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We have a new look at some Transformers: Age of Extinction costumes that are not all released yet, but pictured on the Disguise website.

There are some toys that are shown listed, but with no pictures as yet, including but not limited to, the Optimus Prime and Bumblebee glasses, and some additional adult costumes.

The costumes range from your typical kid Halloween costumes, (there are classic, muscle, classic and deluxe version of each, along with a light up/motion activated Bumblebee costume,) to 3D theatrical adult costumes. There are also a few costume toys, like the Optimus Sword (aka Sword of Judgement,) Bumblebee Arm Cannon, Optimus Shield (aka Sentinel Shield,) and Bumblebee's shield. There are also more..."adult" offerings, like an Optimus Prime bustier for your favorite lady Transformers fan, or the Optimus Prime or Bumblebee body suit. In case you're trying to picture a Transformers body suit right now, don't worry. It looks pretty much like you would imagine a Transformers body suit to look. But don't just wonder,take a look at the pictures below, and see the entire list from the Disguise website underneath the pictures.

• Bumblebee Light-Up Motion Activated
  
  
• Optimus Prime Glasses (not pictured)
  
• Bumblebee Glasses (not pictured)
  
• Optimus Prime Toddler Muscle
  
  
• Bumblebee Toddler Muscle
  
  
• Optimus Prime Classic
  
  
• Bumblebee Classic
  
  
• Optimus Prime Classic Muscle
  
  
• Bumblebee Classic Muscle
  
  
• Optimus Prime Deluxe
  
  
• Bumblebee Deluxe
  
  
• Optimus Prime Prestige
  
  
• Bumblebee Prestige (not pictured)
  
• Optimus Prime Bustier
  
  
  
• Optimus Prime Bodysuit Costume
  
  
• Bumblebee Bodysuit Costume
  
  
• Optimus Prime Deluxe Adult (not pictured)
  
• Bumblebee Deluxe Adult (not pictured)
  
• Optimus Prime Movie Adult Female (not pictured)
  
• Optimus Prime Child Gloves
  
  
• Bumblebee Child Gloves
  
  
• Optimus Prime Adult Gloves
  
  
• Bumblebee Adult Gloves
  
  
• Transformers 4 Essential Treat Bag
  
  
• Optimus Sword
  
  
• Bumblebee Cannon
  
  
• Optimus Shield
  
  
• Bumblebee Shield
  
  
• Optimus Prime Theatrical with Vacuform 3D
  
  
• Bumblebee Theatrical with Vacuform 3D
  

Where's the lingerie line? Since they have a bustierre.

Also looks like there's power rangers costume too.

Um why?

the skin suits and bustier horrfy me

Apart from the decent looking Vacuform 3D, everything else is just HIDEOUS!

Ummm...alrighty then...s

I want that sword.

That "adult" outfit...good God...

For better or for worse, does the target group for whom it is intended actually exist in numbers large enough to be worth producing this terrifying garment?

Hopefully not; most costumes never sell out, even when left to rot at 75% off.

I just wish they would put a proper female Transformer in the film so they can divide this merchandise evenly, so we don't end up with this OP blouse thing. If they had a character like an Arcee or Moon Racer, they can have much less creepy merchandise for the ladies that actually make sense.

ScoutBumblebee wrote:

• Optimus Prime Bodysuit Costume
  
  
• Bumblebee Bodysuit Costume
  

Cybertron Sentai Autoranger.

Auto Prime and Auto Bee, respectively.

Next up, Wonder Prime!

Just replace the lasso with a battle ax

the bodysuits remind me of power rangers
the other stuff looks like kids would have a blast
a little creepy for adults to be wearing those
and the ones for the ladies um yeah right what adult female would
wear that even though its kinda sexy

Boring boring boring boring boring boring HELLO NURSE

Flakmaster wrote:That "adult" outfit...good God...

Yeah, if we're going to do "adult" outfits for AoE, where's the one of Scorn with his tail in that...um...position we saw at Toy Fair?

I also agree with SFX Prime. Making it an Optimus bustier reenforces the odd logic that it's somehow natural to have female versions of male superheroes and other cartoon characters, but having male versions of female characters is some sort of assault on our cultural gender identity (some hilarious reactions to SheZow being the best recent example).

Or would fans be more upset at an Arcee or Windblade bustier?

The bustier looks like it has a pair of gloves over the cups.

Optimus is gropey ...

Cute! but no female constumes!?

For the sake of argument, let's just try to picture this scenario and we'll agree that a woman that hot would agree to wear an Optimus Prime outfit... Just because. She would. Of COURSE She WOULD.

Someone at Has/Tak clearly must have asked himself "How many young boys growing up in the 80's secretly wanted to sleep with Optimus Prime? No, not WITH Optimus but WITH Optimus." Apparently, the number of affirmative responses must have been a rather high, meaning the majority on that board of overseers thought this was a GOOD idea.

OK, so what of it? Well, because you've got a PhD in Transformerology, this sexy woman (who is dressed, essentially, as a male robot) naturally finds you irresistibly sexy and as a result, the two of you begin to make passionate love. That surely must be what Has/Tak were leading to, doesn't it?

What I don't quite understand is how one is supposed to ... erm... engage with a famously masculine figure of childhood authority in such an intimate way, who happens to also be a machine... AND MALE. Did I mention MALE?

What, does she talk dirty to get you in the mood? She puts on her best Optimus Prime voice, telling your limp member to "transform and burn rubber?" or "take it out of neutral and back it in through the tailpipe." There are so many reasons why this is wrong... Or maybe I just need to get my mind out of the gutter.

What I don't get is how this is supposed to help Has/Tak sell more toys (which, I foolishly thought, was always going to remain their biggest priority).

MegaDump wrote:Or maybe I just need to get my mind out of the gutter.

MegaDump wrote:What I don't get is how this is supposed to help Has/Tak sell more toys (which, I foolishly thought, was always going to remain their biggest priority).

"To make money" is the point of these, which itself is the one priority higher than "to sell toys" (even though the latter is the primary means through which they do the former).

Hankering for a Stinger costume? Now's your chance! Thanks to Seibertron.com's resident voice actor and podcaster, jON3.0, we have images of a Stinger costume. Priced at $19.94 and sighted in Memphis, Tennessee, this costume is, unsurprisingly, a redeco of the Bumblebee costume. Also available is a Stinger mask, priced at $3.97. Check out the images below, and, if you're interested in these, go out and cosplay as the knockoff Decepticon Bumblebee clone!

Oh hey, what a cool movie Cliffjumper costume.
IMO merchandise like this doesn't count as Stinger.

So they can redeco a stupid halloween costume but cant redeco the damn figure ? Lame...

Rated X wrote:So they can redeco a stupid halloween costume but cant redeco the damn figure ? Lame...

Probably less than they "can't" and more like they "don't wanna".

The deluxe 2014 Bumblebee is a shell former so i believe the plan is(was) to reshell the Camaro parts with Pagani parts and redeco the rest red and possibly give him a new head.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:The deluxe 2014 Bumblebee is a shell former so i believe the plan is(was) to reshell the Camaro parts with Pagani parts and redeco the rest red and possibly give him a new head.

Probably. However at this rate more movie deluxes might not happen. We can't assume they even made Stinger tooling. They might just consider the retooling possibility a pleasant bonus. However Bumblebee's lack of vehicle parts on him probably would've made him a shellformer anyway.

welcometothedarksyde wrote:

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:The deluxe 2014 Bumblebee is a shell former so i believe the plan is(was) to reshell the Camaro parts with Pagani parts and redeco the rest red and possibly give him a new head.

Probably. However at this rate more movie deluxes might not happen. We can't assume they even made Stinger tooling. They might just consider the retooling possibility a pleasant bonus. However Bumblebee's lack of vehicle parts on him probably would've made him a shellformer anyway.

At the Hasbro Booth at this year's BotCon, one of the Hasbro guys said that they had started workeing on a prototype of Stinger retooled from Bumblebee, but it wasn't completed.

I would've thought that Stinger would have been in wave 3, But no, they made a Tracks looking character with Hot Shot's name.