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Bumblejumper is not a mistake....

It's been argued off and on that Bumblejumper was an 'oopsie', something that was either not intended for the line, or was originally planned but got cut before/because he was/wasn't a character for the original G1 tf show :-) Arguments about the subject below...

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> Tim puts forward a hypothesis on BJ....
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> I firmly believe that "Bumblejumper" was an
> intentional release and...... NOT A MISTAKE!
> Bumblejumper was "NOT" a repackaged microman for two
> reasons:
> 1)  I have seen about a dozen different 1984 G1
> Bumblejumpers and I have "never" seem a 1984 G1
> Bumblejumper with a "Takara Japan" circle. There was
> always a copyright date of 1980-1984 on them. If
> Bumblejumper was indeed left over japanese microman
> stock, he would most definately have a "Takara Japan"
> circle without any copyright date at all let alone one
> that read 1980-1984!
> 2) The sticker on the back of his head is not the same
> as a microman Bumblejumper. The sticker that came on
> the 1984 G1 Bumblejumpers seems to be an original
> design for the transformers release.
> I defy anyone to prove me wrong on this.
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And autocon responds :-) OK minibot guys, I'm looking at you :-) 
You gonna take this guy's slap-in-the-face? Responses below.

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I don't believe it was a mistake as much as it was
a change in marketing or an oversight on the part of
the animation studio ...

The toys were being marketing in conjunction with a
TV show and since there was no bumblejumper character
in the US cartoon ... no toy.

My best guess is that they produced them here in the 
US, someone realized this character wasn't in the TV
show, so they stopped production. 

Having a few thousand toys that fit into an existing
bubble, why not just put them out there? It was a brand
new series, and they didn't really know if it'd succeed
or not ... so why not just get rid of the toys already
made?

So ... a mistake in some way .. yes ... but we may never
know where the mistake was. ( and even I don't care ;-) )

Gary

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I don't think it was a mistake, I think that was pretty much taken as 
confirmed when the card art for the Brazilian Robocar Sedan surfaced 
on Bickmore's site about 2 years ago was it? one year?. If that art 
was intended for TFs which it almost certainly was then yeah, BJ was 
not a mistake.

All the best
Maz

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Who said it was a mistake?
Is this the same person that said perceptor shot missles?
Am I missing something here?
 -Himawari

(Read the Opposing Viewpoint...)

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(see also: Overstock Theory)