This is kind of a surprising release. La Nacion Colecciones Facebook (part of La Nacion newspaper in Argentina) has announced the release of an officially licensed DOTM Bumblebee Replica (38 cm tall) for the Argentinian Market.
According to the information shared by El Rincón del Coleccionista Argentino On Facebook it will be sold in a “collect & build” format. Starting this Friday April 26, the first of 30 parts will be released. Then, a new part will be available every 15 days. Each part will include pieces for the robot replica (a hand, one foot, head, chest, back, etc) plus a small book.
The replica is announced as an officially licensed Hasbro product and it will include die-cast parts and “several articulation points”. non-transformable.
First volume will have a promotional price of 99.90 Pesos Argentinos or $2.36. Second volume will be 199.90 Pesos or $4.71. The rest of the collection will be 299.90 Pesos or $7.07. In the end, it will cost not-so-economic $205.03, so we hope this figure is really great quality.
Check the promotional video below and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!
Berser Car
Sorry for the bump!
Due to fan demand, I have finished scanning all the booklets that come with the Bumblebee parts. This is the new link (to a google drive folder).
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Now that this thread is bumped, if anyone is interested, I can clean my Bumblebee (that I managed to assemble after some point during the quarantine when my sister and her family managed to slip past the border and bring me the rest of the parts I needed), and post some pictures, including comparisons to other figures.
dCon
I own the 3A DOTM Bumblebee and although it looks similar i'm willing to bet its not the same just based on same character at the same scale. The way it's built is gonna be completely different I hope the 3A Bumblebee isn't built very well at all. It wasn't til DOTM Prime til they even started to really get the hang of quality.
Is this one quality feel? Joints work well and doesn't feel like it gonna break? Like the 3A Bumblebee does.
Edit* It's hopefully a improved version of the licensed toy that they own mold of (& I'm guessing 3A doesn't anymore). Head seems slightly different but by same mold I meant internals.
Novaburnhilde
Eh, not bad not bad.
I'd be curious to compare 3A's Bee figure with this one.
BIGGUY007
Those striped areas are supposed to replicate Carbon Fiber.
Chaos Muffin
Looks great, dont care mych for the striped areas tho.
Would be nice to just buy the whole damn thing in a normal kit.
With minor differences, so the ones who went the long route still have their unique exclusive to show for doing it the harder way.
CobraKai
That is nice… Not a years worth of collecting non-transforming parts nice, but still very nice
ObakaChanTachi
It doesn't transform but wow. Fucking impressive. The commitment this would take is a worthy achievement in itself!
SouthtownKid
They're counting on that. They have a ton of these 'collectable magazine/piece of a model' things in Japan, and I always see the early parts but never the later parts. I think the company is counting on the idea that people will either cave and order a subscription or they'll just give up midway. There was one for a super-detailed, pretty huge Millennium Falcon that started coming out around the time of Episode 7, and I'd see new parts for it every month for a while, but then after a year and a half or so, it seemed like the bookstore stopped carrying them (although they carried plenty of new kits that had started in the time since) even though it was still very, very far from being completed. I calculated what the total cost of that one was going to be back when it came out, and I think it ended being more than a grand.
Black Convoy
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Black Convoy
Finally some in-hand images and a short video thanks to Marcelo De Piero Facebook
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Berser Car
Once I have all the parts and I can build it.
Black Convoy
Thanks for sharing! I hope you could share pictures of the finished model here too.
Berser Car
As all the parts are coming out, I started to build it. Some parts of the video were lost due to full camera memory.
From what I have seen:
The mold seems to be the exact same as the 3A Bumblebee. It just doesn't include the swappable arm, face, nor electronics. It has the empty spaces to add the electronics. Paint is simple. Doesn't have wash or anything similar.
Nowhere in the magazine, manual, envelope, or anything says 3A/Three A. It says Transformers, Hasbro, Paramount and Luppa.
The included screws are not always the right size. The screw that is supposed to hold the wheel to the wing is too short. Others are too long or thick so I cannot totally screw them, leading to loose joints and sections that don't close well. Will reassemble when I have the rest. I may include glue this time.
Berser Car
I just came back from my sister's city. It seems they are some issues behind compared to some places. So no, I haven't finished it yet, but I will be ordering the rest of the parts online now that they are already out somewhere.
Black Convoy
Hi there. It seems all the parts are sold now. We you able to complete it?
Berser Car
Update on this. It seems upcoming parts will be 450 pesos (around 7.87US$) each. That's what my sister, who is keeping these for me, told me. I asked her to continue buying despite the increase.
That reminds me I should take some pictures of the parts I already have to share here.
Berser Car
That's nice. I should start practicing my painting then.
Black Convoy
Curious info about this replica. Some members of A.C.T.A. Asociación Cultural Transformers Argentina noticed that this mold seems pretty similar, if not identical to the 3A DOTM Bumblebee figure, but with a less impressive paint.
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Black Convoy
Via A.C.T.A. Asociación Cultural Transformers Argentina, there are pictures of the first parts and book. It's the Left wing part 1.
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Bumblethumper
Hate the format, I could never make that kind of a long term commitment. Did it once many years ago as child for a dinosaur model. Towards the end, the magazine that came with the parts became harder to find, so there was the fear that it'd be cancelled and I'd be left with a very expensive unfinished model. If you somehow miss a month or it gets lost in the mail you're in trouble.
Looks great though. I have a weakness for diecast, and was a Bumblebee completist at one point (which became increasingly impossible, not to mention pointless over the past decade). I can live without it.