(NOTE: Because this is a repaint, this is not a full-blown review. This mainly covers any changes made to the mold and the color scheme, and merely compares it to the original Battle Charger Bumblebee toy. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the original Battle Charger Bumblebee toy here.)

    The Battle Charger Stealth Bumblebee has a color scheme that tends to follow the typical Movie Bumblebee repaint, what with switching the amounts of yellow and black on the toy. I think this pretty much always looks better, as I'm not a huge fan of yellow as a main color, but as an accent color I think it works much better. However, the "Cyberglyphs" all across Bumblebee's car doors and on his front hood stripes really look nifty, and way more interesting than just plain yellow stripes. The dark metallic blue used for the windows is also a great color, and the more-or-less reversed colors on Bumblebee's robot mode parts look pretty nice as well, with the silver serving as a decent (if overused) accent color. However, the one downside to all this Cyberglyph-ing up of the vehicle mode is that a lot of the details on Bumblebee's front and back ends aren't filled in with paint.
    No mold changes have been made to Stealth Bumblebee.
    Stealth Bumblebee is the best of the Battle Charger molds with the most interesting overall color scheme as well. Thus, it's obviously the one I'd recommend the most to those who want to pick up any figure from this small sub-line.

Review by Beastbot

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