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News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Fri May 23, 2008 3:12 am

Some pictures has surfaced on http://www.actoys.net of a Wal-Mart exclusive 3 pack containing Classics Bumblebee with a new paintjob, Premium Concept Bumblebee and Animated Bumblebee. This is the first look at this product, and release date is currently not know, but we will keep you informed as we find out more information.
You can view the original thread http://www.actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid-267626.html.

News Credits: 349 · by **Bed Bugs** » Fri May 23, 2008 3:28 am

Love the set. I would have expected this to be a Target exclusive to coincide with their previous Bumblebee 2 pack instead of Walmart.

Hoping for $24.99 or less retail.

News Credits: 5 · by **Sledge** » Fri May 23, 2008 3:44 am

Damnit, that's a nice repaint of Classics Bumblebee. If this makes it to the UK, I'll have to grab it. :-(

by **woosh** » Fri May 23, 2008 3:54 am

WOW. now this is worth buying. I'm surprised. But.. why movie package?

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Fri May 23, 2008 3:57 am

Hey... lol. It's the movie repaint Bumblebee from the April fools picture. It actually came true, only not quite so limited and not in Japan.

Edit: And no black jetski... which is a shame because it was sexy in black.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:13 am

Yikes, three toys that astetically look very strange together.

by **Hard Hacker** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:27 am

We need some sort of Siebertron Cool-Wall, I'd stick this in Sub-Zero.

News Credits: 49 · by **Scaleface** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:39 am

I NEED that Classic redeco, and the movie one isn't bad. I'll give the animated figure to my nephew.

My guess is Walmart wanted a "movie exclusive", and Hasbro gave it to them this way, buy mixing series.

They could do other packs like this, helps cross-promote series.

by **toxicity** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:17 am

they just HAD to include the classics bee in there. now I'm tempted.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Fri May 23, 2008 5:34 am

That's definitely a cool set. A must get!

News Credits: 2 · by **TFBuyer** » Fri May 23, 2008 6:30 am

Darn that Classics repaint! More $$ to Wal-Mart now.

by **Deadpool.** » Fri May 23, 2008 6:32 am

Tekka wrote:Hey... lol. It's the movie repaint Bumblebee from the April fools picture. It actually came true, only not quite so limited and not in Japan.

Yeah, I'm pretty shocked too.
Maybe the folks at Hasbro saw that April Fools' picture and decided "Hey, let's just redeco Classics BB according to this pic!!!"....

I think i'll be getting this since i have none of them....

by **TheSoundwaveGuy** » Fri May 23, 2008 6:36 am

Damn I want that!

by **Avatar Prime** » Fri May 23, 2008 6:45 am

I'm glad I ended up missing out on Classics Bumblebee when it first came out, I like the paint job on this one more then on the original one. Hopefully a release date and price is found out soon.

by **Nujevad** » Fri May 23, 2008 6:49 am

Darn it, if I didn't already have all three figures, I might get the set. The Classics repaint and masked movie Bee are tempting.

News Credits: 9 · by **Zeds** » Fri May 23, 2008 7:19 am

Very nice.....very nice indeed.....

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Fri May 23, 2008 7:58 am

Thats a pretty cool pack

by **CrabHeart** » Fri May 23, 2008 8:58 am

ahhh need it!!! keep us posted!

News Credits: 1 · by **Cheetron** » Fri May 23, 2008 9:06 am

So they repainted Classics BB to match the stripe on both of the other 2? Now how I like doing things but it does make him look cooler.

Thing that sucks about this for me is that I already own the movie one and never want another one, I was going to pass on Animated BB because I have the Classics one.

Now do I want to spend the money for 2 guys I don't want just so I can get a better paintjob for the one I already love? Only time will tell. That and gas prices.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Fri May 23, 2008 9:11 am

That's an awesome set idea. Too bad they couldn't tap into the G1 Bumblebee mode as well. You know there'll be a gallery that ends up on Seibertron.com thanks to that new paint mode.

News Credits: 3 · by **muswp1** » Fri May 23, 2008 9:17 am

Definately worth getting, now let's see if Wal-Mart can actually distribute it properly. That seems to be a major challenge with it's exclusives. I'm betting $24-$29 on the price.

by **videriant** » Fri May 23, 2008 9:37 am

Cheetron wrote:So they repainted Classics BB to match the stripe on both of the other 2? Now how I like doing things but it does make him look cooler.

Thing that sucks about this for me is that I already own the movie one and never want another one, I was going to pass on Animated BB because I have the Classics one.

Now do I want to spend the money for 2 guys I don't want just so I can get a better paintjob for the one I already love? Only time will tell. That and gas prices.

If you look on the packaging the movie bumblebee is the premium paint job with the battle mask so if you have the original release it might still be worth getting. It'll be even better if it's at a $25 price point. Yoink!

News Credits: 32 · by **UltraPrimal** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:06 am

Now this is a good BB pack. Not like that other crappy BB and better BB pack from before. I'll definately be looking for this.

News Credits: 7 · by **waaaaghlord** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:19 am

Is the Animated 'Bee identical to the regular release? Havn't had a close look at Ani 'Bee yet, and if I'm going to pick up this set for the Classics redeco I may as well leave any Ani 'Bees that I see in the meanwhile on the shelves for the kiddies if there's no difference in the toys.

And this after I've managed to hold out for almost a year on owning any version of Movie 'Bee. Ah well, I suppose that I was bound to crack sooner or later.