It's been a long time since Funbeemon has been acknowledged. Fifteen years after its debut, it gets a new set of evolutions to round out its "hive." A new adult stage, Forgebeemon, is a chunky, hunched cyborg bee with a large, spherical, mechanical abdomen, an equally large but fuzzy spherical thorax, giant electrified clamp arms and a head that resembles a high-tech mining helmet. I also like its secondary, smaller set of humanoid arms, one of which wields a "honey glue gun" resembling a wasp abdomen. The tiny, seemingly useless wings on top are cute, too! Its description states that even though it works obediently to build the hive, it doesn't actually know what it's building.

I'd have loved to see a more biological set of Hymenoptera for Funbeemon to evolve into, but these new forms are obviously intended to expand on the evolutions it already had, rather than an alternative line.

Vespamon is unfortunately a lot less interesting, but I suppose it was necessary; the original line ended on a cyborg wasp warrior called Tiger Vespamon, but there was no normal "Vespamon" until now. Its design is basically what you'd expect; Tiger Vespamon with a little less flair, plus a sword and a shield rather than dual swords. Eh.

The new Ultimate stage is the Queen form you would have expected all along, and since the Vespamons were humanoid, it's pretty much a given that they'd make this one of their new Hot Lady humanoid digimons. They're lucky I'm already a fan of bee ladies, even if I've seen cooler takes on the trope. I do like Queenbeemon's single giant purple hair braid ending in a big metal bee butt, and I also like the digital hexagon-patterned "cape" she has for wings. What's actually a lot more interesting about this Digimon is its "royal throne:"

It's a shame we don't have larger images of these yet, but the "Royal Throne" a humongous flying vehicle Queenbeemon can conjure as an extension of her body, constituting not just an oversized golden throne, but an even larger bejeweled bee abdomen and a pair of cybernetic arms, all heavily outfitted with a variety of weapons. It's a lot of fun! Fun enough to completely save what was otherwise another conventional humanoid. You do get a much nicer look at it in the TCG already: