The latter aspect is already promising to have a large impact on the overall tone of the Bumblebee film, with the solo outing said to be Bumblebee in a vintage vehicle form unlike any of his previous live-action incarnations.

The first look at Bumblebee in the spinoff film has been revealed online today, through a new Instagram photo taken from the film's set. And while the image doesn't offer much in of human characters or any possible story details, it does reveal that Bumblebee will be taking on the form of a VW Beetle at least during one portion of the film's runtime. You can check out the image for yourself now down below:

More #bumblebeemovie set pics. The star and his double. A post shared by Kathy Applebaum (@kathyapplebaum) on Aug 22, 2017 at 6:02pm PDT

Bumblebee won't just look and feel different because of it's time period either, but will also be made with Bumblebee could have a much more intimate mood than some longtime Transformers fans might be expecting at this point - and depending on just how heavily it leans into its 1980s influences - could be the kind of change in critical reception that the franchise could use right about now.

While all of the Transformers movies have done well financially up until this point, the franchise has been experiencing focused on just one Transformers character - rather than entire teams of Autobots and Decepticons - but could signal the potential for other Transformers spinoff films to succeed in the coming years as well.

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