First Look at Upcoming Studio Series DOTM Bumblebee and SS86 Arcee

Pretty sure the middle one is sideways, not sideswipe
I am very excited to see sideways officially. Hopefully The Fallen is also being shown here.

They are looking cool,though I'm not sure the 2014 Arcee looks more movie/cartoon accurate than the Earthrise one.

Day 861 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

T30 Arcee would be fine so long as they retool/redesign the lower torso, lower legs, lower arms, hips and face. Okay, the face isn't bad. It's just that it's too motherly? kind? non-threatening? I can't quite place it but that face just doesn't look like the face of a Transformer. I just laugh at her when she's holding weapons. Especially the swords. Or more like tries to hold the weapons that is.

It's a good looking figure don't get me wrong, it's just pretty trash when it comes to doing anything other than standing straight upright. It's always been trash too. I never really cared much for it. It has a decent amount of articulation but just doesn't do anything convincingly or dynamically. It's just not a fun toy. Say what you will about Earthrise Arcee but at least she's fun as an action figure.

That silhouette of Arcee doesn't quite look like a stock T30 Arcee though. The lower torso looks like it's completely reworked. Normally it's rounded off but it looks very angular in the silhouette. You can see that there looks like a trapezoid in the middle of it. The hips look like they've been reworked as well as their silhouette doesn't quite line up with what the figure's stock hips look like. Both could just be my imagination and wishful thinking getting away with itself as it's late and it's a silhouette. But that lower torso definitely has something different going on with it. There's no way I'm imagining that. I just hope she can actually hold her weapons for once though without risk of breaking the hands, the weapons just falling out or them not going all the way into hands due to intentional blockages. Ankle pivots sure would be nice too.

My original T-30 Arcee is badly yellowed so I may get that "new" SS86 version to replace her.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:With the upcoming reveal of SS DOTM Bumblebee, I wanted to show this breakdown I made a little while ago showing all of the changes (mold-wise, anyway) that could be remolded from SS ROTF Bee to get Bumblebee's different design in DOTM!

I don't expect all of these parts to be remolded (the tires and secondary wings are, I would say, lower priority than the new chest and spoiler - also, the new secondary wings would require changing the transformation), but here's showing what all the differences are between the models. There are paint differences too, such as the stripes running over the roof in alt mode and the black details on the foreamr shields, but this just looks at remolding. We can already tell the central chest piece (the one outlined in blue in the first picture) has been remolded, so that's exciting!

I think we can be sure the robot chest and the car's front and bonnet will be remolded, as they changed those parts for the Revenge of the Fallen release. The collar piece and the thigh pieces that form the front of the back wheelwells are a maybe. As for the tires, the back of the car and the lower wings, I doubt very much that they'll change those.

Wile similar, that doesn't look like a straight re-use of the t-30 arcee. Proportions and shape are different. also the shell backpack seems different as well, with the wheels being the only part that looks the same. it could be based on the t-3o mold, like how ER starscream was based on classics. part of that backpack, and some of the shoulder area makes me think of the legacy elita-1 though.

Rtron wrote:
I think we can be sure the robot chest and the car's front and bonnet will be remolded, as they changed those parts for the Revenge of the Fallen release. The collar piece and the thigh pieces that form the front of the back wheelwells are a maybe. As for the tires, the back of the car and the lower wings, I doubt very much that they'll change those.

I agree, though I think the back of the car is more likely since they need to add the spoiler.

Immortal Starscream wrote:yup, forget what I said before, that is without a doubt the same arcee used for the teaser image.

Yeah when I saw it posted there then that image I said to myself the exact same thing, I even took my T30 and earthrise to look at the comparison. It looks like they may have given her the ER head too which pleases me.

Immortal Starscream wrote:zooming in and trying to clear up the image a bit, it looks like there is quite a bit of new tooling here, and not just on the even worse backpack. her thighs, though mostly obscured are definitely all new, and sadly hollow. her calves look the same, but with the new ankles may have new tooling. her arms, or at least her forearms seem a little different as well, missing the tab slots. though the biceps do look to have the same hollow bits. the only parts that look like direct re-use seem to be the chest, and the front fenders. Betting her "belly" area is the same, though cant tell due to the text

I have been sitting here all morning doing the same, trying to figure out what looks reworked but the damn letters have to be in the way.. Also Looks like the wheels are not in the back of her thighs anymore and must be part of the reworked rear section.

Thanks to Cyberbishop, we were made aware of a n interesting picture on Redditt. It looks exactly like the obscured teaser image of SS86 Arcee posted by Takara except in full colour. This is the T30 Arcee mold with some changes. Now, can this all be hoax, but the odds of that are slim. We'll know the truth within 24 hours.