BotBots officially revealed

[Paulbot]

Full reveal (https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/hasbro-announces-collectible-new-transformers-botbots-range-exclusive-080930064.html)

They actually transform to my surprise.

And there’s now a Transformer called S’up Dawg which is amazing. And another called Poo Sham!! King Toots! Sprinkleberry! How great to see some new Transformers that are all about fun.




(edit by griffin - added details from link, and mirrored images here - full size images & packaging can be seen here (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/10/22/first-look-at-transformers-botbots-toys-374471))



Here’s the official product blurb, courtesy of Hasbro: Not long ago and somewhere close by, a glowing mist filled with TRANSFORMERS energy called ENERGON came down from the sky and covered a shopping mall. The things inside came to life as little TRANSFORMERS robots! These bots can hide in plain sight as everyday objects, meaning no one knows what’s a bot and what’s not! Mischievous, funny, and super silly, these are… BOTBOTS!


There are 61 unique 1-inch (about 2.5cm) characters to collect in the first series of BotBots, each with their own individual personality. Like all Transformers, the characters change from an ordinary object into a little robot in just 3-5 easy steps.


The BotBots all belong to different tribes, inspired by product types you might find in a shopping centre, including the “Sugar Shocks” (sweet treats), the “Backpack Bunch” (school equipment), the “Toilet Troop” (bathroom items), the “Techie Team” (electronic gadgets), the “Greaser Gang” (fast food), the “Shed Heads” (gardening gear), and the “Jock Squad” (sporting goods).


The figures, suitable for ages 5 and up, come in individual blind bags with a RRP of £2.99 (about AU$5-6), or you can buy the tribes in packs of 5 or 8 figures.


This new range launches in December.

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/102301.jpg


That promo image shows us 54 of the first 61. The remaining 7 may or may not be in one of the other photos included in the article (or the official packaging images)... I haven't made a list of them yet. (someone else can if they are keen, and post it here... or if you find a list online already, post it up, crediting the source)


Multi-Packs are partially themed - they have figures from different tribes, with most in the pack looking to be from the tribe labelled on the pack.
Multi-Packs appear to be set assortments, with most figures being included in more than one pack (with 8 5-packs and 8 8-packs, that's already 104 before even counting the blind bag singles).
As with most of these types of mini-collectables that are the current craze (like Shopkins and Ooshies), there will likely to be groups of rarity among the checklist of 61 figures in this first series (like, common, rare, super rare).



GREASER GANG characters are SHREDDER JACK, DUDERONI, S’UP DAWG, SPUD MUFFIN, ANGRY CHEESE, HAWT DIGGITY, FOTTLE BARTS, and TWERPLE BURPLE!
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/102302.jpg


Series 1 Jock Squad characters are LACEFACE, BATSBY, KIDD KLOBBER, PUCKSIE, FIT NESS MONSTER, and ARCTIC GUZZLERUSH!
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/102303.jpg


Series 1 SUGAR SHOCKS characters are SIPPY SLURPS, THE PLOP FATHER, WADDLEPOP, LOLLY LICKS, REMORSEL, SPRINKLEBERRY D’UHNUT, UNILLA ICEQUEENCONE, COCOA CRAZY, and NRJEEZ!
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/102304.jpg


Series 1 TOILET TROOP characters are SERGEANT SCRUBADUB, KING TOOTS, SUDSBEARD, NOBEEOH, STINKOSAURUS REX, POO SHAM, and FROHAWK!
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/102305.jpg


Series 1 TECHIE TEAM characters are SCREEN FIEND, CHILLA GORILLA, SKILLZ PUNK, S.A. CHEEZ, RADDHAX, FOMO, GOOB TOOB, and DR. MOGGLY!
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/102306.jpg


Series 1: Shed Heads (no names listed)

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/102307.jpg


Backpack Bunch (no names listed)

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/102308.jpg


http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/102309.jpg
To be officially revealed to the public at the MCM Comic Con in London, October 26-28.

[TaZZerath]

Well, I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't these little fellas.

Tiny shopping item collecting seems to be an increasingly big craze now, and the fact these guys transform too is quite a feat.

Certainly should be fun for young and old alike i'd say and something a little bit quirky and different.

[SharkyMcShark]

I'm actually quite taken with these.

[Vairn]

My daughter and I need these in our lives.

I love Transformers, she loves Shopkins, these are made for us!

[KELPIE]

How great to see some new Transformers that are all about fun.

PotP wasn't new or fun for you?

These guys look great. hopefully they won't be too hard to collect.

The pizza guy looks to be my favourite.

[Shirokaze]

My daughter and I need these in our lives.

I love Transformers, she loves Shopkins, these are made for us!

This! :D Will definitely be giving them a go.

[BigTransformerTrev]

My daughter and I need these in our lives.

I love Transformers, she loves Shopkins, these are made for us!


This! :D Will definitely be giving them a go.

Yeah I think my daughter would quite like them too :)

[griffin]

I just read the article. The first series has 61, 1-inch figures in blind bags for about au$5-6. That's half the size of tiny changers but the same price.
I don't like the prospect of spending a lot of money to get a full set and ending up with a lot of spares.

[M-bot]

I just read the article. The first series has 61, 1-inch figures in blind bags for about au$5-6. That's half the size of tiny changers but the same price.
I don't like the prospect of spending a lot of money to get a full set and ending up with a lot of spares.

MUST... RESIST... BUYING....

They are so damned cute. And those names... gold.

Perhaps we could set up a thread for swaps and trades of doubles when they are released?

[Bidoofdude]

Gotta say these look awesome. Gonna be hard to pass them up as impulse buys in shops.

[Autocon]

Like micromasters before them, these jump on the shopkins bandwagon of muscling in on other toy turf. These could be as big or bigger than shopkins or fail silently out of sight. Be interesting to see where it goes.

Not sold on the articulation and some seem out of scale to others.

I read on another site only 24 characters will be in blind bags. The rest in 5 or 8 pack assortments

[dirge]

Yeah these don’t appeal to me at all. Which is fine; more TF budget for Masterpieces for me.

[Deano85]

Yeah will definitely collect a few of these. They should be a good size for some transformers to play with

[Paulbot]

That promo image shows us 54 of the first 61. The remaining 7 may or may not be in one of the other photos included in the article (or the official packaging images)... I haven't made a list of them yet. (someone else can if they are keen, and post it here... or if you find a list online already, post it up, crediting the source)

TFWiki is on to it (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_BotBots)

[griffin]

TFWiki is on to it (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_BotBots)


Yeah... I figured they would be onto it eventually... but that was quick.
They even include the unknowns from the promo art that could be the hidden "lost bots" in the different packs (which they suggest comes to 63 instead of 61).

[i_amtrunks]

I figure we will end up with a few of these. They look fun, should be a decent price (hopefully closer to $5 than $8), I think they need to compete with OI.Share and the LEGO blind packs for the same price.
while my daughter isn’t a shopkins fan, she loves playing with the minicons and old McDonald’s transformers (the cheeseburger fries and shake ones) so they’ll be a hit.

Nice to see something different, fun and silly come out. How long till we get tiny Optimus and Megatron though? Wave 2 or 3?

[Lord_Zed]

These are kind of ridiculous, and yet probably the first fresh TF related idea Hasbro has unveiled for years.

[Omega Metro]

Yep, definately getting these.

[KELPIE]

How long till we get tiny Optimus and Megatron though? Wave 2 or 3?

The Burger is very Optimus like...

[griffin]

It looks like the Seibertron website have been given a complete set of Botbots (https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/image-of-checklist-and-full-list-of-names-for-series-1-of-transformers-botbots/42456/) to photograph and review (which they will do over the next few days), but with the toys comes the checklist, listing all 61 toys from this first series.
And the checklist confirms that there are already three series planned, with over 190 Botbots to collect... just in 2019 alone.



Backpack Bunch
-------------
Cranks
Ms. Take
Point Dexter
Professor Wellread
Slappyhappy
Snippy Snappy
Sticky McGee
Totes Magotes

Greaser Gang
------------
Angry Cheese
Duderoni
Fottle Barts
Hawt Diggity
S'up Dawg
Shredder Jack
Spud Muffin
Twerple Burple

Jock Squad
---------------
Arctic Guzzlerush
Batsby
Fit Ness Monster
Kid Klobber
Laceface
Pucksie

The Lost Bots
-------------
Bonz-Eye
Burgertron
Clogstopper
Dimlit
Frostferatu
Game Over
Stinkeye Stapleton

Shed Heads
------------
Cuddletooth
Fun Gus
Grit Sandwood
Major Lee Screwge
Nail Byter
Rootwing
Slobber Rock
Venus Frogtrap

Sugar Shocks
------------
Cocoa Crazy
Lolly Licks
Nrjeez
The Plop Father
Remorsel
Sippy Slurps
Sprinkleberry D'uhnut
Unilla Ice Queen Cone
Waddlepop

Techie Team
---------------
Chilla Gorilla
Dr. Moggly
Fomo
Goob Toob
Raddhax
S.A. Cheez
Screen Fiend
Skillz Punk

Toilet Troop
-------------
Frohawk
King Toots
Nobeeoh
Poo Sham
Sergeant Scrubadub
Stinkosaurus Rex
Sudsbeard

[BigTransformerTrev]

My daughter will be getting her first ever TF for Xmas - the My Little Kitty crossover toy. I can see her getting a few of these figures in the future :D

[griffin]

The owner of TFW2005 got his promotional Botbots box as well, and has posted up a heap of photos (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/12/03/botbots-promotional-box-and-full-series-1-in-hand-gallery-botbotschallenge-377998) of the toys and the contents of the box. (this is very similar to the Movie promo boxes, but I still wonder how many of these Hasbro did produced.)

I would buy this box if it was to be sold by Hasbro, and they should have a complete set option for those wanting all of them, as there would still be demand for the small sets by people just wanting certain figures, while the blind bags would still be good gifts for kids (they would never be a target by collectors who want all figures, as you'd could be buying thousands just to complete a set)



The Americans get all the good stuff...

[ampoldj]

Im already selling my daughter's shopkins and LPS stuff to save for this ;)
I hope Costco will have them as well like Shopkins and Hatchanimals in bulk to save a bit ;)

[KELPIE]

The owner of TFW2005 got his promotional Botbots box as well, and has posted up a heap of photos (http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/12/03/botbots-promotional-box-and-full-series-1-in-hand-gallery-botbotschallenge-377998) of the toys and the contents of the box. (this is very similar to the Movie promo boxes, but I still wonder how many of these Hasbro did produced.)

I would buy this box if it was to be sold by Hasbro, and they should have a complete set option for those wanting all of them, as there would still be demand for the small sets by people just wanting certain figures, while the blind bags would still be good gifts for kids (they would never be a target by collectors who want all figures, as you'd could be buying thousands just to complete a set)



The Americans get all the good stuff...

Yup, I'd buy the fancy box with contents as well. Looks awesome.

I'd also love to get some kind of prints or posters of the various faction pictures they have been using as promotional. I think the artwork is fun :)

[griffin]

Some of my own photos, as the 5-packs I ordered from Amazon America last week, arrived.

I ordered 3 5-packs on Wednesday November 28th, and then another 11 on the next day... but oddly, the 11 5-packs arrived at my post office
yesterday (only 4 business days), while the 3 that I ordered before them, are still some days away.
(both were ordered with free Prime Member shipping, so should have been the same shipping method)

Of the 11 5-packs that I ordered (4 x Sugar team, 4 x Toilet team, 3 x Tech team - I know, that's not their accurate team names), I had four
duplicate packs, because these were just random selections of each team.
Of the remaining 7 packs (2 x Sugar, 3 x Toilet, 2 x Tech), there were 28 different Botbots toys (plus 7 duplicates)... which is a bit puzzling, and
annoying - why have some of them packed into more than one pack? If you want certain figures, buy those packs... because if you want the
entire set, you get stuck with several duplicates (not even a complete second set). And the "mystery" figures in the red bubble are not random...
they are the same in each of the different 5-packs, because they have them included on the sheet of instructions for the visible four toys in the
pack (in other words, every Sugar 5-pack that has the lollipop and sippy-cup, will have the plunger toy in the red bubble).
And really annoyingly, two of the different 5-packs had the same "mystery" figure in the red bubble... so they aren't even hiding "rarer" figures.
(I am one who hates the idea of having limited/rare figures as part of multi-packs or even blind bags, because you have to waste money buying
multiple toys that you don't want or keep, just to track down the complete set.... so having the "mystery" figures be guaranteed to each 5-pack is a good thing, once they are publicly known.)
So... I'm almost at halfway with the first series of Botbots (28 of 61) after my first purchase of them, but I'm already at 20% duplication (7 of the
first 35 opened from packaging), and it will keep getting higher, as there is one more 5-pack left for me to collect (a Sugar team pack) and eight of
the 8-packs... which will probably all need to be purchased to get the entire set (that's another 69 figures, just to get the remaining 33 - a total of 43 duplicates, or 38%).

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120501.jpg

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120502.jpg

The seven duplicates... so here they are in both modes.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120503.jpg

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120504.jpg


The checklist on the back of all of the instructions sheets (different to the one that the promo boxes had in them, which listed their names instead of images).

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120505.jpg


http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120506.jpg


http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120507.jpg


http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120508.jpg


http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120509.jpg


http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120510.jpg


http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120511.jpg


http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/120512.jpg

[Autocon]

Can we have a photo of one in your hands and one next to a headbot from power of the primes?

What are your thoughts on bot forms? Do they translate good robot forms?

[KELPIE]

Thanks for the pics.

It's a shame that the duplicates seem to cross contaminate to other team packs as well?

I'm still excited to collect them, however I can easily see a scenario where I fail to collect the complete set.

Without owning any yet, the pizza slice guy seems to be my favourite.

[i_amtrunks]

Thanks for all the images and collector sheets. The more I see these, the more I like them. Perfect little collectables. But I hate the mystery/blind pack system, sadly it’s the way they are all going.

[Autocon]

Thanks for all the images and collector sheets. The more I see these, the more I like them. Perfect little collectables. But I hate the mystery/blind pack system, sadly it’s the way they are all going.

Looking through the toy isles, everything is becoming a mystery surprise. Like loot boxes for children. Gone are the days where you actually know what you were purchasing.

[tinyJazz]

From seibertron.com (https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-botbots-blind-bags-found-at-us-walmart-list-of-id-codes/42544/), codes for the individual blindboxed botbots



1 - Stinkasaurus Rex
2 - Scrub-A-Dub
3 - Nobeeoh
4 - Cocoa Crazy
5 - Sippy Slurps
6 - Remorsel
7 - Skillz Punk
8 - Fomo
9 - S.A. Cheez
10 - S'up Dawg
11 - Twerple Bubble
12 - Spud Muffin
13 - Rootwing
14 - Venus Frogtrap
15 - Fun Gus
16 - Slobber Rock
17 - Frostferatu
18 - Dimlit
19 - Professor Wellread
20 - Snippy Snappy
21 - Totes Magotes
22 - Cranks
23 - Batsby
24 - Kidd Klobber

[griffin]

A commercial has been found on Vimeo for Botbots (https://vimeo.com/307765811)... with a jingle that explains where the name comes from - Here a bot, there a bot, everywhere a botbot.

[KELPIE]

Less like an advert and more an into to a new cartoon.

I like it.

[Sinnertwin]

These things are awesome.
I'm staying away though, I'll definitely end up poorer.

[griffin]

Some new Botbots have been found (http://news.tfw2005.com/2019/01/13/new-color-change-botbots-bakery-bytes-lawn-league-stock-images-380852) (on the Australian part of the Hasbro website)... with what appears to be colour-change paint apps, on just two of them.
The new 5-packs could be a store-exclusive set because aside from the two new moulds that have the colour-change paint, all of the rest are redecos... and the two new moulds are in every 5-pack, which would mean half of the Botbots in this set would be duplicates.

The two new teams are Bakery Bytes and Lawn League. With no other teams included in these 5-packs (like in the first series), these are not likely to be part of Series 2, which should be another 60+ figures.

[KELPIE]

I now have a batch of these.

I could only find the 5 and 8 packs, which I haven't opened yet but up close they look a lot better quality than I had originally thought. Looks like I'll try and complete the set instead of cherry picking my favourites.

[griffin]

A new listing in Canada for Botbots has been found (https://news.tfw2005.com/2019/02/03/hasbro-transformers-botbots-grand-opening-surprise-listed-on-amazon-ca-382152) called, "Grand Opening Surprise" for about AU$35.
No content details or images, but the packaging is said to be about 30cm by 30cm, with a depth that suggests it is the same as the 5 and 8 packs, just bigger.

Based on the price, it wouldn't have more than 10 Botbots. It is listed as being a kilogram, so maybe it is just a small number of Botbots, that are packaged with a buildable display case (like the shopping mall in some of the promotional images).

[GoktimusPrime]

There is going to be a Transformer named Must Turd.

[griffin]

Some new Botbots have been found (http://news.tfw2005.com/2019/01/13/new-color-change-botbots-bakery-bytes-lawn-league-stock-images-380852) (on the Australian part of the Hasbro website)... with what appears to be colour-change paint apps, on just two of them.
The new 5-packs could be a store-exclusive set because aside from the two new moulds that have the colour-change paint, all of the rest are redecos... and the two new moulds are in every 5-pack, which would mean half of the Botbots in this set would be duplicates.

The two new teams are Bakery Bytes and Lawn League. With no other teams included in these 5-packs (like in the first series), these are not likely to be part of Series 2, which should be another 60+ figures.


Someone somewhere has managed to get one of the new packs, and the enclosed checklist (https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/e7ed549a-144e-4ab5-bcf4-b459f82c032c-jpeg.28237655/) (posted here (https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/tf-botbots-sticker-data-book-up-for-pre-order-on-amazon.1171823/#post-16728049)) is the one you get with the first series packs, but with an extra bit at the bottom that has the 13 new figures from Bakery Bytes and Lawn League.... and notes that series 1 now has 74 figures, not 61.

Still no word where these are going to be released, or when... particularly now that we have moved onto series 2 (globally), with the green packs now out here and in America.




A new listing in Canada for Botbots has been found (https://news.tfw2005.com/2019/02/03/hasbro-transformers-botbots-grand-opening-surprise-listed-on-amazon-ca-382152) called, "Grand Opening Surprise" for about AU$35.
No content details or images, but the packaging is said to be about 30cm by 30cm, with a depth that suggests it is the same as the 5 and 8 packs, just bigger.

Based on the price, it wouldn't have more than 10 Botbots. It is listed as being a kilogram, so maybe it is just a small number of Botbots, that are packaged with a buildable display case (like the shopping mall in some of the promotional images).


For those that didn't pick up on this in the other topic, the Grand Opening Surprise pack ended up being the 16-pack Arcade Renegades that we saw at the Melbourne Toyfair (http://toycollectors.com.au/toyfair/19tf22.jpg), and was in the official press release at the New York Toyfair.

[KELPIE]

Someone somewhere has managed to get one of the new packs, and the enclosed checklist (https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/e7ed549a-144e-4ab5-bcf4-b459f82c032c-jpeg.28237655/) (posted here (https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/tf-botbots-sticker-data-book-up-for-pre-order-on-amazon.1171823/#post-16728049)) is the one you get with the first series packs, but with an extra bit at the bottom that has the 13 new figures from Bakery Bytes and Lawn League.... and notes that series 1 now has 74 figures, not 61.

Still no word where these are going to be released, or when... particularly now that we have moved onto series 2 (globally), with the green packs now out here and in America.

TFW just did a promotional write up (https://news.tfw2005.com/2019/03/27/bobots-series-2-promotional-box-review-botbotschallenge-385910) on Season 2 after they got a gift pack from Hasbro. Should have all the wave info you need... apart from well, release dates and location.


For those that didn't pick up on this in the other topic, the Grand Opening Surprise pack ended up being the 16-pack Arcade Renegades that we saw at the Melbourne Toyfair (http://toycollectors.com.au/toyfair/19tf22.jpg), and was in the official press release at the New York Toyfair.
Ooh man I want that pack so bad.

[griffin]

Coming out September 24th is a guide book for Botbots, but don't get as excited as I was when I first heard about it, as it is only 48 pages, only covers the first two series (123 Botbots), and focuses more on the 500 stickers that come with it than the actual toys (it is actually called a "sticker" book, not a "guide" book).
It is US$10, and can be seen here on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-BotBots-Official-Sticker-Book/dp/0593125576/).

[Paulbot]

It's a sticker book of stickers of cute Transformers characters, but it also has their official character bios (whatever form those take, might even have those elusive functions!).

Looks like the dozens of similar 500 sticker books that Big W sell.

[griffin]

The Hasbro website for Botbots has been updated (https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/botbots) with images and info on Series two, with a PDF image of the checklist sheet that comes packed with the toys.