Via TransFans Facebook we have our first look at the gray Prototype of Zeta Toys Bumblebee Movie Blitzwing.
Zeta Toys bring us a very nice rendition of Blitzwing which seems to be in the right scale compared to Zeta’s Zeta-V ZV-01 Pioneer (VW Beetle Bumblebee). This means he’s considerably bigger than the first Zeta’s Bumblebee.
We can see the figure both in robot and jet mode from different angles, so you can spot all pros and cons of the mold at the moment. Keep in mind that this is an early prototype and several changes may be done in the final product. Click on the bar to see the mirrored images and then share your impressions about this mold on the 2005 Boards!
Ra88
I think the biggest problem for me is that the torso is just off. The cockpit sections are wayyyy too big. The wings not being the right shape don't help either. :/
Also holy shit some of the posters in this thread really need to take a chill pill
octobotimus
Added a poll cause why not.
Crim
Sweet, this thing transforms too. This will make a great movie style Starscream for me!
David Hingtgen
The more I look, the more I think alt-mode is a lost cause. The intakes are all wrong too, and I think the wing detailing is kind of like an F-4C/F-4F hybrid. Or maybe F-4EJ?
hthrun
Yeah, like Devastator (Brawl) in the first movie…
mx-01 archon
Hey, @David Hingtgen, we found your long-lost little brother.
Diamondback
Tailgroup needs major work (F-4 Phantom tailplanes come all the way to a point up front, and turn down at like 20 degrees) but a very good start.
Autobot Burnout
No, I think that if he could be blown up into a million pieces and that doesn't count as permadeath, then the entire concept of death with cybertronians and the war itself is trivial. Plus, the concept of life necessitates that by definition, there is a state of not-living, which is what the concept of "death" exists to be.
Except none of those things will happen because he was a throwaway character probably added late in production (the only time the seeker body type appears beyond Blitzwing, himself isolated to the beginning of the film, is exclusively in the Cybertron scenes which we also know were added very late in production due to the reboot direction change).
octobotimus
I'm pretty sure they dropped everything to do with AOE at this point so the storyline of Transformers being born from primus/allspark/whatever could be on the table.
I just think what they'll end up doing is simply ignore this blitzwing entirely and just make a new one appear.
piman
dead? you think he was born. He was made. he can be made again and upgrade to triple changer if the creator/director wants to.
knightmare6
Looks pretty nice!
Autobot Burnout
No, he's pretty dead. He blew up into a million pieces.
octobotimus
Call it dirge?
piman
i think it's possible that movie blitzwing comes back in the future movies and becomes a triple-changer with the tank mode. then you will buy that toy. what are you gonna do with this version of toy?
ian2800
This is a hard pass for me.