Bot Shots (toyline)
Bot Shots is an action-figure-based game that involves small super-deformed auto-transforming figures with combat rules similar to "Rock, Paper, Scissors." Players transform their Bot Shots figure into vehicle mode, send it into their opponent's figure, and hopefully the collision will trigger a transformation into robot mode.
A three-sided rotating symbol in their chest (either a fist, a blaster, or a sword) put into place before the game by the player, is judged against the opponent's pre-set symbol using the below hierarchy, determining the winner.
- Fist beats sword
- Sword beats blaster
- Blaster beats fist
In the event of a draw, the figure's individual power ranking determines the winner. If a figure does not transform, its owner loses by default.
One bot in each wave is designated the Super Bot. This robot is cast in translucent plastic and has marginally higher power stats. His identity is blacked out on the back of the packaging of the other figures in the wave and has unique packaging deco calling out his "Super Bot" status. The packaging treats the Super Bots as their own "Series" with Bumblebee to Baricade being numbered Series 1: B001 to B004 but Sentinel Prime listed as "Super Bot 001." Super Bots for each wave are marked below.
Bot Shots online game
Toys
Series 1
44 Bot Shots figures are planned for "Series 1", released in 2012.
Singles assortment
Wave 1
- B001 Bumblebee
- B002 Starscream
- B003 Optimus Prime
- B004 Barricade
- Super Bot 001 Sentinel Prime
Wave 2
- B005 Mirage
- B006 Autobot Ratchet
- B007 Decepticon Brawl
- Super Bot 002 Bumblebee
Wave 3
Wave 4
- B012 Ironhide
- B013 Powerglide
- B014 Autobot Jazz
- B015 Leadfoot
- Super Bot 004 Optimus Prime
Wave 5
- B016 Skywarp (retool of Starscream)
- B017 Roadbuster
- B018 Megatron (truck mode)
- B019 Bumblebee (with battle mask)
- Super Bot 005 Shockwave
3-Pack assortment
Wave 1
- BP001 Bumblebee / BP002 Sentinel Prime / BP003 Prowl
- BP004 Megatron / BP005 Nemesis Prime / Super Bot 006 Acid Storm
Wave 2
- BP006 Skyquake / BP007 Jetfire / BP008 Powerglide
- BP009 Decepticon Brawl / BP010 Shockwave / Super Bot 007 Ironhide
5-Pack assortment
- Autobot Polar Assault Team: T001 Optimus Prime, T002 Bumblebee, T003 Mirage, T004 Ironhide, T005 Jetfire
- Stunticons: T006 Motorbreath, T007 Dead End, T008 Dragstrip, T009 Brake-Neck, T010 Breakdown
Launcher assortment
Wave 1
- BL001 Optimus Prime with Trailer Launcher
- BL002 Megatron with Tank Launcher
Wave 2
- BL003 Ironhide with Trailer Launcher
- BL004 Starscream with Spaceship Launcher
Ultimate Battle Set
- "Battle for the Matrix" contains:
- UB001 Optimus Prime with Trailer Launcher
- UB002 Bumblebee
- UB003 Megatron with Tank Launcher
- UB004 Decepticon Brawl
- Matrix trophy card
BeCool
BeCool (a double pun on "vehicle" and "bikkuri", or "surprise") is TakaraTomy's version of Bot Shots. The line first surfaced in mid-September 2012, when six Bot Shots toys were found in a single store in Japan under the BeCool name without any advertising or other promotion. The sales display featured a sign welcoming customers to "Bikkuri Town". Each figure was sold in two different packaging styles that called out their surprise transformation gimmick. No changes from the Hasbro versions are known so far. This is assumed to be a test market release, and BeCool was made widely available in December that year.
Unlike their Bot Shots counterparts, BeCool toys aren't used to play a game, as TakaraTomy uses their quick and easy transformation as the main draw instead. For this reason, their chest stickers don't display stats but an image of their vehicle mode or something related to it, such as a lightbar for Prowl and a syringe for Ratchet. Some toys are also different colors from any of their Bot Shots releases, including a red Mirage, green Jazz and orange Megatron.
The BeCool line isn't actually marketed as a Transformers series, with its packaging and website lacking any kind of Transformers logo. While the test market packaging even left out the characters' names in favor of their vehicle modes, calling Optimus Prime simply "truck" and Bumblebee "yellow sports car", the final versions have their names written in parenthesis next to the vehicle names.
- B01 Patrol Car (Prowl)
- B02 Ambulance (Ratchet)
- B03 Trailer (Optimus Prime)
- B04 Yellow Sports Car (Bumblebee) (with battle mask)
- B05 Red Jet (Powerglide)
- B06 Tank (Decepticon Brawl) (blue version)
- B07 Firetruck (Sentinel Prime)
- B08 Red Sports Car (Mirage)
- B09 Blue Sports Car (Topspin)
- B10 Black Off Road Car (Ironhide)
- B11 White Jet (Jetfire)
- B12 Special Sports Car (Bumblebee Clear Color) (without battle mask)
- B13 Highway Patrol Car (Patrol Ratchet)
- B14 Blue Jet (Thundercracker)
- B15 Green Sports Car (Autobot Jazz)
- B16 Battle Tank (Shockwave)
- B17 American Patrol Car (Decepticon Barricade)
- B18 Tank Lorry (Megatron)
Notes
- Each figure's design is a mix of various incarnations of the characters, though usually settling somewhere between "Generation 1" and "movie". Because of this mishmash and because the characters have unique fiction related to the online game, they are considered separate characters from any previous versions. This sort of thing makes the Wiki's brain hurt.
- The power ranking numbers on the various releases of any character are different each time. Optimus Prime, for example, has different stats as a single, as a launcher, and as part of the Battle for the Matrix set, plus slightly different decos.
