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News Credits: 42 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 4:41 pm

I just can't see this figure as anything but dead Jeep Bee.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 4:45 pm

Sabrblade wrote:You know, if it had been the Volkswagon version instead of the Jeep, that would have been the closest we've come to having a Herbie the Love Bug Transformer since the Donald Duck Transformer.

I would pay money for this.

News Credits: 101 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 4:48 pm

Why?

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 4:56 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:Why?

Because

TF-fan kev777 wrote:I just can't see this figure as anything but dead Jeep Bee.

Same

News Credits: 332 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:00 pm

Is there anything different or new with the figure? If the joints are a touch tighter I'd be down to double dip.

News Credits: 42 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:09 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Is there anything different or new with the figure? If the joints are a touch tighter I'd be down to double dip.

No, just a really dumb repaint with the running Sam figure thrown in. I mean they could have given it a generic head and called it KSI Grunt or KSI Lackey and I'd have snapped it up. But considering about 20% of studio series deluxes are Bee and his numerous repaints, I'm limiting myself to 1 Bee per mold.

Edit: Obviously we won't know about the joints until he starts shipping.

Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:11 pm

Like how the box looks for this

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:11 pm

They seriously couldn't have changed the head and made it a new character? Landmine would have been a perfect choice even if he's an S7 agent and not NEST.

Emerje

News Credits: 61 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:24 pm

Emerje wrote:They seriously couldn't have changed the head and made it a new character? Landmine would have been a perfect choice even if he's an S7 agent and not NEST.

Emerje

I 100% agree with this, but I still think it's kinda neat. I'll take any mentions of NEST I can get!

Interesting that there is one picture that has the Gen selects label on it, it's a numbered SS release though and I can't find any other mention of it being a GS, so I'm thinking it's an error:

NEST Bee.JPG

Anyway, I might pick this up, I think it'll look cool in alt mode with the movie 1-3 Autobots.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 5:53 pm

Just headcanon that it's a N.E.S.T.-built clone of Bumblebee that the government had made in case anything ever happened to the real Bumblebee, be it death or... treason.

A Bumblebee made by the government for the government. A Bumblebee that they could control for themselves, should the real one prove... uncontrollable.

News Credits: 12 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 6:40 pm

I'll bite, why not? Didn't like the yellow Jeep, but this one looks neat. I'll probably use it as Centurion from HOS

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 7:51 pm

Haha, I'll repost something funny I saw someone share elsewhere:

This toy is Hasbro finally admitting that the Bumblebee movie and Bayverse are one and the same.

News Credits: 101 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:21 pm

Speaking of that gray Jeep Bee, I may pick this up to customise into "young Hound." :-?

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Tue Aug 31, 2021 9:59 pm

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Interesting that there is one picture that has the Gen selects label on it, it's a numbered SS release though and I can't find any other mention of it being a GS, so I'm thinking it's an error:
NEST Bee.JPG

Anyway, I might pick this up, I think it'll look cool in alt mode with the movie 1-3 Autobots.

Being a Selects wouldn't exclude it from being numbered since several SS exclusives are numbered. In fact this figure is listed as an exclusive as well (on Entertainment Earth) even if it clearly isn't a selects release.

Emerje

News Credits: 61 · Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:07 pm

Emerje wrote:Being a Selects wouldn't exclude it from being numbered since several SS exclusives are numbered. In fact this figure is listed as an exclusive as well (on Entertainment Earth) even if it clearly isn't a selects release.

Emerje

Right, I figured since Gen Selects typically had their own numbering and packaging that would mean this Bee isn't, but like you mention, SS seems to work a little differently for exclusives.

I really hope this is the start of a SS Gen Selects line though, there's a lot of cool things they could do!

News Credits: 101 · Wed Sep 01, 2021 4:44 am

This mean we could get a SS86 Ricochet or a SS 07 Jazz in G1 colors in the main SS line.

News Credits: 54 · Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:03 am

I mean if Hasbro considers Bumblebee to be part of the Bayverse with this...chances don't bold well with Rise of the Beasts.

Edit: I read someone else online theorize this was meant to be an Exclusive at Universal to go with the Transformers Ride but Covid shifted it's release to be here, that would make sense since they already did this with that leader Megatron that later got a more wide release.

Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:06 am

Look closely. Sound it out.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Sep 01, 2021 9:20 am

Deadput wrote:Edit: I read someone else online theorize this was meant to be an Exclusive at Universal to go with the Transformers Ride but Covid shifted it's release to be here, that would make sense since they already did this with that leader Megatron that later got a more wide release.

I could see that. The oddness of this figure certainly fits the bill of a Universal exclusive, as the ride is still very much a "Transformers teamed up with N.E.S.T." ride, which hasn't been a thing in the movies since DOTM. If anything would want a new N.E.S.T. Transformers figure, it'd be Universal.

News Credits: 4 · Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:52 am

Deathsanras wrote:

Look closely. Sound it out.

Lol That's funny...And sad.

News Credits: 101 · Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:09 pm

Slashercon wrote:
Deathsanras wrote:

Look closely. Sound it out.

Lol That's funny...And sad.

I don't get it.

News Credits: 42 · Wed Sep 01, 2021 1:13 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Slashercon wrote:
Deathsanras wrote:

Look closely. Sound it out.

Lol That's funny...And sad.

I don't get it.

An extra "B" got inside the name.

News Credits: 22 · Wed Sep 01, 2021 2:25 pm

TF-fan kev777 wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Slashercon wrote:
Deathsanras wrote:

Look closely. Sound it out.

Lol That's funny...And sad.

I don't get it.

An extra "B" got inside the name.

Hasbro has been giving us too many B's since 2007. >:oP

Wed Sep 01, 2021 2:30 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:Speaking of that gray Jeep Bee, I may pick this up to customise into "young Hound."

Now that's a repaint I wouldn't have minded, and might have actually bought. Although I would rather get an accurate version of G1 Hound.

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Sep 01, 2021 3:03 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Slashercon wrote:
Deathsanras wrote:

Look closely. Sound it out.

Lol That's funny...And sad.

I don't get it.

An extra "B" got inside the name.
Hasbro has been giving us too many B's since 2007.

I think history has proven that the Bs sell, otherwise we wouldn't have gotten so many. Kids love him and that's a good thing as it's more money for hasbro to put into Transformers as a whole.