User blog comment:Greglarocca095/Pure Evil Proposal: Shatter and Dropkick/@comment-4708882-20190507204049/@comment-24097388-20190508005548

The thing with Bumblebee is that it's still not exactly clear whether it's a reboot or not. Even though there's been a few news sources reporting it as a reboot, no one from the film crew have actually declared it as one and some of which still treat it as a prequel to the Michael Bay films as it was originally intended to be.

You could bring up how some stuff were retconned in the movie (i.e. Bumblebee arriving in the Cold War instead of WWII, Sector 7 meeting the Transformers for the first time), but at the same time, there are certain elements in the movie that try to type up with the first film (most notably Megatron's absence, a young Agent Simmons being present and Bumblebee getting his 1977 Camaro mode).