{"id":35873,"date":"2021-11-30T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=35873"},"modified":"2021-12-01T08:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T13:32:13","slug":"soon-forget-titanium-bumblebee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/11\/soon-forget-titanium-bumblebee\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Titanium Bumblebee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's <i>The War Within<\/i> Bumblebee.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfg_wcbwbbob.php\">Cybertron-mode Bumblebee<\/a> we reviewed today was not Hasbro's first attempt. This Bumblebee would have been part of the <i>Titanium Series<\/i>, which saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=1240\">quite a few<\/a> <i>War Within<\/i> designs come to life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/tftwwbee1.jpg\" title=\"War Within Bumblebee\" width=\"380\" height=\"495\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Bumblebee was developed with an alternate head to turn him into a future Cliffjumper repaint. Since all the <i>War Within<\/i> designs were inspired by the Cybertron scenes in Generation 1, the altmode was intended to be an approximation of what was seen back in 1984.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/tftwwbee2.jpg\" title=\"Cybertronian mode\" width=\"450\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The 6\" <i>Titanium<\/i> figures had poor distribution, and eventually future releases were cancelled. Resin hardcopies of several figures were displayed at BotCon 2007 (in robot mode, with photos of the altmodes), since that was the only way fans would ever get to see the work that had been done.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Megatron attack!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2002\/10\/megatron-attack\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Megatron attack!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Reprolabels Dirt Digger Team upgrade kit review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/reprolabels-dirt-digger-team-upgrade-kit-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Reprolabels Dirt Digger Team upgrade kit review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - September '15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/flippin-through-previews-september-15\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - September '15<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots King Toots review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/transformers-botbots-king-toots-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots King Toots review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Need some scenery for your toys?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/need-some-scenery-for-your-toys\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Need some scenery for your toys?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's The War Within Bumblebee. The Cybertron-mode Bumblebee we reviewed today was not Hasbro's first attempt. This Bumblebee &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/11\/soon-forget-titanium-bumblebee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,143,331,8],"tags":[391,14],"class_list":["post-35873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-botcon","category-cancelled-toys","category-hasbro","tag-botcon-2007","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35878,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35873\/revisions\/35878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}