Amazon has updated their page for the 2019 Transformers: Bumblebee Wall Calendar with brand new promo art.
The art not only features Bumblebee but also Decepticon Dropkick. It is interesting to note that Dropkick does not display any vehicle kibble for a Bell AH-1 SuperCobra helicopter and only sport those of an AMC Javelin. The new art gives us a very close look at the blue Decepticon who seems to be carrying guns inside his doorwings.
Bumblebee’s Autobot codename B-127 is also prominently displayed along with the codename (N.B.E 2) given to him by Sector 7.
You can check out all the images, after the jump.
Blunderzag
I had a feeling about that too
Deadend
NBE = Non biological entity. Not MBE.
It's not a reboot. It's a prequel. It's a reboot in tone because it's before all the events of other movies. They've been telling us that from Day 1. The script pitch literally came out of the same writer's room as TLK, but Akiva wrote TLK, and Christina Hodson wrote Bumblebee. Bay directed TLK, and Travis Knight directed Bumblebee. The trailers and advertising have even been saying "Where bumblebee's adventure began." John Cena's character was outright stated to be a Sector 7 agent too.
Though whether or not it may have an end credits stinger or otherwise classic throwback ending is anyone's guess. But we'll have to wait and see when the movie is released how much is changed or not from the movie universe. That was the point in setting the movie 20 years before TF2007. It leaves room to tell stories to build up to that point.
Megatron being NBE-1 has become borderline a lore staple overall though. Same as how his removing Bumblebee's voice box is now. So much of the lore is likely going to contain similar Animated/TF2007 implementations in different ways. Speaking of, kind of makes you wonder why in Cyberverse the only times we hear of Megatron have been in flashbacks too. Even the modern seekers on earth haven't mentioned reporting in to him.
Blunderzag
That's all well known, but that's not what I was talking about. If bee is MBE2 then that means Megatron is frozen on earth as MBE1. Which makes a reboot come into question
User_136440
Yeah, and you can see where there's a wheel rather than the jet turbines on the shoulders.
I don't think that's what Blunderzag meant. He was saying that the fact they're Sector 7 are in the movie and they're still using NBE2 to refer to him makes the movie less of a soft reboot (I'm not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing with that) due to the obvious connections to the first movie. Nothing to do with what his actual name is.
Deadend
NBE 2 is what S7 calls him. It stands for "Non-biological entity 2" as in the second one they know of on Earth(Megatron is NBE 1, also referred to as "The iceman" because of him being sealed in ice/frozen). It has never been Bee's name. B-127 is his actual name, like a production code for machines, where Bumblebee is his codename/nickname. Like how Animated covered this aspect of where Autobots get their second name in the academy to become named what we know them as. It's the difference between a birth name and the name your friends call you, or a gaming handle, or military call sign etc.
Prime referring to Bee by his original name is much like a parent referring to a child by their "proper name." Which in a way also relates back to that kind of parental dynamic and proper persona Prime has.
maurice
Next is the yellow Bumblebee tooth paste
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MattDallas
I'd have loved it if it had actual scenes from the film for pictures instead of the usual promo artwork. There are some wonderful scenes that would make beautiful calendar pictures in the trailer alone such as when BB & Charlie are looking at the bridge, the sunset type poster picture, Charlie with BB as the beetle to name a few…
dragon
I know it’s bumblebee movie but put new characters in calendar to much bumblebee blitz wing , soundwave, prime, barricade, the other triple changer decpticons names I care less if I remember that hunt after bumblebee in movie
Hadlen_Weltall
At least this confirms his name was \"B-127\" according to that International Trailer.
Robogeek28
Mostly just Bumblebee pictured…
Too bad they didn't throw a few different characters in there…
TheSoundwave
I think I might prefer Dropkick's non-triple changer design a bit better than the version with helicopter parts. But I think both look great, I just kind of wish his helicopter form had more of the front of the car visible.
Nocturne
It's a nice calender but more of an effort could've been made to include the other characters.
Blunderzag
Based off of \"NBE 2\"I think this soft reboot might come onto more question, I mean I suppose it should have considering sector 7 is in it
Onilink
Maybe it's the same idea for Blitzwing too
Applejacktimus
Maybe this is based off early concept art like Bumble's doorwings but Hasbro doesn't care as much as they did with him to correct him?
David Hingtgen
Bay-style Decepticon symbol—-I thought they were doing the original versions now for this movie?
User_136440
Apparently
I think that's why some of the promo stuff for both of them doesn't have any noticeable aircraft kibble, and if you look at Shatter's figures so far, the jet versions have faux kibble from both vehicles while the car version (and Dropkick's car version) only has faux car kibble.
harrismonkey
I find it very interesting that there is no sign of him being a triple changer here. As someone pointed out, the copter toy exists, so something was planned. Initially it seemed like Hasbro just couldn't execute the toys and gave a lazy effort. Now I'm wondering if something else happened to late for them to redesign (like Bee's wings).