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:''Real Gear Robots are a type of Transformer in the [[Movie (franchise)|live-action movie]] [[continuity family]].''
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[[Image:Realgear lookandfindtf.jpg|thumb|250px|Don't get him wet.]]
{{quote|Uncover one of the most closely held secrets on Earth, known only to very few humans. The power of the Allspark has been unleashed, and machines all over the world have come alive. Unlock their secrets and join the battle!|Real Gear Robots toyline summary}}


[[File:Mov-toy RGR SpyShot6.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67|Spy Shot 6]]
'''Real Gear Robots''' are a subgroup of [[AllSpark Mutation]]s—machinery brought to life as [[Transformer]]s by the [[AllSpark]].


'''Real Gear Robot''' is a catchall term for [[Earth]] machinery brought to life as [[Transformers]] by the [[All Spark]] in [[Movie (franchise)|the movie continuity family]]. The term originates with the "Real Gear Robots" sub-line of [[Movie (toyline)|Movie toys]], which features Transformers created from real earthen consumer electronics brought to life in this manner and defines itself with the quote given above.
{{quote|Uncover one of the most closely held secrets on Earth, known only to very few humans. The power of the Allspark{{sic}} has been unleashed, and machines all over the world have come alive. Unlock their secrets and join the battle!|Real Gear Robots toyline summary}}


For lack of a better alternative, '''{{SITENAME}}''' is currently using the same term to refer to the numerous other non-toyline robots created in this manner, which appeared in the film itself and in ancillary materials and promotions. This is not an official or even widespread usage, but they fit the description given above, even if it's hard to consider a car "gear".  {{SITENAME}} considers this terminology ''temporary'' until another term is found or agreed upon.
==Fiction==
===Toy packaging===
Very few [[human]]s are actually aware of it, but the unleashing of the power of the [[AllSpark]] has given life to machines world-wide. By purchasing a Real Gear ROBOTS product, [[you]] too now know this secret. Congratulations! Now, join the battle!<ref>Real Gear Robots [[packaging]] blurb.</ref>


After coming to life, each Real Gear Robot chose sides, joining either the Autobots or Decepticons. They each seemed to find a niche to fill within their respective factions and simply joined in the regular ranks.<ref>Real Gear Robot toy [[bio]]s.</ref>


:''French term'': '''Techno-Robots'''<br>
==Toys==
:''Spanish term'': '''Robots Aparatos'''
{|border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" class="wikitable"
 
|-
{{-}}
!Object
==Toyline==
!Autobots
===Fiction===
!Decepticons
Though the ''Real Gear Robots'' toys were released (presumably as part of the [[Hungry Dragon]] counter-information campaign) to expand on the brief appearance of similar robots in the movie, many Real Gear Robots appear to predate the March 16 2006 cessation of [[Sector Seven]]'s experiments on the [[All Spark]].<ref>[[Spy Shot 6]] has already spent "years" spying on the Decepticons as of 2007, according to his toy bio.  Experimentation on the Allspark ceased on March 16 2006 after the death of researcher [[James Farr]].</ref>  It is unclear if they were deliberately created by [[Sector Seven]] before this and escaped, or perhaps were an unintended result of the Allspark's "area-effect."
|-
 
|'''Binoculars'''
===Toys===
{| border=1 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=2  
|
|
| '''Autobots'''
* [[Farsight T-20 (Movie)|Farsight T-20]]
| '''Decepticons'''
* [[Longview (Movie)|Longview]]
|-
| '''binoculars'''
|
|
* [[Farsight T-20]]
* [[Longview]]
| &nbsp;
|-
|-
| '''cell phone'''
|'''Cell phone'''
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* [[Highline 1070]]
* [[Highline 1070]]
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* [[Wire Tap V20]]
* [[Wire Tap V20]]
|-
|-
| '''digital camera'''
|'''Digital camera'''
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* [[Spy Shot 6]]  
* [[Spy Shot 6]]  
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* [[Photon T-34]]  
* [[Photon T-34]]  
|-
|-
| '''digital watch'''
|'''Digital watch'''
| &nbsp;
|
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* [[Meantime]]
* [[Meantime (Movie)|Meantime]]
* [[Midnighter XR-4]]
* [[Midnighter XR-4]]
|-
|-
| '''MP3 player'''
|'''MP3 player'''
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* [[Night Beat 7]]  
* [[Night Beat 7]]  
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* [[Booster X10]]
* [[Booster X10]]
|-
|-
| '''portable game system'''
|'''Portable game system'''
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* [[Hacker X-3]]  
* [[Hacker X-3]]  
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* [[Power Up VT6]]  
* [[Power Up VT6]]  
|-
|-
| '''video camera'''
|'''Video camera'''
| &nbsp;
|
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* [[Zoom Out 25X]]  
* [[Zoom Out 25X]]  
|-
|-
| '''videogame controller'''
|'''Video game controller'''
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* [[High Score 100]]  
* [[High Score 100]]  
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* [[Twitcher F451]]  
* [[Twitcher F451]]  
|}
|}
{{-}}
==Living machines==
The All Spark cube can emit radiation that spontaneously brings to life machinery and electronics which are exposed to it.  It does not do so continuously, but agents working for Sector Seven eventually learned to activate and even channel these pulses of radiation in their base under [[Hoover Dam]].  The cube also emitted a pulse when dropped by [[Sam Witwicky]] as he fled from [[Decepticon]]s in [[Mission City]].
Transformers which have just been created from Earth machines by the All Spark appear to be almost mindless; alive but without concept of the world-- and often feral.  Judging from what we know about some of these robots (see "Toyline" section above) it appears that they ''can'' have full sentience.  It is unknown what causes this difference.  (See "Personalities", below.)
===Known Real Gear Robots===
* [[AX9-8946-09SU-1]]
* [[Nokia robot|"Samuraï" Nokia cellphone]]
* [[Xbox 360 robot|Xbox 360]]
* [[Dispensor]], the [[Mountain Dew Robot]]
* [[Steering Wheel Robot]]
===Possible Real Gear Robots===
These Transformers seem to be likely candidates, but their actual origins remain unknown:
* [[Dewbot]]
* [[Chevy Autobot|Chevy Autobot]]s<ref>[[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee's]] mission on Earth was to ''recruit'' the pre-existent Chevy Autobots.</ref>
* [[Toaster (Movie)|Toaster]]
===Not Real Gear Robots===
Sometimes thought to be Earth-born, the following Transformers are known to have alien origins (the drones arrive on Earth in "cometary" [[transition form]]), and therefore were not animated by the All Spark on Earth:
* [[Longarm (Movie)|Longarm]]
* [[Dropkick]]
* [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]]
* [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]]
* [[Mixmaster (Movie)|Mixmaster]]
* [[Payload (Movie)|Payload]]
* [[Scrapper (Movie)|Scrapper]]
==Personalities==
All the Real Gear Robots in the 2007 film appear to be evil little beasts.  Screenwriter [[Roberto Orci]] has offered some potential explanations for this both at BotCon 2007 and on the official movie forum, but as usual is careful not to make any declarations.  Orci wrote in response to one fan's query, "It is meant to power Cybertron, not adapt human technology. Also, since all earth's tech is reverse engineered from Megatron, maybe that affects the outcome, too."[http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=387031&postcount=170]  He also wrote, "Prime intended to use the Allspark to repower Cybertron as it was intended. Megatron wants to abuse it by creating Transformers directly, which makes souless, primal Transformers."[http://boards.transformersmovie.com/showpost.php?p=384935&postcount=29]
Both of these statements contain plausible explanations for the violence and hostility observed in the behavior of the robots in the film itself, but they do not make allowances for the fully-developed personas observed in the ''Real Gear Robots'' toyline and other supporting material.  A possible solution is that these may take place in different continuities than the film itself, such that the All Spark may operate a bit differently.  Alternatively, it could be that -- given enough time -- an Earth machine animated by the All Spark might eventually develop consciousness.  Or, perhaps not all robots are created equal.  It could simply be that, while most are feral, some are not.
A final explanation can be taken from a mission in ''[[Transformers: The Game|Transformers: Autobots]]''.  When the Autobots attempt to retrieve the All Spark, it produces drones from the local machinery to defend itself.  As such, the All Spark-created transformers may have been feral as a survival mechanism.


==Titan Magazines==
==Notes==
Real Gear Robots contain solidified All Spark energy in their chests that resemble small, red All Spark cubes.  
* The '''Real Gear Robots''' toyline was the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" Transformers along the lines of the original [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]], [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]], whose [[Alternate mode|altmodes]] are all common hand-held electric devices.
* For some bizarre reason, despite being a movie tie-in line, some of the earlier Real Gear Robots have stickers for displays showing characters from ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Transformers: Cybertron]]''. Later [[redeco]]es of those molds received different stickers with movie characters on them, while the Japanese versions released by [[TakaraTomy]] all had stickers showing movie characters from the get-go. There are two conflicting accounts of the conception of the Real Gear Robots line, which shed light on this oddity:
** According to a user of this wiki at the time, a [[Hasbro]] representative at [[BotCon 2007]] claimed that the Real Gear Robots toys were created in line with the designs of the ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)|Cybertron]]'' toyline, only for their release to be held back—which resulted in serendipity with the [[Transformers (2007 franchise)|movie]]'s marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film. For years, this was the accepted story behind the line's creation. Coverage of this convention's panels from the time is spotty, but in the two extant comprehensive recaps of the relevant panel, no mention is made of this titbit, with both instead supporting the idea that development of these toys only kicked off after inspiration from the movie itself.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Asked what heritage characters they would have put in the movie, Hasbro sidestepped and said they had been focused on developing toy concepts using the G1-type models before the movie went into production. Once word was received about the movie, the company started working on Robot Heroes, CyberStompers, and Real Gear to see how broad they could make the brand once they received the green light.|link=https://tformers.com/BotCon-Hasbro-and-Paramount-Parnership-Panel/8001/news.html|name=BaCon|site=TFormers|title=BotCon Hasbro and Paramount Parnership Panel|year=2007|month=07|day=01}}</ref><ref>{{citesocial|quote='''Real gear subline is great!'''<br>In doing the movie in a realistic setting, a great opportunity to bring the connection home, bring the robots in disguise to a personal level with technology... lots of fun to work on, new characters, new asthetic<br>'''Design team was working before movie got off the ground, if you were in full creative control, who else would you have put in the movie?'''<br>Weren't thinking about the movie until it started to happen - don't know about other characters, just thrilled that the right people were making the movie; were not developing new designs for the movie, but were designing robot heroes, real gear, the helmet-- to figure out how broad we could get the brand|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/botcon-2007-panel-hasbro-transformers-movie-partnership.139263/|name=ams|site=TFW2005|title=BOTCON 2007 - PANEL: HASBRO TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PARTNERSHIP|year=2007|month=06|day=30}}</ref> Another wiki user who attended the convention [[Talk:Real Gear Robot#Chevy Autobots|explicitly stated]] that they heard no such comment.
** In [[2023]], Hasbro designer [[Aaron Archer]] would give the contradictory account that the Real Gear Robots were conceived from the very start as an opportunistic movie tie-in assortment inspired by [[Frenzy (Movie)|Frenzy]], which were never part of the ''Cybertron'' toyline.<ref>{{citesocial|quote="'I've been wondering what the original intent for the ''Real Gear Robots'' toyline was. Were they meant for ''Transformers Cybertron''? How could they have fit in the toyline's ecosystem?' So when you do a movie, you have an opportunity to sell to more retailers, because you're going to get the buzz, the lift of the movie, and the marketing campaign is going to lift that property up over one that doesn't have it—or just has basic TV animation or something—so a wider group of buyers across the wider spectrum of stores are going to buy product. So in order for you not to get overrun with the same stuff everywhere, or maybe making bigger molds in doubling them up than you want to, you're going to offer different assortments, different types of assortments different price points. So ''Real Gear'' gave us an opportunity to quote-unquote make a "movie" assortment, take the Frenzy concept of gear and kind of blow that out, like, what if there was more of that in the film? And we can offer a low price point that the movie otherwise didn't really have, and take that as permission to do a whole line of game controllers and watches and all that stuff. So that's really what ''Real Gear'' was, it was not part of ''Cybertron'', it was an opportunistic assortment to put more stuff out into the market, and that's what it was. And it was in the movie vernacular, but also we were able to say, Soundwave and Megatron and Perceptor and Blaster and characters before that had this... it's an element of ''Transformers'' the the "gear" bots, if you look at the car bots and the army bots or whatever, gear was also an element of the G1 experience, so we wanted to blow that out. Simple as that, it was an opportunity.|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXaInBmtIk&t=3401s|name=Aaron Archer|site=''The Toy Armada''|title=Toy Armada Friday night LIVE: Toy Talk Q&A|year=2023|month=05|day=12}}</ref>


The living machines continued to run amok in Mission City until Starscream began killing them and taking their energy for his own purposes. {{Storylink|Transformers Comic issue 7}}
===Foreign names===
 
*''French:'' '''Techno-Robots''' (Canada)
==Trivia==
*''Spanish:'' '''Robots Aparatos''' (America)
*The '''Real Gear Robots''' toyline is the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" transformers along the lines of the original [[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] and [[Reflector]], whose [[alt mode]]s are all common hand-held electric devices.
 
*The Real Gear Robots toys were created at [[Hasbro]] in line with the designs of the ''[[Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'' franchise that ran through 2005 into the first half of 2006.  Their release was held back, and this resulted in serendipity with the [[Movie (franchise)|Movie]] marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film.<ref>Hasbro representative, [[BotCon 2007]].</ref> Evidence of this can be seen on the stickers of several "first-use" molds, which have ''Cybertron''-series characters on them. (Later [[redeco]]es of these molds were given different stickers, with movie characters on them.)
 
*None of the Real Gear Robots that appeared in the movie were in the leaked script except the XBOX 360 robot. The ones in the film were a Nokia phone, a Mountain Dew vending machine, a steering wheel and an XBOX 360. In the script, they were an iPod, devices in a truck and plasma televisions.


==References==
==References==
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{{Reflist|2}}
 


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Spy Shot 6

Real Gear Robots are a subgroup of AllSpark Mutations—machinery brought to life as Transformers by the AllSpark.

Uncover one of the most closely held secrets on Earth, known only to very few humans. The power of the Allspark[sic] has been unleashed, and machines all over the world have come alive. Unlock their secrets and join the battle!Real Gear Robots toyline summary

Fiction

[edit]

Toy packaging

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Very few humans are actually aware of it, but the unleashing of the power of the AllSpark has given life to machines world-wide. By purchasing a Real Gear ROBOTS product, you too now know this secret. Congratulations! Now, join the battle![1]

After coming to life, each Real Gear Robot chose sides, joining either the Autobots or Decepticons. They each seemed to find a niche to fill within their respective factions and simply joined in the regular ranks.[2]

Toys

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Object Autobots Decepticons
Binoculars
Cell phone
Digital camera
Digital watch
MP3 player
Portable game system
Video camera
Video game controller

Notes

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  • The Real Gear Robots toyline was the long-in-coming return of "mechanical device" Transformers along the lines of the original Soundwave, Perceptor and Reflector, whose altmodes are all common hand-held electric devices.
  • For some bizarre reason, despite being a movie tie-in line, some of the earlier Real Gear Robots have stickers for displays showing characters from Transformers: Cybertron. Later redecoes of those molds received different stickers with movie characters on them, while the Japanese versions released by TakaraTomy all had stickers showing movie characters from the get-go. There are two conflicting accounts of the conception of the Real Gear Robots line, which shed light on this oddity:
    • According to a user of this wiki at the time, a Hasbro representative at BotCon 2007 claimed that the Real Gear Robots toys were created in line with the designs of the Cybertron toyline, only for their release to be held back—which resulted in serendipity with the movie's marketing blitz, since cell phones and other electronic devices become Transformers in the film. For years, this was the accepted story behind the line's creation. Coverage of this convention's panels from the time is spotty, but in the two extant comprehensive recaps of the relevant panel, no mention is made of this titbit, with both instead supporting the idea that development of these toys only kicked off after inspiration from the movie itself.[3][4] Another wiki user who attended the convention explicitly stated that they heard no such comment.
    • In 2023, Hasbro designer Aaron Archer would give the contradictory account that the Real Gear Robots were conceived from the very start as an opportunistic movie tie-in assortment inspired by Frenzy, which were never part of the Cybertron toyline.[5]

Foreign names

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  • French: Techno-Robots (Canada)
  • Spanish: Robots Aparatos (America)

References

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  1. ↑ Real Gear Robots packaging blurb.
  2. ↑ Real Gear Robot toy bios.
  3. ↑ "Asked what heritage characters they would have put in the movie, Hasbro sidestepped and said they had been focused on developing toy concepts using the G1-type models before the movie went into production. Once word was received about the movie, the company started working on Robot Heroes, CyberStompers, and Real Gear to see how broad they could make the brand once they received the green light."—BaCon, TFormers, "BotCon Hasbro and Paramount Parnership Panel", 2007/07/01
  4. ↑ "Real gear subline is great!
    In doing the movie in a realistic setting, a great opportunity to bring the connection home, bring the robots in disguise to a personal level with technology... lots of fun to work on, new characters, new asthetic
    Design team was working before movie got off the ground, if you were in full creative control, who else would you have put in the movie?
    Weren't thinking about the movie until it started to happen - don't know about other characters, just thrilled that the right people were making the movie; were not developing new designs for the movie, but were designing robot heroes, real gear, the helmet-- to figure out how broad we could get the brand"—ams, TFW2005, "BOTCON 2007 - PANEL: HASBRO TRANSFORMERS MOVIE PARTNERSHIP", 2007/06/30
  5. ↑ ""'I've been wondering what the original intent for the Real Gear Robots toyline was. Were they meant for Transformers Cybertron? How could they have fit in the toyline's ecosystem?' So when you do a movie, you have an opportunity to sell to more retailers, because you're going to get the buzz, the lift of the movie, and the marketing campaign is going to lift that property up over one that doesn't have it—or just has basic TV animation or something—so a wider group of buyers across the wider spectrum of stores are going to buy product. So in order for you not to get overrun with the same stuff everywhere, or maybe making bigger molds in doubling them up than you want to, you're going to offer different assortments, different types of assortments different price points. So Real Gear gave us an opportunity to quote-unquote make a "movie" assortment, take the Frenzy concept of gear and kind of blow that out, like, what if there was more of that in the film? And we can offer a low price point that the movie otherwise didn't really have, and take that as permission to do a whole line of game controllers and watches and all that stuff. So that's really what Real Gear was, it was not part of Cybertron, it was an opportunistic assortment to put more stuff out into the market, and that's what it was. And it was in the movie vernacular, but also we were able to say, Soundwave and Megatron and Perceptor and Blaster and characters before that had this... it's an element of Transformers the the "gear" bots, if you look at the car bots and the army bots or whatever, gear was also an element of the G1 experience, so we wanted to blow that out. Simple as that, it was an opportunity."—Aaron Archer, The Toy Armada, "Toy Armada Friday night LIVE: Toy Talk Q&A", 2023/05/12
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