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News Credits: 905 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:06 am

The alternity bumblee images has been surfaced

News Credits: 1452 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:25 am

The first images of Suzuki Swift Alternity Bumblebee have surfaced. So far the figure is to have two colors, Champion Yellow (Bumblebee), and Pearl Red (Cliffjumper). Bumblebee is the 3rd installment of the Alternity toyline from Takara. The previous two were Nissan GT-R Convoy and Nissan Fairlady Megatron.

For those wishing to obtain this figure, our friends at BigBadToyStore can help you out with preorders for both Champion Yellow and Pearl Red.

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News Credits: 7 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:29 am

Is it just me or does the bot mode look very disproportionate. The head sculpt looks good though.

News Credits: 217 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:34 am

What a piece of ****. This is an embarrassment to the other Alternities.

News Credits: 972 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:40 am

Seems a little lazy in comparison to Megatron...

Has a Classics Sunstreaker vibe to me.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 5:53 am

hmmm...looks okay i guess. he's a bit too short and fat even for a bumblebee...
bot mode reminds me of sunstreaker, while alt mode reminds me of ironhide.
guess it's better to wait for pics of the colored version.

News Credits: 4 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:02 am

very disappointing. crappy alt mode. cool head though. but the rest of him needs to be chunkier, especially the legs.... wouldve been better as a vw beetle

News Credits: 198 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:16 am

It's almost insulting that Takara and the vendors plan to charge 50 bucks for this turd. Definitely not for me.

Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:25 am

The conceptual art for him was an instant buy, this prototype is an easy pass.

That item is hardly worth the effort. It sort of shocks me that it has such care in its head, arms and legs only to be complete fail in the torso department. I'm hoping there's some for of mechanism in play that allows the chest to slide in a bit, or something similar. If not, then the bulging chest that sticks out rediculously far was very played down in the concept image.

It's simply stopped stroking me.

News Credits: 129 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:28 am

Pre-order canceled!

What a F'n ugly sack of ****.

Wow. #-o

News Credits: 2 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:39 am

I like the alt mode since it evokes a Bumblebee flavour. VW Beetle, minis, hatchbacks, superminis, etc. all look "right" as BB alt modes to me. Compact cars are the way to go for BB in my opinion.

The robot mode, hmm, very chunky torso while the limbs are relatively scrawny. That's my main issue. It's unbalanced in robot mode. I like the design of the limbs, though, so if I were in charge of designing it, I'd say find a way to alter the torso rather than the limbs.

I like the head sculpt. It's an update to the traditional G1 hornhead design, which I like.

Admittedly, the concept art does show a rotund figure but these photos show a chunkier body. Wow, if only it wasn't so big in the torso, I'd buy this. I like but am in no way a big fan of the other Alternity figures and BB was the first one I was considering buying since his alt mode reminds me of a more traditional alt mode for the character.

News Credits: 226 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:42 am

Has to be mis-transformed. Can't see TT putting out something that looks nothing more than a re-shelling of a BT.

Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:47 am

burn you beat me to it #-o

I think it is miss transformed. look at the chest, it looks like the roof is supposed to flip over

if not then, either way its a pass

Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:49 am

Too cartoonish...

News Credits: 5 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:59 am

Could it be that they have his head, arms and legs facing his back, so we don't see the actual front, jus the back with the limbs backward? If not, that is epic, epic fail.

News Credits: 5 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:10 am

In the interests of the Children and Kids that browse here..

What a crappy, craptastic crapola piece of junk!

Uhhh.... I think... I think I'm gonna be sick....

Hmmmprghphhh!!!

Fri Aug 07, 2009 8:58 am

Bumblebee smoked too much pot with spike as a minibot.

News Credits: 2 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:02 am

Technically weird wrote:Bumblebee smoked too much pot with spike as a minibot.

He got the energon munchies and now he's as wide as Optimus.

News Credits: 3 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:14 am

I'm hopeful some color or some fiddling with the transformation improves the look of this thing greatly...as of now, I think I'm with the "yikes!" crowd.

News Credits: 11 · Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:58 am

Convotron wrote:
Technically weird wrote:Bumblebee smoked too much pot with spike as a minibot.

He got the energon munchies and now he's as wide as Optimus.

lol

Counterpunch wrote:Pre-order canceled!

What a F'n ugly sack of ****.

Wow.

When it even draws your ire, there's something wrong. :lol:

Yeah, so far it doesn't look good, but I'll wait to see some color pics before making my final judgement.

Even if the lower torso extends more so you can see his hip armor under it would be a major improvement. He's just too short and fat.