Tracks from "Make Tracks", "Auto-Bop", and "Hoist Goes Hollywood".
Inferno and Red Alert from "Auto Berserk".
Blaster from "Blaster Blues" and "Auto-Bop" .
Silverbolt in "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2" and "War Dawn".
Slingshot in "The Key to Vector Sigma, pt. 2", "War Dawn", and "Aerial Assault".
Hoist from "The Master Builders" (with Grapple, as MechanovaKing pointed out), "Hoist Goes Hollywood", and "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court". Beachcomber in "The Golden Lagoon".
Mirage and Cliffjumper in "Traitor".
Brawn in "Fire on the Mountain" and "Microbots".
Perceptor in "Microbots" and "Cosmic Rust".
Warpath in "A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court" and "Hoist Goes Hollywood".
Skyfire in "Fire in the Sky".
Powerglide in "Hoist Goes Hollywood" and *sigh* "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide" (I don't like the episode, but it definitely established his personality.)
Seaspray in "Sea Change" (see comment about "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide").
Sunstreaker in "Hoist Goes Hollywood" and "Megatron's Master Plan, pt. 1" (where he describes humans as "inferior lifeforms".)
Astrotrain in "Triple Takeover".
Blitzwing in "Triple Takeover" AND the Five Faces of Darkness five-parter.
Swoop in "Desertion of the Dinobots, pt. 2".
Grimlock in "War of the Dinobots".
Onslaught in "The Revenge of Bruticus".
Swindle in "B.O.T." and "The Ultimate Weapon".
All five Stunticons get a good showing in "Masquerade". Wildrider and Dead End are also good in "The Burden Hardest to Bear".
Gears in "Changing Gears".
Ironhide in, among other episodes, "The Immobilizer".
Wheeljack in "S.O.S Dinobots".
First Aid in "The Ultimate Weapon".
Omega Supreme in "The Secret of Omega Supreme".
Sandstorm in "Fight or Flee" and "Starscream's Ghost".
Octane in "Starscream's Ghost" and *sigh* "Thief in the Night". (I wish Blitzwing had been in "Starscream's Ghost" instead of Octane, but the episode did establish what Octane was like).
Scourge in "Ghost in the Machine" and "The Burden Hardest to Bear".
Cyclonus in several episodes, but most notably "The Killing Jar" and "Webworld".
The series wasn't good at consistently displaying strong characterization for everybody, but when it focused on a character, it usually made them very memorable.
That being said, Prowl, Bluestreak, Windcharger, Skywarp, and Thundercracker got totally shafted in the character department.

Oh, and on the topic of the thread: I'm a little tired of Bumblebee. I liked the Bumblebee movie. I liked parts of Robots in Disguise 2015 (even though Bumblebee was one of my least favorite parts). I like what I've seen of Cyberverse. In short, I like everything he's been in. However, I would not be at all upset if he took a five-year hiatus.

 

bumblebee is my lord and savior do not ever diss my boi bee you here?

 

I'm sorry but yeah. I agree he was a cool character that would appeal to kids but they overdid it a bit for the cartoons and the movies. Let's be honest with ourselves here.

I like that they tried this fusion based character from both Hot Rod and Bumblebee and even gave him a yellow and Hot Rod treatment in Transformers Armada then tried to give him his own neutral blue colors like Blurr around the time Energon and Cybertron came into the mix. But the relied too heavy on the young explorer/ brash attitude type of mentality of both characters when making his personality

 

I'm not really, so long as they do different stuff with the character.

Like Bumblebee in Devastation, RID2015 & Cyberverse are all different from each other & we've gotten them all in the past decade. Heck, Netflix Siege Bumblebee started as a really interesting version of the character that I hadn't ever seen before.

Sure it'd be cool if other characters were able to take Bumblebee's spot once in a while. But I'd prefer a bunch of unique interpretations of Bumblebee to a string of main Transformers characters that all look different but are superficially the same personality.

 

Dude how do you keep finding these old threads? These are more dead than the bayverse

 

didnt you necro a 10 year old thread?

 

Yes. Give me more Hot Rod.

 

I'm a DC fan. You think I'd ever be tired of a yellow bug that has been prominet for over a decade in a comperatively small franchise, when I'm constantly bombarded with the most popular Superhero of all time since the 1930's. Atleast Bumblebee is there where he belongs, Batman appears anywhere DC wants to make something.

 

Oh shoot, did I? I was just going back in the forums to see how many more interesting topics I could post in. I didn't even pay attention to the date. ^^;

 

Not as tired as I am of Optimus Prime and Megatron, but yeah, his overuse does bother me a bit.

Honestly, I feel that since 2007, the only versions of Bumblebee that was handled 100% well were the Cyberverse one and the one from the Bumblebee movie. All the others are either unremarkable (Bayformers), boring (TFP and IDW), downright annoying and unlikeable (TFA), interchangeable (High Moon games, seriously, you could have made this guy Cliffjumper in the first High Moon game and it wouldn't make a difference at all) or just Hot Rod/Rodimus in Bumblebee's body (RiD2015 and, from what I heard, the Netflix series).

I just tend to be more forgiving of Bumblebee because he's my younger brother's favorite character and so, I feel like I gotta grin and bear it. Not so much with Optimus Prime and Megs. My feelings toward them range from apathy to instant sourness. Bumblebee is more... "okay, guess he is here..."

 

I used to be tired of Bumblebee, but then they reworked his character to be a better version of Hot Rod so now I'm good to go!

 

Now I want them to actually get Hot Rod and make him a better version of himself. Guy deserves better.

 

I mean, everyone complains of too many Bumblebees, but when we wanted the Netflix one...

 

Then why not call him Hot Rod or Rodimus? And personally, I feel Hot Rod was well handled in seasons three and four of the Sunbow cartoon, the Marvel US/UK comics and Cyberverse. These are the only versions that did him justice.

Bumblebee is supposed to be the kid brother, the chipper guy, and honestly, the only recent versions that feel like Bumblebee are the Cyberverse and Bumblebee movie ones.

Well, that makes me one person that isn't interested in the Netflix one. Guess I'm just an oddball.

 

Too much baggage. Rodimus's entire shtick is replacing Optimus Prime, and since Hasbro's never going to make that mistake again, there's just no reason for him (or Hot Rod) to exist anymore. With Bumblebee, there's no expectation for him to replace Optimus so he can just remain Prime's sidekick forever.

 

I feel Hot Rod can be a perfectly good character on his own. Rodimus aside, Hot Rod could make a great main character without forcing him into the role of leader, or making him someone's sidekick forever, just really focusing on him.

 

Honestly, I wish they just got rid of Optimus. We already have too much of him. Optimus being in the limelight has already grown stale and personally, I don't want too see him in any more shows. And personally, I feel the mistake Hasbro made is basically giving in to pressure.

I know OP sells but, and sorry if I get blunt, it comes across as Hasbro being chickenshit.

And I have to agree with Cyberbot here: