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How many types of bumblebee's are made?

Posted by bran10 Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:10 am

Posted by Bed Bugs Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:40 am

Motto: "The Bigger The Buffet, The Better!"

Weapon: Black Magic

Aren't there 2 FAB's? 1 of classic camaro, 1 of concept?

Also need to include Robot Replicas Bumblebee, Lawson Exclusive Gold Bumblebee, Takara Bumblebee (with clear windows), Exclusive Movie Scene Bumblebee (with grey robot parts), Exclusive Movie Scene Bumblebee (with no legs being towed by Longarm), Bumblebee Unleashed (Statue), Cyber Stompin Bumblebee, Beatmix Bumblebee, Ultimate Bumblebee, Cybertron Legends Bumblebee (Hotshot repaint), Pretenders Bumblebee.

If I can think of more, I'll post them.

Botcon: The Legacy Collection

Posted by bran10 Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:44 am

Posted by Bumbled Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:34 am

Posted by Auto Bot Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:03 am

Posted by MegaDave Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:09 am

Weapon: Turret Gun

Posted by DREWCIFER Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:57 am

The G1 mould has many incarnations, see sig (I currently have seven).

G1 mould:
Yellow, red, yellow anime accurate face, white "Bugbite", Volks for Antex is Red and Orange, Volks for Estrela is yellow, silver, orange, and red. Also Black for the recent Keychain line, and Glyph, a Botcon exclusive, the first female version.

G2 mould:
Gold

That's all I know for that mould. However, I think there are some Mexican and French variants also.

Posted by Auto Bot Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:04 am

Posted by DREWCIFER Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:12 am

Auto Bot wrote:Looks like Bumblebee has the most variation of toys.

I think so also. Cliffjumper would be a close second, but there is no G2 version of him. However, there's a G2 version of Hubcap that looks like CJ, almost.

Posted by Auto Bot Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:19 am

Posted by DREWCIFER Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:40 am

G1 CJ had a different mould.

These all look similar, however, are different:
BumbleBee, CliffJumper, Sedan/Bumblejumper/CliffBee, and Hubcap.

The arms all are the same as well as the undercarriage. However, all of the "bodies" are different.

BB is a Volkswagon Bug
CJ is a Porche 944 with a spoiler
BJ is a Toyota Famillia (I think)
HC is also a Porche 944 without a spoiler (I think)

And of course, all of the faces are different.

Posted by Auto Bot Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:48 am

Posted by DREWCIFER Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:57 am

It's a fan name.

In the microman line there was a robot that Hasbro didn't buy the rights to. However, Takara packaged it on Bumblebee cards as well as CLiffjumper cards.

Also, the South American companies were able to produce the character under the name "Sedan".

So since there is no original name for the character that was packaged with BB and CJ, it was given the fan name, "BumbleJumper", and some dude in Australia called it "CliffBee", and that one is used also.

In S. America, he's just "Sedan".

He's in my sig, 2nd row from Right, first back, Yellow with Black bumper.

That's why when I refer to him I say, Sedan/Bumblejumper/Cliffbee.

Posted by Auto Bot Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:05 am

Posted by DREWCIFER Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:47 am

Small bio:
http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/BumblejumperMOC.html

This is the only known artwork, it's from the Brazillian line by Estrala.

http://www.toyarchive.com/Transformers/Brazilian/SedanWhite.html

Great resource:
http://www.toyarchive.com/

Posted by DREWCIFER Thu Oct 04, 2007 12:50 pm

...and I forgot.

There is a blue BB in the Diaclone line.

So yeah, I think BB is the most used mould, ever, for a Transfomer toy.

Posted by Auto Bot Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:18 pm