Via 爆料人小明 Weibo we can share for you new promotional images of the upcoming Bumblebee Movie Soundwave (& Ravage) And Arcee Smart Kits (Model Kit) By Trumpeter.
These officially licensed easy-to-build model kits come pre-painted and they don’t need any glue and featuring a pretty good articulation range. Trumpeter have been slowly releasing their Bumblebee Movie model kits line up, already showing Bumblebee, Blitzwing and Cliffjumper. The images show that Soundwave will also include his partner Ravage and we can spot that Soundwave’s head is based on an early concept art. To top it all, we also have a new image of Arcee.
See the mirrored images after the jump and then sound off on the 2005 Board!
Soundlips
Have they put out a confirmed list of future bots besides the snippets we have seen here and there yet besides the bots we have already seen?
Wh33ls
Mmm, ok. Well at least I now know what I must do with my deluxe Hasbro Bee Arcee to make it better, and that is to smooth out her upper lip, so she doesn't have that double cleft lips going on.
BlackHawkOmega
No, there is no "prototype face". They both use what she looked like in the final movie, except that the Trumpeter model is smaller, so the face lines couldn't be replicated as visibly, and it has blue eyes, which is technically inaccurate.
Wh33ls
Ok, after seeing the higher res pics, I like her face alot more now. It's even better than the Hasbro deluxe figure. It looks like the Hasbro face was using the prototype face, and this model kit is using the finished movie face.
You can see it in this pic from Autobahn Jazz, there are separate groves running from her nose and joining into her mouth groves that makes it look weird, where as this kit has the smooth upper lip with no groves running from her nose. Which I now prefer over Hasbro's version.
Shmoptimus Prime
Yeah I would have gotten this but the deluxe looks so good and will probably be out soon.
fishpop
You had me at model kit!
GIMME!!!
Dark Starscream
Bombusbee
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Autobahn Jazz
This looks accurate for something legends class scale.
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BeanZilla
that arcee tho SHEEEEESH
BlackHawkOmega
And third, they're licensed products, which only Lego seems to be able to bypass at the moment.
SPLIT LIP
Well, no, they can't, one because they're too small and two because they're trying to be as screen-accurate as possible. (plus these were all designed before the SS figures made up alt modes for them)
ZapRowsdower
I like it, but…. they really could do some transformation here. Either switchable parts or actual transformation. In the old days, the lower price would make up for it; nowadays, ur just paying more to assemble this and have less features.
But hey, Im not a big fan of this BB Movie design anyway.
Requiem Prime
Cannot decide if the body is a tad bulky, the head is a tad small, or if it works fine. This could use a side by side with movie art.
Mad Prime
Figure looks nice. Do like the scale while Trumpeter had announced a larger scale which would go well with my Flame Toys Furai Models.
The Cliffjumper was announced earlier but haven't seen that one come out yet. Would be nice if Trumpeter would bring 3 a 4 figures per year, it look now like 1 per year.
Girl Pants
The kit looks pretty good but it's also done a great job of making me see just how good the deluxe is while still being able to transform (which I guess is pretty easy when you get to invent the alt mode).
I might nab this just for the fun of building, or might hold out for a redeco/remold.
Megastar
I see they kept Arcee thicc.
Wh33ls
The pic you used just makes my point, you can barely see those mech details on her face, but because of it being shunk down to this small, it just exaggerates those details to the extreme that it looks like her mouth and chin are cut off. I may have to either fill those lines or sand them down to barely visible, but I run the risk of unable to paint match the face.
Junkmech
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I mean to be fair, she does basically have that, just with like a strip over part of it. At the scale they keep making these figures, I think it's either have the detail but look slightly off or not have it at all – Neither is a perfect choice but when things are so small, it's one or the other. If the head was a little bit bigger it could have for detail and be more proportionate, but alas, c'est la vie.
Anyway, looks fine. Proportions remind me of the FT Wingblade in some ways, with the exaggerated hips and stuff. Shocked people aren't madder about her design, honestly.