Well, I picked up my HA Bumblebee from TRU today (cracked open the case myself to get this one) and I think he is pretty cool. He is well articulated at the head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, waist, legs and feet.

Very stable when posing and the battle mask mode looks Awesome. Sam is a nice addition and is quite articulated.

Whilst you are getting a very detailed Voyager + figure for the money, he is not in scale with the rest of the movie toys. I imagine this will be the problem with the HA sets. They will be in scale with each other but not the rest.

He is larger than an Alternator and stands at 180mm tall compared to Movie 2 Primes 240mm. I have compared him with Movie 1 & 2 Leader Primes, Legends Brawn and Movie 2 Sideswipe and Soundwave to give you an idea.

In the Box








Sam and Prime



Car Shots











Sam "A kick in the Nuts"




Robot Mode Comparison Shots





Battle Mask Mode






Robot Shots







The End

 

Wow, Sam works pretty well with Leader OP.

 

He's out already?! Damn, gonna have to pick this baby up.

Pics are great, BTW.

 

Should be picking mine up tomorrow  

Great photos mate, looks lush.

 

looks pretty great. is he fun to play with?

 

Yes and no, he is a bit big and looses that Deluxe size playability imo. Loads of ways to pose him though etc.

 

thats awsome, thanks for all the pics......this may be asking too much but could you take a pic of him next to some alts/bts that would be super.....SO ULTIMATELY, are you happy you got him or think you shouldve passed?

 

fantastic! ~ i'm primarily holding off of the Main ROTF Line for the HA line. only major nit i have is i wish the pivot point for his door wings could have been moved more towards the center of his back to make him more movie-model accurate.

Have you looked into if the lower legs can be swapped to match the prototype? (which also looked more movie accurate)

 

fantastic! ~ i'm primarily holding off of the Main ROTF Line for the HA line. only major nit i have is i wish the pivot point for his door wings could have been moved more towards the center of his back to make him more movie-model accurate.

Have you looked into if the lower legs can be swapped to match the prototype? (which also looked more movie accurate)

 

looks great.
i will definetly be picking up these human alliance bots.
i think he looks better with leader prime than the deluxe does.

 

awesome definitely need to get him

 

I wish I could but most of my collection is in store. I only have the few out at the moment that I used for photos.

I will see if I can get something sorted at the weekend.

 

Great pics, thanks for sharing!

 

I had no clue this was out yet! Wait you're in the uk.. Maybe the us release isn't till later. I'll be sad if that's true  

 

Updated with shots of the instructions.

 

Super-duper awesome shots!

 

I got him today too, he is really, really awesome.
Big, heavy, feels worth the price and all the little parts Sam can interact with are great.

The Sam figure has nice articulation for such a small figure, and it actually looks just like Shia.

Yes you will have to put up with seats stuck to the underneath of Bumblebee's arms but that's the whole point of Human Alliance.

If this HA Bumblebee is anything to go by then Sideswipe, Skids and Barricade are going to be great.

 

So Sam is minicon sized? Neat.

 

Do those seats on the arms get in the way at all?

I really like it, should be able to get one by the end of the week either from Argos or tru.

 

The seats are okay, they only really get in the way if you plan on pushing his arms way back.

Overall he has a ton of articulation.

The only thing I can see pissing people off is the chest pieces that you angle, they are on springs and you pull them out and then angle them. They're very easy to knock and then they snap back in and you have to pull them out again.