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Sabrblade wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:Did Drift show his helicopter mode in TLK?

It was the only thing he was shown transforming into onscreen. His Bugatti altmode would only just appear already transformed.

You're thinking of AoE, Sabr. Drift was a Mercedes-AMG GT R in TLK. I don't recall him using a copter mode in TLK, but then again, it was a slog just getting through that movie, so my attention definitely waned at points.

Sabrblade wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:Did Drift show his helicopter mode in TLK?

It was the only thing he was shown transforming into onscreen. His Bugatti altmode would only just appear already transformed.

In TLK?

Lunatic, I think he dropped the helicopter mode in TLK.

Yeah, I thought he wrote "AOE".

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Finally some pictures of him where he's posed well! He looks really good - I dig the ankle tilts. Can't wait to get him!

I'm glad they made him smaller too, it helps keep the scale consistent.

Consistent to what? Its not like he ever has to fight ROTF Megatron.

Well, he’s shorter in the new movie than he is in the others, so making him shorter will help him scale better with guys like Dropkick who are deluxes but are presumably bigger than Bee.

But then they could simply make dropkick bigger to scale better with a decently sized bumblebee toy.

I really see no reason for Bee to be so much smaller here.

Yeah, I still think Dropkick should be a bit bigger considering he turns into a cobra helicopter, but making VW Bee shorter than 76 Camaro Bee is screen accurate, so I’m ok with it.

How is it screen accurate if Bumblebee never shares a scene with himself in Camaro mode?

Sabrblade wrote:

Lunatic Prime wrote:Did Drift show his helicopter mode in TLK?

It was the only thing he was shown transforming into onscreen. His Bugatti altmode would only just appear already transformed.

I asked for The Last Knight, not Age of Extinction.

That is a great looking Bumblebee! He's adorable. And I love the facemask, mine will totally be wearing his

Loving this VW Bumblebee, I personally love that he’s so small

I really hope we get a Voyager Blitzwing later in the line, and Shatter to go with Dropkick

Something I’ve been thinking about is the new Voyager Optimus listed with Bonecrusher, Is anyone else thinking it could be the new G1 style movie Optimus from Bumblebee (new design, not the leader sized one from Takara)

william-james88 wrote:How is it screen accurate if Bumblebee never shares a scene with himself in Camaro mode?

The entire Studio Series line, short of Grimlock, is set to Hasbro's imaginary 1/whatever scale and all of the figures are scaled to it. It doesn't matter if VW Bee doesn't appear next to other characters from the other movies, he's still expected to abide by that same scale. If this were just a standard movie line then you're right, there's no reason for one to be smaller than the other, but in a line where bot scale is important VW Bee is going to be shorter than Camaro Bee just like they would be should they be standing next to each other in the movie. The scale works across all movies, not just contained within each movie.

I'd wager if they hadn't made this figure smaller then there's be just as many sticklers complaining about the figure being too big than there are complaining about it being too small now.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:How is it screen accurate if Bumblebee never shares a scene with himself in Camaro mode?

The entire Studio Series line, short of Grimlock, is set to Hasbro's imaginary 1/whatever scale and all of the figures are scaled to it. It doesn't matter if VW Bee doesn't appear next to other characters from the other movies, he's still expected to abide by that same scale. If this were just a standard movie line then you're right, there's no reason for one to be smaller than the other, but in a line where bot scale is important VW Bee is going to be shorter than Camaro Bee just like they would be should they be standing next to each other in the movie. The scale works across all movies, not just contained within each movie.

I'd wager if they hadn't made this figure smaller then there's be just as many sticklers complaining about the figure being too big than there are complaining about it being too small now.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:How is it screen accurate if Bumblebee never shares a scene with himself in Camaro mode?

The entire Studio Series line, short of Grimlock, is set to Hasbro's imaginary 1/whatever scale and all of the figures are scaled to it. It doesn't matter if VW Bee doesn't appear next to other characters from the other movies, he's still expected to abide by that same scale. If this were just a standard movie line then you're right, there's no reason for one to be smaller than the other, but in a line where bot scale is important VW Bee is going to be shorter than Camaro Bee just like they would be should they be standing next to each other in the movie. The scale works across all movies, not just contained within each movie.

I'd wager if they hadn't made this figure smaller then there's be just as many sticklers complaining about the figure being too big than there are complaining about it being too small now.

Emerje

That scale is nonsense.

Bumblebee should be much smaller than that then, Carly (or whatever) is half his size and she is a teenage girl.



So shouldnt voyager Optimus from wave 1 be bigger then?

If its all bogus and the characters dont interact with oneanother, then just give us a decently sized BB rather than a halfway legends class toy at deluxe pricing.

If it's a scale hasbro are keen to sticking to, there's not a lot we can do (apart from not buying the figure, but even then hasbro could misinterpret the reasons people didn't buy it...especially if people have been praising them for the scale). It would be next to impossible to get a proper movie scale in place and have them fit nicely into hasbros pricing scales.

william-james88 wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Finally some pictures of him where he's posed well! He looks really good - I dig the ankle tilts. Can't wait to get him!

I'm glad they made him smaller too, it helps keep the scale consistent.

Consistent to what? Its not like he ever has to fight ROTF Megatron.

Well, he’s shorter in the new movie than he is in the others, so making him shorter will help him scale better with guys like Dropkick who are deluxes but are presumably bigger than Bee.

But then they could simply make dropkick bigger to scale better with a decently sized bumblebee toy.

I really see no reason for Bee to be so much smaller here.

Because they want the scale to be consistent across the line, so that even if characters have never interacted with each other (like, say, Starscream and Lockdown), they can be in-scale with each other.

Jeddostotle7 wrote:
Because they want the scale to be consistent across the line, so that even if characters have never interacted with each other (like, say, Starscream and Lockdown), they can be in-scale with each other.

Exactly. I don't see what's so hard to understand about it. Studio Series is an all-movie line trying to get a consistent scale (more or less... I still say Grimlock is far too small but I understand why he's that way for pratical and cost reasons and he's still the largest figure of the line) throughout and if i want to have (as mentioned earlier) VW Bee vs RotF Megatron, I can do that and have it not look ridiculous. No chance of any silliness like for example in the 2007 line where you had a Deluxe Arcee turn into a motorcycle that was faaaar too large to display with, say, Voyager Blackout's helicopter mode. Technically Arcee wasn't in the film but they still wanted you to buy the toy as part of that movie's line (and is the only 2007 figure I still have apart from a custom painted concept camaro Bee) and I love it's design so much but it's got no chance of displaying with my Studio figures cos it's gigantic in comparison to the overall Studio scale (GI Joe figures can sit on her bike form and they're not a huge deal smaller than Studio Jazz).

Speaking of Jazz, I had a go at moving his spoiler in robot mode to behind his head like I saw on a TFW2005 thread and i like it (need to clean up some of the filing) but yeah.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Speaking of Jazz, I had a go at moving his spoiler in robot mode to behind his head like I saw on a TFW2005 thread and i like it

Hey, that's my mod, glad you like it.
(I posted it here too.) Try coloring the arm that holds the wing section black, helps hide it.

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Speaking of Jazz, I had a go at moving his spoiler in robot mode to behind his head like I saw on a TFW2005 thread and i like it

Hey, that's my mod, glad you like it.
(I posted it here too.) Try coloring the arm that holds the wing section black, helps hide it.

Oh hey! Yeah i may colour that black too then. And yes thanks very much for the inspiration. I did link the tfw2005 thread on my twitter post about it but i wasn't sure here cos i thought there some rivalry between the two sites or something. I found that one when googling for Studio Series mods. I do it with most Transformers and even some other action figures, just looking for those cool little improvements thought up by smart folk like you. I go find the seibertron thread for it and post there now. Thanks again.


and back on topic i really do want that VW Bee. Like now.

william-james88 wrote:I really see no reason for Bee to be so much smaller here.

Because from the material we've seen so far, he is smaller here?

Following their reveal at SDCC we've got some brand new pictures, and eBay listings of Studio Series Dropkick and KSI Sentry!

Dropkick is from the forthcoming Bumblebee movie and is one of two main Decepticons in the film, and while in it he's a triple changer, going from a helicopter to a muscle car, here he's just a helicopter.









KSI Sentry is supposed to represent a generic KSI made transformer featured in the Age of Extinction. While there is no direct match in the movie, this is a redeco of Stinger, the red Bumblebee-like bot from the same film.









The eBay user who has listed both of these seems to have a limited quantity available but they should be hitting retail soon enough.

Are you looking forward to these new additions to the Studio Series line? Let us know in the comments below and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.

Yeah, I like Sentry even if just mostly a red Stinger (which i like anyways). Dropkick looks a bit boring to me. A lil too much a bunch of rectangles in robot mode. He's one I think I'd need to see in store to know if I want to buy.

They have VW Bee too. https://www.ebay.com/itm/401579208595 11 sold, 1 left

I'll skip Sentry until he's at discount. Dropkick can wait because I want to focus on Jazz, Lockdown, and Ironhide.

ordered me a VW Bumblebee from this seller for £33.99. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153137510610
Yeeeah about £10 more than the shop price will be but I didn't get any Transformers for my birthday last Sunday and still waiting for my Ironhide pre-order from Kapow (whenever that officially comes out) so screw it. There ain't a whole lot other toys (or anything at all) catching my interest at moment anyways. I paid £30 for (sorta) early Lockdown and Jazz and was very happy with those. The others in this wave I'll wait til they in stores or discounted or whatevers.

Nice! You'll have to share pictures when you get it

Is Dropkick a new mold?.... I don't recall seeing this mode before.

NTESHFT wrote:Is Dropkick a new mold?....

Absolutely.