« on: August 27, 2007, 02:02:35 PM »
why on earth wouldnt vw let them use the bug, free pr from a popular character.
iirc they didn't want another herbie comparison.
Why is Bumblebee not a VW Beetle?
Several reasons have been given for the change.
One of the reasons is because producers couldn't get rights from VW to use a Beetle. VW didn't want their product being associated with a violent film.
In an interview with Wired Magazine, Michael Bay also stated that he made the change because he wanted the mass of the Transformers in robot form to be believable compared to their vehicle form, and thus a VW would have resulted in Bumblebee being much smaller in robot form.
Another reason is that Bay wanted to avoid comparisons to Herbie the Love Bug, and that he felt that Bumblebee needed an updated look. Thus, Bumblebee was changed from a VW Beetle to a Camaro.
We do briefly see Bumblebee next to an old (1971) VW Beetle early on in the film, however, in a nod to his past.
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