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The original G1 Bumblebee toy from 1984. Also used for the 2001 keychain reissue by Fun-4-All. |
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The red variation of the original 1984 G1 Bumblebee toy. |
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The card artwork for the original 1984 G1 Bumblebee toy. Also used for the 2001 keychain reissue by Fun-4-All. |
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Bumblebee as he looked in the G1 cartoon, taken from the season 1 episode "Transport to Oblivion". |
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Marvel's The Transformers Universe profile for Bumblebee. |
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Bumblebee as drawn by Graham Nolan for Marvel USA's Transformers #16. |
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Bumblebee as drawn in the Japanese G1 manga featured inside TV Magazine. |
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The Bumblebee decoy from 1986, clearly favoring the cartoon design. |
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The Throttlebot Goldbug toy from 1987, with the head sculpt being based on the original Bumblebee toy's head. |
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The card artwork for the 1987 Throttlebot Goldbug toy. Also used for the Also used for the 1991 European "Classic Throttlebots" re-release. |
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Goldbug as he first appeared in the season 3 episode "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2". The faceplate is drawn incorrectly, it looks more like Optimus Prime's. |
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The corrected animation model for Goldbug from "The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2". |
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A slightly different animation model for Goldbug, as seen in the season 4 episode "The Rebirth, Part 1". |
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Marvel's The Transformers Universe profile for Goldbug, published in Transformers #56. |
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Goldbug as drawn by Don Perlin for Marvel USA's Transformers #30. |
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Goldbug as drawn by Jeff Anderson for Marvel UK's Transformers #118. |
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Goldbug as drawn by José Delbo for Marvel USA's Transformers #37. This was one of the only two times Goldbug's head was colored blue in the Marvel comics. |
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Goldbug as drawn by Jeff Anderson for the story "Vicious Circle!" from the 1987 Transformers Annual by Marvel UK. |
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Bumblebee's Classic Pretender toy from 1989. |
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The box artwork for the Classic Pretender Bumblebee toy. |
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Pretender Bumblebee from an animated segement of a commercial for the Micromaster Bases toys. |
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Pretender Bumblebee as drawn by José Delbo for Marvel USA's Transformers #59. For whatever reason, colorist Nel Yomtov decided to follow the cartoon's color model with a white face for exactly one issue. |
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Pretender Bumblebee as drawn by José Delbo for Marvel USA's Transformers #60. Nel Yomtov is back to the regular Marvel color model. |
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Bumblebee's Action Master toy from 1990. |
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The card artwork for the Action Master Bumblebee toy. |
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The Generation 2 Bumblebee toy from 1993. |
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The card artwork for the Generation 2 Bumblebee toy. Unlike the G2 Dinobots' and the G2 Autobot Cars' card artwork, the G2 Minibots had completely new artwork rather than redrawn or edited versions of their original G1 artwork. |
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Takara's SCF Act 3 Bumble PVC figure, also released by Hasbro as the Heroes of Cybertron "Autobot Espionage Team" together with Spike. |
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The character card artwork for the Heroes of Cybertron "Autobot Espionage Team" PVCs. |
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Bumblebee as drawn by Pat Lee for one of the covers of Dreamwave's Transformers: Generation 1 (vol. 1) #3, also used for the box artwork for Takara's 2004 "Minibot Team" reissue. |
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Bumblebee as drawn by Pat Lee for Dreamwave's Transformers: Generation 1 (vol. 1) #5. |
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Bumblebee as drawn by Don Figueroa for Dreamwave's Transformers: Generation 1 (vol. 3) #3, wearing a "battle mask" that's based on the original G1 toy's head. |
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Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye profile for Bumblebee. |
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Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye profile for Goldbug, drawn by Joe Ng. |
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Unused preview artwork for Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye profile for Pretender Bumblebee. |
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Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye profile for Pretender Bumblebee. |
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Bumblebee as drawn by Don Figueroa for Dreamwave's Transformers: The War Within (vol. 1) #6. |
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Takara's "Smallest Transformers" Bumble toy. |
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The rare red "chase" variant of Takara's "Smallest Transformers" Bumble toy. |
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The rare black "chase" variant of Takara's 2003 release of the keychain version of Bumble. |
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Takara's 2004 reissue of the original "Bumble" (Bumblebee) toy, with a new, "show-accurate" head sculpt. |
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Control drawing for the unreleased (and unproduced) Binaltech/Alternators Bumble/Bumblebee toy, shown in the Japanese The Transformers Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide book. |
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A future version of Bumblebee drawn by Dan Khanna for the BotCon 2005 comic "Descent into Evil", clearly based on the unproduced Binaltech/Alternators design. |
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A toy/cartoon model hybrid version for Bumblebee as drawn by Guidi Guidi for one of the covers of IDW's Transformers: Infiltration #1. |
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A more cartoon-accurate Bumblebee as drawn by Guidi Guidi for one of the covers of IDW's Transformers: Infiltration #4. |
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Bumblebee as drawn by E.J. Su for IDW's Transformers: Infiltration #3. |
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Bumblebee's "prehistoric" design as drawn by Guidi Guidi for IDW's Transformers: Evolutions #1. |
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Bumblebee's "steampunk" design as drawn by Guidi Guidi for one of the covers of IDW's Transformers: Evolutions #1. |
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The Titanium Robot Masters Bumblebee figure. |
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The "Classics" Bumblebee toy. |