Buzzworthy Bumblebee
Buzzworthy Bumblebee is a cross-toyline subline imprint focussing on various incarnations of everybody's favourite yellow Autobot, Bumblebee. Toys from this line began appearing both in stock at online retailers and on store shelves in late 2020 and early 2021, evidently before Hasbro had the opportunity to officially announce any of them.
With vibrant yellow packaging like the previous Transformers: Bumblebee toyline, and package art prominently featuring Evergreen Bumblebee, Buzzworthy Bumblebee centers around versions of Bumblebee from across the brand's history, as well as his human allies and Cybertronian foes.
The line is exclusive to Target in the United States.
Toys
Core Class
A wholly new release for Buzzworthy Bumblebee, this new diminutive 3.5-inch Core Class Bumblebee retails at $14.99 USD – $5 more than a normal Core Class figure owing to the inclusion of a Spike Witwicky mini figure. (Or $17 depending on the individual store. No, we don't know why.) This release features the War for Cybertron Trilogy logo on the packaging, and its card art – Bumblebee and Spike in a volcanic environment – ties into the concurrent Kingdom line.
Deluxe Class
The Buzzworthy BUmblebee Deluxe Class assortment takes its cues from the concurrent Studio Series and War for Cybertron Trilogy toylines, following those lines' box packaging shape but with new, yellow-themed cardboard backdrops. The first assortment consists of figures rereleased and redecoed and/or retooled from previous Studio Series assortments, with each toy gaining a "BB" as part of its ID number to differentiate it from its mainline release.
Studio Series (2020)
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| War for Cybertron Trilogy (2021) |
Spark Armor
Representing the Cyberverse corner of the franchise, the Spark Armor assortment features Warrior-sized figures with drone-vehicles that can convert into equipable armor. While the Megatron is a straight repackaged release, Bumblebee now comes with a version of Grimlock's partner Trash Crash.
"Simpler" toys
Buzzworthy also features a couple of rereleases of two of Bumblebee's bigger toys for smaller hands, including the surprise return of Age of Extinction's Robots in Disguise line Mega 1-Step Bumblebee, as well as a second showing for Bumblebee's Power Charge Bumblebee.
