Hasbro designer Sam “King Samlock” Smith has just shared another “from screen to toy” post via his Instagram account. This time it’s turn of the new Transformers Studio Series SS-100 Rise Of The Beasts Deluxe Bumblebee.
Sam shared his comments and details about the development of this new Bumblebee incarnation from the latest Transformers live-action film. As usual, we also have renders and CAD video files for a complete view of the creative process of the mold which you can find after the jump.
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SS-100 TF7 Rise of the Beasts Bumblebee
“POWER IS PRIMAL”
What a perfect book end to the first one hundred studio series figures. Bumblebee’s debut as a 1977 Camaro from his appearance in the 2007 film being figure #001, and his modified off-road form of the 1977 Camaro in the 7th installment of the live action Transformers film for Rise of the Beasts being figure #100.
Despite sharing some visual similarities to the Camaro form factor, this release is 100% new tooling. The figure does an incredible job of evolving the on screen bot from The Bumblebee Film into an off-road capable, rollbar heavy, winch ready, over-fender wearing juggernaut the blazed an unbeaten path with Cheetor by his side.
Built by the legendary team at @hendrickperformance , this practical vehicle is absolutely insane. Every detail of this build was precision crafted to bring the conceptual car design to life.
Ittoku Kuwazu was such a wonderful design partner to have on this item, and did an amazing job of bringing this character to life. I tried to keep a good balance of paint on the vehicle mode, with some exciting color reveals as it was transformed into the robot mode. I tried to keep the rear of the vehicle as visually interesting as the front, with many of the new components shifting to the back of the Camaro, with additions of the rear louver panel, spoiler and the blacked out tailgate. Despite being developed at the same time as the film, i find these ROTB figures to be incredibly successful at replicating their on screen designs. Though I might have gone stripe heavy on this guy coming off of the Dark of the Moon deco.
NOTE: I won’t be sharing full Screen to Toy asset breakdowns prior to the films release out of respect to our studio partnerships.
What are your thoughts on ROTB Bumblebee? Are you amped to see him in the film? What was your reaction to the trailer? Let’s hear about it below
Purple Heart
If one person tells you one thing, and a whole bunch of other people tell you the other, occams razor points to the majority being right.
The reviewer is known for pulling shit out of his ass and making claims with no proof, such as claiming certain figures were from Studio Series even though that was widely known to not be true. Plus, guy acts like a jerk sometimes. There is no proof the altered version of Bumblebee is the Takara version, nor should it be taken as indication that future Takara releases will vary from the Hasbro versions again. Theres a massive leap in logic to believe all of that instead of the other alternate explanations others have provided which are much simpler and realistic. EI, that this is just a running change, or that this is the repaint the designers alluded to on their instagram.
TF Hot Rod
We shall see indeed, all I know is, I’m glad I waited on getting him.
wings
So for now without being bias (to be fair, neither PVP or Swoop has anything to do with this matter), we'll just have to wait and see. However, if the Takara version does have the modifications then I'll probably jump ship and start buying my figures from Takara and forget about Hasbro (even if it means a later release but more likely a better paint job).
TF Hot Rod
We shall see but a lot of the times these leakers just talk like they know things but they don't. Like PVP said Swoop was going to be a Voyager and we knew he wasn't going to be likely.
wings
So again, I have no idea who's info is 'more reliable'.
TF Hot Rod
Your good, honest question.
He doesn't but he has sources it seems. Most of these people on here that leak stuff just know people in there not that they work for Hasbro.
wings
My apology for not knowing much about any members here. I'm just curious, since you said that @Praxus has somewhat backed it up; does he/she work for Hasbro or something and is that what makes his/her info more reliable than the YouTuber? For the time being anyway, it sounds like (possible) speculation from everyone.
TF Hot Rod
Don’t have one but we know a pr is coming next wave and this has the same numbers as wave 1. Along with @Praxus has somewhat backed it up that it’s wave 3 also so hat appears more are coming like a Evolution Breakdown with some new paint apps.
NemesisJazz
Agreed. The takara version is scheduled to release in June at HLJ. At least Chefatron got info from his supplier (ie close to production). There is a possibility that this variant may actually be for BOTH.
Did your supplier verify this info?
wings
Never thought bringing up the YouTube video would become character attack on the YouTuber. Whether the info given by the Youtuber is right or wrong; I highly doubt it is intentional because I just don't see how the YouTuber would benefit from telling a lie about this. Was he misinform (maybe by his 'supplier'), perhaps. But making up random claim like this; it sounds unlikely (well, to me at least).
TF Hot Rod
Boy does he.
wings
Maybe, maybe not. It was his video and the info (repack for wave3) was from a tweet which is still based on his video so I'm not sure (unless I missed another post about this somewhere else). Again it's hard to tell for an outsider like myself.
Purple Heart
Chefatron is known for making stuff up.
wings
Oh, is that what it is. Perhaps it is but who knows; maybe they both are. It's just odd that he (Chefatron) kept referring it as the Takara Tomy version in his video. It's hard to say since none of these are supposed to be released yet.
TF Hot Rod
It not a Takara version, it’s a repack for wave 3 of SS.
wings
looking at this perhaps I should just skip all my future Hasbro purchases and get the Takara version instead even if it means I have to wait a tad longer for the release …
GokaigerSamurai7
Wasn't clear but yeah I get it.
VVa
Kind of what I was implying at the end of my post.