Not that anyone has asked for it, but here's my review of Transformers Generations Leader Class Age of Extinction Bumblebee:
So first off, I would not pay more than the ~$26 I got him for at Costco. My initial assessment that he had a lot of the same features as the Human Alliance Bee was correct. Now that I've got him out of the package, he is a little over 10" tall and roughly the same size as the Human Alliance toy I keep referring too. (I'm using that as reference as it's the biggest, most detailed Bee I've got.) The hands, forearms and gun arm are all the same as HA Bee, as well parts of the feet and the thigh panels and trunk/back-end bits. But he's got a lot of new stuff too. He's significantly lighter than HA Bee, having lost the extra weapons and seats for the human figures. The feet are more detailed with more movie-accurate heels and the torso molding matches the movie character a bit more now too. He's got new shoulder panels and front wheels since the transformation was re-engineered from the HA version. He still has his flip down battle visor, but now you can adjust the forearm panels in an undocumented feature to make stabbing gauntlets.
Holy crap is this guy missing paint. First off, the yellow plastic for much of the car and body bits isn't so much yellow as an orange-yellow; with more orange than yellow. He looks more like Alyssa Milano's car from "Who's the Boss" (dating myself and making obscure reference). There's a lot of black plastic here too. It's a shame because there is a lot of sculpted detail that just gets lost in the bland black and orange-yellow plastic. They made some effort to match his few orange-yellow paint apps to the plastic color, but it's still a few shades off. Total lack of any silver or chrome details except for the silver paint on the headlights. Compared to the photo on the back of the box, he also missing paint on his feet, limbs, and chest piece.
Getting passed all of that, he's actually quite a bit of fun to transform and play with. His transformation is a lot less fiddley than the HA Bee and actually has a couple clever bits. The car actually rolls without scraping a bunch of robot kibble on the undercarriage. The ratchets in his hips and knees allow him to stand in a variety of poses that the HA version is just too top heavy to perform without some support. I like the new feet, they provide a wider, more stable platform to support the weight of the rest of him. I would have liked to get a second hand on him instead of the gun, or maybe a better articulated hand than the one we do get, but whatever.
If you need a larger Bumblebee for your collection, you could do a lot worse than this one for around $26, especially since he's $40 on Amazon. Just be prepared to maybe take a couple Gundam Markers or Gold and Silver Sharpies to him to spruce him up a bit.
Have KO MP Prown, Smokescreen, and Sideswipe, and all three are excellent. Don't like the feet design of the Datsun cars so no plans to get Bluestreak, but seriously considering getting a KO Red Alert. I'll hold off on Tigertracks in the hopes of a "real" Sunstreaker at some point.
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