Transformers Vintage G1 Bumblebee | Stop Motion Review 

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.

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".

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Can you review laser prime or toxitron

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

Penny racers were awesome!

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

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.

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

Welcome back glad to see this review missed ya

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 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.

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 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 think bumblebee should be purple!!!!

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!!!

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.

Interesting.....

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.

They really trying to make bumblebee popular .That mfer was always trash to me

I definitely lean more towards the mustard yellow.

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

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

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

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

I just discovered your channel today, and I love this review so much! It reminds me of stuff TheLazyEyebrow used to do, with your own sense of humor sprinkled in. Definitely subscribing, and I'll be off to check out your other vids from here.

I owned a red bumblebee

CrashMan theme. MegaMan 2.

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

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.

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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.

Welcome back, Great review as always

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.

I owned red Bumblebee as an 80s and 90s kid and the feet do accidentally come off

I seem to remember having the pretender Bumblebee as a kid

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

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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.

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

Aha! John Smallberries!

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

I missed you. Looking forward to more videos!

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!

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.

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

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

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

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!)

I feel like I'm playing Mega Man lol

Lemon Yellow 💛

HE MADE G1 BUMBLEBEE WALK

Yellow-orange is better for the movie bumblebee toys

Six months!!

What Optimus Prime was that in this video?

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.

This is how a BumbleBee Beetle should look.

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

red my faverate transformer is cliffjumper

Bumblebee should be silver

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

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

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

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.

You shoul've compared with the new masterpeice Bumblebee.

Cardboard Bots are you G.I. Joe fan?

Yo, long time, no see.

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

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.

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..

Thought you quit, ese

Lemon or canary.

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

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

Long time no see! Great review as always!

"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.

i think he should be yellow

really creative review, love your stile

The Bay Bumblebee though? That's Bee enough.

Talk about best daughter ever!

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

Is that Crash Man's theme I am hearing?

i love these stop motion reviews

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

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

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