With the Bumblebee Movie Prequel #1 out last week, artist Andrew Griffith has shared his Bumblebee sketches for this comic via his Twitter.
This prequel brings us Bumblebee during the 1960s-era in London. He’s been recruited for a mission by MI6. All packed in a nice retro-spy-movie style. Andrew Griffith’s sketches let us see the complete robot mode with a close up of the head. The alt mode for this story is a very nice and original blend of a Karmann Bhia with an Aston Martin, as Andrew confirmed on a response to another tweet.
You can check out the mirrored images after the jump and then chime in your impressions on the 2005 Boards!
DerVernichter
Huh, so you prefer Figuerola's pseudo-bayformer faces over Milne's more traditional ones? I'd say that's a rare bird, but I respect your preferences.
spikebuster
No!
DerVernichter
Looks Great save for the face. Would love to see Milne give it the same treatment he gave to Figuerola's "ongoing" designs.
Digger
Some pops are alright. Namely the ones where you don’t see the eyes. Storm troopers, power rangers and garnet come to my mind.
Crim
Us Americans don't understand "kawaii." Just look at those disturbing Pop Vinyl dolls and Japan's Nandroid figures.
Digger
At least Travis Knight is fixing it.
MrNiceGuy
Yeah but the cute kid-appeal bot is literally the one bot you should keep the creepy face from.
Bizarre how bulbous round eyes can flip-flop between cute and unsettling.
Digger
That’s pretty much every movie face except the new bumblebee. What do you think happened to the fallen’s face?
MrNiceGuy
Not gonna lie. That face is scary.
He looks like he wants to eat you.
Digger
Oh yeah I forgot about that! And it did look stupid!
Crim
The toy didn't, it's like a visor thing and looked stupid.
Digger
What do you mean giving him eyes? He’s always had eyes.
Aimless Misfire
DON'T FUCK WITH WHEELJACK'S FACE!!! It's bad enough the cartoon screwed him up by adding eyes.
bellpeppers
I dig these
dragon
Here we go again people complain this bumblebee have face but not in movies people are complaining about transformers cyberverse grimlock and wheel jack having mouths you want g1 stick cartoons that have no logic.,
You want realism with new direction stick with movies transformers energon and cybertron went in new direction with ironhide toy and Optimus prime no complaints from picky people giant alien robots never had contact with humans on home planet out in space not all aliens have human faces shockwave have no mouth, sound wave have no mouth, g1 grimlock have no mouth where your stupid complaints about those characters not having human faces.
Not all aliens have to look humanoid body and face that’s what make them aliens, alien queen from aliens, PREDATORS, abyss aliens, you want aliens that look humanoid stick with alien nation and g1 comics and cartoons.,
If you can not except change movies had made new transformers fans of people who do not read comics who do not watch cartoons buy toys stick with g1 stuff no one forces you watch movies and movie trailers buy toys from movie series movies made people into new fans by cartoons not comics things change be happy transformers is popular again that comics and cartoons could never ever do with new transformers fans of fans had there way with movies live action movies will be cartoon looking bots same size same as cartoon series
extremely annoying complaint about same stupid stuff all time that’s not important ironhide cybertron toy no one complained
Paok
Very cool design! Just nitpicking: I totally get why the combination of sort-of live action style eyes with a more humanoid face may put people off. It kinda looks like he'd always look dumbfounded. If they try something like this in the future for live action, I hope for a middle ground were the eyes may be shaped like the ruby shape they had in G1 on the outside, which take less space on the overall face design, but kind of transparent, so that on close ups, they could have the sort of camera lens kind of style of the movies as a pupil. Wouldn't that be interesting? I don't think we've had this approach before.
Timothy.R
A face!
Bummer. That’s still one the absolute worst decisions (of many) that was made for the ‘07 movie. What a joke.
Wh33ls
Works for MI6, eh? I guess when people look at that awful yellow colored Aston Martin, they say "No way in hell someone in the spy business would be stupid enough to drive a bright yellow target of a vehicle?!" That's one way to hide in plain sight, completely incognito.
Deadend
Really kind of hoping they do a retool of the BB vw version with this concept art face style.
Do gotta admit that this kind of "re-shell" isn't a bad idea for a Nu-Movie version of Prowl/Smokescreen/Silverstreak. I wouldn't be that adverse to them making a "concept toyline" appearance in Studio series or similar using a re-shell of BB's VW or this for them. Oddly works really well recolored and with a new head for them. Might be something to look into later.
Really not much different than how we got thundercracker or other Movie G1 style bots like Red Sideswipe with the new head, or Wheeljack.