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News Credits: 4877 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:27 pm

I cant tell if he is that different from first glance. Looks like a movie bumblebee model like all the others, to me.

News Credits: 2 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:43 pm

Very nice, I just hope he is not the last knight... and actually die at the beginning, just like Ratchet, Ironhide and leadfoot, so rodimus can take his place.

Fri Aug 12, 2016 2:44 pm

william-james88 wrote:I cant tell if he is that different from first glance. Looks like a movie bumblebee model like all the others, to me.

Between the first three films and AOE they changed the design quite a bit. This one looks to be a combination of the two. In AOE all of his parts were fitted very close to each other and streamlined to look very organic, or at least not like an identifiable car. The big difference, here, is the chest piece which is more identifiable as a car bumper split in two like his original designs. The other thing is that the face mask is basically the one from AOE.

Personally, I'd like for them to go more classic and vehicle like with all of these designs, since it's still hard to tell what they actually turn into. Crosshair and Megatron especially. I also really, really, really despise the transformations in the 4th movie where the decepticons just explode into bits and reform. So, I hope they put the kabosh on that.

News Credits: 191 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 3:07 pm

BERSEKAEL wrote:Very nice, I just hope he is not the last knight... and actually die at the beginning, just like Ratchet, Ironhide and leadfoot, so rodimus can take his place.

That's gonna be a bit difficult when the movie after this is called "The Bumblebee Movie".

News Credits: 1646 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 3:42 pm

Well, they really went back some to his first trilogy design, even got the door wings back. I did really like the AoE design and I'm a bit sad they went backwards from it. But at least he has the wings again, I like those

News Credits: 54 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 4:12 pm

william-james88 wrote:I cant tell if he is that different from first glance. Looks like a movie bumblebee model like all the others, to me.

Really man?

The changes on Bee are always easy to spot why is everyone saying stuff like this I don't get it like what the heck.

News Credits: 191 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 4:49 pm

I personally never see much of a difference between the movie Bumblebees, at least not in robot mode. I can see the differences in Optimus; AoE was a design overhaul for him, but... Bumblebee? I'm not denying there's changes, I just don't really see them.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Fri Aug 12, 2016 5:04 pm

Bumblebee is growing up fast. In the first movie he was 16.2 feet tall, now he's 18 and taller than Drift. So much for being the runt of the team.

Emerje

News Credits: 174 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 5:34 pm

Wow, fumblebee is every kind of underwhelming, I honestly couldn't tell if this was a new design or not without images of his other forms sitting in front of me (I can at least tell that it isn't the newer aoe version, that one was at least cool looking)

News Credits: 1 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 6:20 pm

I really wasn't feeling his AOE version, this is a welcome return to something closer to his first forms.

Fri Aug 12, 2016 6:25 pm

I really have to ask, what's the point of turning him into Galvatron in AOE if they were going to turn him back in TLK? Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose of Megatron becoming Galvatron? Hell, his last line in the previous film was "I am reborn", thus implying that he's still Galvatron. Not helped by the fact that, in general, I don't care for the redesign. The whole knight aesthetic may have worked for Prime and the Dinobots, but not for the ruthless and maniacal overlord with a cannon on his arm who is bent on destroying all who stands in his way. And I really don't like the horn thing going on with his helmet; retracted, it makes him look like a goat, but deployed, he just looks like the Dreads from DOTM, who look like the Predator. In short, this doesn't make sense contextually and doesn't work from a design stand-point.

Fri Aug 12, 2016 6:53 pm

Not sure if it's just me or does his faceplate look like Wasp's from TFA

News Credits: 462 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 7:04 pm

Omega-Doom wrote:Not sure if it's just me or does his faceplate look like Wasp's from TFA

It's the battle mask he had in AOE.

News Credits: 4877 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 7:23 pm

Deadput wrote:
william-james88 wrote:I cant tell if he is that different from first glance. Looks like a movie bumblebee model like all the others, to me.

Really man?
The changes on Bee are always easy to spot why is everyone saying stuff like this I don't get it like what the heck.

Its all one big blurr to me. I didnt even notice that he didnt even have wings in AOE.

I can tell it much more on Optimus.

News Credits: 54 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:01 pm

william-james88 wrote:Its all one big blurr to me. I didnt even notice that he didnt even have wings in AOE.

I can tell it much more on Optimus.

At the very least people can tell his chest is different with each movie right?

I think story wise Bumblebee keeps upgrading his disguise because he is a vain character remember when he went and scanned a new car mode after Mikela called him a piece of crap?

News Credits: 4877 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:31 pm

Deadput wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Its all one big blurr to me. I didnt even notice that he didnt even have wings in AOE.

I can tell it much more on Optimus.

At the very least people can tell his chest is different with each movie right?

His chest was different between ROTF and DOTM?

I dont think people can tell that easily. Could you tell which movie this bee is from for instance?

Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:07 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Deadput wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Its all one big blurr to me. I didnt even notice that he didnt even have wings in AOE.

I can tell it much more on Optimus.

At the very least people can tell his chest is different with each movie right?

His chest was different between ROTF and DOTM?

I dont think people can tell that easily. Could you tell which movie this bee is from for instance?

That one's either from the first one or ROTF. I don't know the differences between his chest in the first one and ROTF, but I do know that in DOTM, his chest was compacted a tiny bit and had two arm/bar/lever things going across the bottom of the two car front half boob things. That's far from a technical description, but they are fairly obvious if you compare the two. The difference between the first 3 movies' Bumblebee and AOE Bumblebee are way more obvious, of course.

News Credits: 1646 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:49 pm

That picture above is movie 1 Bee, as you can tell by the smaller circular lights below the main headlights.

RotF Bee had more rectangular lower lights:

DotM Bee had those extra Ab bits:

AoE had the ninja look minus the wings replaced with throwing star like things:

Fri Aug 12, 2016 10:49 pm

looks like the Dotm design with AOE head

News Credits: 37 · Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:40 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Deadput wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Its all one big blurr to me. I didnt even notice that he didnt even have wings in AOE.

I can tell it much more on Optimus.

At the very least people can tell his chest is different with each movie right?

His chest was different between ROTF and DOTM?

I dont think people can tell that easily. Could you tell which movie this bee is from for instance?

That's the TF1 design. ROTF Bumblebee had black squares around his fog lights or whatever, and DOTM Bublebee had extra pieces covering his chest/abdomen area.

News Credits: 3642 · Sat Aug 13, 2016 1:40 am

Earlier this past week on Tuesday August 9th, I was part of a small group of Transformers fans who were invited to visit the set of Transformers 5 The Last Knight near Detroit, MI. In addition to getting a sneak peak at some of the massive sets and getting to meet Michael Bay himself, we got some personal time with some of the real stars of the movie ... the Transformers themselves! Each gallery below includes multiple shots of each vehicle that we got to see from the heroic Autobots Bumblebee, Drift, and Optimus Prime to the evil Decepticons Onslaught and Barricade! Click on an image below to view a gallery of that respective character's alt mode. Please note that each vehicle has its own unique gallery in our ongoing Transformers Movie related gallery section.

In case you missed it earlier this week, we also posted some walkaround videos of the vehicles on our YouTube channel, which you can view by clicking here.

Special thanks again and much appreciation to Paramount for orchestrating our set visit. What an amazing experience!

Bumblebee (6th generation Chevrolet Camaro mode) ... plus Hound makes a cameo appearance!

Barricade (Ford Mustang Police Car mode)

Drift (Mercedes-AMG GT R mode)

Optimus Prime (Western Star 5700 XE mode)

Onslaught (Western Star 4900SF Tow Truck mode)

Miscellaneous images (other vehicles and more)

News Credits: 23 · Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:28 am

Seibertron wrote:I was part of a small group of Transformers who were invited to visit the set of Transformers 5 The Last Knight near Detroit, MI.

Ah, I always suspected humans didn't run the site.

News Credits: 54 · Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:36 am

Seibertron wrote:I was part of a small group of Transformers who were invited to visit the set of Transformers 5 The Last Knight near Detroit, MI.

They live among us...

Makes sense that the owner of this site is a Transformer.

News Credits: 3642 · Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:42 am

Madeus Prime wrote:
Seibertron wrote:I was part of a small group of Transformers who were invited to visit the set of Transformers 5 The Last Knight near Detroit, MI.

Ah, I always suspected humans didn't run the site.

LOL! Ah, good catch.

The news story and post have been corrected to say "Transformers fans".

News Credits: 54 · Sat Aug 13, 2016 2:51 am

william-james88 wrote:His chest was different between ROTF and DOTM?

I dont think people can tell that easily. Could you tell which movie this bee is from for instance?

Yes for example the pic you have is movie one and not even a final render at that.

Here is a real render of Movie 1 Bee

Here is ROTF and DOTM respectively with similar poses/renders.

Chest's are different and Bumblebee's shoulders are larger in DOTM and this was stated by people who worked on the movie during DOTM and they said it was to show how more mature Bee was at that point.

The differences are pretty obvious Bumblebee is never exactly the same in each movie.