I have a fine tip brush and a new bottle of Gunmetal ready Togo. Those eyes need some help.

 

If the normal version doesn't have the eyes painted still or it has the battle mask, I'm going to get the Off-Road one (probably on sale) and just paint it with the silver paint I have to the best as someone who isn't the best with painting.

 

I also just picked up and extra Buzzworthy bee movie bee from Olies for $4. The heads might be swapable.

 

Maybe, I think someone did a swap with the B-127 with the mask and it couldn't fit on the body so who knows. But maybe could work with minor moding or wouldn't look bad just sitting on the body.

 

Okay so a couple things.
I love the renders on the box.


Secondly , I'm happy they're going with Bee taking on the '77 Camaro. Though you can tell it was due to the blokes higher up not being able to make up their minds with BB being a reboot or not. That's why they fell back on Bee turning into a Camaro at the end to keep it ambiguous until they made up their minds. Like look how different Bee looked at the end the film.

Not much different to his VW form, because it's obviously just a Camaro grill slapped on his VW body.
Chest wasn't broken up like his 2007 counterpart.

But still! Glad they brought it back as I love the design, and he only appeared in bot mode for like a couple minutes in TF07. Yes he looks different in ROTB and much rounder so that must mean it's a reboot but I can't complain. I love the Bayverse but it had its time and hopefully the new TF Cinematic Universe prospers just as well.

But anyway gushing aside, I have a sneaking suspicion that the robot mode we see on the box or figure ISN'T the true form Offroad Bee takes.
See when ge transforms in the trailer, he's doing it in his unmodified 77 Camaro mode.

Yet we do not see him transform after this short scene of him and Cheetor.

Yet Cheetor does transform. Hmm

Granted, if he WAS gonna look different, it wouldn't be by much. It would be as different as Prime is. Mostly same bot mode but now he has sun visors and those truck fin things. Different enough but not too different from his BB Movie Freightliner. So I wouldn't expect Bee to look TOO drastically different, but only enough to explain why his SS figure does not integrate his new duds.

 

Got mine today from Amazon.
He's fun.
A bit more simplified than the usual movie Bee toys, but I applaud the effort they make to change up the transformation a bit each time they make a new one.

Also got Battletrap.
Less fun, slightly frustrating. Alt mode doesn't tab together very well, and I can't seem to get everything to line up quite right.
But that could be user error.
Also, the arm kibble is less than ideal in bot mode.

 

Excited to pick him up!

 

Some good detail in a place you'd never see unless you accidentally knock the wheel off its clip.

 

Oh cool

 

Adding paint makes this guy look even better!


And comparing him to SS-01, you can definitely tell he was the first SS figure. Lol


SS-100 is just way better in regards to arms and legs. SS-01's are too thin compared to how thick they're supposed to be, and he has an OUTWARD ankle tilt which is useless.

 

Not a spoiler but the test screening leaks say he will look like the same as he was, but with a minor modification to the robot mode such as offroad tyres and a slightly thicker chest bumper.

The robot mode on the box is just the unmodified Camaro one (basically the one we see in the trailer).

 

Kind of what I was implying at the end of my post.

 

Wasn't clear but yeah I get it.

 

looking at this perhaps I should just skip all my future Hasbro purchases and get the Takara version instead even if it means I have to wait a tad longer for the release ...

 

It not a Takara version, it’s a repack for wave 3 of SS.

 

Oh, is that what it is. Perhaps it is but who knows; maybe they both are. It's just odd that he (Chefatron) kept referring it as the Takara Tomy version in his video. It's hard to say since none of these are supposed to be released yet.

 

Chefatron is known for making stuff up.

 

Maybe, maybe not. It was his video and the info (repack for wave3) was from a tweet which is still based on his video so I'm not sure (unless I missed another post about this somewhere else). Again it's hard to tell for an outsider like myself.

 

Boy does he.

 

Never thought bringing up the YouTube video would become character attack on the YouTuber. Whether the info given by the Youtuber is right or wrong; I highly doubt it is intentional because I just don't see how the YouTuber would benefit from telling a lie about this. Was he misinform (maybe by his 'supplier'), perhaps. But making up random claim like this; it sounds unlikely (well, to me at least).