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Sat Dec 01, 2018 9:25 pm

I saw these, ordered one, and am waiting on my seat's edge until it arrives.

Glarryg

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Sun Dec 02, 2018 4:59 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Bumblevivisector wrote:Seems like Clogstopper should be the leader of the Toilet Troop...ironic that he's the lost one instead.

Each of the Lost Bots belongs to one of the other "factions".

About that, I can't quite get them to match up evenly.

Burgertron -- Greaser Gang
Clogstopper -- Toilet Troop
Frostferatu -- Sugar Shock
Game Over -- Techie Team
Stinkeye Stapleton -- Backpack Bunch

But Bonz-Eye and Dimlit both appear to be Shedheads with no extra member for Jock Squad. Seems like a strange oversight. As it is Jock Squad only has 6 members, you'd thing Lost Bots would have two Jocks instead to bring their numbers up.

Also these are definitely not something I would buy online, I want to limit the chances of getting duplicates.

Emerje

News Credits: 42 · Sun Dec 02, 2018 11:30 pm

Emerje wrote:
Also these are definitely not something I would buy online, I want to limit the chances of getting duplicates.

Emerje

Probably a good call, mine arrived today and sure enough I did get one duplicate, but I got the donut and unicorn cupcake, which I was hoping for, so I'm happy overall. I haven't opened them yet, so no clue if the blind ones are duplicates either. Plus if the 5 packs do show up at retail before Christmas, I can always buy another without a duplicate and return one of the packs with a double.

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:06 am

TF-fan kev777 wrote:
Emerje wrote:
Also these are definitely not something I would buy online, I want to limit the chances of getting duplicates.

Emerje

Probably a good call, mine arrived today and sure enough I did get one duplicate, but I got the donut and unicorn cupcake, which I was hoping for, so I'm happy overall. I haven't opened them yet, so no clue if the blind ones are duplicates either. Plus if the 5 packs do show up at retail before Christmas, I can always buy another without a duplicate and return one of the packs with a double.

Thats some smart thinking there.

Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:19 am

Dimlit could be Jock Squad - people waving flashlights in stadiums.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:29 am

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Dimlit could be Jock Squad - people waving flashlights in stadiums.

Is that even a thing that people do? I've never seen that. :???:

Emerje

News Credits: 4877 · Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:28 pm

It was asked where the Botbots would be found when they got to retail and it turns out that they are neither in the boy or girl aisle. As it turns out, they were found at a US Walmart in the stocking stuffer bins. In Canada, some have been found at the checkout line.

Only the single "blind bags" have been found at brick and mortar retail so far and it turns out that those include the rarest figures, since some characters are only found through blind bags. There is a way to figure out which character is in the bling bag since there is an number scratched into the bottom right of the back of the card. You can see numbers 16 and 9 below which correspond to Slobber Rock and S.A. Cheez, as you can tell from the list below, courtesy of tformers.com.

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

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Fri Dec 07, 2018 8:03 pm

william-james88 wrote:Only the single "blind bags" have been found at brick and mortar retail so far and it turns out that those include the rarest figures, since some characters are only found through blind bags.

Do we know which characters these are yet?

Emerje

News Credits: 241 · Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:20 pm

Emerje wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Only the single "blind bags" have been found at brick and mortar retail so far and it turns out that those include the rarest figures, since some characters are only found through blind bags.

Do we know which characters these are yet?

Emerje

A better question would be who can keep track of all this 8-}

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:23 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Emerje wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Only the single "blind bags" have been found at brick and mortar retail so far and it turns out that those include the rarest figures, since some characters are only found through blind bags.

Do we know which characters these are yet?

Emerje

A better question would be who can keep track of all this

You of all people should know the power of a good spreadsheet. ;)^

Emerje

News Credits: 4877 · Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:30 pm

Emerje wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Emerje wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Only the single "blind bags" have been found at brick and mortar retail so far and it turns out that those include the rarest figures, since some characters are only found through blind bags.

Do we know which characters these are yet?

Emerje

A better question would be who can keep track of all this

You of all people should know the power of a good spreadsheet.

Emerje

No need, Philip164 already has us covered:

Green = 1 Figure, Yellow = 2 Figures, Red = 3 Figures, and Purple = 4 Figures

So the ones you can only find in blind bags are:

Cupcake
Book
Pencil sharpner
Bag
Soda Cup
Bush
Mushroom
Rock
Hot Coco
Chocolate Bar
Photo camera
Video Camera
Soap Bar
Deodorant
Decorative Plant Dinosaur

News Credits: 7 · Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:36 pm

So 15 out of the 24 guys in the blind bags are found only in the blind bags? Just a shade under two-thirds, seems fair I gues.

News Credits: 241 · Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:59 pm

Emerje wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Emerje wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Only the single "blind bags" have been found at brick and mortar retail so far and it turns out that those include the rarest figures, since some characters are only found through blind bags.

Do we know which characters these are yet?

Emerje

A better question would be who can keep track of all this

You of all people should know the power of a good spreadsheet.

Emerje

Even I have my limits, that's like 90 randomly distributed! 8-}

News Credits: 4877 · Sat Dec 08, 2018 12:05 am

Zeedust wrote:So 15 out of the 24 guys in the blind bags are found only in the blind bags? Just a shade under two-thirds, seems fair I gues.

Yeah, I think its fair too. Would kind of be a dick move if all the blind bag ones could be found in the other standard packs. And in any case, we can know which ones are in the blind bags too.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pepsimus · Sat Dec 08, 2018 9:50 am

Am I correct in the assumption that there's only ONE figure per blind bag? That... is going to end up being rather expensive...

Sat Dec 08, 2018 1:11 pm

On the one hand, yes, it's about 50 cents to a dollar more than what you get per figure for the multi-packs. On the other hand, I can say from experience that a lot of these blind bag sets end up in places like dollar stores and Five Below, so you can wait and take a chance that you'll find some of them there.

Glarryg

News Credits: 6 · Sat Dec 08, 2018 3:26 pm

Both Walmarts in our area claimed to have these in stock, but after much searching, no luck.

Am I right in thinking there's been no official characterizations provided for the individual Botbots? Because Seibertron's photo-galleries are making my typing fingers itchy.

News Credits: 42 · Fri Dec 14, 2018 2:15 pm

I managed to snag the ones I wanted from the blind bags at Walmart. Now I just have to wait for Santa to put them in mine and my youngest's stockings.

Before I did, I got lucky and noticed that due to Amazon shipping the three 5-packs I ordered in a bubble mailer, 2 of the 3 red bubbles for the blind figure on the 5-packs had some small cracks in them. I'm not mad, in fact this was helpful as I was able to flex the plastic on the bubble and see who was inside. That crossed 2 off my Walmart list.

I did notice that Entertainment Earth has an assortment of 5 and 8 packs as well as 6 packs and cases of the blind bags. The blind bags come 24 to a case, so I think there is a good chance of getting one of each. The ones I found at Walmart looked to be a single set of 1-24, So I'm guessing they are packaging them that way.

News Credits: 6 · Fri Dec 14, 2018 2:42 pm

We've purchased 15 BotBots from two different Walmarts, and so far every one of the identifying numbers has been correct.

News Credits: 1646 · Mon Dec 17, 2018 7:59 pm

So I picked up 3 of these Botbots yesterday, and they are so cute! This was what the Tiny Turbo Changers were leading to, and I love it.

If anyone has dupes of the Penguin or Unicorn, those are the 2 I really want! Can't wait to start seeing the 5 and 8 packs!

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:23 pm

Many were hoping that the Botbots would be found in stores soon especially since it is easier not to score so many doubles when you can actually see what is inside the multipack.

Well every single release has now hit Canada at Toysrus stores. The 5 packs are $12.99 and the 8 packs are $19.99 CAD. There is currently a Buy One Get One 50% off which includes all Transformers at Toysrus (you may need to remind the cashier since them arriving after the begining of the sale may require some workaround) making these even cheaper. As you will see in the images below, a lot of figures repeat eachother in the packs so there is a guide available showing which packs to by to get the entire set withthe least doubles possible. You can find that guide here.

This is great news to many who were hoping to use these as stocking stuffers this Christmas. If you want to see these toys in detail before you buy them, we have a gallery for every single character here.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Tue Dec 18, 2018 8:26 am

Seeing BotBots sold next to Titans Return Legends just makes me think that I would have been all over Titan Masters sold in multi-packs like this.

Emerje

News Credits: 1350 · Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:31 am

Emerje wrote:Seeing BotBots sold next to Titans Return Legends just makes me think that I would have been all over Titan Masters sold in multi-packs like this.

Emerje

It would have been in a brilliant idea, and the same if they ever revisit Minicons ala the Unicron Trilogy

News Credits: 1646 · Tue Dec 18, 2018 8:02 pm

Guardian of the Botbots!

Love these little dudes. Still really want the Sugar Shocks!

News Credits: 13 · Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:27 am

Thanks to the numbers on the backs I got all the botbots that I wanted out of the blind packs. These little guys are so much fun! Slobber-rock is my boy, he's a rock tortoise what's not to love? I can't wait to find the multi packs so I can get the unicorn, doughnut and penguin.