Toy Review - Botbots series 2 (green bubble)

[griffin]

Botbots Series 2 (green bubble)
Series - Botbots
Sub-line - (various Tribes - see below)
Size/class - n/a
New/remould/redeco - New and redecos (60 figures)
Wave - n/a
Released here - April 2019
Approximate Retail Price - AU$5 (single packs), $15-17 (5-packs), $25 (8-packs)
Approximate Size - 2-4cm
Allegiance - none
Alt-mode - Various
Main Features/Gimmicks - everyday human items
Main Colours - Various
Main Accessories - none (except Hamurai - the ham-bone is a removable sword)

Series 1 (red bubble) - 61 figures (early 2019) (review can be found here (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=26166))
Series 2 (green bubble) - 60 figures (mid 2019)
Series 3 (orange bubble) - ?? figures (late 2019)

Series 2 - Tribes (teams)
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- Bogus Pocus (Backpack Bunch - redeco - book/bot)
- Bottocorrect (Backpack Bunch - new - liquid paper/bot)
- Scribby (Backpack Bunch - redeco - pencil/bot)
- Short Edge (Backpack Bunch - redeco - ruler/bot)
- Steve From Accounting (Backpack Bunch - redeco - stapler/bot)
-
- Brock Head (Greaser Gang - redeco - pizza slice/bot)
- Brotato (Greaser Gang - redeco - hot chips/bot)
- Hawt Mess (Greaser Gang - new - taco/bot)
- Must Turd (Greaser Gang - redeco - mustard bottle/bot)
- Nacho Problem (Greaser Gang - redeco - nachos/bot)
- Sir Botcha (Greaser Gang - new - hot sauce/bot)
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- Big Botti (Jock Squad - redeco - baseball bat/bot)
- Ice Sight (Jock Squad - redeco - binoculars/bot)
- The In-Sole (Jock Squad - new - shoe/bot)
- Toughdown (Jock Squad - redeco - football/bot)
- Tropic Guzzlerush (Jock Squad - redeco - drink bottle/bot)
-
- Abominable Soundman (Lost Bots - redeco - headphones/gorilla)
- The Detangler (Lost Bots - redeco - shampoo bottle/bot)
- Hamurai (Lost Bots - new - mouldy ham/samurai with sword)
- Love Struck (Lost Bots - new - baseball/bot)
- Ol' Tic Toc (Lost Bots - new - watch/bot)
- Overpack (Lost Bots - new - backpack/bot)
- PB Junior (Lost Bots - redeco - sandwich/bot)
- Rebugnant (Lost Bots - redeco - bug spray/bot)
- Rock Swagger (Lost Bots - new - electric guitar/bot)
- Sprinkleberry Duh'Ball (Lost Bots - new - donut ball/bot)
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- Dizzy Bones (Music Mob - new - maracas/skeleton)
- Dumbeats (Music Mob - new - drumkit/bot)
- Grampiano (Music Mob - new - piano/bot)
- Pink Key Pop (Music Mob - new - keytar/bot)
- Songwave (Music Mob - redeco - music player/bot)
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- Drillit Yaself (Shed Heads - redeco - drill/bot)
- Grrr'illa Grimes (Shed Heads - new - soap dispenser/gorilla)
- Sandy Man (Shed Heads - redeco - sander/bot)
- Spots the Rock (Shed Heads - redeco - rock/tortoise)
- Tool Bag (Shed Heads - redeco - bag/bot)
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- Atomic Freeze (Spoiled Rottens - new - sippy cup/bot)
- Big Cantuna (Spoiled Rottens - new - canned tuna/fish monster)
- Grumpy Clumpy (Spoiled Rottens - new - spoiled milk/bot)
- Holey Moldy (Spoiled Rottens - new - mouldy cheese/bot)
- Sour Wing (Spoiled Rottens - new - rotten apple with worm/dragon)
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- Javasaurus Rex (Sugar Shocks - new - coffee machine/dino-bot)
- King Candyhooves (Sugar Shocks - redeco - icecream sundae/winged unicorn)
- Lolly Mints (Sugar Shocks - redeco - lollipop/bot)
- Mocklate (Sugar Shocks - redeco - white chocolate block/bot)
- Sippyberry (Sugar Shocks - redeco - sippy cup/bot)
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- Chic Cheek (Swag Stylers - new - blusher/bot)
- Frizzle Fry (Swag Stylers - new - hair dryer/bot)
- Ollie Bite (Swag Stylers - new - hat/fish-bot)
- Prince Perfumius (Swag Stylers - new - perfume bottle/bot)
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- Clixx (Techie Team - redeco - camera/bot)
- Glitch Face (Techie Team - redeco - broken phone/bot)
- Hashtagz (Techie Team - redeco - computer/bot)
- Outtacontrol (Techie Team - redeco - game controller/bot)
- Techtonic Sonic (Techie Team - new - speaker/bot)
- TV Cop (Techie Team - redeco - TV/bot)
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- Be-Oh (Toilet Troop - redeco - deoderant/bot)
- Captain Swoon (Toilet Troop - redeco - soap dispenser/pirate)
- Nope Soap (Toilet Troop - redeco - soap/bot)
- TP Itch (Toilet Troop - redeco - toilet roll/mummy)

In the second Series, there are eight 8-packs, eight 5-packs, and 24 Single Packs (each with a code on the pack to know what is inside).
Each multi-pack is a set assortment - the hidden figure is not random, it is just hidden.

Note that even though there are duplicates in various packs, there are some figures that are only found once in certain packs (which also goes for the
single packs - not all 60 figures are released in the single packs, but some of them are ONLY released in the single packs).
The codes and assortments can be found on the tfwiki page (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_BotBots). They even highlight the recommended sets to purchase, to get a complete set while minimising the number of unavoidable duplicates.

Some of the multi-packs (the ones to buy with the 17 single packs listed on TFWiki, to end up with the least duplicates)...
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/f444.jpg

The Botbots in their tribes...
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/f445.jpg

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/f446.jpg

[i_amtrunks]

Thanks for the pics Griffin.

I’ve bought a few multipacks and about a dozen of the blind packs. Overall the quality is again high, paint apps very consistent and most are flawless, transformations are fun and mostly easy, but there are some very tough parts where arms don’t want to come out! The repaints are different enough (hockey puck as a sound bar and the rotten food) but some of the molds they have chosen to repaint baffle me.

Wave 2 is worth getting partially, get the new ones, the instruments in particular are perfect and some of the repaints sublime, but I doubt anyone will really want to get all 60 of them! (Except completionists, who really need to follow the buyers guide!) :D

[griffin]

I wasn't expecting to get all 60 of them in one day, but doing the rounds at the Robina shopping centre on Saturday, I was fortunate to find almost
all of the 5-packs and single packs at BigW during their 20% off sale, which made me willing to pay full price on the 8-packs at Toymate (because BigW
weren't stocking them). I also had to pay full price on one single pack at Kmart because one of the 17 I needed was already sold at the BigW store.

I went with a list of the packs I needed from TFWiki, which allows you to avoid buying 4 of the 8 8-packs and 3 of the 8 5-packs, as well as 7 of the
single packs. That's a massive 54 duplicates that were avoided, which would have been 68 duplicates (more than the 60 toys in this second
series), because you end up with 14 unavoidable duplicates when buying the recommended sets.
I'm just glad there are numbers on the single packs, and we know what is in the bubbles on the multi-packs.

I also love the master cartons (display box) for the single packs, because of the artwork on them. When I buy an almost complete box of 24, it has
allowed me to take the display box and 17-ish single packs to the registers and not be questioned about it, because I space them out enough to look like it was a full box.

Two down, one to go...
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/f447.jpg

One of my favourites from this second series is Hamurai, which almost looks like Bludgeon with an alt-mode of a mouldy ham leg... because it is the first
Botbot to come with an accessory - you pull out the ham bone from the top, and it becomes a sword it can hold in robot mode.
One that was probably most disappointing (of the redecos) was the toilet roll... unless you put it next to the first series version, it doesn't look any
different. Obviously the toilet roll needs to be white (the second one is a dull white), but the bot modes are both blue - one is dark, one is light. It seems like a bit of a waste.

[KELPIE]

Looking good.

I picked up a batch over the weekend, however couldn't find any 8 packs, and limited 5 packs.

I'd love that wiki site to also asterisk which ones are repaints. As it is, it looks like I'm getting all of them just cause it's too hard to sort through it all while in store.

[GoktimusPrime]

- Must Turd
https://i.ibb.co/HCMLtpX/temp.jpg
I can't to introduce this toy to Scattor, Scattorshot and Scattobrain! BD

[ampoldj]

I think overall this series is better than the first one. Finally i was able to grab Hamurai and the coffee machine, though one of my favourite the in-sole rubber shoe is still at large :(
I've got all the 8 and 5 packs i need to complete the set and thanks to major retailers and toyworld clearance this set cost way less than the first series.

[griffin]

The first 121...


http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2019/050601.jpg

(actually... according to an image on TFW (https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/new-color-change-botbots-bakery-bytes-lawn-league.1167468/page-5#post-16772576), there were another 13 added to wave 1 that still haven't been released yet)

[KELPIE]

Looks awesome!

I love these little guys.

[BigTransformerTrev]

It was such a disappointment. I'd been looking forward to getting these for my daughter and got her a blind pack one. Inside was a black cap that turned into a shark and she hated it - so many cute ones on offer and it was probably the worst one she could have gotten. It's turned her right off them. :(

My son on the other hand thinks they are great. I'm hoping that I can find some cuter ones down the line to turn my daughter on to them. I saw a 5 pack the other day that had one really cute one but four others. I offered to buy it for her but she didn't like the other ones so I got a different pack for my son that had ones like a blue football, a chilli dog etc - he ws pretty chuffed.

I hope they do more 'cutsie' packs in the future to make them more appealing to young girls. She is interested in Transformers but at the age of 4 they need to be either pink or obviously female for them to appeal to her sensibilities.

[GoktimusPrime]

Bot-Bots Series 2 Functions (Roles) -- please help if you can!

Backpack Bunch
- Bogus Pocus - ???
- Bottocorrect - ???
- Scribby - ???
- Short Edge - ???
- Steve From Accounting - ???

Greaser Gang
- Brock Head - ???
- Brotato - ???
- Hawt Mess - ???
- Must Turd - Nosey Mustard Bottle
- Nacho Problem - ???
- Sir Botcha - Hot, hot, hot sauce

Jock Squad
- Big Botti - ???
- Ice Sight - ???
- The In-Sole - Trendy Sneaker
- Toughdown - ???
- Tropic Guzzlerush - ???

Lost Bots
- Abominable Soundman - ???
- The Detangler - ???
- Hamurai - Battle-Ready Samurai Ham
- Love Struck - ???
- Ol' Tic Toc - ???
- Overpack - ???
- PB Junior - ???
- Rebugnant - ???
- Rock Swagger - ???
- Sprinkleberry Duh'Ball - ???

Music Mob
- Dizzy Bones - ???
- Dumbeats - ???
- Grampiano - ???
- Pink Key Pop - ???
- Songwave - Not-So Smart Speaker

Shed Heads
- Drillit Yaself - ???
- Grrr'illa Grimes - ???
- Sandy Man - ???
- Spots the Rock - ???
- Tool Bag - ???

Spoiled Rottens
- Atomic Freeze - ???
- Big Cantuna - ???
- Grumpy Clumpy - ???
- Holey Moldy - ???
- Sour Wing - ???

Sugar Shocks
- Javasaurus Rex - ???
- King Candyhooves - ???
- Lolly Mints - ???
- Mocklate - ???
- Sippyberry - Sweet, sippable slushy

Swag Stylers
- Chic Cheek - ???
- Frizzle Fry - ???
- Ollie Bite - ???
- Prince Perfumius - ???

Techie Team
- Clixx - ???
- Glitch Face - ???
- Hashtagz - ???
- Outtacontrol - ???
- Techtonic Sonic - ???
- TV Cop - ???

Toilet Troop
- Be-Oh - ???
- Captain Swoon - ???
- Nope Soap - ???
- TP Itch - ???

Note: this site lists their individually packed ID numbers (https://news.tfw2005.com/2019/02/19/transformers-botbots-series-2-blind-packed-singles-identification-codes-383595) but I noticed two possible errors - and I think whoever made this list wasn't sure. They've listed Javasaurus Rex as 12 (21) and Songwave was 21 (12) but I can confirm that 12 is Songwave and 21 is Javasaurus Rex. Both Tha_Phantom and I ended up getting spare Songwaves each because of this error. :rolleyes: So yeah, if you're after Javasaurus Rex go for 21 and not 12!

[griffin]

Two things...

1 - the first post already has a link to a resource page that lists the correct numbers for the single packs.

2 - just like series 1 (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showpost.php?p=606395&postcount=11), some will not have their roles included with the toys if they are only available in the 8 packs. The official website (https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/botbots) lists all of the roles of the first two series (except the Bakery and Lawn tribes though).