He's got a backpack, his waist has a backpack, his feet have backpacks, and his backpack has a backpack. I guess they're charging extra for all the backpacks.

I'd totally forgot this existed. There's no way I'm swapping out the original for this, it looked a mess to me before and still does and that's before the ridiculous price they are asking for it. Easy pass.

Canceling my preorder. Thanks B-SF for the honest review. Takara and competitors need to listen up if they want to continue receiving our disposable income.

Feet + backpack = NOT a masterpiece. HasTak taking the piss.

He's like an optical illusion that works only if you look at it from a very very precise angle. As soon as you put him in a slightly 3/4s pose, you just see a pile of kibble with a Bumblebee cutout in front of it.

My word!!! Is Badcube working for Takara these days?????

Because of the head he looks like a guy wearing a mascot costume of Bumblebee

I don’t feel this deserves the title of Masterpiece. What a mess...

I saw the notification for this while I was half asleep and promptly went back to sleep. I then dreamt that Bee didn't have a face when you transformed him and that it was in the box. I think it was a premonition

To those who bought this, if you like it, you win! However, I'm good with Version 1 and that's where I intend to stay. Excellent and accurate review as always! Your true feelings came out when you said... "yikes!" Haha!

An easy pass...my wallet is thanking me now as well...thanks, Bobby #backlivesmatter

His face reminds me of one of those creepy Tickle Me Elmo dolls.

The word of the day is “Yikes.”

Sticking with the old MP bee, no need to replace him.

I absolutely hate how caked in paint this "cartoon accurate" MP are now.. and if that's the reason for the rise in the price tag, I think I'll either wait for a improved 3rd party or other means... Because I'd be to scared to touch them

I'm sticking with my original Bee until a 3P company does him better than this dumpster fire of a figure. Plus it'll probably be almost half the price. Thanks for the review!

I kind of hate this piece. Not happy with the direction they're going.

Well, looks like my MP-21 ain't going anywhere...

For nearly double the price of V1 it's hardly a bargain... I'm sticking with V1.

"I can't tell you in hand doesn't look any better" at 5:20 made me grinning A LOT :D

If they went for alt mode scale consistency (a Countach and Beetle were about the same length, and both were bigger than a Jeep or a Ligier race car), that might give them more room to collapse all that kibble. They definitely would have larger hinges to fold panels up, without bordering on stuff being too thin and likely to break as with this tiny scale. However, the Haslab Unicron would indicate that no matter how big they go, HasTak is fine with kibble and refuses to do away with it even if they could. I dig the bot front view, but hate everything else. My KO MP-21 is staying.

Very thorough review. I like this new Bee dispite it's shortcomings, still prefer the old MP but one does have it's positives. I won't be paying the asking price for it through.

See, the fact you're the only other person other than me who I've heard use "Combiner Wars" as a verb is why you're my favourite reviewer.

The way I see it. The only thing I like about the new one compared to the old one is the shade of yellow it's painted in. In every other way, i'd just hold on to the old bumblebee.

First time I've seen your Ark shelf and that is very amazing. I rewinded the section a few times just to appreciate the set up you have captured. Side note: Version 2 Bee just looked out of place with the other Autobots. Their serious and ready for battle and he's almost hopping for joy. Even Ratchet is looking at him with an expression of: What in the world is wrong with you?

It’s impressive for what it is but I can’t shake the feeling MP has lost it’s way...MP44 included. Doesn’t look fun, plastic origami.

Perfect review. I'd want that head sculpt and that shade of yellow on my old MP Bumblebee and that's about it.

#BackLivesMatter

I'll keep my original mp bumblebee thank you very much.

This checks all the wrong boxes for me. Toon, shell-former, back-trash.

you gotta get those Shadow Fisher upgrades for Ironhide and Ratchet!

The doors becomes the feet. Not the unfinished interior, but the finished exterior. Sure theres a lip - but I am still surprised they'd utilize a finished painted piece for a high traffic location. Bizarre engineering choices with this guy.

This bee isn't a upgrade, just look: his feet is awful, his backpack is absolutely ugly and hollow, his smile is VERY strange (I don't have problems with transformers that smile, it's because this Bee smile is strange), his proportions are weird and overall he just lost that Bumblebee feeling

You just saved me some money, man.

You know as i was looking at the fo chest of bee. I saw iron hides chest , and dislike ironhide chest even more lol... They should've gave hide a fochest aswell. Great review This bee gets an F ! from me.

That sideview... 16:05. Goodness gracious.

"Yikes!" Yeah that sums it up nicely.

I will say his vehicle mode looks fantastic, very show accurate, the robot mode from the front looks awesome. When it comes to that backpack though, I wish Takara could have found a way to compress it in a bit more. He's small and pricey at $120. I'd rather pay about $90.

"And - ever play skin the cat as a kid?" Whoa.. We had wildly different childhoods. Yea, I know it's a flip on the bar, but I had no idea it was called that.

Great review, Bobby! You spoke my mind.😬

Do we think that Bumblebee or Cliffjumper would ever not have a hideous backpack when going for cartoon accuracy...?

Thanks Bobby cancelling my order!

The backpack was slightly mistransformed only because the windshield does tab into the back making it a little more compact but it’s not much of a difference. I feel like if the doors just spun at the feet where the window went under the foot and blows my mind they didn’t. Was at least a few months away from being release ready

Shout out to cats, big ol' feet, and climbing Mt Kilimanjaro. And wow, the ark shelf looks rad.

Wish they would do the original one with this yellow color

Man thats the review i thought you would give it, YIKES theres a tshirt lol great review

potato chips. bumblebee got potato chips on his back.

Amazing video, that figure looks ghastly

Great review and thanks for telling the truth Bobby skullface and warning us about the figure

So...this is the price we pay for absolute cartoon accuracy, huh?

For the price this thing costs I think I’ll get hound instead

Battle sit down Saturday between 1.0 Bumblebee v. 2.0 Bumblebee

I love the chunky little vehicle mode so much, I hope a 3rd party gives us a version with this vehicle mode but a better robot mode.

When you realize this costs as much as a 3p optimus prime, you know takara messed up.

"Yikes!" 💀 😅🤓

The old Bumblebee still looks really good with the XTB Cliffjumper.

too bad a lot of section looks unfinished.

This has to be a pre-production version. At least you'd hope to God it is as it's not due out for at least another month. I mean, it doesn't have blue windows (unlike every other recent toon aesthetic MP figure), the joints are super lose, panel lines everywhere that don't clip together properly, the paint is chipping, the tampo is off centre... That said, Takara just released a hugely expensive figure with most of those problems and more (broken knees anyone?) and people lapped that up, so this is probably what we can expect going forward. While I'm on a rant, it's also too tall and the proportions are off. Those feet and backpack are just hideous as well. I weep for MP-47 Hound if this is what passes for a decent official figure now... Oh, MP-44's backpack is shit as well. Just a different kind of shit.

Great review, man. I think I’m pretty content with my original MP Bumblebee. Also I was listening to your most recent Nerd Rage Radio, and the #backlivesmatter started with a Jobbythehong video review on MP44 criticizing the toys back kibble and transformation. Just thought I’d let ya know.

G1 in the front, Movie Deluxe in the back. I adore the dumpy G1 look, but man that thing is downright nasty from the back

I'll defend MP-44, but I can't defend this guy.

The ultimate irony in all of this is that the car mode is based on the G1 toy.

Patreon Should get the uncut version! Ha ha ha!

Well that settles it. Looks like I can pass on this now. Thanks for the review.

Wow! What a mess. Totally agree with you it's not whether a figure has a backpack or not but how it looks.

I really appreciate this video. I think I'll stick with my original MP Bumblebee. It's not perfect, but I like it better than this. That transformation looks nightmarish.

He makes tracks look good.

More like Bummerbee hort hort SImilar to MP-44, I feel like Masterpiece line is going for some kind of "complexity for complexity's sake" design route, given how there are tons of different moving parts, but either mode ends up with a sectin filled with different parts that don't seem to have any clear place to go so they just end up being pressed together in an unclean looking mess (with this figure, the backpack and the heels, and with MP-44 the back of the truck). I'm no Masterpiece collector, but I would take the original MP Bumblebee any day, as both fan of the original's design and as a guy who does not pursue G1 screen accuracy. So the original just looks better and somewhat cuter with it shorter and bit more chunky design. Also with the original they compensated for high price with Sam figure, even though it seems to be rather crappy.

Thanks for the honest review - most appreciated, as it's pretty much confirmed I'll be purchasing the original MP Bumblebee at roughly half the cost. Also I agree, it's not the size of the backpack that I find off putting, it's the ugly gappy mess that it is. #backlivesmatter

Fanstoys hop to it!! They would knock that out of the park!

Its amazing how many people on TFW dont like you (especially the official fig forums)....LOL it gives me a good laugh. I love you Bobby for keeping it real.

"Who is he going to look down at?", the Spike figure he came with. Not that I plan to get him anyway, but it isn't completely unreasonable. I've been very negative about Takara MPs (my last one was MP-27 Ironhide), but I have to assume this is a pre-production sample because I can't imagine the joints being that bad.

There are things I like about this figure a lot, but for the price point he should be better than MP-21 in every regard. The limited waist swivel and lack of ab cruch especially hurts once you go above 100 dollars. I think I'll save up my funny money for MP Blackarachnia and Hound, those figures actually look pretty sweet and posable. I think an eventual MP Bumblebee version 3 is pretty inevitable unless HasTak goes bankrupt or they lose the licence for the little guy's name again, hopefully that figure will be a lot better whenever they decide to make it.

Its like they started with a good design and then just tried a find a way to get there. I'd rather have an upscale New Age Flipper. That head sculpt, rather the face is so dumb.

A friend of mine ordered a fake of the original and ended up receiving two so she gave me one since I collect mps, I hate to admit it but it was so well done I never ended up buying the real one even though the fake got a lot of play(probably because I had it in my office but still...) and I always told myself I would get around to it so I guess this one is for me even though I'm not the biggest fan of the as toon accurate as possible aesthetic direction everyone and everything seems to be heading towards which has in reality greatly affected my mp collecting(I'm just not that into it anymore even though I love the pieces I already have, with soundwave sort of being the pinnacle of what I like with a couple of releases leading up to it and following rounding out my favorites from takara to Fanstoys. this doesn't look anywhere near as simple, fun and clever as the original and is kind of a mess in places but if the price is right I'll get it to make my penance for the fake. I am a fan of black apples ability to easily fix glaring engineering issues in all these releases and if he gets around to "fixing" takaras design and some shitbag Chinese ko company/pirates manufacture it, I'm going to buy it and tell myself it's a just a custom. The more I think about it, the more this seems like a ridiculously over-engineered release for what should really be quite simple for the sake of being heavily engineered. It's like they're doing this to justify the high prices when in reality you're not really getting all that much more than their basic mass market lines. They want us to keep lying to ourselves that these mps are so way beyond the big box toy store stuff so we keep shelling out stupid amounts of cash for what's essentially a pre assembled plastic model kit with a few paint apps and some more mature/tastefully done faction stickers. This full on toon stuff should just be the norm from takara and hasbros lines at least with voyager and leader class figures. I'm obviously jaded and letting that carry me away with some of my points but I can't help it. That's where I'm at with mp transformers and they used to be one of my favorite things to collect. I look at my hot toys displays and it only makes it worse because I can look at those pieces and actually see cost, I look at my price gouged mps and see plastic trays with pieces being popped out, glued and screwed together in a factory full of some of the lowest paid labor on the planet and sold for ridiculous sums of money. We can't even say a lot of that cost is in the engineering with a straight face anymore.

Oh lordy lordy! This should be entertaining 😉👍

Great review, Thanks! I'm definitely NOT buying this MP Bumblebee 2.0 now, and I usually get MPs

A G1 transformer that transforms like a bayformer

I swooped on a hoodie! Thanks dude!

On a positive note, Big Bad Toy Store has Gold painted G2 Bumblebee on sale right now for only $40 ;P

Great review Skully! I’m willing to bet that they went with clear windows because they plan to release a “plus” version at some point with “even more toon accurate” upgrades like dumb accessories and blue windows. They’ve done it so much now it’s almost an expectation. Personally I think the “toon” movement sent the masterpiece line in the wrong direction. I will say I appreciate Takara not pursuing legal action against the big third party companies for the most part so we can still get the figures we want.

I was considering this guy for car mode along, but was torn. Do I really want to support such crappy design and engineering just to get a car mode that I like? I think my answer has to be no. Maybe FT will take a shot at a Bee.

Send me pictures of your kid's backpacks... and they better look like this lol

In fairness, I think this release is something we've all done to ourselves. By lauding 'toon accuracy whilst simultaneously swallowing price increases, Takara have, understandably, gone further down that route. There are just a couple of signs of the pendulum swinging back the other way. LioConvoy is still very 'toon and too expensive but not as expensive as I'd've thought and neither this 'Bee nor LioConvoy seem to be feathering their nest with excessive numbers of accessories. Where Takara's next few releases go will be interesting to see...

Those feet and backpack look terrible. He looks like he’s been sick all day, wearing jacked up slippers, and a shirt that is riddled with holes in the back, but the shirt is sentimental, so he can’t part with it. No for me, Toyworld Gold Bii is better imo.

I can usually tell from the jog scrollbar thumbnail where you finish the transformation so I can skip ahead to hear you review the articulation, but this thing is such a little panelly mess, it's hard to tell and I easily overshot the jump by a couple minutes and had to backtrack. Guess what I'm saying is, it's such a disaster I couldn't even tell you'd finished transforming it.

What a nightmare.... I might have to pick up the flames toys.

any unicron backer cant complain about this.

Man I miss when mps weren't layered completely in pain and had overly complicated transformations

Why does takara keep pushing these half assed human figures along with their MP figures? If they aren’t gonna do them right then just don’t do it at all and make the price cheaper.

As bad as the back and feet are it is something about the head that is the final no for me. It seems too big and as Bobby said the sculpt is off. The one thing I really like about the old version was it had the battle mask and had that G1 vibe in robot mode. Not paying big $$$ for a down grade

Another great review! Totally hit all the points wrong with this figure.

Old bee = good! New bee = bad! Totally original comment!

Think I'll be skipping this AND new MP Hound. Original bee is fine for me as is FT big Willy

Nice backpack party, you even got Kup to show up.

Yeaaa i have two copies the first MP Bumblebee (standard and g2) and i dont think i will "upgrade" to the 2.0 version, the only thing i can say is truly bad about the first one is that the arms dont fill up when you set it in robot mode, the new version fills out the arms but makes the rest of the figure look straight up awful.

It's a pass for me to, if the price point was 35USD I would buy it but for 100USD...never... they are crazy to ask that kind of money from collectors, it's not like we don't know about what we're buying!!! Nice review though Bobby, thank you.

KBB did a better job with their oversize KO of New Age Toys Flipper! That's actually my new CHUG Bumblebee!

Hot damn Christmas came early if I get to see you dissect this very, very special little bug.

Well, that makes me feel better about not wanting to pay that price point. It looks great in car mode, and straight-on in bot mode. What a bummer. Maybe a third party will clean it up, and make it a little more reasonably priced.