Toy Review - TFPrime Legion Bumblebee

[griffin]

(Please post photos, comments or even a fully comprehensive review - these are just brief details)

Toy Review - Bumblebee
Series - Transformers Prime
Sub-line - Cyberverse
Size/class - Legion
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - 1
Released here - March 2012
Approximate Retail Price - $7-9
Approximate Size - 7cm
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - Sports car
Main Features/Gimmicks - none
Main Colours - yellow, black
Main Accessories - gun

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/tftoys/tfpc03.jpg

[UltraMarginal]

for me, the last of the Prime Legions,
I like the vehicle mode and the robot mode isn't bad.

Pros:
transformation not too bad, I really like the shoulder transformation that hides away the wheels. simple yet effective.

For the size class it's a pretty good representation of both modes.

Generally good paint apps, especially the eyes.


Cons:
rear windows and tail lights aren't painted. given the rest of the paint apps it looks really bare from the back in vehicle mode.

no articulation in the knees, even the vehicon has articulated knees.

The blaster is oversized but looks OK.


Something that my workmate pointed out is the vehicle mode is very clean. I've been back over all of the legion class figures and noted that all the vehicle modes are very clean. there are no hinges or huge gaps anywhere.
the only exception is the back of the vehicon where the feet stick out.

while this is becoming more common in the smller size class, I remember a time when legends figures had hinges sticking out of the vehicle mode everywhere and here they are very clean, the vehicle modes for all of these figures is very good.

I recommend bb if you don't have enough BBs yet, it's pretty simple compared to CJ but on special it worth getting just to complete the set.they all look good either parked (http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l541/UltraMarginal/UltraMarginals%20Transformers%20collection/2012-03-14173125.jpg)or standing (http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l541/UltraMarginal/UltraMarginals%20Transformers%20collection/2012-03-14174653.jpg)next to each other.

[The_Damned]

a very awesome legend sized figure well worth the $7 i paid nice robot and alt mode what more could you want.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, I gotta agree it is a nicely made and solid Legion class figure with no real flaws. :) I guess this toy just gets overlooked a lot because there's just too much Bumblebee out there! (it's kinda hard for the better figures to stand out amongst all the "noise")