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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:36 pm

Hasbro's official Transformers website has listed two more Transformers Bots Shots Three-packs. The first set includes Ultra Magnus, Red Alert, and a translucent Super Bot Mirage. The second set contains Twinstrike, Skystalker, and translucent Super Bot Bumblebee. Both sets have suggested retail price of $12.99. Images mirrored below.

Crash and bash your way to victory in the Transformers Bot Shots Battle Game! This 3-pack of Autobot dynamos includes Red Alert, Ultra Magnus and Mirage vehicles. Will your Red Alert vehicle convert to robot mode and make you the winner? Or will you send your Ultra Magnus or Mirage vehicles into the fray? Practice with your own vehicles, then take on your friends. Build your collection and crash and bash your way to Bot Shots victory!

Pack includes 3 vehicles.

Series 2 Red Alert BP009
Series 2 Ultra Magnus BP010
Series 2 Mirage Super Bot 009

Ages 5 and up.

Crash and bash your way to victory in the Transformers Bot Shots Battle Game! This 3-pack has 2 Predacon vehicles and 1 Autobot vehicle, including Twinstrike, Skystalker and Bumblebee vehicles. Will your Twinstrike vehicle convert to robot mode and make you the winner? Or will you send your Skystalker or Bumblebee vehicles into the fray? Practice with your own vehicles, then take on your friends. Build your collection and crash and bash your way to Bot Shots victory!

Pack includes 3 vehicles.

Series 2 Twinstrike BP011
Series 2 Skystalker BP012
Series 2 Bumblebee Super Bot 010

Ages 5 and up.

News Credits: 5 · by **welcometothedarksyde** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:57 pm

That Ultra Magnus is why I've stopped collecting Botshots. They don't put any effort into making them clever or even sane homages. It looks exactly like Optimus Prime. Similarly is this the 9000th Bumblebee? How about Smokescreen, Blustreak, Brawn, Gears. Just anything that makes sense. But instead we keep getting the same characters over and over again.
On another point, the photographers seriously got the Jump Shot transformation wrong. In general these sets look pretty terrible.

News Credits: 1 · by **Lord Onixprime** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 7:28 am

I stopped collecting Bot Shots after the style change. The spin gimmick is exspecially troublesome with shelf space.

I also missed the Skywarp wave, and now Starscream and Thundercracker are brother-less :sad:

by **hpfabe** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:42 am

I don't get it. All they had to do was take an existing Optimus Prime and recolor him to be Ultra Magnus. Simple. Instead, they named him Ultra Magnus, but he is still Prime colors???

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:44 am

hpfabe wrote:I don't get it. All they had to do was take an existing Optimus Prime and recolor him to be Ultra Magnus. Simple. Instead, they named him Ultra Magnus, but he is still Prime colors???

Optimus had red, white and blue and Magnus has blue, white and red. :-B

I find it surprising they're using the Cybertron Optimus one for him, probably because he had the mouth exposed.

by **Dagon** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:49 pm

I don't see Ultra Magnus in that one at all. It just looks like a lighter blue on Prime.
I stopped with the Botshots after I found the Skywarp and clear Shockwave from the original style. I've even passed on the Sunstorm a number of times because the cuteness allure is just totally gone for me. I do like the Predacon ones, but I really doubt I'll be buying any of them.