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Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review

Posted by Blurrz Apr 9, 2010 at 12:17am CDT 93,494 views
If you wanted more Bumblebee, you've got it. The Hunt for the Decepticons toy line, being the successor to the Revenge of the Fallen line, will feature two new Bumblebee figures. One of them is a brand new Deluxe, the other is much bigger and happens to be Battle Ops Bumblebee. It's in it's own class size, and armed to the teeth with new weapons and new gimmicks. Energon Pub member Pascal has uploaded a pictorial review on Cybertron.ca. He elaborates on Bumblebee's robot mode, alternate mode, transformation, gimmicks and much more.

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Does Battle Ops Bumblebee kick all of the previous Bumblebee incarnations, including Human Alliance Bumblebee to the curve? You'll have to read Pascal's entire review to find out!

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Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Autobot032 Apr 9, 2010
Well, I'll be saving money on this one. It looks good, somewhat, but still not worth the dough imo.

Ah well.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Prime Riblet Apr 9, 2010
I actually thing it looks amazingly good. I would love to have one, but there is no way in Hell that Hasbro is going to get me to buy another Bumblebee figure. I think Hasbro has more than adequately saturated the market with this character. If Hasbro is going to do this, they could make a Cliffjumper repaint.....at the very least.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by GEEWUN Apr 9, 2010
I don't know. I already have a deluxe bumblebee. I don't think the size of this fig would go good with my other figs.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Apr 9, 2010
It's not called "Hunt for the Decepticons", the new toyline is just called "Transformers". "Hunt for the Decepticons" is a subline in the new toyline.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Pascal Apr 9, 2010
Sabrblade wrote:It's not called "Hunt for the Decepticons", the new toyline is just called "Transformers". "Hunt for the Decepticons" is a subline in the new toyline.


Whatever, it's clearly a movie toy.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Pascal Apr 9, 2010
Btw, I've added a few paint apps to break out the grey. Looks much better now.

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Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by autobot-jolt Apr 9, 2010
looks very cool, but I'll pass to save my money for the Transformers I really want.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by rpetras Apr 9, 2010
Oh look it's what HA BB should have been. :roll:

I'll be passing on this one since it does not fit in scale-wise with anything else.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Kibble Apr 9, 2010
It looks like a decent enough figure (minus the blue fingers) in all honesty, but they've just gone to the well one too many times or twenty. I'd probably be excited about this had it been one of the first figures in the ROTF line or maybe even the next movie. But between it running $60, the fact I have at least 8 other movie BB figs already, plus another new deluxe mold coming out...it's probably gonna take a helluva sale or clearance for me to even consider this.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by --B-- Apr 9, 2010
Meh, another movie-verse BB.

Bring on Generations!!!
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by dragons Apr 9, 2010
thanks hasbro ill be buying this bee & the deluxe veersion as well oh well im glad i am sick of all these bees anyway before this guy came about he may not be in scale as the others but h=what trasnformer toy is g1 metroplex, armada series, cybertron, & others looking forwad to the new universe series more
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by HighPrime Apr 9, 2010
Good review, thanks for sharing :)

I'm passing on this one, though. For me, HA Bumblebee was the 'end all be all.' Outside of rubber wheels and an interchangeable hand, improvement is next to impossible (for me.)
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by mechabooks Apr 9, 2010
--B-- wrote:Meh, another movie-verse BB.

Bring on Generations!!!


Ditto. I want something other than Bumblebee. But, I'm guessing BB is Hasbros new flagship character so I doubt we'll see him disappearing anytime soon. A vastly different look might be interesting though! Thanks for the review!
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by alternator77 Apr 9, 2010
what the hell is the deal with the left hands on these things is it me or do they all have the same pose. comeon hasbro at least give them a different pose or some articulation. anyways ive got ultimate bb so these are a pass.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by JRFitzpatrick7 Apr 9, 2010
This looks really good actually the stock images are no where near as flattering for this figure!
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Blurrz Apr 9, 2010
Sabrblade wrote:It's not called "Hunt for the Decepticons", the new toyline is just called "Transformers". "Hunt for the Decepticons" is a subline in the new toyline.


Look again.


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Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Apr 10, 2010
Blurrz wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:It's not called "Hunt for the Decepticons", the new toyline is just called "Transformers". "Hunt for the Decepticons" is a subline in the new toyline.


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Yes, the name of the new toyline, as stated on that box, is "Transformers". There is a little sticker marked "Hunt for the Decepticons" on that particular box, but it is only on certain figures in this line and not all of them, making them part of a subline of the whole "Transformers" toyline (something akin to the "AllSpark Power" and "N.E.S.T. Global Alliance" sublines of the two movie toylines).

If the whole toyline were use the "Hunt for the Decepticons" name, then the box would read "Transformers: Hunt for the Decepticons" (instead of simply "Transformers" with a little "HftD" sticker) and would read so on the packaging of every figure in the toyline, instead of just certain ones.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Pascal Apr 10, 2010
The box for my Battle Ops Bumblebee doesn't have the HFTD sticker. Since it's an early packaged sample, might not mean much though.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Autobot032 Apr 10, 2010
I'm with Blurrz on this one. Even though it states HFTD on a sticker, it's pretty much universally accepted as this:

Yellow package: Revenge Of The Fallen
Red Package: Generations
Blue/Black (I think) Package: Power Core Combiners

So, while it doesn't say HFTD on the package, we pretty much know that's what it is. It's just cheaper and cost effective to simply print TransFormers on the box and just ship it to us.
Re: Hunt for the Decepticons Battle Ops Bumblebee - Pictorial Review (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Apr 10, 2010
Autobot032 wrote:I'm with Blurrz on this one. Even though it states HFTD on a sticker, it's pretty much universally accepted as this:

Yellow package: Revenge Of The Fallen
Red Package: Generations
Blue/Black (I think) Package: Power Core Combiners

So, while it doesn't say HFTD on the package, we pretty much know that's what it is. It's just cheaper and cost effective to simply print TransFormers on the box and just ship it to us.
And yet Hasbro is being completely ambiguous on the conituity stauts of the figures in this line that we cannot say for sure are movie characters. Take Voyager Se Spray for example. Some think he's a Movie character, other think he's a new modern take on the G1 Seaspray. And Hasbro won't give a straight answer about who he is and what universe he's from:

Hasbro wrote:Sea Spray is continuing under the design philosophy that we started with Classics line and continued through Universe. It is all about reimaging classic characters in a new, 21st century styling.
Their answer seems to imply that he's like a Classics/Universe verison of G1 Seaspray, yet, he's being relased in the line that features several Movie characters.

It's like Hasbro is toying with us (no pun intended) on the continuity status of several of these new ambiguous "TF 2010" characters.
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