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News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:14 pm

Tvshowsondvd.com has posted a press release that confirms that Transformers Rescue Bots Energize will hit DVD from Shout! Factory on June 11. This has changed from what was previously a March release. This DVD release contains five episodes and has a suggested retail price of $14.93.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Get Ready to Get Energized!

TRANSFORMERS: RESCUE BOTS:
ENERGIZE

Own It on DVD June 11, 2013
from Shout! Factory Kids

Meet the TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS - CHASE THE POLICE-BOT, HEATWAVE THE FIRE-BOT, BLADES THE COPTER-BOT and BOULDER THE CONSTRUCTION-BOT! They've been given the task of going undercover to protect the good people of Griffin Rock, and learn the values of teamwork and the power of friendship by partnering up with the town's first family of emergency responders: Fire Chief Charlie Burns, daring helicopter pilot Dani, hot-shot firefighter Kade, brainy engineer Graham and the heart of the team, Cody! On June 11, 2013, learn what it really takes to be a hero with the release of TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS: ENERGIZE on DVD from Shout! Factory Kids and Hasbro Studios. Featuring five exciting, hilarious and fun-filled episodes, this DVD is priced to own with a suggested retail price of $14.93.

Executive produced by Jeff Kline (TRANSFORMERS PRIME), TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS features the vocal talents of LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Lacey Chabert (Party of Five), Steve Blum (TRANSFORMERS PRIME), Maurice LaMarche (Emmy Award winner for Futurama) and the legendary Peter Cullen who voices OPTIMUS PRIME when he makes cameo appearances in the series. The TRANSFORMERS RESCUE BOTS series is currently airing on The HUB TV Network in the U.S., and on Treehouse in Canada.

Episodes Include: 1.Cody On Patrol
2.Walk On The Wild Side
3.Christmas In July
4.Deep Trouble
5.Return Of The Dinobot

About Hasbro Studios:
Hasbro Studios is the Los Angeles-based production division of Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS). The studio develops and produces shows based on Hasbro's world class brands, including TRANSFORMERS, MY LITTLE PONY, LITTLEST PET SHOP and SCRABBLE. Many of these shows air on The Hub, a television network for kids and their families. Studio programming can also be seen in more than 170 countries globally. The Hub is a joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK).

About Shout! Factory:
Shout! Factory, LLC is a diversified multi-platform media company devoted to producing, uncovering, preserving and revitalizing the very best of pop culture. Founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their entire careers sharing their music, television and film favorites with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory's DVD and Blu-Ray offerings serve up feature films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music and comedy specials in lavish packages crammed with extras. Shout's audio division boasts GRAMMY-nominated box sets, Broadway cast albums, new releases from storied artists, lovingly assembled album reissues and indispensable "best of" compilations. In addition, Shout! Factory maintains a vast digital distribution network which delivers video and audio content to all the leading digital service providers in North America. Shout! Factory also owns and operates Timeless Media Group, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records, HighTone Records and Video Time Machine. These riches are the result of a creative acquisition mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. Shout! Factory is based in Santa Monica, California. For more on Shout! Factory, visit shoutfactory.com

by **Shadowdodger** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:49 pm

C'mon! Just give us a proper Season 1 release!

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 1:04 am

Shadowdodger wrote:C'mon! Just give us a proper Season 1 release!

Amen to that!

News Credits: 198 · by **DevastaTTor** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:18 am

Have these episodes been broadcast on the Hub? I can't remember my kids watching them.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 10:38 am

Season 2 hasn't even come out yet. Are these just gonna be more season 1 episodes?

Nemesis Primal wrote:
Shadowdodger wrote:C'mon! Just give us a proper Season 1 release!

Amen to that!

Rescue Bots fans unite! :DANCE:

DevastaTTor wrote:Have these episodes been broadcast on the Hub? I can't remember my kids watching them.

Season 1 has. Season 2 ain't coming until Winter (almost two years after season 1 :BOOM:

). It's not known what episodes this DVD will have. The title implies season 2 episodes, but since season 2 is still being made, it may be more season 1 episodes.

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumblevivisector** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:24 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
DevastaTTor wrote:Have these episodes been broadcast on the Hub? I can't remember my kids watching them.
Season 1 has. Season 2 ain't coming until Winter (almost two years after season 1 ). It's not known what episodes this DVD will have. The title implies season 2 episodes, but since season 2 is still being made, it may be more season 1 episodes.

Doesn't it say above which eps? Not sure how to properly quote a press release, but:

"Episodes Include: 1.Cody On Patrol
2.Walk On The Wild Side
3.Christmas In July
4.Deep Trouble
5.Return Of The Dinobot"

Or did you mean something else?

I think all the "Energize" title implies is that that's the name of the current Rescue Bots toyline, and they wanted uniformity.

Something about the current state of kids' show single release DVDs just told me that Rescue Bots wasn't getting the complete season release it deserves. The trend now seems to be taking select episodes of cartoons, old and new, to create impulse buys. Likely just a symptom of the economy.

If we want complete Season DVD sets of RB, then bootleggers, get yer' DVRs filled up and start a' burnin'! Hate to have to apply the same logic of my position on knock-off toys and old, obscure TV and movies to a show that isn't even cancelled yet, but I don't see Hasbro and Shout! proving me wrong anytime soon. Only YOU can properly preserve your favorite shows and shield them from the global I.P. war that will define this decade!

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Apr 19, 2013 12:48 pm

Bumblevivisector wrote:Doesn't it say above which eps? Not sure how to properly quote a press release, but:

"Episodes Include: 1.Cody On Patrol
2.Walk On The Wild Side
3.Christmas In July
4.Deep Trouble
5.Return Of The Dinobot"

Or did you mean something else?

Oh slag, I didn't see that. :oops:

Those are all season 1 episodes, yeah.

And, aw man, they got "Walk on the Wild Side" in the wrong placement. It's supposed to be episode 6, before "Cody on Patrol". They did this with "Three Bots and a Baby" on Volume 1, putting it after episode 5 on that disc when it should be episode 8.

And they misspelled "Dino Bot". There's a space in there since it's not the kind of "Dinobot" we usually get, and "Dino Bot" is the more ubiquitous spelling that's evem used by the production staff.

And what's more is that this DVD includes all of the Dr. Morocco episode except for the two-parter he actually stars in, episodes 12-13. Stopping at episode 11 ends the disc on a depressing cliffhanger with a feeling of sadness and ominous worry for the next chapter of the story.

Bumblevivisector wrote:I think all the "Energize" title implies is that that's the name of the current Rescue Bots toyline, and they wanted uniformity.

Yeah, but we've seen what looks like Season 2 footage in the new toy commercials for the Energize gimmick.