Saturday, August 9, 2008

Hasbro Transformers Ultimate Bumblebee Figure

The Ultimate Bumblebee. This astonishing 14-inch tall animatronic Bumblebee robot transforms into a 2008 Camaro,complete with lights and sounds! With the touch of a button, our hero comes to life with speech and music featuring Devo's'Whip It,' battle, and conversion sounds. Bumblebee's sound detection capabilities also enable him to respond to noises. His head, arms, and wings are animated, and he can even aim and fire a missile! It doesn't get any better than this. Better add one to your'ultimate' Transformers collection today!

Hasbro Transformers Ultimate Bumblebee Figure
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The Hasbro Transformers Ultimate Bumblebee Figure is the premium movie-based Transformers toy on the market. Standing more than 14 inches tall, this action figure is more than deserving of the title "Ultimate." With his sleek design, his battle and conversation sounds, and his advanced animatronics system, Ultimate Bumblebee is one of the most fully featured action figures you'll ever find.



The Bumblebee fully featured action figure delivers animatronics and sounds. View larger. View Side.


Bumblebee's car form is as detailed and well built as any model car. View larger. View Side.








Two Awesome Modes
Recommended for ages five and up, Ultimate Bumblebee is perfect for toy collectors and kids alike. Initially, Ultimate Bumblebee appears as a sleek 2008 Camaro. With its vivid yellow finish and racing stripes, Ultimate Bumblebee's car form is as detailed and well built as any model car and would be a perfect addition to a cabinet or dresser top. The car is able to roll freely on carpet and hard surfaces alike.

However, like all Transformers, there is more to Ultimate Bumblebee's Camaro form than meets the eye. When it is time for him to come out of disguise and confront his enemies, he can transform into a massive, powerful robot. Equipped with a plasma cannon, he is more than prepared to defend your local Autobot from Decepticon attacks.

With a few minor adjustments, kids can transform Ultimate Bumblebee seamlessly between his robot and his vehicle mode. His robot mode stands an impressive 14 inches, and is fully articulated, meaning that kids can adjust him into any pose. He is also incredibly detailed -- likely one of the most attractive action figures your aspiring heros will ever get their hands on.

Advanced Animatronics and Sounds
Ultimate Bumblebee features an advanced animatronic design, which means he can move and animate himself when in robot mode. With the touch of a button, he'll burst into motion. His head moves expressively from side to side, and his arms and wings both move up and down. He can even aim his plasma cannon and fire off his missile.

Perhaps most impressively, he has full sound detection capabilities. He will respond to noises by turning and making sounds of his own. In addition to his animatronics and motion, Ultimate Bumblebee can also make a variety of exciting sounds. This ever-vigilant Autobot has 17 different heroic conversation phrases, such as "Let's roll out!" and "Take that, Decepticon!" He also makes battle sounds -- kids will hear the firing of his plasma cannon and the whirring, crushing sound of his movements. He'll even boogie as he plays Devo's popular song, "Whip It."

About Transformers
The Transformers began as a Hasbro toy line back in 1983, featuring toy vehicles that could transform into robots. The toys soon inspired an entire universe of fictional story lines, pitting the two factions of Transformers -- the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons -- against one another. A live-action movie based on the Transformers was released in 2007 and has continued the toy line's extreme popularity. With toys such as the Ultimate Bumblebee Figure, kids can bring home the struggle between the Autobots and Decepticons.

Features

  • Ultimate Bumblebee figure is premium Transformers toy on the market
  • Transforms from sleek 2008 Camaro into intimidating robot form
  • By using advanced animatronic system, can burst into motion at push of button
  • Has 17 different conversation phrases; makes battle and transformation sounds
  • Recommended for ages 5 and up
Customer Reviews

A very awesome figure!5

This is a great action figure of the movie hero! It,s a lot of fun and it is just like the movie!

Cool Toy but poorly manufactured1

I bought two of these Toys for last Christmas for my 9 year old and 7 year old sons. It was really cool at first when we transformed it into car mode, but it kept falling apart in the middle section of the car. Seemed very delicate! I was not to thrilled with this. Once we transformed it into Robot mode we were even more dissatisfied for it did not work properly. The wings did not move correctly, nor did the arms. They were trying to move, but the parts inside were missing a connection with each other so it only made continuous clicking sounds. The only things that did work properly were the sounds and lights.

Transforming from car mode to robot mode was actually quite easy for we know there was a website on transformers.com that showed you step by step transforming for the toy in video made, so we could play and pause as we went. My 7 year old son was able to transform it.

Unfortunately we purchased the toys off of Ebay since they were sold out and impossible to find anywhere else. What a huge mistake that was. The seller would not allow us to return them because they were opened. It did not matter that they were defective. Warning to all - Do not buy expensive items off Ebay!!!

So, 240.00 later, we have two toys that never worked that sit in the corner collecting dust. Waste of Money!

ultimate bumblebee not that good2
I brought this toy in Oct07, here are my comments:

Likeness of the toy to movie: 60% (therefore I buy the optimus prime (leader class afterwards because it's more fun)
Buy one?

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