He is as amazing as I expected. I only wish that rust stain below his left headlight wasn't so glaring. It was much less noticeable on the prototype and definitely not present in the movie. Do ya'll think they're going to tweak that in the next batch?


I know I'm nitpicking pls no hate.

 

Wow!

 

Hmm. Is there a connection with Snake eyes? 

 

Maybe a new attempt to revitalize a G.I. Joe Movieverse and make a Hasbro Cinematic Universe?

 

I wonder how that large Optimus Figure will scale with this Bumblebee size. They would make for amazing set pieces, for sure.

 

True

 

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Travis Knight Bee is a fantastic design. Optimus doesn't seem as solid compared next to it.
On to the figure, it looks great but I've had issues with threezero stuff before. The light-up feature specifically. It lasts about five minutes.

 

When I got bee movie Prime in hand, I was surprised how much I didn't like him (despite their amazing execution).

I think it just boils down to liking bayverse designs better. No, none of the Bee movie designs were officially Bayverse. But Bee, Blitzwing, Shatter and Dropkick all feel like they were designed while the plan was still to make this the same continuity as bayverse. At some point they broke with that and the other designs speak much more strongly to G1.

Those are fun and if the 07 movie had looked like that it would have been perfect. But as crappy as the bayverse movies were, I really like a lot of the designs, especially from earlier in the series.

Bee feels very bayverse to me, Prime feels like total G1 homage.

 

Really? I don't feel that. Aside from Bee having an obviously simplified version of the bay-verse head, he really screams G1 to me. Albeit more rounded than boxy.
Optimus feels like a weird hybrid of g1 and bayverse. He's got those weird looking feet and shins, and his chest seems a bit too square compared to the rest of him. Whereas bee's design just flows well.

I kinda like the long legs, makes them seem more super-robot or japanese style. Agreed on soundwave being chunky but I wondered if that was because those designs were added last minute and made over the bee model.
With Optimus, he's so close to greatness that the flaws seem to stick out even more. Or maybe because Bumblebee feels G1 in spirit without being a slave to his original G1 design like Prime's model is. Optimus's sharper boxier angles seem out of place with some other alien aspects in his design.
It's all nitpicking, really.

 

Bee has small car panels as body all over the place and his chest is made up of lots of small segmented sections of car bumper and he has shoulder wheels (plus many of the toys have door wings as well- which I actually like). Don't get me wrong, if Bay had okayed it he'd have at least twice as many smaller body panels. But still it screams simplified Bay design to me vs. the even more simplified G1 designs seen on Cybertron. It feels to me like Travis likes simpler and was able to simplify some but the basic ideas for designs were probably to far along to start over before he came on board (or everyone just felt they needed to tie it more back to the Bayverse Bee, who really isn't the same character as G1 Bee IMHO).

Also, every Bay Bee (excpet maybe the AOE one) has had the front of of the car as his chest and this one does as well. G1 Bee didn't.

I could be totally wrong.

 

I think it's a balance between the two. The Travis designs have the colors stand out more, and the vehicle parts are more immediately recognizable. On the other hand, what would be flat, fairly featureless gray/silver/black bits in G1 have the bayverse greebles to better implement character articulation.

 

I could have sworn he came with two different blades. Also what female figure is that that is being used in the pics?

 

Oh wow Tony you did really good. It is a really nice figure you customized there.

 

Finally found this thread!

Man, this thing was buried deep.

Here's my review! Hope you all enjoy it!...even though it's been reviewed over 3 months ago haha.

 

I'm always looking forward to seeing new videos of this guy in different light and poses. He really is so much more impressive of a display piece in that size and with all the additional posing options. I'm also diggin' your take on him with the more held back attitude. Subbed.