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Fan Built Bots are characters created by Hasbro by polling fandom. Thus far two sets of polls have been held, resulting in the creation of a single bot, Windblade, in 2013 and a combiner, Victorion, in 2015.
2013 polls
For the first Fan Built Bot, polls were conducted on transformers.com over the course of a week each. The first round was held between April 18th and May 5th, and included the following questions:[1]
| Faction | Alternate mode | Signature Weapon | Color Scheme | Personality |
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The second round was held between May 10th and May 17th, and included four more questions:[2]
| Name | Gender | Origin | Specialty |
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The result, Windblade, was revealed first in art form at San Diego Comic-Con 2013, with her toy subsequently revealed at Toy Fair 2014. Windblade obtained a toy in the 10th wave of Deluxe-class Generations toys; she also starred in a 4-issue miniseries from IDW Publishing, which was later revived as an ongoing series.
Due to the character's popularity, a different incarnation of Windblade is also featured in the Transformers: Robots in Disguise cartoon, with an episode focused on her.
The names "Centuritron", "Eclipse", and "Charon" were later used for other Generations toys.
2015 polls
The second set of poll was announced on January 15, 2015, this time to create a whole new combiner. The polling was done via the Transformers mobile app. The first set of polls began on January 25. Each limb was voted on individually. This poll infamously revealed the alternate modes for what would become Combiner Wars Voyager Class Protectobot Hot Spot and Legends Class Protectobot Groove before those figures would be officially unveiled at Toy Fair 2015.
| Faction | Torso and weapon | Limbs |
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Round 2 began on February 11 and including picking more specific modes for the limbs, two of which had been selected as aerial vehicles, and two as cars.
| Limb #1/#2 | Limb #3/#4 | Origin | Color scheme |
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A round also took place via the Toys"R"Us Twitter between February 17 and 28 to select which power the combiner would have.
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The final round of voting began on February 26:
| Gender | Name | Personality | Nemesis |
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Victorion, the resulting female combiner, received a toy, then made her fictional debut in IDW Publishing's Combiner Hunters comic before joining the main cast of The Transformers ongoing.
Notes
- The name "Slammoth" was later used for the Beast Wars: Uprising incarnation of Big Convoy while "Quakebreak" was used for the post-Shroud version of Breakaway.
References
- ↑ http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-fan-built-bot-poll/27089/
- ↑ http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformers-fan-built-bot-poll-second-round/27272/
- ↑ This aspect of the character notably did not come through in her comic appearances, due to the prior lack of female Transformers on Cybertron in the IDW Generation 1 continuity; instead, the comic focused on her portrayed her as being from the colony Caminus.
