EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:There is a possibility that this Bee will be a part of Buzzworthy but not Studio Series, leaving room for a new Studio Series one.
For example, there was a repaint of the original 1976 Camaro Bumblebee mold in a box set (with the prior release of HO Bee) that came out less than a year before SS-01 was released. Hasbro definitely knew they had a new mold in development, but they used the older mold in the meantime since the new one wouldn’t be out for a while longer. Maybe that’s the situation we’re in now?
Does Age of Extinction have a big anniversary coming soon? Cause if not, then I kind of doubt that they're using it as a placeholder until the new figure cause typically when they use an old mold instead of a new, more accurate one, it's because they have a big anniversary coming up and can't wait for the new mold. The only recent one I can think of was the use of IDW Blurr in the TF:TM boxset instead of the Titans Return one that was coming out a year later.
That said, it's not impossible. After all, they repainted AOE Bee into TLK Bee because they hadn't finished the mold for actual TLK Bee by the first wave of figures after all.