Hollywood Star Cars Museum has New Transformers Exhibit

Hot Off last year's Championship Auto Shows national car show tour, the Hollywood Star Cars Museum is showcasing a vehicle from one of 2007's top movies, TRANSFORMERS. "Bumblebee," the 1977 Chevrolet Camaro, has been added to the Hollywood Star Cars Museum collection and is now on display in the museum's lobby entrance.

TRANSFORMERS is the 2007 live-action film adaptation of the Transformers franchise. It stars Shia LeBeouf as Sam Witwicky, a teenager involved in a war between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, two factions of alien robots who disguise themselves by transforming into everyday machinery. The Decepticons desire control of the All Spark, the object that created their robotic race, with the intention of using it to build an army by giving life to the machines of Earth.

Bumblebee was one of the five Autobots featured in TRANSFORMERS. Sent to Earth as the protector of Sam Witwicky, Bumblebee chose the form of the 1977 Chevrolet Camaro, but later modified himself into a 2009 model of the same vehicle. His vocal processor was apparently damaged in battle, thus rendering him a mute throughout most of the movie. But, by the end of the movie, his voice had returned and he chose to stay on Earth with Sam.

The Hollywood Star Cars Museum is open daily 9am till at least 10pm and is located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Information courtesy of Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce