Transformers Kabaya Block Wars New Images

Glarryg wrote:These new kits are awesome and I look forward to buying them. I do hope they make more and don't stop with just the "big four" TF characters.

Also, I long for the day when Bumblebee goes back to being a small car, in accordance with the original depiction of the character, rather than a muscle car. But, I dream...

Glarryg

Cobotron wrote:Are these Kabaya kits relatively east to obtain?

william-james88 wrote:

Glarryg wrote:These new kits are awesome and I look forward to buying them. I do hope they make more and don't stop with just the "big four" TF characters.

Thats not how these kits work, each set has a theme. The two before were Pirhanacon and transformers RID 2015. The next one will something else unrelated.

Cobotron wrote:mmmmmmmmmmm...gummmmmm.

Glarryg wrote:the other three "big four" characters don't deviate in their characterization as much as Bumblebee.

EDIT: That said, I'm still getting these someday.

Glarryg

Glarryg wrote:I get your point, but I'm talking about more than just alternate mode when I say "characterization." Megatron's typically been a destructive, power-mad tyrant, whether he's a large ordnance (tank) or a smaller one (gun). "Small car" Bumblebee's schtick is that he's a small guy who wishes he was a larger, more battle-ready Autobot, so to make up for that he uses the talents he does have (surveillance, endurance, terrain adaptability) to help the Autobots secretly get the upper hand, as told by his motto, "the least likely can be the most dangerous." "Muscle car" Bumblebee tends to be more of a stock warrior character, most often characterized by a lack of a voice. They didn't make him interesting until RID2015, when he was put into a leadership role despite his inexperience.

A staple of most Transformers fiction is that the alternate mode fits the character; Soundwave, for example, is usually either a recording device, a satellite, or a spy drone, because his schtick is keeping tabs on everything and everyone, and using information as his weapon. I see the two basic types of Bumblebees as very distinct character types, and I prefer the first one.

Glarryg