Buckle up for nostalgia, there's a new 'Bumblebee' trailer

So get this, the first live action Transformers movie is 11 years old. I know, right? Give it a few more years and it's going to start worrying if it's too grown-up to be playing with Transformers (it's not, FYI).

By Christmas this year we're getting another Transformers movie, although this one's a little different.

Bumblebee is the first spin-off movie set in the same universe, because everything needs to be a cinematic universe now and if your feature film isn't also a trailer for another feature film then what the hell are you even doing, you hack.

So as to not deviate from formula too much this one shot contains fifty smaller General Motors ads. (image: Paramount Pictures)

Anyway, A brand new trailer for Bumblebee dropped today and the nostalgia is strong in this one, with the whole trailer looking like a mash-up of E.T., The Iron Giant, Stranger Things and the original gen-one cartoon series.

The trailer gives us a better look at Bumblebee's original form based on the animated series, a cute little VW Beetle. It's nice to see Bee in his original form, not that Camaro Bumblebee wasn't cool, but it’s nice to see your favourite 'bots in a vehicle form with a bit more personality, rather than just existing as a longform car ad.

Other highlights include more Autobot on Decepticon action and cameos from a VERY '80s looking Optimus Prime and Soundwave. They've even got Soundwave in his original tape deck form! Which, I mean if he's on Cybertron at that point it doesn't make a lot of sense as to why he'd be in tape deck form and... well now I'm thinking about this too much.

It looks pretty cartoon-y, and I'm SO okay with that. (image: Paramount Pictures)

Either way, you should check the trailer out, even if it's just to see a Beetle in a punch-up with a fighter jet.

Bumblebee hits Australian theatres on the 20th December 2018.

Do you prefer Bumblebee in his Beetle form or are you wrong? Fight me in the comments below.