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LEGO Bumblebee Threatens My Wallet
I am an adult LEGO builder. I wouldn’t call myself a collector. I just like buying and building these things, then finding somewhere in my meager apartment to store them and let them collect dust. And now there’s another set on my horizon: Bumblebee the Transformer! LEGO has made a second Transformers set!
I think these are nifty keen! The amount of thought and engineering that goes into making a LEGO model that transformers into a second LEGO model is just plan cool! I bought the Optimus Prime set when it first came out and only finally got around to building it a couple of weeks ago. It looks great! So I’m definitely gonna get Bumblebee to add to that collection.
I told myself I wasn’t going to spend money on LEGO this year. I’m saving my sights for the X-Mansion whenever that shows up. But this Bumblebee looks awesome! It’s gonna cost only about $90 when it releases on July 4.
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How a Bunch of Movies Should Have Ended
Sometimes when I’m coming up with things to post on my blog, I collect a bunch of fun YouTube videos to save for a rainy day. Today is that day. So let’s run through a bunch of How It Should Have Ended videos!
First up is the one for Bumblebee, which is pretty fun! I enjoyed the movie, and this video is fun and clever with the absolute perfect ending. The girl totally should have stuck around with Bumblebee!
Pretty fun. Great voice work stuff in that one. But they should have pushed it one step further and had Hailee Steinfeld team up with Shia LeBeouf!
Anyway, here’s the one for Shazam! In which I start to notice a disturbing trend…
Is this “How It Should Have Ended” or is it “let’s just make a bunch of jokes”. They completely threw away their own premise! And it gets even worse with the one for Aladdin!
What is going on?! Granted, it’s an alternate ending to the movie, but really it’s just the creators riffing on a random plot thread from Aladdin. They do a perfectly fine Robin Williams impression, but it’s just a bunch of jokes about the Aladdin premise, not a bunch of clever alternate possibilities for the ending.
They’re losing track of their own selves!
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Bumblebee Likes Collecting Wayward Children
There’s a new trailer for the upcoming Bumblebee spin-off movie, and it’s clear now that Bee likes collecting wayward young people. He just bounces around, hiding in car lots until some new young person buys him as their first automobile. It’s weird.
Bumblebee the movie also features classic versions of Transformers characters, which should make some people happy. Lets focus on that instead.
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So They Really Went and Made a Bumblebee Spin-Off
I never saw the last Transformers movie, the one with the King Arthur stuff. I loved the first movie, but every other one has been trash. I thought we all knew this. Of course, we also knew that they still made a lot of money.
So here’s a spin-off starring Bumblebee! It’s really going to exist!
Looks fine to me. Weird coming of age story starring Bumblebee. If that’s the movie you want to make, more power to you!
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