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[The Nemesis]

Someone on TFW said that the deal to allow Netflix WFC Bumblebee to have his G1 Beetle alt mode was a limited-time agreement with Volkswagen and we probably won't see that version of the mold again (hence why the Buzzworthy pack that's out now uses the straight-up ER Cliffjumper/Hubcap version). That's super lame. Maybe it was a reason that Bumblebee was in the Netflix set with its more limited release? Because holy crap you're releasing one of the top tier most iconic characters in a short-run specialty retailer exclusive series that a ton of people never got without paying insane 3rd party retailer or scalper markups. They really should've worked out a chance to have earth mode Beetle Bee be in Kingdom or something.



I only thought of this today because my Ark arrived and if you look at the art on the box flap it prominently displays a ton of characters from WFC, all of whom are standard release except for Bumblebee. I also think they're all Kingdom release figures too (the Beast Wars cast, Galvatron, Optimus Prime and Arcee (who were Kingdom re-issues of their ER figures)...) the only things that are on that flap that aren't Kingdom figures are the HasLab Unicron and a shot of the Nemesis which likely isn't meant for any sort of figure release


It's just.... suuuuuper frustrating and I kind of hope that rumor about the limited Volkswagen license isn't true. But given Volkswagen's reticence to be involved in the Transformers at all, I wouldn't be surprised even after they signed off on Bumblebee movie designs (which probably netted them a crap-ton of money)