Stinger (Animated)

The stingers are the weapons of 2 real  Bumblebee's, a fake  green Bumblebee and possibly the other  Fake Bumblebee however this has not yet been proven. The stingers are most often used by the animated version of Bumblebee. The stingers come out of the users hand by spinning on the side of the arm or, in the toy, by coming out from the side of the arm and over the hands.

Animated cartoon
When bumblebee finds out that Wasp, a decepticon spy, had escaped from the cyber stockade he goes off looking for Megatron's lair with Bulkhead to find him, the decepticons and Wasp. Bumblebee has multiple flashbacks showing about back in the days when he and Bulkhead went to the autobot boot camp and met. When he and Wasp met, Wasp instantly hated him and made fun of his size like everyone else even though they were about the same size, a few minutes after that, he met the rest of the recruits as well as Sentinel minor who was instantly impressed by Wasp's skills with his stingers and named him Wasp. However when he saw Bumblebee "bumbling" he named him "bumble"bee. Later, when Sentinel was badmouthing Ultra magnus (this is the part where  Cliffjumper is seen) Bumblebee makes it so sentinel is overheard as an announcement, which got Sentinel in trouble, which got everyone in trouble. After Wasp was caught and sent away to the stockade he was taken away by Cliffjumper (who never showed if he had stingers). And swearing revenge on Bumblebee

"Animated"

 * Bumblebee (Deluxe, 2008)

Accessories: Left & right rocket boosters

Bumblebee transforms from a small yellow hatchback with a single red flasher to a scrappy robot with a smile on his face. He has a fake car roof on his chest (but to be fair, so does his cartoon counterpart.) in robot mode, and the two halves of his stinger weapon, stored in his forearms, can be flipped out and pegged together. In both robot and car mode, his two booster rockets can be attached on his back. Due to support struts added inside his forearms to ensure durability, his stingers do not recede all the way back into his arms. There have also been some complaints that the socket in his left arm tends to crack easily, which makes the arm impossible to pose. This mold was also used to make "Elite Guard" Bumblebee.


 * Bumper Battlers Bumblebee (Bumper Battlers, 2008)


 * Part of the first wave of Bumper Battlers, this very simple version of Bumblebee is meant for the much younger set. About the same size as the Deluxe Bumblebee in car mode, pressing the Autobot faction symbol on his hood activates the toy's sound feature, using a seemingly randomized assortment of sound effects and original voice samples from Bumper Robinson. Pressing the car mode's front bumper in activates the simple spring-loaded one-step transformation to robot mode... "properly" activated by using the toy's pull-back motor gimmick to propel it forward into an obstacle. The mold for bumblebee includes one slitely moving stinger.


 * Elite Guard Bumblebee (Deluxe, 2008)


 * Accessories: Left & right rocket boosters


 * A redeco of Deluxe Bumblebee, this figure represents Bumblebee after getting Sari to help paint him up in Elite Guard deco as part of his anticipated ascension into their ranks. Dare to dream! He retains all the play-gimmicks of the original, and his arm has been remolded to allow the stingers to recede fully. The color scheme of the toy bears a little resemblance to Stealth Bumblebee from the Movie franchise, as well as to Goldbug from the Generation 1 continuity, come to think of it. While this picture (and the picture of his robot mode on the toy's packaging) leaves his head the usual yellow color, Elite Guard Bumblebee's head is actually repainted black.

A large, non-transforming figure of Bumblebee in bulky, child-friendly form. He comes with lights and sounds, including a stinger sound on the right arm, which has the stinger deployed, and a "punching" sound and extending fist on the left. He also speaks a slew of phrases, including "Bring it on, Decepticons!" and "Hi, I'm Bumblebee!", again using Bumper Robinson voice clips. He is of course, utterly adorable.
 * Cyber Speed Bumblebee (Power Bots, 2008)
 * Cyber Speed Bumblebee (Power Bots, 2008)


 * Street Patrol Bumblebee (Power Bots, 200?)

This Bumblebee has red stripes on his stinger arm and his stripe is dark blue.


 * Sting Racer Bumblebee (Bumper Battlers, 200?)

This Bumber Battlers Bumblebee has a blue stripe in place of the black one, and blue electrical marks on his sides.


 * Waspinator (Deluxe class, 2009)
 * Amazingly enough not a redeco or remold of Bumblebee, Waspinator transforms from a techno-organic wasp into a winged robot. and has no stingers on his arms like he did when he was just Wasp.

trivia

 * Bumblebees stingers were inspired by the weapons he had in the movie.
 * Cliffjumper is more identical to Bumblebee than Wasp but never shows signs of having stingers.
 * Wasp was meant to be waspinator (and now is) but the old stingers aren't on the robot mode where they were earlier.
 * Cliffjumper may be likely to have stingers because he's a redeco of activator Bumblebee and also looks the same in show mode but is less likely because Bumblebee and wasp were given their names for having stingers, cliffjumper is more of a name for being a good jumper (or just dumb).

Footnote
more pages about animated weapons will be made soon.