Takara Tomy MP-45 Bumblebee 2.0

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by TTemploy, Feb 4, 2019.

  1. KayODave

    KayODave Still a grey prototype

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    Wait so does Phamduc have connections? Cool.
     
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    He’s solidly connected. He has his fingers in many pies. So to say.
     
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    With the fake chest, they could give us blue windows on his bot chest and frosted untinted ones for his altmode. Keeping them untinted (frosted clear sounds like an oxymoron :) ) would make the bot mode colors consistent without having areas of blue on the heels and back. I don't think they actually want spike to be visible in altmode. My guess is he'll fit in but it won't be pretty.
     
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    Except his bot chest windows make the rear window in alt mode. The colors wouldn’t match up. And the only bot who has windows that don’t match up is Tracks.
     
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    D'oh! Well there goes that theory.
     
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  6. Dean ML

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    @Sam , thanks for a much needed reminder of history to give me some peace of mind! Feel like we'll definitely get the vivid light yellow and blue windows now ;) 
     
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    Wow, guys, I don’t think I ever realized Tracks has mismatched windows! I had to check and… mind blown! :eek: 
     
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    Interesting. Never knew that MP-21 may have had blue lights. Do people think this may happen with MP-45
     
  9. Sam

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    @Dean ML, back to the point of visible minifigures pilots, in the case of both MP-10 and MP-22 the glass looks pretty similar to the early prototype for MP-45.

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    There's a definite blue tint to it, just like the subtle one that MP-10 and MP-22 have.

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    Generally they tint the windows quite hard so that we can't see the robot junk underneath it in vehicle mode (works better in some cases than others, 12+'s bright white feet come to mind).

    In the case of MP-44, we know that there are his shoulder flaps directly behind the truck mode windows, so there was no need to make them less opaque. But MP-45 having less saturated windows does jive with MP-10 and MP-22, and MP-25's dashboard Blaster. Not ideal in terms of matching the other carbots, but I'd be a lot less bothered by the less blue glass than the wrong shade of cheddar that MP-21 had.
     
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    The positive outlook is much appreciated, brother haha! I'm really thinking we'll get a nice blue tint in the end, though, thanks to your post about historical last minute changes.

    *edit* Forgot that TT's promo video for this guy also featured the blue windowed prototype... ((confidence intensifies))
     
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    Here's hoping man! Either way, if the only thing MP-21 does better is have the right coloured glass, MP-45 is still the winner. Bumblebee's prominence in the cartoon during my rewatch has really made me excited for this guy. Childhood favourite character, so cool to be getting a second awesome MP version!
     
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    Yup I'm having trouble believing they would go to the trouble of producing blue glass for prototypes and then go BACK to clear glass for production (though anything's possible as history has shown!).
     
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    I think ideally I'd like a shade of blue between the two that we've seen. The deep blue matches the other carbots, sure, but I think of Bumblebee of having more of a baby blue

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    I actually would have preferred that for all the blue glass characters. I think it must be difficult to make transparent plastic be a lighter shade of a pure hue--you either have to desaturate it (which runs the risk of not looking blue when in front of a dark interior), or add white, thus making it semi-opaque/frosted. Personally I'd be ok with frosted.
     
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    Yeah, it was definitely that light blue pretty often in the show, but at this point I'm wanting the blue to be at least a little consistent with the other s1 MPs even if their blues tend to be too saturated.
     
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    Yeah very difficult to get it looking like that. Maybe they should've aimed for a greener tint, but who knows how limited their choices are. Then on yellow bots the blue already looks too green.

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    Finally. I’m glad the hype train for this guy is being built up a little more. It almost seemed like everyone forgot about him with MP-44 hogging the coverage and attention.
     
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    As pumped as I am for 44, he's not really going to feel complete to me until 45's arrival! So glad OPv3 will only be Bumblebeeless for a month!
     
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    There never was quite a consistent window colour. I guess it was a case of trying to look pleasing against a yellow body.
     
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