Happy New Year everyone! While everyone is recuperating and celebrating the new year we are sharing out a gallery for one of the last Masterpiece releases of 2019 – MP-45 Masterpiece Bumblebee 2.0. A lot of the fandom is torn on this little guy, some digging him and some thinking he wasn’t necessary in the grand scheme of things since the original was good enough. Version 2.0 focuses on the animation look in both modes, capturing his overall proportions and look as seen in the original G1 cartoon. He comes packed with a pistol, laser effect, I Heart NY license plate, 2 additional faces and a Spike Witwicky articulated figure similar to the one that came with MP-44, but without the hard hat. He has a wide range of articulation and movement allowing for two handed gun aiming and dynamic posing.
My initial reaction was that he, and MP-44, were unnecessary. MP-44 in hand changed my mind. I handled an early copy of this guy, and wasn’t impressed due to some floppy joints and tabbing. But the retail edition featured here tightened things up and he wound up being fun to mess around with. The vehicle mode is really sharp if you are into the toon look, and that’s where he’s staying on the shelves. Bottom line, as with a lot of the recent MP releases – if you dig the toon look, he’s worth a pick up. If you prefer your MP to be toy influenced, then sticking with V1 is the way to go.
Check out over 55 HD images of Beezy at the link below courtesy of TFSource! He’s in stock and shipping now.
Masterpiece Releases: MP-45 Bumblebee, MP-44 Optimus Prime v3, MP BW Black Arachnia, MP Hound, MP Anime Bluestreak, MP Anime Smokescreen, Masterpiece Pre-Orders.
Fafnir72
Slow day indeed! Last time I mentioned measurements, I attracted a mob of raging
They might be asleep in daylight though 
(wait for it…………better arm myself with Ag and garlic
)
mrspingly
I'm really not sure how many ways I can say that the size of the gap isn't what I've been talking about. Ho hum.
Throway
That gap has to be like 1 atom wide
mrspingly
Oh, there are certainly far worse gaps! The rear lights in alt mode, the backpack in bot mode. They're much more ugly, but they're result of deeper or more complicated design issues.
The gap I mentioned annoys me more because it's completely avoidable. If the panel were curved then it would look fine whether held snugly against the wheel arch or at a distance, as the gap would be a matching curve that would look okay.
It's the unnecessariness of the little gap that's the problem!
Blingotron
I keep kicking myself that I passed on the official and KO. I even balked at the KO being 60 something bucks and here we are….
Liampope
Well if that tiny gap that you literally have to search for or be aware of in advance to even notice bugs you more than some of the other uncloseable gaps around the alt mode <cough…rear lights…cough> I just dont know!
Fully agree with you though – why is that panel even shaped like that in the first place?
jackisking
Everytime this thread gets bumped, I keep hoping its because someone has gotten a link for a PO
mrspingly
That picture shows the same angle and gap that annoys me on mine. Whether it's almost impertceptible isn't my point.
My grumble was that the front edge could surely have been curved like the back edge to make it not be there at all.
Liampope
But when the parts are slotted together fully, the fender overlaps the door slightly so that gap due to the odd cut of the door is almost imperceptible…
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AshDOG
Been looking for a Bumblebee but no one has it. Hoping for a reissue one day… Optimus is missing his buddy.
mrspingly
That's not the problem. The rear of the door follows the curve of the wheel arch. The front of the door doesn't, as it has an angle in it.
Liampope
Just looks like your door and fender pieces aren't clipped together fully.
marioxb
I'd like someone to make him shorter, MP21 height, actually.
There was a KO on Amazon as of yesterday for $140, but I guess it's gone now.
Subotnik
It wouldn’t be an official TF without a few gaps.
jimmyh
I wish someone would do a knockoff. Or reissue of the knockoff that was already done. I would love to get one and do a backpackdectomy on it. And maybe clean up his feet too.
mrspingly
More playing with Bee.
Why does the door piece have an angle here, rather than being a curve like on the back wheel arch? It leaves a silly gap!
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Throway
The need a reissue gang
Jdk504
Bees's yellow is beautifully done. Still annoyed they didn't give him the blue tint. I'm a purist but I had to add it to my copy.
In my review of Prime these guys are under heavy lighting too, not sure what Emgo did. Maybe WB is off or PP preference?
Some screengrabs from my review.
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4249david
Yep. That strong white light stuff I expect
mrspingly
I've been playing with Bee again today. He's definitely a better yellow than v1:
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But what's going on compared to Emgo's video? Does Emgo have extreme lighting of some sort?
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"Help! I'm covered in bees!"
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