Bumblebee (Movie)

This article is about the 2007 movie Autobot. For the Generation 1 Autobot, see Bumblebee (G1).

Bumblebee is an Autobot from the Movie continuity family.

Strike a pose, there's nothing to it...

Bumblebee is one of Optimus Prime's most trusted lieutenants. Though not the strongest or most powerful of the Autobots, Bumblebee more than makes up for this with a bottomless well of pluck and determination. He would gladly give his life to protect others and stop the Decepticons.

Badly damaged in a conflict with Megatron, Bumblebee lost the ability to speak verbally, though he can still communicate over inter-Autobot frequencies (in a fasion that seems somewhat akin to instant messaging, a useable but more distant and less personal means of interaction).

Fiction

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IDW The Official Movie Prequel comics

Bumblebee commanded the Autobot forces at Tyger Pax attempting to hold the Decepticons off while the Allspark was launched off-planet. He succeeded but lost his ability to speak in the process. Later he was the first to track the Allspark to Earth, where he learned to express his emotions by tuning in appropriately emotive music on his car radio. Awww...

Ghosts of Yesterday prequel novel

In-between Tyger Pax and his arrival on Earth Bumblebee and the rest of the Ark crew encountered some humans in deep space and got their first clues to where Megatron and the Allspark rest.

Toys

Transformers (2007)

• Bumblebee (Deluxe, 2007)

Japanese ID number: MA-03

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These used cars are fully loaded!

Bumblebee is a yellow 1974 Camaro. He comes with shoulder-mounted spring-loaded missile launchers, which double as hand-held weapons. His legs and chest Automorph during transformation.

Packaging photos and early test shots of Bumblebee featured transparent blue plastic windows and missile parts. However, the final Hasbro production toy has opaque yellow plastic. The Japanese Takaratomy release of Bumblebee retains the transparent blue plastic parts.

• Bumblebee (Legends, 2007)

It's 4 bucks. Whatcha gonna do?

Legends Bumblebee transforms into a yellow 1974 Camaro. Being a highly simplified toy of a highly complex design, Legends-class Bumblebee does not replicate the appearance of the robot mode very well, and has very limited articulation, detail and paint application.

• Bumblebee vs. Barricade: First Encounter (Multi-pack, 2007)

This battle pack contains the 1974 Camaro deluxe-class Bumblebee and the deluxe-class Barricade figures, based upon their confrontation as seen in the movie. The box features a diorama-style background from a movie scene, but toys themselves are unchanged from their original carded releases.

• Ultimate Bumblebee (Ultimate, 2007)

Ironically less accurate than the Deluxe-class toy.

Ultimate Bumblebee is expensive and very vaguely animatronic.

• Bumblebee (Camaro Concept) (Deluxe, 2007)

Japanese ID number: MA-10

Similar in appearance to the Ultimate toy, albiet much smaller, this version of Bumblebee transforms into a 2008/9 Camaro Concept. Like the Japanese release of his 1974 Camaro toy, this one has translucent blue windows. Oddly, this one is MORE accurate than either the older-model deluxe OR the Ultimate figures, with the chest properly articulating in a fairly Movie-accurate manner. It's also slightly larger than the other Deluxe figure, which makes Jazz very sad.

Cyber Slammers

• Bumblebee (2007)

A Battlecharger for the new millennium.

Bumblebee, like other Cyber Slammers, has motorized action. When you push down on the car, it zooms forward and slowly pops into robot mode! Sure to please the toddler you brought with you to the PG-13 movie.

• Bumblebee (Camaro Concept) (2007)

The hood becomes the chest? Well, that's new!

Fast Action Battlers

• Plasma Punch Bumblebee (2007)

These boots were made for -- you know the rest.

Cyber Stompin' Robots

• Bumblebee (2007)

He's got electronic lights and sounds up the whazzoo, and fires missiles and a fist. He totally plays the original theme song.

Robot Replicas

• Bumblebee (2007)

Titanium Series

• Bumblebee (Robot Masters, 2007)

Special feature: Can't talk, just like the real Bumblebee!

This Bumblebee is a three-inch tall painted mini-statue of his 1974 Camaro bodyform. He features die-cast in his torso and thighs, and he has swivel-joints at the shoulders, head and waist. Oh, and he comes with a Movie-style Autobot logo base to stand on.

Merchandise

• Beatmix Bumblebee (2007)

Beatmix Bumblebee is a device that hooks up to a music device, similarly to an iDog. Like the aforementioned product, Beatmix Bumblebee reacts to the music being played (outputed via a speaker within him). With a touch, he can also sample the owner's music tracks and replays them with sound effects from the movie. His arms are posable, but Bumblebee cannot transform.

Unleashed

• Bumblebee (2007)

Trivia

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.