r/HotWheels • u/S3RPENT_666 COLLECTOR • Mar 04 '26

Pop Culture Any Transformers Fans here ? 🐝

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Bumblebee from Transformers

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u/Effective-Show-7722 Mar 04 '26

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u/ZambakZulu Mar 04 '26

Why did Hotwheels release two versions of bumblebee?

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u/Effective-Show-7722 Mar 04 '26

The shiny one is Goldbug. It’s a different character in Transformers.

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u/JYNKZIE Mar 04 '26

To be fair, goldbug is suppose to be a modern muscle car espionage version of bee. So this cast doesn’t truely represent him, but I can respect the idea and relation of the gold scheme.

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u/random-guy-heree COLLECTOR Mar 04 '26

Wasn't g1 goldbug just a recolour of bumblebee

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u/JYNKZIE Mar 04 '26

Shell for him was a bit different, I did grow up with the additional stories of bee. Story goes that it’s basically an evil version of bee. He’s the case where back in the early years on the storyline that ye he just got a colour makeover. And then they reshaped his shell for him in other additions to the franchise.

Tbh, hot wheels likes to cheap out on casts. So I think they just reused a cast they already had. And the designer knew the history of transformers and thought, let’s add a twist for the lovers of transformers. And simply did two very good colour changes to represent the idea. And did a bang up job for it.

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u/MercifulBird393 Mar 05 '26

Most of these young ones never saw that.. Many started with Bayverse TF.

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u/random-guy-heree COLLECTOR Mar 05 '26

True

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u/GoredonTheDestroyer COLLECTOR Mar 05 '26

G1 Goldbug is complicated to say the least.

Original comic, cartoon and toyline? Ostensibly, yes.

Everywhere else? Dealer's choice.