I picked a red Bumblebee out of a dump bin of minibots, thinking it was Cliffjumper. I was 8 so I didn't have sense enough to actually look at the thing. I didn't notice until I'd gotten it home and ripped it open. Man, I was annoyed. I hated Bumblebee. And yes, his feet always came off.

When I got this reissue, it was my first time ever actually handling a G1 bee. To be honest, I ADORE how tiny this figure is, as well as the other minibots. So much so that I even went out and got the keychain release of bee that came out a while ago to wear on my work uniform! Needless to say, I adore this figure, and this review was fantastic, well done!

I think I'll call the red Bumblebee "Ladybug" and the yellow Cliffjumper "Blow-Out". And as for the Mazda 323 - the yellow one is "Bumper" and the red one is "Stinger".

The old microchange toys were small alien robots hiding in your toybox

In my head cannon, Bumblebee would be closer to the lemon yellow.🍋

the red bumble bee was known as Bumblejumper. He was a takara version common 1st issue TF

I had the original G1 Cliffjumper, in the correct red, that one of my cousins gave me, and the keychain version of Bumblebee, and both of them had the detachable foot problem. They've never fixed that with any character sharing this mold. The keychain version also had the new sticker, but the old face and none of the newer paint, and the only other difference was the loop on the shoulder for the chain.

It wasn’t exclusive to the reissue. In the 80s, my Bumblebee’s foot came off sometimes too. Not all the time but it did happen

I ripped the foot off too. Unscrewed it then reassembled it on the joint

I got my red Bumblebee Way back in 1990. Flea market. I knew it was bumblebee. He was in a box of ordinary toy cars for 25 cent. I have the yellow cliffjumper too. hasbro released them in both red & Yellow. Also don't forget G2 Bumblebee & the blue one glyph. I have those too. OH Tip for Bumblebee's feet. Use clear Nail polish on the joints. Make it much easier.

If I recall the first version of bumblebee didn't have a rubsign I think the rubsign variant was first used in 1985

I didn't grow up with g1, but a part of me always wished that the toy accurate head got some love once in a while. The visor-faceplate combo is always cool in my eyes.

That penny racer music goes way harder than it needs to, but I love it. Bit of a power rangers feel to it. Go Go Penny Racers!!!

I like to think of Bumblebee as a realistic VW Beetle but jacked up with big tires in the rear like the G1 minicar. I think the Cali surfer crowd popularized this look in the '60s. It makes him seem a little cooler than just a plain Bug. The original G1 toy seems to have been loosely based on a VW Model 111-1200A Sparkäfer Saloon (left-hand drive Standard Beetle Sedan for Euro continental export), with flat windshield, squared-corner bumpers (instead of bulky US safety bumpers) with integrated front headlights (instead of US fendertop headlights). However, it also adds the single right-side exhaust pipe outlet indicative of the US emissions controls introduced in 1975. The G1 yellow over black coloration of the body over the robot arms with black bumpers is reminiscent of the Sonderaktion (Special Edition) Beetle called Jeans (so named for blue jeans fabric on the interior). If Bumblebee was indeed modeled after a Jeans special edition Beetle that also received the 1975 emissions controls exhaust, then that would point specifically to the *1975 S744-L16M Jeans III special edition.* That exported special edition used a color called Tunisgelb (Tunisian yellow), which was a sort of amber orange-yellow. MP-21 Bee appears to use the Tunisgelb color and black bumpers, but it drops the other Jeans III special edition appearance features, and it adds US fendertop headlights but deletes the single tailpipe. Weird.

Penny racers were awesome!

I remembered long time ago when they aired G1 on TV in mid 2000's where my friends and I had a fight with this kid who can't differentiate Bumblebee and Cliffjumper because he's colourblind and we didn't know what colourblind meant.

While the quality of this toy is.....iffy. I still can't help but love him.😊

G1 Bumblebee's color is actually sunny yellow, depends on the original cartoon.

Interesting.....

Actually, when it comes to g1 toys, there are lots of variants. So if you see red Bumblebee, it's not so weird. I heard that same to Cliffjumper.

I bought this Bumblebee a few years ago. I've kept it on card because it looks great with the classic artwork

The fact that the Diaclone cars were less stylized and still didn't have any licensing tells me Hasbro and Takara just didn't care back then.

Can you review laser prime or toxitron

I had a few penny racers back in the 80's. Pull back cars like that were very popular. So were slot cars, Stompers, and other cars back then.

3:30 My original G1 Bumblebee also had a foot that would pull off. Happened even when he was brand new.

I had a red Bumblebee and a yellow Cliffjumper as a kid. The packaging said Bumblebee and Cliffjumper. Most of my friends couldn't seem to understand that Bumblebee is a VW Beetle and Cliffjumper is a Porsche. They all thought the color is what defined the characters. In defending these wrong colored Autobots I said the color isn't what defined the characters, it was the form. Thank god I didn't have a blue one. I likely would have been told it was a fake. The rubsign sticker isn't original to all G1 Transformers. None of the original line in 1984 had them. This only started in 1985. I can tell you exactly which ones I got in 1984 and which ones I got in 1985 or later due to the lack of the rubsign sticker. I don't recall the feet being an issue as a kid. As the toy had aged I can feel that it's gotten harder to transform and won't let anyone but myself do it out of fear of damaging it.

I seem to remember having the pretender Bumblebee as a kid

G1 toys are a lot smaller than I remember. I guess I was a smaller 35 years ago.

Welcome back glad to see this review missed ya

I remember different colored bumblebees and cliff jumpers. Red ones blue one green ones. I'm sure some were KO's though.

Some food for thought on the oranger shade of yellow on the Netflix/Masterpieace bee's, Yellow is really hard to paint well, so choosing a more orange shade for more heavily painted figured might have been to save the time it would take to get bright yellow right. Just a theory, I've never handled either so I don't know how much paint's used on them in the first place

I love these stop motion thingies. They SO look like they move on their own and that's so cool.

I definitely lean more towards the mustard yellow.

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Nice video. The penny racers had a mild comeback in the late 80's with Turbo tricksters. A pull-back motorized version. I have a few of them from Tonka

I have a great deal of admiration for the patience of people that do stop motion videos! I do have a nostalgic soft spot for the original BB. I don't think he was my first minibot back on the day (Gears may have that honour) but he was one I got fairly early on and he also suffered from the foot issue but that was only after I'd had him a while. I picked up a couple of the keyring versions that were released a few years ago (I think they had the original face sculpt). I always thought, at the age of 8, that the asymmetric arm joints were so clever! (and still do to this day!)

they had red and yellow bumblebee toys and red and yellow cliffjumper toys. there might have been more colors but I don't remember .

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This is how a BumbleBee Beetle should look.

The reason you may have a memory of a red bumblebee is because in the 80s hasbro not only made a yellow bumblebee and a red cliffjumper, but color-swapped versions of them both. Edit: the Transformers basics video doesn’t talk about yellow Cliff and Red Bee but those toys definitely did exist. And Bumper really didn’t have anything to do with the color-swaps

I had a red Bumblebee growing up (I still have it). They were among the first retail releases of Transformers in the U.S., and were issued before the rub insignias were a thing. After the television show blew up, and they started issuing the rub stickers these disappeared from shelves. I honestly don't think that I had seen the cartoon when I bought the figure -- I just liked VW beetles and wanted one. I also had a few Penny Racers (known as "Choro-Q" in Japan). As far as I know, there are red Bumblebees but there are no yellow Cliffjumpers (there are allegedly, however, similar yellow cars packaged in Cliffjumper cards, now affectionately referred to as "Bumblejumper" or "Bumper"). These aren't the Bumblebee or Cliffjumper mold, but another Microman/Microchange figure that was mistakenly released. Oddly enough, I also have a red G1 Sunstreaker in my collection. It was the original Diaclone color for the figure, and one of three Diaclone (known as Diakron in the U.S.) cars released before Hasbro bought the rights for The Transformers. There were also U.S. releases of a Blue Trailbreaker and a black Iron Hide. These figures quickly disappeared from shelves and were replaced by the Hasbro models in the early 80s. Thanks for posting!

How did my brain completely forget about penny racers?! Also my retro also pops its foot regularly.

I have the Worlds Collide and Origin Bumblebee, and I love their Lemon Drop Yellow

Man, the fact you didn't know about penny racers makes me feel ancient. I had a few of them mixed in with my hotwheels/matchbox/corgi cars.

Netflix Bumble's color is in my opinion close to School Bus Yellow instead of Mustard Yellow, as color mustard can vary between brands, in fact I've seen Mustards that are close in color to most of these Bumblebees.

I have a little Bumblebee Keychain that I removed from the chain. Love that fella.

Lemon Yellow 💛

CrashMan theme. MegaMan 2.

Welcome back, Great review as always

My cousin used to have the keychain one, I would play with it non stop

My step daughter got me this same figure for a Christmas gift when it first came out - small world

Damn, I keep forgetting how small the mini bots in G1 toy-line actually are. Also thanks for the history lesson on penny racers. I was wondering what there connection to coins was.

Aha! John Smallberries!

I have the keychain reissue from the mid-aughts as well as a hand-me-down original and neither of them have problems with the foot coming off, huh. Wonder if thats a problem specific to the new mold from 2004

I missed you. Looking forward to more videos!

Great fun! Thank you!

I've pulled a foot or two off of my original G1 BB.

Awesome review! This bumblebee was one of my favorites when I was 8 years old

i love these stop motion reviews

Vaguely remember friends having penny racers. Definitely recall my brother had a red Bumblebee and its feet sometimes came off, though maybe not as much as yours seems to. Maybe that's just the price of moving manufacturing away from Japan.

Actually, I consider the yellow-orange of Netflix and MP Bee to be an American Cheese color

really creative review, love your stile

My man, I missed you and your videos. Nice one 👍

I think bumblebee should be purple!!!!

I still have the keychain versions of the reissues of Bumblebee and Cliffjumper still carded I got in exchange for art waaaay back in the early 2000s. I'm debating if I want to open them now and play with them.

Another great video

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I like my bees to be a slightly darker yellow but not quite the yellow orange like the netflix bee

If i had a G1 Bee to; i'm not sure if i'd be happier with the toy or toon head... I'm leaning toy head, oddly enough.

The Bay Bumblebee though? That's Bee enough.

The foot falling off is a defect, I've had multiple ones of the new reissue and transformed them multiple times and the foot never fell off

"Functional but but derpy" is my description of all the G1 toys. Love 'em despite, maybe because of, the limitations. I like the banana yellow for Bumblebee, but that can change based on lighting.

Talk about best daughter ever!

Long time no see! Great review as always!

there was a red version of Bumbleebee; as well as a yellow Cliffjumper. I had both as a kid. Great video as always.

I am also more of a fan of bumblebee being a lemon or banana yellow instead of a sunny D yellow

HE MADE G1 BUMBLEBEE WALK

I owned a red bumblebee

heard the Heavy "NOM" in my head and y'all know exactly when.

I think of the yellow/orange colour as "egg yolk". But I like my G1 Bumblebee lemon.

Six months!!

4:59 Pichu, Pikachu & Raichu in terms of colour.

The Cliffjumper that was was Bumble Jumper an was Yellow with Cliffjumper face an the case showed him red it was a oppsie at the factory. My Brother had one.

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I remembered I had one when I was 6

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The red bumblebee ypu speak of was Cliff Jumper another Autobot.

I’ve had that same reissue and pulling the foot off is a consistent problem it seems.

Nah fam, I should custom made Bumblebee + Upgraded (aka GoldBug), i should recreated this.

I know I’m not the only one that remembers a penny racer styled pull back car that had like a turbine on the back of it that allowed the car to do twirly type of wheelies. What was the of that line ?

I still have him … 🥰

Yo, long time, no see.

I feel like I'm playing Mega Man lol

I like my Bumblebees purple.

red my faverate transformer is cliffjumper

In REALITY BUMBLEBEE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN A VW BUG AT ALL. BUT INSTEAD A VERY CLASSIC COMPACT TOYOTA. Like a 1947-51 Model Toyota..

5:34 You can't be racist; Canadians are too nice to be racist.

Is that Crash Man's theme I am hearing?

Meu primo mais velho me deu nos anos 90 mais infelizmente eu perdi

Ha ha,you made Bee do the pee pee dance. I mean he is yellow after all...good job dude. Yikes how many Johns are on that list? I would be happy to join, if I weren't 10000 in debt.