 Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again and welcome to Episode 3 of Toy Hacks Flashbacks. My series where I restore Generation 1 Transformers back to their former glory using some of the tricks and skills I've obtained over the years restoring Generation 1 Transformers and Toy Hacks decals. And the bot we're going to restore in this video is 1989's classic pretender Bumblebee. Bumblebee was a recent pickup of mine and though he does look really good at first glance, there is some work that needs done to this figure. So now without further ado, let's give this bee back his sting and welcome to Toy Hacks Flashbacks. Now first things first, let's take a look at Bumblebee as he is and he really doesn't look too bad. The stickers are in really good shape and normally I wouldn't replace stickers that look that good. The problem is he's missing the big decal right there on his visor and I had to get the entire sticker set just to get that so I might as well replace everything. The shell itself, it's got a couple scuff marks right there on the foot, but other than that it is in great condition. Now removing the helmet, even the hair that usually has a lot of paint scuffed off is in really good condition. He's got a hole in his head right there. So that looks really good. There's not much paint damage whatsoever. We just got the missing decal for the helmet. Now when I bought this figure, he came 99% complete. The guns were there, the inner robot was there. He was just missing the helmet and I have to give a big shout out to WheeljacksLab.com who provided me with the helmet. It wasn't on his shop. I sent him an email asking if he had one. He dug through all of his pieces and parts, found one, cleaned it up and sent it my way. So Wheeljack, thank you so much. Now moving on to the inner figure, we'll go ahead and remove the helmet once again. Pop the shell in half and Bumblebee is there on the inside. So put these to the side and we've got Bumblebee and Bumblebee looks pretty good. Other than the decal is very crooked. Go ahead and finish getting him transformed. Just flip the feet around, bring out the arms. He's got decals on the side of the arms there. And once again, those aren't too bad other than just crooked. Why couldn't kids in the 80s put their decals on straight? A fault with the figure here is down here on the bumper. Lot of paint wear and I do plan on fixing that. So normally with my Toyhacks flashbacks videos, I'm going to show my decal removal process. But I've already done that for two videos. I really don't feel the need to show that again. Just know that with these decals, I usually scratch them off with my thumb and whatever residue is left over. I remove it with Goo Gone here. Highly recommend the Spray Gel. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to go ahead and remove all the decals and the residue off of these two figures. And get right back to applying the decals and touching up Bumblebee's paint. Beyond, beyond anything you've ever seen before. Alright, now I have Bumblebee all cleaned up, destickered and ready for his restoration. And the only items I believe I need for this restoration are my Toyhacks tweezers. The Toyhacks decals of course. Now unlike the Jazz decals, this set is G1 reproductions. There's no real upgrade aside from that little black square right there. And I also have this black glossy tag marker. This is actually an agriculture marker. This is what's used to mark the tags, the ear tags on cows. I discovered years ago that this is a great marker for adding black glossy paint to vintage G1 transformers because it just works really well and it maintains its shine. So we'll use that later on. Now first things first, let's go ahead and get the helmet decal. Because that's the main reason I bought this set. Helmets right here all cleaned up. Just a couple decals go on. This blue decal right here, we'll go ahead and remove my safety tip from the tweezers and get the decal peeled. Always catch the edge and let's see. I can get this lined up just right. This is so hard to do on camera. Try a different approach. If I can just get that edge to connect. There we go. And perfect. There is the helmet decal. Now this little extra black decal I showed earlier, this isn't anywhere on the sticker map but I kind of matched up where it belongs. Just these little black square that I believe goes right here in the helmet. And I believe I was right. That is a perfect fit. Nice. Now something else I do, I can't remember if I went over this in another video. I usually put the tip back on so I can really get those decals in. There we go. So now the helmet is all complete. Now we'll move on to the shell itself. The shell has three decals. These two chest decals right here and one of these Autobot symbols. Let's go ahead and do the left side first. Catch that corner. And let's see where this lines up. Right there. There we go. There's one. Get the other. Remember you always peel these decals nice and slow. You don't want to rip them. Let me move this one around. Always wash your hands first. You want to have clean hands when you're messing with decals. That looks good. And there we go. The chest decals have been applied. Now he gets an Autobot symbol. And it looks to be both of those are the same size. So we'll just get this one right here. And it goes right there on his abs. Try to make sure it's straight. Trying to keep it in camera for you. There we go. And that's it for the shell. The shell is complete. Now we'll move on to B himself. B gets these arm decals that I showed earlier and the Autobot symbol right there on top and some headlights. So let's go ahead and do the Autobot symbol first. Put it right above the hole for the weapon. Move the camera so you can get that straight. There we go. Now these arm decals go right there. Let's see. I need to see exactly where those go. Okay. Flipping bumblebee over. The head section goes here on top. So this one here goes right on this side. So line that up. It was crooked before. Trying to line it up just right. There we go. So there's one. Let's get the other. Okay. There's those decals applied. Now he gets little headlights. And he's got three headlights. So I guess in case you screw up, you get one more to go to try out. Or a spare. If I can find the edge. There we go. Right here. That's a lot of black on that headlight. Tended headlights. So there is one headlight and the last. And that is it for bees decals. You've got the Autobot symbol. The headlights and those little decals underneath. Now we're going to touch up the bumper. I've already shaken this up good. I have used this marker for quite some time. The very first generation one figure I used to touch up was my generation one thunder wing here. This black section, his brow was completely scraped off. So I used that marker to touch that up years ago. And it still maintains its nice shine. So I know it's going to work good for Bumblebee here. I keep banging the camera. Sorry about that. Okay. Shake it up. Oh yeah. Another tool that I use for these toy hex decals. My glasses. I wear contacts all the time. My contacts are not good for seeing up close. So it's kind of a medium tip marker. My gosh, does it stink? So we're going to do this very, very lightly. Because it is, you can see it's a very glossy paint. I don't want to get it where it doesn't need to go. Very light touch with this stuff. Now it dries super fast. So you don't have to worry about that. But still don't want to get it anywhere. You don't want it to go. You don't want to layer it on too thick. It's exciting TV right here, isn't it guys? You're actually watching paint dry. I'm already getting it on my fingers. All right. I'm going to take him off camera to finish him up. Because I just, I don't want to screw this up. And there we go. B has a nice, shiny, glossy black bumper. And it looks really good. I'm still a little wet. Still afraid to touch it. So we're going to let that dry for a bit. And there you go. My Pretender Generation 1 Classic Pretender Bumblebee has been restored. The restoration of my Generation 1 Classic Pretender Bumblebee wasn't really a hard one. The figure was already really clean. He just needed new decals and a little bit of his paint touched up. But man, what a difference. This figure looks great now. And he's ready for an official Patriot Prime Generation 1 review. Now believe it or not, I get a few people who actually comment on my toy hacks reviews where I get my toy hacks decals. Well, the answer is toyhacks.com. There will be a link to toy hacks in the description of this video. Now guys, if you enjoyed the review, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. And another big shout out to WheeljacksLab.com for finding Bumblebee's helmet for me. Once again, this is Patriot Prime, signing out. Hoorah!