Transformers 5: The Last Knight Bumblebee revealed!

Looks like an atypical and almost recognizable design for Bumblebee from his previous incarnations in the Bayverse at least. I wonder if they're going to change his look again for his solo movie. Gotta sell those toys.

I can see the dressing room now...

"Alright 'Bee, the costume designer wants to go back to your old outfit, it's what the audience knows. I'm thinkin' classic! I'm thinkin' iconic! It's so YOU, baby! Yeah! Okay here's your motivation: you realized that you copied the look of the guy who was trying to be a copy-cat of you, and that's not really a good message for the kids, so you decided to go back to being yourself. BEE yourself, hey that's good... Get marketing on that, make it a hashtag... Oh, forgot to tell ya, we changed your bra again, nbd, you know the drill."

I cant tell if he is that different from first glance. Looks like a movie bumblebee model like all the others, to me.

Very nice, I just hope he is not the last knight... and actually die at the beginning, just like Ratchet, Ironhide and leadfoot, so rodimus can take his place.

william-james88 wrote:I cant tell if he is that different from first glance. Looks like a movie bumblebee model like all the others, to me.

Between the first three films and AOE they changed the design quite a bit. This one looks to be a combination of the two. In AOE all of his parts were fitted very close to each other and streamlined to look very organic, or at least not like an identifiable car. The big difference, here, is the chest piece which is more identifiable as a car bumper split in two like his original designs. The other thing is that the face mask is basically the one from AOE.

Personally, I'd like for them to go more classic and vehicle like with all of these designs, since it's still hard to tell what they actually turn into. Crosshair and Megatron especially. I also really, really, really despise the transformations in the 4th movie where the decepticons just explode into bits and reform. So, I hope they put the kabosh on that.

BERSEKAEL wrote:Very nice, I just hope he is not the last knight... and actually die at the beginning, just like Ratchet, Ironhide and leadfoot, so rodimus can take his place.

That's gonna be a bit difficult when the movie after this is called "The Bumblebee Movie".

Well, they really went back some to his first trilogy design, even got the door wings back. I did really like the AoE design and I'm a bit sad they went backwards from it. But at least he has the wings again, I like those

william-james88 wrote:I cant tell if he is that different from first glance. Looks like a movie bumblebee model like all the others, to me.

Really man?


The changes on Bee are always easy to spot why is everyone saying stuff like this I don't get it like what the heck.

I personally never see much of a difference between the movie Bumblebees, at least not in robot mode. I can see the differences in Optimus; AoE was a design overhaul for him, but... Bumblebee? I'm not denying there's changes, I just don't really see them.

Bumblebee is growing up fast. In the first movie he was 16.2 feet tall, now he's 18 and taller than Drift. So much for being the runt of the team.

Emerje

Wow, fumblebee is every kind of underwhelming, I honestly couldn't tell if this was a new design or not without images of his other forms sitting in front of me (I can at least tell that it isn't the newer aoe version, that one was at least cool looking)

I really wasn't feeling his AOE version, this is a welcome return to something closer to his first forms.

I really have to ask, what's the point of turning him into Galvatron in AOE if they were going to turn him back in TLK? Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose of Megatron becoming Galvatron? Hell, his last line in the previous film was "I am reborn", thus implying that he's still Galvatron. Not helped by the fact that, in general, I don't care for the redesign. The whole knight aesthetic may have worked for Prime and the Dinobots, but not for the ruthless and maniacal overlord with a cannon on his arm who is bent on destroying all who stands in his way. And I really don't like the horn thing going on with his helmet; retracted, it makes him look like a goat, but deployed, he just looks like the Dreads from DOTM, who look like the Predator. In short, this doesn't make sense contextually and doesn't work from a design stand-point.

Not sure if it's just me or does his faceplate look like Wasp's from TFA

Omega-Doom wrote:Not sure if it's just me or does his faceplate look like Wasp's from TFA

It's the battle mask he had in AOE.

Deadput wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I cant tell if he is that different from first glance. Looks like a movie bumblebee model like all the others, to me.

Really man?
The changes on Bee are always easy to spot why is everyone saying stuff like this I don't get it like what the heck.

Its all one big blurr to me. I didnt even notice that he didnt even have wings in AOE.

I can tell it much more on Optimus.

william-james88 wrote:Its all one big blurr to me. I didnt even notice that he didnt even have wings in AOE.

I can tell it much more on Optimus.

At the very least people can tell his chest is different with each movie right?


I think story wise Bumblebee keeps upgrading his disguise because he is a vain character remember when he went and scanned a new car mode after Mikela called him a piece of crap?

Deadput wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Its all one big blurr to me. I didnt even notice that he didnt even have wings in AOE.

I can tell it much more on Optimus.

At the very least people can tell his chest is different with each movie right?

His chest was different between ROTF and DOTM?

I dont think people can tell that easily. Could you tell which movie this bee is from for instance?

william-james88 wrote:

Deadput wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Its all one big blurr to me. I didnt even notice that he didnt even have wings in AOE.

I can tell it much more on Optimus.

At the very least people can tell his chest is different with each movie right?

His chest was different between ROTF and DOTM?

I dont think people can tell that easily. Could you tell which movie this bee is from for instance?

That one's either from the first one or ROTF. I don't know the differences between his chest in the first one and ROTF, but I do know that in DOTM, his chest was compacted a tiny bit and had two arm/bar/lever things going across the bottom of the two car front half boob things. That's far from a technical description, but they are fairly obvious if you compare the two. The difference between the first 3 movies' Bumblebee and AOE Bumblebee are way more obvious, of course.

That picture above is movie 1 Bee, as you can tell by the smaller circular lights below the main headlights.


RotF Bee had more rectangular lower lights:



DotM Bee had those extra Ab bits:



AoE had the ninja look minus the wings replaced with throwing star like things:

looks like the Dotm design with AOE head

william-james88 wrote:

Deadput wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Its all one big blurr to me. I didnt even notice that he didnt even have wings in AOE.

I can tell it much more on Optimus.

At the very least people can tell his chest is different with each movie right?

His chest was different between ROTF and DOTM?

I dont think people can tell that easily. Could you tell which movie this bee is from for instance?

That's the TF1 design. ROTF Bumblebee had black squares around his fog lights or whatever, and DOTM Bublebee had extra pieces covering his chest/abdomen area.

Earlier this past week on Tuesday August 9th, I was part of a small group of Transformers fans who were invited to visit the set of Transformers 5 The Last Knight near Detroit, MI. In addition to getting a sneak peak at some of the massive sets and getting to meet Michael Bay himself, we got some personal time with some of the real stars of the movie ... the Transformers themselves! Each gallery below includes multiple shots of each vehicle that we got to see from the heroic Autobots Bumblebee, Drift, and Optimus Prime to the evil Decepticons Onslaught and Barricade! Click on an image below to view a gallery of that respective character's alt mode. Please note that each vehicle has its own unique gallery in our ongoing Transformers Movie related gallery section.

In case you missed it earlier this week, we also posted some walkaround videos of the vehicles on our YouTube channel, which you can view by clicking here.

Special thanks again and much appreciation to Paramount for orchestrating our set visit. What an amazing experience!

Bumblebee (6th generation Chevrolet Camaro mode) ... plus Hound makes a cameo appearance!


Barricade (Ford Mustang Police Car mode)


Drift (Mercedes-AMG GT R mode)


Optimus Prime (Western Star 5700 XE mode)


Onslaught (Western Star 4900SF Tow Truck mode)


Miscellaneous images (other vehicles and more)

Seibertron wrote:I was part of a small group of Transformers who were invited to visit the set of Transformers 5 The Last Knight near Detroit, MI.

Ah, I always suspected humans didn't run the site.

Seibertron wrote:I was part of a small group of Transformers who were invited to visit the set of Transformers 5 The Last Knight near Detroit, MI.

They live among us...


Makes sense that the owner of this site is a Transformer.

Madeus Prime wrote:

Seibertron wrote:I was part of a small group of Transformers who were invited to visit the set of Transformers 5 The Last Knight near Detroit, MI.

Ah, I always suspected humans didn't run the site.

LOL! Ah, good catch.

The news story and post have been corrected to say "Transformers fans".

william-james88 wrote:His chest was different between ROTF and DOTM?

I dont think people can tell that easily. Could you tell which movie this bee is from for instance?

Yes for example the pic you have is movie one and not even a final render at that.


Here is a real render of Movie 1 Bee




Here is ROTF and DOTM respectively with similar poses/renders.







Chest's are different and Bumblebee's shoulders are larger in DOTM and this was stated by people who worked on the movie during DOTM and they said it was to show how more mature Bee was at that point.


The differences are pretty obvious Bumblebee is never exactly the same in each movie.

Deadput wrote:

william-james88 wrote:His chest was different between ROTF and DOTM?

I dont think people can tell that easily. Could you tell which movie this bee is from for instance?

Yes for example the pic you have is movie one and not even a final render at that.


Here is a real render of Movie 1 Bee




Here is ROTF and DOTM respectively with similar poses/renders.







Chest's are different and Bumblebee's shoulders are larger in DOTM and this was stated by people who worked on the movie during DOTM and they said it was to show how more mature Bee was at that point.


The differences are pretty obvious Bumblebee is never exactly the same in each movie.

I mean, to be fair, they're not that obvious unless you're actually looking for differences.

A couple more videos from Transformers: The Last Knight filming times have been sent our way - one from the official Transformers Facebook page, featuring Josh Duhamel / Lennox talking about Luke Air Force Base in Arizona (used as a set in the movie), and the other from YouTube user Angelina Pax, showing off some shooting Bayhem action in Detroit. Check them both out below!

Barricade is a meme now XD "Keep calm and all hail Megatron"

Speaking of Megatron.....since he's in this...what's happened to Galvatron then?

Stuartmaximus wrote:Speaking of Megatron.....since he's in this...what's happened to Galvatron then?

A question that's been asked multiple times in this thread (yeah yeah, I know, you don't have time to go back and read all posts so unbunch your panties) and the simple answer is ... we most likely won't know until the movie is released.

Burn wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Speaking of Megatron.....since he's in this...what's happened to Galvatron then?

A question that's been asked multiple times in this thread (yeah yeah, I know, you don't have time to go back and read all posts so unbunch your panties) and the simple answer is ... we most likely won't know until the movie is released.

Ah, ok, thanks

Oh....and FYI....i wear boxers.....not panties

Seibertron wrote:Earlier this past week on Tuesday August 9th, I was part of a small group of Transformers fans who were invited to visit the set of Transformers 5 The Last Knight near Detroit, MI. In addition to getting a sneak peak at some of the massive sets and getting to meet Michael Bay himself, we got some personal time with some of the real stars of the movie ... the Transformers themselves! Each gallery below includes multiple shots of each vehicle that we got to see from the heroic Autobots Bumblebee, Drift, and Optimus Prime to the evil Decepticons Onslaught and Barricade! Click on an image below to view a gallery of that respective character's alt mode. Please note that each vehicle has its own unique gallery in our ongoing Transformers Movie related gallery section.

In case you missed it earlier this week, we also posted some walkaround videos of the vehicles on our YouTube channel, which you can view by clicking here.

Special thanks again and much appreciation to Paramount for orchestrating our set visit. What an amazing experience!

Bumblebee (6th generation Chevrolet Camaro mode) ... plus Hound makes a cameo appearance!


Barricade (Ford Mustang Police Car mode)


Drift (Mercedes-AMG GT R mode)


Optimus Prime (Western Star 5700 XE mode)


Onslaught (Western Star 4900SF Tow Truck mode)


Miscellaneous images (other vehicles and more)

If it wasn't already for the fact that the Combaticons in this don't appear to be combat vehicles....i would've half expected that Hummer to be Swindle, maybe one of the Apache Helicopters spotted to be Vortex ect, as for Onslaught....maybe he will during the course of the movie....scan a military vehicle of some sorts(we've already SEEN different vehicles ect scanned during the course of the previous films by various characters....Optimus, Bee, The Twins, Megatron, Soundwave & Lazerbeak).

"Keep calm and hail Megatron"

You unknowingly added a layer to this character that makes me question exactly where he was during ROTF. Now I know. He was getting into internet culture.

I hate it.

Pretty soon Barricade's going to be telling me to go vegan on Facebook.

BeastProwl wrote:"Keep calm and hail Megatron"

You unknowingly added a layer to this character that makes me question exactly where he was during ROTF. Now I know. He was getting into internet culture.

Wait.

-He went missing around 2007-2009
-He's a Decepticon fanatic
-He laughs maniacally

Barricade was Sly all along

Deadput wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I cant tell if he is that different from first glance. Looks like a movie bumblebee model like all the others, to me.

Really man?


The changes on Bee are always easy to spot why is everyone saying stuff like this I don't get it like what the heck.

Maybe because he really doesn't look that different from his "original" design? Jeez o peets dude, back off a little.

Bee from 07; note how similar Bee is once again to how he started in 2007.

Love the "Keep Calm and Hail Megatron" thing on Barricade's side. Now I want to get that on a T-shirt.

Onslaught looks good too, just doubt Bruticus will come out of his addition.

Burn wrote:

Stuartmaximus wrote:Speaking of Megatron.....since he's in this...what's happened to Galvatron then?

A question that's been asked multiple times in this thread (yeah yeah, I know, you don't have time to go back and read all posts so unbunch your panties) and the simple answer is ... we most likely won't know until the movie is released.

I think it was one shot deal and he took the name of Megatron back after he got his upgrades/new body. I know it's very interchangeable in the Unicron Trilogy from what I've heard and read, so maybe the same applies here in some ways for the Bayverse.

Like Burn said, we won't know until the movie, but that's kind of like my prediction of sorts. Saw someone suggest Megs would have apprehension to the Galvatron name in this case because it was the one granted to him by humans/KSI during his rebuild and not his idea. Simultaneously there appears to be not as much discontinuity between the names/personality in this canon like in G1 for example.

Kurona wrote:

BeastProwl wrote:"Keep calm and hail Megatron"

You unknowingly added a layer to this character that makes me question exactly where he was during ROTF. Now I know. He was getting into internet culture.

Wait.

-He went missing around 2007-2009
-He's a Decepticon fanatic
-He laughs maniacally

Barricade was Sly all along

Oh...Mah...Gohd

Has anyone seen this?



(Was it ever confirmed that Barricade died in DotM? Could it have been some random generic Decepticon?)

I have a question about Barricade .
In the recent pics that were taken on the set the saying on his car mode is "Keep calm and hail Megatron".
But I noticed in all those pics and videos that were posted while they were filming in Arizona, it said his old saying "To Punish and Enslave". Was it changed and is there a reason why? I hope it has to do with the story and not anything to do with "recent events" in the news. Does anyone else have any insights, and opinions on this?

Michael Alex Kawa wrote:I have a question about Barricade .
In the recent pics that were taken on the set the saying on his car mode is "Keep calm and hail Megatron".
But I noticed in all those pics and videos that were posted while they were filming in Arizona, it said his old saying "To Punish and Enslave". Was it changed and is there a reason why? I hope it has to do with the story and not anything to do with "recent events" in the news. Does anyone else have any insights, and opinions on this?

Because even Transformers love memes.

BeastProwl wrote:Pretty soon Barricade's going to be telling me to go vegan on Facebook.

Worse. He'll be sharing David Wolfe posts with you.

Aye, there'll be a frenzy

Raintime Rainmaker wrote:

Michael Alex Kawa wrote:I have a question about Barricade .
In the recent pics that were taken on the set the saying on his car mode is "Keep calm and hail Megatron".
But I noticed in all those pics and videos that were posted while they were filming in Arizona, it said his old saying "To Punish and Enslave". Was it changed and is there a reason why? I hope it has to do with the story and not anything to do with "recent events" in the news. Does anyone else have any insights, and opinions on this?

Because even Transformers love memes.

I think he might be onto something. The old motto doesn't read too well, considering the recent events involving police shootings in the U.S., justified or not. They probably changed it to avoid a PR fiasco.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Raintime Rainmaker wrote:

Michael Alex Kawa wrote:I have a question about Barricade .
In the recent pics that were taken on the set the saying on his car mode is "Keep calm and hail Megatron".
But I noticed in all those pics and videos that were posted while they were filming in Arizona, it said his old saying "To Punish and Enslave". Was it changed and is there a reason why? I hope it has to do with the story and not anything to do with "recent events" in the news. Does anyone else have any insights, and opinions on this?

Because even Transformers love memes.

I think he might be onto something. The old motto doesn't read too well, considering the recent events involving police shootings in the U.S., justified or not. They probably changed it to avoid a PR fiasco.

That... that does make a lot of sense actually. If that is the reason they changed it then kudos.

"Keep calm and hail Megatron"

I'm gonna quote LaBeef: "NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO No NO NO NO nononono"

I'm so done with "keep calm and" BS. It's the Minions meme of tshirt slogans.

I'm on board with this change, the film is getting bad pr by virtue of just being a bay movie so they don't want more on top of that. Besides, so what if it's changed? Not like it defines him as a character.

A dark twist on "The Protect and Serve" was clever. The billionth take on "Keep Calm and Carry On" is beyond stale.

Michael Alex Kawa wrote:I have a question about Barricade .
In the recent pics that were taken on the set the saying on his car mode is "Keep calm and hail Megatron".
But I noticed in all those pics and videos that were posted while they were filming in Arizona, it said his old saying "To Punish and Enslave". Was it changed and is there a reason why? I hope it has to do with the story and not anything to do with "recent events" in the news. Does anyone else have any insights, and opinions on this?

If I recall correctly, whatever events happen in the UK in the movie is what impacts this.