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Emerje wrote:Heatwave's a Bulkhead retool, right? Also is his blue gun a reference to the gun Hero Mashers Heatwave? The shape is different, maybe it's just blue because of being molded with the windshield like Bulkhead's gun and it's a happy coincidence. Then again, Legacy Medix got a clear blue gun just to reference his FunPub figure's HFG.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Is that Cybertron Sideways the OG mold, are we getting reissues?

The original mold? Yes. Reissues? No. It's a placeholder pic. Other slides in the capsule presentation used similar placeholders of either old toy molds or old character artwork.

Overcracker wrote:Weird wolf partial? Wait, Titans Return Weirdwolf? They’re resurrecting that mold?
They’re retooling the headmaster gimmick out?

Maybe. They're not above reusing Titans Return molds as retools. They recently retooled TR Mindwipe into Legacy Squeezeplay.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Also, this now elusive and ultra expensive guy:

That one was all Takara's doing and back closer to the time of Titans Return's original run, not a recent release.

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:Heatwave's a Bulkhead retool, right? Also is his blue gun a reference to the gun Hero Mashers Heatwave? The shape is different, maybe it's just blue because of being molded with the windshield like Bulkhead's gun and it's a happy coincidence. Then again, Legacy Medix got a clear blue gun just to reference his FunPub figure's HFG.

I honestly don't remember any of those coming with weapons before. I guess the Masher's blue gun was referencing those then.

Rescue Bots Energize was the second-year branding of the line. All six of the original figures were rereleased with new translucent blue plastic parts that were retooled to have 5mm ports added to them to accomodate the new Energize Tool (not "weapon") accessories.



Figure 2-packs were also released featuring a non-transforming action figure of one of the 'Bots with limited articulation and a static mini-figure of a human. The 'Bot figures were all equipped with a non-removable Energize Tool and featured some blue energy pattern paint applications on their bodies.



The Energize Tools became the main gimmick of the cartoon's second season, with each 'Bot receiving one after first being created in the season's first episode. The 'Bots would raise their tools to the sky and activate them with the cry of "Power Up and Energize!" They could even swap out and use any tools they wanted, allowing for more versatility and not restricting each 'Bot to just one kind of tool.

The tools continued to feature all throughout the remainder of the series, becoming the most frequently recurring toy gimmick to feature in the show, as they were the most useful devices to the stories the show wanted to tell.



Energize Tools even carried over into the sequel series Rescue Bots Academy, despite not being a feature in that show's accompanying toyline. They were instead used primarily as part of the show's coming-of-age storytelling, with each Rescue Bot Recruit receiving their own Energize Tool after a major turning point in a two-part episode during the second season, in an episode aptly named "Power Up and Energize". Like the first show, the Recruits would activate their tools by raising them high and calling out the same command of "Power Up and Energize!"

Though, unlike those of their predecessors, these tools were not solidly bright blue and were instead transformed from out of the Recruits' own bodies, making them more like an evolutionary thing (think like how the Mini-Cons of Armada unlocked new weapons out of the Autobots' and Decepticons' bodies whenever they Powerlinxed to them).



The influence of the original Energize Tools even spilled over into the bigger kid lines, with Rescue Bots Blurr getting a toy in the Robots in Disguise 2015 line that featured a translucent blue blaster accessory (which sadly did not feature during his brief guest-appearance in the RID 2015 cartoon), while the BotCon 2016 custom class Combiner Wars Medix featured a translucent blue axe and HFG, which was later homaged in Legacy Medix coming with a translucent blue blaster.

Sowndwave76 wrote:The Target exclusive including Ratbat is a definite purchase,

What Ratbat?