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Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:09 pm

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Transformers-G2-Bugb ... 255eaab75e

Hi. Was wondering if anyone's seen this before?

Is it a KO?

News Credits: 1 · Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:12 pm

He was an e-Hobby exclusive from 2004: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bugbite#Generation_1

Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:14 pm

I know but I thought that version was a repaint of the anime face Bumblebee.

News Credits: 241 · Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:20 pm

Yep, it's a KO... Although, lemme check my lists. *digs*

Yep, it's a KO all right. I left open the possibility of a South American variety with a reprolabel, but no dice. Report him I say!

Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:25 pm

Well i have to say I'm tempted to buy it. I love KO's and I have the South American red Bumblebee and green and white Cliffjumpers.

I want to get the blue Bumblebee he has too. Been wanting Glyph for a while but this will do. More nostalgic with the blue one cos when I was a kid, our first car was a blue Beetle.

Plus you ever see the Diaclone Bugbite on Ebay and I'd imagine he'd be annoyingly overpriced like most of the exclusives.

Slag it, I've just convinced myself.

Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:33 pm

And......they're bought.

Huzzah!

News Credits: 241 · Thu Nov 04, 2010 4:34 pm

Windsweeper wrote:Well i have to say I'm tempted to buy it. I love KO's and I have the South American red Bumblebee and green and white Cliffjumpers.

I want to get the blue Bumblebee he has too. Been wanting Glyph for a while but this will do. More nostalgic with the blue one cos when I was a kid, our first car was a blue Beetle.

Plus you ever see the Diaclone Bugbite on Ebay and I'd imagine he'd be annoyingly overpriced like most of the exclusives.

Slag it, I've just convinced myself.

Diaclone Bugbite? Bumblebee was released in the Microman line in red, yellow and blue only. There's a plethora of other color varieties in other lines though

Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:07 pm

Since he wasn't available in G1, I just said Diaclone to emphasise that I wasn't talking about the Classics Bumblebee repaint of Bugbite just the repaint of the Diaclone Bumblebee mold.

I know there's no actual Diaclone Bugbite.

It's nice that a close KO can allow you an incarnation of rarer more expensive characters albeit unofficial.

Pity you can't get a green one for an unofficial G1 Wasp. Ah well, getting a friend to repaint Keyring Bumblebee in Wasp colours.

Fri Nov 05, 2010 1:49 am

Windsweeper wrote:Since he wasn't available in G1, I just said Diaclone to emphasise that I wasn't talking about the Classics Bumblebee repaint of Bugbite just the repaint of the Diaclone Bumblebee mold.

I know there's no actual Diaclone Bugbite.

It's nice that a close KO can allow you an incarnation of rarer more expensive characters albeit unofficial.

Pity you can't get a green one for an unofficial G1 Wasp. Ah well, getting a friend to repaint Keyring Bumblebee in Wasp colours.

I think his point is there NEVER was a Diaclone Bumblebee.

Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Windcharger, etc came from the Microman line, along with Soundwave and Megatron. They weren't supposed to be transforming 'real' cars, they were supposed to be transforming Penny Racers.