Transformers Rescue Bots: Team Rescue Bots DVD Available at Shout Factory

WreckerJack wrote:The disc contains episodes 1 through 5

The description sure doesn't sound like episodes 1 through 5.

EDIT: Now that I've clicked onto the listing page to see the episodes listed, it's Episodes 28, 40, 41, 71, and 73.

And, boy, is that a bad choice on Shout! Factory's part to include only Episode 71 without 70 and 72 accompanying it, since those three episodes make up a very character-driven, grand-scaled three-parter with 71 picking up from the bleak and dour ending that 70 left off on and ending on a serious drama-filled cliffhanger that 72 would resolve rather intensely. Not including either 70 or 72 to go with 71 is a very bad move.

It would be like if a Beast Wars DVD containing random episodes included only Part 2 of "The Agenda" without the other two parts.

Also, I just realized that this is the toy thread instead of the cartoon thread. Wha?

WreckerJack wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Also, I just realized that this is the toy thread instead of the cartoon thread. Wha?

DVDs are merchandise. It is the Rescue Bots Toy Products and Merchandise thread.

But all previous DVD news was posted in the cartoon thread (since they're DVDs for the cartoon).

, anther quarter, another random single dvd. At this point, since the show is over, I'm beyond asking for season sets. Now it would just be nice to have a complete series box set. I understand that S!F probably doesn't think there's much profit in that. Just offer it as a S!F site exclusive then, or even a MOD, I don't care. My son has aged out of the show, he loved it as a youngster, but I'm pretty sure he wont be watching RB Academy. I just want this for completion sake as a collector of TF Media.

Alright, this has been in my TVShowTime (app rhat tracks tv show air dates and reminds the user when something new is on) for a while. I smell something fishy, with the fact that its the only episode, listed under a new season, and with a bucnh of unknown characters but before I totally write this off as hoac, what is this???

I've seen episode reviews for other shows written in a similar fashion on Wikipedia before. My guess it was written in another language (perhaps some Chinese dialect, which is notorious especially with names), then translated with some spotty online program into English. At first thought, it might be some insiders review of the first episode of RB Academy, but probably not. Probably just somebody writing a bogus review for the fun of it. Similarly, I've seen false entries on Wikipedia before. The best one was that the final 3 episodes of Season 2 of Avengers Assemble was going to be an Avengers vs X-Men story. Part of me wanted to believe this because it theoretically could have been written before then embargo on using F4 & X-Men characters on Disney shows, but alas it was all bogus.

In 2016, after four long seasons of 104 episodes, Transformers: Rescue Bots came to an end. Despite Hasbro's intent for it to advertise a line of toys aimed at toddlers and preschoolers, the show's writing staff skewed toward a more mature audience with quality writing, excelling voice acting, and a real sense of heart and sincerity.

It received a sequel series in Rescue Bots Academy, which had just as many episodes (albeit, in half the running-time length), and came to an end in 2020/2021, bringing with it the formal end of Hasbro's experimental Aligned continuity. Ironically, it was these two shows that basically ended up being the glue that held the Aligned continuity together, when all of its other components refused to play nice with each other.

Anyway, since both series' ending, a devoted fanbase has nonetheless carried on in both series's wake, keeping the legacy of Rescue Bots alive and strong all these years later. And to illustrate that devotion, a collaboration of fans have come together under the banner of TurboFox Zines to create a Rescue Bots fanzine free to download in PDF form! This fanzine contains a gallery of artwork created by a legion of talented artists, as well as two short prose stories.

One of these stories (as well as the fanzine's Foreword) is written by none other than Nicole Dubuc, co-creator and story editor of Rescue Bots, co-creator and executive producer of Rescue Bots Academy, and one of the writers for both Transformers: Prime and Robots in Disguise (2015), as well as executive producer of EarthSpark.

The story she has written for this fanzine was based on a story proposed and discussed by the Rescue Bots production crew when they were crafting the Season 1 finale. It provides a possible answer for one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the Rescue Bots series: "What happened to the mother of Cody, Kade, Dani, and Graham, Chief Charlie's wife?"

I just read the story, and it really tugs at your heartstrings.

The fanzine is available to download here, along with a separate ZIP folder containing PNG emojis and stickers.