Giant Bumblebee in Bondi today

[1AZRAEL1]

Apparentley a statue or something of Bumblebee will be at Bondi Sydney today and for a few days I am told.

More info to come when I get it. (Or if someone else post more info on it lol)

[1AZRAEL1]

More Info


Commuters on the Manly Ferry are likely to get a shock Thursday Morning (5 Nov) as they will be joined on the water by a life sized Transformer. The giant robot is arriving in Sydney to be part of a mini exhibition and the launch of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on DVD and Blu Ray.

The one-of-a-kind statue, a replica of the Transformer Bumblebee, was made for the original movie by LA based special effects house FXperts. It stands 5 metres tall, weighs nearly three tones, is valued at around A$820,000 and took about six weeks to build.

After doing a tour of the harbour by barge, the giant Bumblebee will be the centerpiece to The Art of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen exhibit, a free display that will be at Bondi Beach from Friday until Sunday and will also include behind the scenes photography, the original design work and storyboarding from the movie process.

[mknell]

Awesome I gotta pick up a friend from there tomorrow night

[Sky Shadow]

Does anyone know exactly where in Bondi this exhibition is supposed to be? I can't find it in the article or anything else about it on the web.

[1AZRAEL1]

Bondi Beach is as far as I can tell. I'll keep on searching until I can find out more.

[1AZRAEL1]

More photos here of Bumblebee on the Harbour (http://www.aapimage.com.au/Search.aspx?search=TRANSFORMERS+BUMBLEBEE+SYDNEY%2 6%28IMPORTDATE%3E20091104%29&viewtype=Grid)

Still trying to get more info on the exhibition

[JuzMel]

Looks awesome! so jealous, imagine bumblebee standing in front of Melbourne Federation Square!

[Scrapper]

I may have to travel up to come and see that one thank you very much 1azrael1

[GoktimusPrime]

I love the pic of the kid wearing the Bumblebee mask :)

[Intention]

Send and email to Bondi Pavilion, got a reply:
Yes Bumblebee is on the Bondi Pavilion forecourt all day and night until Sunday afternoon and is free to the public.
:D

[mknell]

Send and email to Bondi Pavilion, got a reply:
Yes Bumblebee is on the Bondi Pavilion forecourt all day and night until Sunday afternoon and is free to the public.
:D

I was there this evening and saw nothing :( maybe he is hidden away at night

[optimus1]

My sis and I will be trying to go see him later today. Will try and post some pics if I can

[mknell]

My sis and I will be trying to go see him later today. Will try and post some pics if I can

Yeah i'm going to try later today as well

[tron07]

Saw this guy today, he is at the Bondi beach area. Somewhere right opposite the McDonalds, HungryJacks area... you cant miss it as it is huge, around 5M tall.... "real" size as the car tires are real huge tires.

Took some photos but forgot to take my camera up to my place from my car. So will get it tomorrow.

I read on some sites that its there until tomorrow noon, so better go see it early.

[optimus1]

Went for the drive out to Bondi today. Traffic was as per usual, another reason why I like the beaches better at the Central Coast or Newcastle :)

Well anyway, found some parking and walked down to the pavillion to have a look at Bumblebee.

He's pretty impressive, there was a constant group of people taking photos of him. Was nice to see some families and also appears some people drove from out west to have a look at him.

Well here they are:

The view as you approach 'Bee -

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0031.jpg


At front -

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0030.jpg


Just me and my ol' friend Bumblebee :)

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0005.jpg


Just a photo to prove he is in Australia (HINT: the Australian flag)

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0003.jpg


A close up of his head and torso

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0028.jpg


Bumblebee's view out to Bondi Beach and the ocean

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0026.jpg


Some of the extra design pics on display

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0013.jpg
http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0012.jpg
http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0019.jpg
http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0020.jpg
http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0017.jpg

Hope u guys enjoy the pics :)

[1AZRAEL1]

Thanks matey, I unfortunately could not make it out there, so it is good to see pics of it anyway.

[colin78]

Is it just me or is he missing part of his head? He's only got the left flap thing on his head...

Poor old Bumblebee, all that international jet setting muxt of taken it's toll.

[griffin]

Heh, yeah... he's missing an ear. :p

I think those production photos are more interesting (the Bumblebee isn't a movie prop, as it isn't 'realistic' enough to the one they used in the movie).
It seems that the Biplane (Ransack) and the Construction Crane (Hightower) were both originally intended for the movie (like Arcee and Wreckage were for TF1). And more importantly, Hightower is 'Constructicon 10', lending support to the what the Writers once said about their being a dozen or so different Constructicons, with only a small number required to form Devastator.

We also get to see Alice being officially called a Pretender (or more accurately, 'Pretender Hot Chick' :p ), and showing a mid-transformation image of metalic strips wrapping around the robot head to form the human head.

I really hope all of these sort of pre-production images are eventually done up in a book or on a website archive somewhere. I'd buy it, and it would give more insight into the evolution the the movie process.

Thanks for the pics Optimus1, they were really interesting.

[tron07]

I didnt see any of the props there, but BB was pretty cool athough he uses Kumho tires :D

[FFN]

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0017.jpg

Hope u guys enjoy the pics :) Wow

Do you have a original giant size version of this last image? That's what Legends Hightower was based upon, but the image hasn't been released by the artists yet (as far as I know), so this is the first time it's been seen in public.

[mknell]

I got there at 12 today and they were pulling him apart :( it sucked I missed out by just

[1AZRAEL1]

ah damn that sux, good thing I didnt decide to go after work, I would have completely missed it, even though I did anyway.

[mknell]

ah damn that sux, good thing I didnt decide to go after work, I would have completely missed it, even though I did anyway.

Yeah though I would have thought they'd leave it till late tuesday, oh well no matter

[optimus1]

Wow

Do you have a original giant size version of this last image? That's what Legends Hightower was based upon, but the image hasn't been released by the artists yet (as far as I know), so this is the first time it's been seen in public.

Sorry, I didnt take any close up shots of that last one. But yeah was interesting to see the mock up of the constructicons.

Thanks for the kind words guys!

[optimus1]

Am sorry to hear that he was being dismantled a bit early.

I forgot to also add these last few pics of the movie pre-production:

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0014.jpg


Look at all that NEST equipment and the police markings - potential future repaint alert?
http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0016.jpg

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0021.jpg

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0023.jpg

http://i475.photobucket.com/albums/rr118/gpls12/BILD0024.jpg

[Sleeve]

Bumblebee statue, eh? Sounds familiar. :p

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y233/Mulla_21/Bumblebee.jpg

[Paulbot]

Until I saw the pics from Sydney I thought it was going to be the one we saw (and some thrusted at) at BotCon.