New Galleries: Robots In Disguise Mini-Cons Slipstream, Divebomb, Sawback, & Dragonus

I'm undecided about them even after spending last week photographing all of them except for the ones that come in the Battle Packs. One improvement would have been to have had Mini-Con ports for the sake of legacy, some needed more paint apps, some just needed some consistency (i.e. Sawback can't stand in his disc alt mode when he has the accessories attached, whereas the rest look like spaceships or other types of armored assault vehicles), and some just needed their factions flipped (i.e. Beastbox who had no business being an Autobot, especially with Ratbat in the same wave). The "ball" shaped ones were oddly more appealing to me, moreso than the others, and I'm assuming that's because they remind me of the Microchange Meteor guys who became the Beast Wars Eggs and were also later used in the KISS Players line.

DMax, you rang? And yes, I do love these little guys. I think they are fun and "cheap" pick ups. I started with just trying to get the show versions and it quickly escalated.

I'm not a purist for the most part and I'm starting to match up some of the odd ones with other figures as lil tag along toadies. For example: the Scorch Strike Beastbox is chilling with Gen Wreck Gar, they match up quite nicely. Sandsting is with a bunch of random insecticons.

I also find the rolly polly ones to be the most fun. Backtrack has all of my love right now his energon weapons really make the figure.

A Kmart near my home is closing, so all their toys were 20% off. I got for my son 2 Decepticon mini-cons he did not already have -Dragonus(the last of the first wave) and Sandsting from the newer assortment. -I had no idea about this:



My son was totally excited (especially now that Dad's advice about "keeping all the little parts where you can find them" has paid off)

My only question is---this appears to be an intentional design, not a fan build. How would one come to know this existed if it were not in any instructions anywhere? I would think, somewhat like the Marvel "build-a-figure" action figures, this would have added incentive to collect them all. It was just chance (well really my sons desire to have them all), that we got them.

I've built both the lion and shark; no way it's by mistake. Seems like a waste of a "gotta catch 'em all" marketing strategy on Hasbro's part.

It would have been pretty cool if they could have employed a more generic/universal connector system to encourage more creative play.

As it stands I Have the two energon beasties built, some of the armor/weapons pegged in and the rest in a tin.

o.supreme wrote:"Shark"? -Is this a build from the newer Minicons, or is this also something that can be built with the first wave?

Wave 1 and 2. I wanna say wave 1 builds the lion and wave 2 builds the shark.

Thanks all. Well as I said earlier, my son got Sandsting at Kmart. Too bad they wont be getting any more stock. I've seen the others at local Target stores (Beastbox, Ratbat, & Velocirazor). I guess I know what he'll want to spend his allowance on for the next few weeks heh...

I have been a fan since the very beginning, but have been out of the toy collecting aspect for a full decade. So I pass this torch to my son, who has basically collected random figures from various different lines up until now. I think he's found his niche with the RiD15 mini cons and Deployers (He has Drift & Fracture, but I wont be getting him any repaints, cause you know, Dad is mean like that) . But I give total credit to all you fine folks on this website for revealing the Lion & Shark Builds. As you say, my son would have had no way of knowing otherwise.

Would really prefer you guys to use content on Seibertron.com instead of linking offsite.

Seibertron has a new gallery for you today: Transformers Robots in Disguise Deployer Overload with Mini-Con Backtrack

This new Deployer figure can fire the new minicons which turn into balls, called cyclones. This should come as good news to those who already bought these new minicons, through the four pack for instance, and seeking extra playability.

This is also the very first toy release of the new character, Overload, who will be introduced in season two of Robots in Disguise. With the recent New York Toy Fair reveals, it appears this will be the only toy class to have this character, at least for the near future. This Deployer pack should be available at retail very soon.

Have you been buying the Deployer figures? If not, would this figure be your first? Let us know!

Transformers: Robots In Disguise (2015) Overload








Transformers: Robots In Disguise (2015) Backtrack

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:He looks cool, but I wish he looked and functioned just a bit better.

Well, if he is as big a villain in the show as the trailer's are making him out to be, we'll probably get a warrior class version of him.