Hasbro’s official Transformers social media page for Russia has revealed what may be the biggest Bumblebee yet.
While we do not have any info regarding this giant Cyberverse Bumblebee, his overall look and transformation mechanic seems to be a retool of Transformers: Robots In Disguise Super Bumblebee (comparison pic attached with this news post). His legs are reused from Super Bumblebee while omitting out the black paint.
Very much like Super Bumblebee, this figure is also a 3-Step changer.
The chest once again contains the speaker for audio bites.
You can check out the images, after the jump.
Datsun87
That thing looks amazing, I can only imagine how happy the children will be when they burst it open and all of the candy falls out.
WishfulThinking
I bought an opened one (RiD version) from TRU for $5. It's fun for 5 minutes in all of its goofy glory. Then I sold it pretty much for what I paid for it.
megatroptimus
They actually sold out in all the TRU stores I went here in Quebec, never seen one on clearance.
RodimusSupreme
Then they need to stop making obvious crap like this and make something worthwhile for a child. This thing has size, and that's it. It's truly hollow, and has nothing interesting about it to make it fun for a kid.
Now watch Hasbro produce millions of these things and they take up almost the entire shelf, and thus nothing else gets stocked.
I only ever see those things shelfwarm and go on clearance. One Toys'R'Us selling them OK-ish isn't enough to prove they sell well enough to justify making them. And then we get to the fact that Toys'R'Us went under…
(Yes, I understand the main reason they went under. But their own business practices didn't help them at all).
megatroptimus
Some people must be buying them because I've never seen one on clearance. My TRU stocked them like 2-3 times and they sold out every time. They probably buy them for the same reason people buy those gigantic 2-3' tall Star Wars or Power Rangers figures.
Soundwavelover2004
I love more my car robo hes more posable he got finger articulation and ankle tilts8
evilwithin
I don't know. When I was a little child, I wasn't interested in posability, or complex transformation, so I get the point of different targets.
But I hated cheap, light, bare and hollow plastic. It was enough to hate a toy.
When you're very young it is all about the feel and the look. Diaclone toys were heavy, chunky, full of paint, translucent bits, chrome, stickers. They felt rewarding.
And a good generations toy can be rewarding too, in a different way.
But this… This looks and feels like something from an Easter egg or a giant Happy meal.
Kids have different priorities but they can see cutting corners, they're not dumb.
But in the end this is just a one off, it's not like an entire line of these. That, that would be a problem LOL.
SilverOptimus
View attachment 28074661
iacon45
I don't plan on buying it but on the other hand, I'm not actually dissing this release either. As collectors, we get larger Titan Class figures so why can't kids have something along those same lines. I don't know if a price was announced yet but I hope the quality on this is better than on some of the other Cyberverse releases I have seen. Even kids deserve to have good quality in their TFs too.
Shin Densetsu
When I was younger than him I got G1 Jetfire. These days that Bumblebee is Hasbro's expectation of a kid having a great day. For me when I got my Jetfire,
it was a Tuesday.
I may think kids have it better than I did but this is not one of those cases at all. Nope, I don't envy that gigantic Bumblebee.
Michael Payton
When I can get this instead…? View attachment 28074458
Digger
Wait I know I’m ruining the joke but which ichigo?
fishpop
What a waste of plastic…
RodimusSupreme
So in other words, you have no reason to think it'll sell, and are just assuming?
Excuse me, not all of us are scalpers, and as far as I know, no one on these boards is a scalper. And most of us have standards. So try not lumping everyone into one big group.
TheWarPathGuy
Fantasy legion class figure.
panda prime productions
all this hate and yet you dumb idiots will scalp it off the shelfs
Liege Prime
This just reminds me of the giant Turtle and Star Wars figures they make that don't seem to sell.
ex dtw2003
I’m not sure I need to for a number of reasons not the least of which is it is not targeted to me, I don’t work in Hasbro marketing and aren’t privy to the numbers driving the decision to make it.
RodimusSupreme
Please explain how in the heck this could possibly sell, even to children?
KABAR432
the original pic gave me some Brent Rambo vibes so I decided to photoshop that.