New Galleries: Rescue Bots Roar and Rescue Electronic Optimus Primal, Dinobots Heatwave and Blades

Very nice galleries, and these look fun! Although I can't say I'm a big fan of the packaging (or lack thereof).

EDIT: One complaint... No pictures of Grimlock riding Optimus Primal? that aside, there DOES seeem to be a thing on his beast mode back (right on the robot mode head, actually) where the little human figures they make for the Rescue Bots line are meant to ride.

Heatwave really sucks! We bought him yesterday, took him back today and got little man another one. Got home and opened him up. Broke on the 2nd transformation. Again.. Must be a design defect, that they obviously should have caught but, regardless. Save your self the headache. The Prime is pretty kool though.

He's basically a one step Transformation. You Split his head and neck apart and as you pull them all the way down to make his arms his legs come down from the rear underneath the front legs to make up the Bot legs. And then you can flip his tail down.
It has one screw which doesn't help so I can't even open it to see what broke. I handed it to my son, and no lie. 10 seconds later he hands it back to me broken. Twice! And the second time I know he was being extremely careful.
It's really frustrating.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Darkangelstear wrote:Heatwave really sucks! We bought him yesterday, took him back today and got little man another one. Got home and opened him up. Broke on the 2nd transformation. Again.. Must be a design defect, that they obviously should have caught but, regardless. Save your self the headache. The Prime is pretty kool though.

I ordered one online and I'm expecting it soon... Where/how did he break? I'd like to kow what to watch out for.

It does break a lot.
I figured out the fix, and so it's not so bad.
If your dino doesn't want to close the head, and the feet no longer move when closing the arms...

Last resort:
1. Tilt the head / torso forward (or use button)
2. Close the arms to form the head (now has clearance)
3. Force the legs down to the standing position until you hear a snap.

That should hook the legs back into the head mechanism. Happy camping.
I assume this "break" can happen if you tried to push the legs up with the arms open or something.

Nice!

It doesn't even have it's own packaging? Just a baggie? Well that's lame.

I really don't get why they even made this (BESIDES "more toys = more $$$").

It's just so bizarre and random.

RhA wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I really don't get why they even made this (BESIDES "more toys = more $$$").

Well, there you go.

What, uppercase wasn't enough? Do I have to put the word in bold, italics, and underline it too?

RhA wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

RhA wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I really don't get why they even made this (BESIDES "more toys = more $$$").

Well, there you go.

What, uppercase wasn't enough? Do I have to put the word in bold, italics, and underline it too?

Because?

There's just no better reason.

And how are they supposed to make decent money off of something they don't advertise to its target audience or sell via an outlet its target audience is known to shop from? This thing has no promotion or recognition outside of the adult collector market.

Sabrblade wrote:

RhA wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

RhA wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I really don't get why they even made this (BESIDES "more toys = more $$$").

Well, there you go.

What, uppercase wasn't enough? Do I have to put the word in bold, italics, and underline it too?

Because?

There's just no better reason.

And how are they supposed to make decent money off of something they don't advertise to its target audience or sell via an outlet its target audience is known to shop from? This thing has no promotion or recognition outside of the adult collector market.

First and foremost, nothing wrong with making money. When it comes to anything business related, that should be the first objective to overcome and then everything else follows suit.

Second, if it had been any other character than Optimus Prime or Bumblebee (or any of the main Rescue Bots characters in this specific case), I would agree with your statement. However, in this case, all parents are searching for is "Rescue Bots" and the character name. This toy will come up, parents will see it's a Rescue Bots toy and an Optimus Prime toy for a reasonable price, and they'll buy it ... especially at Christmas time.

Even though I've had the Seibertron.com Store running for 6 years now, I'm still amazed and continue to under estimate how many Optimus Prime and Bumblebee toys my store sells. This is in spite of the collector in me who continues to think that Hasbro makes too many of both of those characters. Yet, I look at my store's sales records and it seems that I don't keep enough Bumblebees and Optimus Primes in stock, especially at Christmas time.

Siebertronians, after featuring Beast Machines Tankor and Thrust and then part of Club Subscription Service's Mayhem Attack Squad, Seibertron.com continues our gallery stream with Quickshadow, the all-new, all original female Rescue Bot who's making her first appearance in toy form!
Check a selection of images from the gallery below, and then feast your eyes on the whole thing by clicking on any of the images or here!


Transformers Rescue Bots Quickshadow (59 images) - Rescue Bots













Do you like the new fembot? Will you be picking her up anytime soon? Did the galleries sway you opinion one way or the other? Let us know in the comments! And, as always, keep your optics and audio sensors tuned to Seibertron.com for all the latest Transformers news and reviews!