The Energon Pub

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

Holy crap holy crap holy crap.

Ok, let's break this down:

The new VW Bumblebee looks really good and comes with a lot of accessories; there's a second masked head, a sword, and presumably his plasma cannon. He's also apparently packed with a seemingly unaltered TLK Bumblebee for some reason. An evolution 2-pack, it seems. It's unfortunate that the wings don't seem to fold away like they do in the footage we've seen so far, but it still looks good.

Blue Stinger is bizarre, I'll have to rewatch AOE to look for any drones that look like that. The extra spike in the arm cannon looks cool at least.

DOTM Ratchet's gun looks awesome, but he looks really unpainted (even by SS Ratchet standards), I think this is more along the lines of a prototype.

Sunstreaker Yellow Lockdown is really bizarre. that gun he's holding looks like it may function as a facegun.

Anyways, that was. . . unexpected. VW Bee looks good though, so I'm happy!

[Deadput]

Hmmmm the Trax isn't what I would of preferred since it doesn't transform into the Chevy Trax like the movie but for what it is, it's pretty neat and actually represents them in general pretty well.

Definitly looks like something that would of been eventually designed by KSI.


I presume that Lockdown is either a new character, a what if character like SS Thundercracker, a representation of one of Lockdown's henchmen from AOE, or it's this other KSI related character given form.


The oh so memorable orange McLaren Decepticon!


https://tfwiki.net/wiki/McLaren_Decepticon

[Qwan]

We got confirmation from floor-walker Va'al that the blue Stinger repaint is actually a KSI Sentry, and the orange Lockdown repaint is named Shadow Raider. (Not Shadow Raider Lockdown, just Shadow Raider - interesting!) We've updated the article to reflect that now

[RotorstormNZ]

Also after some observation and checking the wiki: the Volkswagen Bumblebee is in a 2-pack with what appears to be TLK Bumblebee

I'm not sure if it was here or at TFW2005 but in a SS Bug Bee photo you can see either the boxes for one Bug and one Camaro hard up against each other, or as a double-pack. That's cool. Not for me though: I promised myself the only SS Bee I'd get would be the Bug!

I got really excited when I saw SS24 Bug Bee's box behind MPM Ironhide! I'm very keen on it except I'm not a fan of the rust effect.

[william-james88]

blue stinger? orange lockdown? WTF? Are they trying to do some weird camouflage thing?

With those colours, they just end up looking like fruity robots

Can someone explain to me the blue Stinger guy?

Sure, he's a KSI bot, so just another random grunt at the end of Age of Extinction

The new VW Bumblebee looks really good and comes with a lot of accessories; there's a second masked head, a sword, and presumably his plasma cannon. He's also apparently packed with a seemingly unaltered TLK Bumblebee for some reason.

Yeah, its a two pack, ****!

I presume that Lockdown is either a new character, a what if character like SS Thundercracker, a representation of one of Lockdown's henchmen from AOE, or it's this other KSI related character given form.

Yup new character.

With the price hike these have gotten in my neck of the woods, I will only stick to new molds so out of all this only that new Bee is what I will get. its weird because Hasbro was very keen on saying last time that there would be no repaints aside from Thundercracker.

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

The new VW Bumblebee looks really good and comes with a lot of accessories; there's a second masked head, a sword, and presumably his plasma cannon. He's also apparently packed with a seemingly unaltered TLK Bumblebee for some reason.

Yeah, its a two pack, ****!

I’m sure VW Bee will be sold by himself though. I guess it’s a good opportunity for anyone who didn’t find TLK Bee at retail.

Looking forwards to (hopefully) some new mold SS figures tomorrow!

[Deadput]

Yup new character.

With the price hike these have gotten in my neck of the woods, I will only stick to new molds so out of all this only that new Bee is what I will get. its weird because Hasbro was very keen on saying last time that there would be no repaints aside from Thundercracker.

Hmmmm I remember a statement that was made that cases like Thundercracker would only be made with intention of how they would be like if they actually were in the movies. (Seems to be for bios and backdrops too if Thundercracker and him supposing being one of the many cons from the moon in dotm is any indication)

Not sure on Shadow Raider but I can totally see this with the Sentry.

[Nemesis Primal]

...well, I agree that VW Bee looks to be mistransformed looking at that back, so I will need to see more to pass judgement. I can see what they're going for with Trax/Sentry there, but he looks too much like Stinger to me right now, and I can't find clear pictures of Traxes in the movie that aren't red. As for Gun-Face Lockdown Shadow Raider...why is he orange? It looks so...odd.

[Sabrblade]

I'm honestly struggling to remember if any of the KSI Prototypes in AOE were blue.

[Autobot Roadburn]

Man, I was all set to go completionist on this line but with the weir repaints and 2 different exclusive Bumblebees (3, if the VW Bee is only available with the Last Knight one?) I think I'm out. Do we have any idea what the deal is with the gold VW Bee or is there just the picture so far? I hope it's not too expensive or tough to track down and buy, PotP has been giving me a hard enough time with 4 dang Amazon exclusives in a row.

[Deadput]

I'm honestly struggling to remember if any of the KSI Prototypes in AOE were blue.

There sort of were but they were vehicle mode only.

Edit: Here is my interpretation of what they would look like in bot mode based off the cars used in the movie.

[Sabrblade]

I'm honestly struggling to remember if any of the KSI Prototypes in AOE were blue.

There sort of were but they were vehicle mode only.

Were there any blue cars among those that Galvatron infected and brought to life in the Beijing facility prior to the Hong Kong battle?

[Deadput]

I'm honestly struggling to remember if any of the KSI Prototypes in AOE were blue.

There sort of were but they were vehicle mode only.

Were there any blue cars among those that Galvatron infected and brought to life in the Beijing facility prior to the Hong Kong battle?

Do you mean Chevy Trax specifically?

If so yes there were...hmmmm seems they were dark blue instead of light blue but I remember the ones seen in Hong Kong being bright blue.



So I guess this might be more accurate.

[Sabrblade]

I'm honestly struggling to remember if any of the KSI Prototypes in AOE were blue.

There sort of were but they were vehicle mode only.

Were there any blue cars among those that Galvatron infected and brought to life in the Beijing facility prior to the Hong Kong battle?

Do you mean Chevy Trax specifically?

No.

[Deadput]

No.

If you mean if there were any blue Pagani's then no, Stinger's car was the only one.

For blue cars in general it was just the blue Trax's and a blue lambo (Alongside a green one) that were barely in the movie.

On second note, turns out I might have been misrembering them being bright blue.



Reminds me of this and how excited I was seeing these vehicles that might have been Transformers in the end 1 was Galvatron, Stinger and Junkheap weren't even characters really, two didn't even transform at all.

I have a feeling that Shadow Raider might be based off the orange McLaren.

[Carnivius_Prime]

I'mm having the VW Bee. Looks good to me and nice accessories. Not sure which I'll get. Reguler yellow plastic, or shiny gold. Like the gold beaterbee I'd probably sell those tapes cos I really am not keen on G1 cassettes.

Blue Stinger looks oddly appealing to me. As does that orange Lockdown with the masked head. Both Ironhides (studio and MPM) look slightly mistransformed in their torso areas (cos i've seen both with the more correct configurations). Starscream is a definite. Ratchet in his DotM scheme looks nice too.

[Carnivius_Prime]

Looking at those two pics it definitely looks like yellow VW Bee is mistransformed as the gold one has much less backpack showing.

[Deadput]

Yup seems like it based off the back of the box.




Anyways for KSI cars here is a screen with basically all of the known ksi vehicles in the movie with the exceptions of Junkheap, Two Heads and KSI Bosses (The latter two don't really have known modes but based on Nitro Zeus the bosses might turn into some form of jet).


The green and blue lambos in the back with the Orange McLaren and the white Aston Martin, Galvatron in the middle, Chevy traxes in the known colors of Red, White, Black and Blue, finally Stinger in front.

[Sabrblade]

So, to put it in other words, the blue Stinger is meant to be a toy for a kind of KSI Prototype, but not a kind that was actually in the movie. Oops.

[Nemesis Primal]

Yup seems like it based off the back of the box.

...speaking of the back of that box, who's that red figure with the gun in the cross-promotion at the bottom, SS-17? Is that Shatter from the Bumblebee movie, or someone else? SS-17 was one of the ones we don't know yet, right?

[Carnivius_Prime]

...speaking of the back of that box, who's that red figure with the gun in the cross-promotion at the bottom, SS-17? Is that Shatter from the Bumblebee movie, or someone else? SS-17 was one of the ones we don't know yet, right?

Could be the orange Lockdown. Hard to tell but the general shape looks similar (including what could be the wheels on the back of the lower legs) and holding that gun.

[Deadput]

So, to put it in other words, the blue Stinger is meant to be a toy for a kind of KSI Prototype, but not a kind that was actually in the movie.

Yes, the blue Pagani is not in the movie but rather a sort of combination homage to the Trax drones, (To this stay I prefer Vehicons to their "official" names since that's really what they are sort of) and since the default look is red I guess Hasbro didn't want to have two red bots with the same mold so they choose blue. (White and Black were either probably too boring or they just went with blue randomly) they also might have gone with blue because Trax=Tracks or something.

So something that doesn't exist but easily could.

[Burn]

I do like that gold Bumblebee much MUCH more than the yellow version (to the point I was happy to pass on the yellow version). Hopefully I have a chance to pick it up.

[Deadput]

...speaking of the back of that box, who's that red figure with the gun in the cross-promotion at the bottom, SS-17? Is that Shatter from the Bumblebee movie, or someone else? SS-17 was one of the ones we don't know yet, right?

Might be Shatter, at first glance I thought it was the Voyager Prime but I guess that doesn't make sense, it could either be Shatter, Shadow Raider or maybe...just maybe it could be that Dino listing from a few days ago. (Because I doubt that Siege will have a Dino in it)

Also is that the regular Jazz on the right or is that a repaint (Smokescreen?) of the figure?

[Sabrblade]

SS-17 is probably just Shadow Raider.