Article 6CCPS This $400 Bumblebee robot can dance, kick, and pick itself up from a fall

This $400 Bumblebee robot can dance, kick, and pick itself up from a fall

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Emma Roth
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After creating the ultimate Optimus Prime toy, Hasbro and Robosen are back with yet another Transformers figure, and this time, it's a 14-inch programmable robot modeled after Bumblebee. With a price tag of $399, this miniature Autobot can walk, squat, kick, lean, dance, and even pick itself up from the ground. But there is one thing it can't do: transform.

That's probably one of the reasons why this Bumblebee figure is several hundred dollars less than its self-transforming Optimus Prime counterpart, which costs a cool $700 plus an extra $750 for the auto-converting trailer if you really want to go all out. But if you're okay with the fact that this bot doesn't actually do any transforming - or are just a huge fan of the Transformers...

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