(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 RotF Cannon Bumblebee toy. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the original RotF Cannon Bumblebee toy here.)

    Like the other deluxe "Cyberglyph" repaints, Bumblebee keeps his normal color scheme of yellow, black, and gray, but his main color-- a dull, slightly orangish yellow, in this instance-- is of a really neat translucent shade. It makes the toy practically glow in higher lighting, but the plastic has enough color in it so that you can't see right through it-- it really is a dynamite idea that I wish Hasbro would use more often. Bumblebee's gray plastic is used in its usual places in robot mode, but thankfully it's of a milky-metallic shade that looks right at home with the translucent plastic. The black plastic also looks great against the yellow translucent plastic, and the light blue paint used for the windows really pops. (That said, little bits of yellow paint are used around the "edges" of some of the window pieces, its presence a bit too obvious when it's right next to a piece of translucent yellow plastic.) Bumblebee's got all the paint apps you'd expect-- his front bumpers are painted, as are his headlights and taillights, wheel hubs, and bits of his robot face. However, to fit in with the whole "Cyberglyph" theme, he's also got dull yellow and silver Cyberglyph symbols all over his vehicle mode. The symbols themselves look cool, but placed rather randomly as they are with no overall "design" to help them flow together, it actually looks like Bumblebee took a stasis nap or something and some graffiti artist tagged him while he was sleeping. It's a bit too haphazard-- and I wish a few more had carried over into robot mode, which is relatively bereft of paint apps compared to the vehicle mode.
    No mold changes have been made to this version of Bumblebee.
    "Cyberglyph" Bumblebee has some pretty nice translucent yellow plastic to mix things up a bit for "another movie Bumblebee redeco", and his main paint apps play off of his main plastic color well. However, the Cyberglyphs are used a bit too often and seemingly randomly in vehicle mode, making the toy look a bit more cluttered in that mode than it should; in some cases, less IS more. Still, this is the best color scheme this mold's had, if you ask me.

Review by Beastbot

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