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Heh, look. This APPEARS to be awesome. Overall (once you get it together) it is pretty neat. Yes, it has awesome details. His wings move, his head moves from side to side, his eyes light up and the song plays and he tries to move his arms. We found that they seemed 'limited' but couldn't figure out why. ** We had a VERY hard time just taking him out of the box.** (Must be a 'toy removal degree' somewhere that is reqired these days). But seriously we completely agree that the ARMS are incredibly hard to put on. AND yes that IS what makes the 'robot' work. Then getting it 'transformed' took a very long time. Car mode is fun with the screeching sounds. But pushing it around scared us after taking so long to put it together! Parts are more resiliant than I thought they would be, but still it is very confusing. Again, I agree that it is for a dresser top or desk, which to us isn't worth all the time it took. I would hope that once you get use to changing it back and forth, that it would be come easier to perform. Good luck. Ours is going back. Too much $$ for very little fun. We are going with the 'stomp'in' one and the little one that transforms.
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I think this is a great toy for collectors. Kids will find it a little boring, since the animations and movements are not quite outstanding.
It is very cool to have it on your office desk or at home for your friends to admire.
Also, it is fragile for a kid to play with it. All the little parts may break easily, in fact, every time you transform it into the Camaro or the robot you have to be careful not to break any piece of plastic.
I love this toy, I am a big Transformers fan. I prefered this over the Optimus Prime toy. Too bad there is no Ultimate Optimus Prime.
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R30QL7P3HC5X7L It is much better than my expectation, and I fully enjoy the Ultimate Bumblebee. If that can walk by it self then it can be one of the best robot toys. Anyway, only one problem is too difficult for children to change modes from robot to car, I think.
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Thank you... I am having a great time with my Ultimate Bumblebee. Very educational, without missing the fun and adventure everytime I play my bumble bee. It's worth the price. It could have been better though if in a car/camaro mode, I can play with it with a remote controller for added adventure and fun. Overall, it's a perfect investment.
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Well, for a start, i'm a 33 year old guy who loved the transformers show and toys when was a kid, and the movie made me rekindle that love. Anyways, the toy seemed nice in the pictures, so i bought it (at ebay, for US$ 89) and i think it's well deserved the money.
It's a huge toy, the biggest transformer toy i've seen and probably one of the most detailed. It has lots of moving pieces and articulation points, so it makes it very poseable. It makes different sounds in robot and vehicle mode, the eyes and headlights are blue and very intense, while the backlights sparkle in red as they should.
The car mode is very nice, but not as impressive as the robot mode. Bumblebee turns his head, rotates his arms, and moves his wings while speaking some random phrases or music and shooting the cannon on his right arm. If you play with it in vehicle mode it will make screeching and accelerating noises according to the movement you are giving to it, but it won't move on its own. I expected that the engines would allow it to move around on its own, but they do not engage with the wheels in vehicle mode.
I disassembled Bumblebee and found out that the mechanism is similar to that in a computer mouse; it detects if you spin the wheels backwards and forward. The most difficult part is to assemble the arms in their socket, this step is the most important to complete the robot / vehicle transformation and it is the most delicate. There are a couple of pins on every shoulder that detect if you have put the wheel or the arm in place, i had to disassemble Bumblebee because one of the pins was stuck and kept it from working in vehicle mode. Hasbro should take note on this flaw, it can render the toy useless (from the electronics point of view, not as a transformer, of course)
However, I love all the little details. The left hand has articulate fingers and an opossable thumb, so you can pose it while picking flowers or something like that : )
It would have been cooler if they'd made it with transparent windows, die cast body and two hands, but hey, you can't have everything. I have a four year old daughter and we both enjoy playing together assembling and disassembling the robot, which is, by the way, a hard task. It took me 20 minutes the first time, but you can learn with repetition. If you assemble it correctly, you'll find that it has been pretty well designed, and that no pieces are out of place. You should apply some force on assembling some pieces, but not excessive force.
This might be an expensive toy (US$ 89 is not something most people would pay for a toy) but again, i'm a fan, so i'm possible biased. I wouldn't recomend it for kids who are easily frustrated or that want to have fun inmediately or like to crash things against walls to test them. However if your kids are careful or you are a collector like me, you'll certainly enjoy this toy. I'd love it if Hasbro decided to keep making these kind of toys, they certainly make my G1 transformers (that i still keep in a shelf) look simple and dated.
Of course that there's always a market for the simple flip-and-go transformer toy, but adults with their inner child alive will love Bumblebee.
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