for my dislike that legends class became the go-to for mini-bot character toys.

 

Masterpiece Bumblebee. With all the modern pushes for Bumblebee, I feel no need to buy another.

 

T30 Bumblebee.
It's the perfect fusion of G1 and Modern TF.

 

T30 deluxe for me. I prefer him at deluxe scale and that's just a fun figure all around.