Prime Weaponizer Bumblebee

[Pascal]

Thanks to SidneyY, my Weaponizers are here! Here's my quick review of Bumblebee.

ROBOT MODE

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Pretty tall. Some kibble on the forearms, but not too noticeable. Articulation is decent, but the legs are oddly articulated, so action poses from the waist down are a bit limited. No waist rotation, and the arms can't rotate back. No wrist rotation either. Head is on a ball joint though, so it helps a bit with more dramatic poses. Paint apps are limited to black (car stripes, knees, abdomen, front grill, silver (head), red (brake lights) and blue (rear window). The yellow plastic is actually darker than what the pics show and even has a bit of a metallic shine to it.

The odd thing about this mode may be the feet. They feel... and are hollow block of grey plastic (due to transformation). Thankfully, the hollowness is not visible. The cheats are pretty bad too as this mode show 8 wheels (2 fake wheels on the feet, 2 fake wheels on the shoulders, plus the 4 actual wheels on the forearms and chest).

GIMMICK

Press the head and the gattling guns rotate out and spins while a red LED lights up briefly. To reset the gattling guns, pull the middle chest piece down and the red LED will light up again. Gimmick works well and is fun to deploy again and again.

TRANSFORMATION

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Pretty straightforward, I didn't need the instructions to transform him from robot mode (as packaged) to car mode. Plastic appears to be sturdy throughout.

CAR MODE

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What's to say... it rolls? :) The lack of side windows is a bit of a downer, no reason for them to be missing in action. Again, paint apps are limited to black (car stripes, front grill), red (brake lights) and blue (rear window). Also, the yellow clips on the front wheels look incredibly cheap, as if that's what was holding them in place. Oh wait, they do! Why not just use round pegs like on FE Voyager Prime?

GIMMICK

Press the engine and the gattling guns rotate out and spins while a red LED lights up briefly. To reset the gattling guns, pull on the grey lever and the red LED will light up again. And again, the gimmick is fun to trigger again and again.

PROS

-Easy and intuitive transformation
-Stealth Force-like gimmick in both modes
-good size
-decent representation of the character
-blaster than can be put on the forearm or in the hand
-balljointed head

CONS

-feels pretty light for the size
-LED gimmick is barely noticeable... transformation sound would have been nice
-4 visible fake wheels in robot mode
-forearm kibble (not THAT bad though)
-hollow feet/boots
-no side windows
-articulation could have been better (ankles, wrists)
-could have used more paint apps (rims)
-visually plain chest when weapons are not deployed (because the stripes are painted on the middle piece that ends up being buried in the backpack)
-cheap looking front wheel clips

Overall, a good toy but far from the best collector's piece.

[Pascal]

SIZE COMPARISONS WITH PREVIOUS PRIME BUMBLEBEE FIGURES

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In robot mode, he's taller than HA Bumblebee and DOTM Leader Bumblebee (at least at the head) yet smaller than Battle Ops Bumblebee. In car mode, he appears to be somewhere between HA Bumblebee and DOTM Leader Bumblebee (don't have the time to transform them both to compare). He looks pretty flat and wide somehow. The pictures still give you an idea compared to previous Prime Bumblebee figures.

[Slave]

was looking foward for that one... Was... he looks way too much cheap plastic toy for my taste now :-( just like the weaponizer OP.

and Geez how many friggin' wheels does he have? 8??? fake wheels on feet thats 2, armpits wheels, 2 more, shoulder wheels, 2, and forearms wheels: 2 for a total of 8... WTF? thats bad!

[big dawg]

that thing is brutal- why did they make BB the weaponizer? It should have clearly been bulkhead

[Pascal]

The line is not over... Maybe more Weaponizers are coming.

[shockwing]

I honestly thought it was a deluxe the first time I saw it

[Sureshot22]

thanks for the review.

wow that thing is just terrible. its just awful in everyway i can see. and those feet??? really? whomever thought those should be his feet needs to get fired.

wow just wow.

[brr-icy]

wow, glad i'm done with prime, with every new reveal, they look worse and worse, should have stuck with animated

[Big Filipino]

Thanks for the review. Still don't see myself picking this up.

[Pascal]

You will pick it up. And then put it back on the shelf.

:p

[SanMiguel]

nice scale comparison of bumblebees!!!