Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015 toyline)

Template:Nav-Rid2015 The 2015 Robots in Disguise toyline, like its accompanying cartoon, is aimed at a slightly younger audience than previous Transformers mainlines, slotting neatly between the preschool Rescue Bots series and the preteen/older-fan-aimed Generations. It features a mixture of easy-to-transform figures and more "traditional" figures with multi-step conversions across an incredible number of price points, with a heavy focus on core characters.

The overarching gimmick for the line is special faction symbol "Shields", which can be scanned with the accompanying Robots in Disguise app to temporarily unlock the toy for use in-game.

The line has an impressive three subline imprints thus far. At general retail, the line's additional gimmick for 2016 was Mini-Con Weaponizers, with the focus being on Mini-Cons that could turn into weapons for the larger figures to wield. For 2017, it was the more expansive Combiner Force, with the focus on, obviously, combining robots, either as two-component super robots, or a gimmick-activating Mini-Con with a larger partner. In addition, ToysЯUs had the exclusive Clash of the Transformers series, a mix of redecos, retools, and a few all-new molds.

Robots in Disguise (Hasbro)

General retail

Legion Class

After being relegated to limited-release redecoes for most of 2014, the Legion size class returns in full. The Cyberverse branding has been dropped, along with the larger Commander pricepoint.

Wave 1 Bumblebee Optimus Prime Steeljaw Strongarm		Wave 2 Grimlock Sideswipe		Wave 3 Fixit Underbite		Wave 4 Alpine Strike Sideswipe Night Ops Bumblebee		Legion Fixit (awww!)
Wave 5 Patrol Mode Strongarm Ultra Magnus		Wave 6 Clampdown Autobot Drift Thunderhoof Windblade		Wave 7 Blizzard Strike Optimus Prime Autobot Ratchet		Wave 8 Decepticon Groundbuster Blizzard Strike Autobot Drift
Wave 9 Bisk

One-Step Changers

Sub-Deluxe-scale figures with (mostly) single-step transformations, as advertised.

Wave 1 Bumblebee Sideswipe Strongarm Underbite		Wave 2 Fixit Grimlock Steeljaw		Wave 3 Autobot Drift Decepticon Fracture Thunderhoof		Wave 4 Night Ops Bumblebee Ninja Mode Sideswipe		One-Step Thunderhoof
Wave 5 Gold Armor Grimlock Patrol Mode Strongarm		Wave 6 Bumblebee (new tooling) Sideswipe (new tooling) Quillfire Springload		Wave 7 Optimus Prime (new tooling) Strongarm (new tooling) Blizzard Strike Sideswipe		Wave 8 Bisk Autobot Ratchet Energon Boost Bumblebee
Future waves Autobot Drift (new tooling) Bumblebee (new tooling) Optimus Prime (new tooling)

Warrior Class

The newly named "Warrior" assortment is broadly similar to the traditional Deluxe Class, but somewhat simplified for greater accessibility. As such, their MSRP is slightly lower than contemporary Deluxe figures in the Generations line.

Wave 1 Bumblebee Grimlock Strongarm Steeljaw		Wave 2 Autobot Drift Optimus Prime		Wave 3 Autobot Jazz Sideswipe		Wave 4 Night Ops Bumblebee Gold Armor Grimlock		Warrior Class Bumblebee
Wave 5 Night Strike Bumblebee Fracture Megatronus Blizzard Strike Optimus Prime		Wave 6 Blizzard Strike Autobot Drift Thunderhoof Quillfire		Wave 7 Windblade Scorponok Power Surge Optimus Prime		Wave 8 Autobot Ratchet Bisk Scatterspike
Future waves Autobot Drift (white) Blastwave Stormshot

Three-Step Changers / Hyper Change Heroes

Three-Step Changers, aka "Hyper Change Heroes" (see the Notes section for more) succeed the Age of Extinction Flip & Change toys as a large, simple-to-transform price point. Unlike those figures, however, there is no unified transformation scheme.

Wave 1 Bumblebee Grimlock		Wave 2 Optimus Prime		Wave 3 Steeljaw		Wave 4 Sideswipe		File:RID20153StepGrimlock.jpg Three-Step Grimlock
Wave 5 Night Ops Bumblebee		Wave 6 Blizzard Strike Autobot Drift Thunderhoof		Wave 7 Stealthasaurus Rex Grimlock		Wave 8 Autobot Drift Energon Boost Bumblebee
Wave 9 Bisk

Mini-Cons

Featuring single-step transformations, Mini-Con alt-modes are meant to augment larger toys. The first four waves work with the larger "Deployer" figures (see below), forming projectiles (Autobot Buzzsaws, Decepticon Torpedoes, and mostly-Decepticon spheroid Cyclones) the larger toys can launch via pressure mechanisms. Replacing the "Deployer" Mini-Cons at the price point, Weaponizers transform into, well, weapons that can he held by or mounted on larger figures via 5mm posts. They are mostly one-step-transformations, but a few have extra pull-out parts needed to complete the process.

All Mini-Cons include a number of clear-plastic accessories, packaged on the sprue, which can be pegged into various sockets on their bodies. The first two waves of figures' accessories can be combined with those from their wavemates to form an "energy animal": a Mini-Con armor lion for Wave 1, and a Mini-Con armor shark for Wave 2. The rest? Nope.

Wave 1 Divebomb Dragonus Sawback Slipstream		Wave 2 Beastbox Ratbat Sandsting Velocirazor		Wave 3 Decepticon Back (aka "Decepticon Forth") Decepticon Hammer Blizzard Strike Slipstream Swelter		Wave 4 Glacius Scorch Strike Jetstorm Ransack		Mini-Con Slipstream
Weaponizer Wave 1 Bashbreaker Lord Doomitron Slipstream Tricerashot		Weaponizer Wave 2 Decepticon Dragonus Lancelon Sawtooth Windstrike

Mini-Con Deployers

Packaged with a Mini-Con, Deployers are designed to wield and launch the smaller figures. Keep in mind that with all Deployers, their gimmick only works on a flat surface, as there is a switch that locks the gimmick when the toy is not on a table or the ground. So no, you can't shoot your friends with your Mini-Cons.

Wave 1 Autobot Drift & Jetstorm Decepticon Fracture & Airazor

Wave 2 Blizzard Strike Autobot Drift & Jetstorm Overload & Backtrack

Wave 3 Crazybolt & Decepticon Hammer

Mini-Con Battle Packs

For the first two waves, each Battle Pack includes a roughly Scout-sized "Decepticon Hunter" figure and a Mini-Con opponent; from the third wave onwards, the "Decepticon Hunter" monikers were dropped, with the Mini-Cons now turning into weapons for the included Autobot figures. The Autobot figures include a number of translucent weapon and armor accessories which can also combine into a single large weapon.

Wave 1 Decepticon Hunter Optimus Prime vs. Mini-Con Decepticon Bludgeon Decepticon Hunter Sideswipe vs. Mini-Con Decepticon Anvil

Wave 2 Decepticon Hunter Bumblebee vs. Mini-Con Major Mayhem Decepticon Hunter Grimlock vs. Mini-Con Decepticon Back

Wave 3 Strongarm & Mini-Con Sawtooth Sideswipe & Mini-Con Windstrike

Mini-Con multi-packs

Big boxes of Mini-Cons! Very unusually for United States releases, all three 4-Packs feature the same Hasbro product code number as well as the same UPC barcode number, effectively making them the "same" product at the distribution level despite only one tooling actually being shared between two of the packs.

Mini-Con 4-Pack (1) Blizzard Strike Backtrack Scorch Strike Beastbox Blizzard Strike Swelter Scorch Strike Undertone

Mini-Con 4-Pack (2) Decepticon Anvil Decepticon Hammer Slipstream (Weaponizer) Undertone

Mini-Con 4-Pack (3) Bashbreaker Autobot Dragonus Lancelon Lord Doomitron

Mini-Con Mega-Pack Bashbreaker Decepticon Anvil Decepticon Hammer Lord Doomitron Sandsting Swelter Undertone Windstrike Beastbox Decepticon Forth Divebomb Ratbat Sawback Tricerashot Velocirazor

Activator Combiners

• Future waves

• Great Byte & Sideswipe
• Trickout & Strongarm
• Stuntwing & Bumblebee

Crash Combiners

• Future waves

• Strongarm & Optimus Prime (Primestrong)
• Sideswipe & Bumblebee (Beeside)
• Skysledge & Stormhammer (Skyhammer)

Power Heroes

• Power Surge Bumblebee & Mini-Con Buzzstrike
• Power Surge Sideswipe & Mini-Con Windstrike

Large figures

• Super Bumblebee
• Mega Optimus Prime
• Power Surge Optimus Prime & Mini-Con Aerobolt

Titan Guardians

• Wave 1

• Bumblebee
• Optimus Prime

• Sideswipe
• Steeljaw

• Wave 2

• Grimlock

• Strongarm

Titan Heroes

• Wave 1

• Bumblebee
• Optimus Prime

• Steeljaw

• Wave 2
  • Sideswipe

• Wave 3

• Grimlock
• Autobot Drift

Electronic Titan Heroes

• Optimus Prime
• Bumblebee

Titan Changers

• Wave 1
  • Optimus Prime
  • Bumblebee

• Wave 2
  • Sideswipe

Role-play

• Decepticon Hunter sword
• Bumblebee 2 in 1 Blaster

Exclusives

ToysЯUs

"Clash of the Transformers"

A pretty sizable subline imprint of exclusives, a mix of redecos, retools and even some wholly-new molds. The line-up was released in Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany, except for Warrior Class Megatronus, who was only released in the US. As of this writing, the 2016 releases haven't been released in all markets yet.

Legion 2-packs Bumblebee vs Underbite Optimus Prime vs Megatronus		Warrior Class Wave 1 Bumblebee Optimus Prime Sideswipe		Warrior Class Wave 2 Megatronus		Warrior Class Wave 3 Power Surge Optimus Prime Starscream Paralon
Three-Step Changers Bumblebee Optimus Prime		Mega Five-Step Megatronus		Power Heroes Power Surge Starscream & Mini-Con Lancelon		Decepticon Island Showdown set Bumblebee Steeljaw Stasis pod accessory

Others

• Stomp & Chomp Grimlock

Target

Robots in Disguise Collection (1-Step 6-pack)

Bumblebee Grimlock

Optimus Prime Sideswipe

Steeljaw Underbite

This 6-pack was also available as a Toys"R"Us exclusive in Canada and as a general retail release in Latin America (or at least in Brazil), and a year later also as a Target exclusive in Australia and as a Tesco exclusive in the United Kingdom.

Transformers: Adventure (TakaraTomy)

TakaraTomy's take on the line, dubbed "Transformers: Adventure", generally features more paint operations per figure, and is filled out with a number of molds from other series, including Generations, Prime, Combiner Wars and even Animated.

They have a similar scan-sticker gimmick to the Hasbro line, except the only thing they do in the app is mark them down in a collection checklist. The "imported" molds usually got minor retooling to accommodate the new stickers.

Adventure Series

Wave 1 (March 21, 2015) Bumblebee Dreadwing Fixit Greejeeber Grimlock Bloody Knock Out Roadblock Slug Steeljaw Strongarm Swoop Underbite Bumblebee VS Steeljaw Grimlock VS Greejeeber		Wave 2 (April 25, 2015) Nemesis Prime Ultra Magnus		Wave 3 (May 30, 2015) Bombshell Lockdown Shrapnel		Wave 4 (June 27, 2015) Adams Drift Powerglide Strongarm VS Phantomjaw
Wave 5 (July 25, 2015) Jazz Optimus Prime Sideswipe		Wave 6 (August 29, 2015) Fracture (w/ Airazor & Sandsting) Override Decepticon Runabout		Wave 7 (September 19, 2015) Drift (w/ Slipstream & Jetstorm) Ground Vehicon General		Wave 8 (October 24, 2015) Black Shadow Bumblebee Supreme Mode Rumble & Frenzy Battle Grimlock Sideswipe & Stepper
Wave 9 (November 14, 2015) Optimus Prime Supreme Mode Drift Origin & Jazz Battle Mode		Wave 10 (December 2015) Team Bumblebee VS Megatronus Set (Bumblebee, Strongarm, Sideswipe, Megatronus) Autobot VS Decepticon Set (Optimus Prime, Grimlock, Steeljaw, Underbite)		Wave 11 (January 30, 2016) Fracture		Wave 12 (February 27, 2016) Megatronus
Wave 13 (March 19, 2016) Quillfire Thunderhoof		Wave 14 (April 23, 2016) Barithunder & Sideswipe Thunder Armor Gravity & Optimus Prime Gravity Armor Ironjam & Bumblebee Iron Armor Volcano & Grimlock Volcano Armor Sideswipe & Bumblebee - Supreme Armor Set Optimus Prime & Grimlock - Supreme Armor Set		Wave 15 (May 28, 2016) Crazybolt (w/ Ransack) Overload (w/ Backtrack) Team Bumblebee VS Thunderhoof Set (Bumblebee, Fixit, Thunderhoof, Windblade) Autobots VS Clampdown (Clampdown, Drift, Optimus Prime, Ratchet)		Wave 16 (June 25, 2016) Hyper Surge Optimus Prime
Wave 17 (July 23, 2016) Hyper Surge Bumblebee Sawtooth & Strongarm Torrent Armor		Wave 18 (August 28, 2016) Scorponok Hyper Surge Sideswipe		Wave 19 (September 24, 2016) Nemesis Prime Windblade		Wave 20 (October 29, 2016) Bisk Ratchet Hyper Surge Starscream Windstrike & Sideswipe Wind Armor
Wave 21 (November 26, 2016) God Optimus Prime Micron Set Starscream

Easy Dynamic Series

Wave 1 (March 21, 2015)

• TED-01 Big Bumblebee (redeco of Three-Step Changer Bumblebee)
• TED-02 Big Grimlock (redeco of Three-Step Changer Grimlock)
• TED-03 Sideswipe (redeco of One-Step Changer Sideswipe)
• TED-04 Prowl (redeco of Age of Extinction Prowl)
• TED-05 Junkion (redeco of Age of Extinction Junkheap)

Wave 2 (April 25, 2015)

• TED-06 Big Optimus Prime (redeco of Three-Step Changer Optimus Prime)

Wave 3 (May 30, 2015)

• TED-07 Bumblebee (redeco of One-Step Changer Bumblebee)

Wave 4 (June 27, 2015)

• TED-08 Steeljaw (redeco of One-Step Changer Steeljaw)
• TED-09 Grimlock (redeco of One-Step Changer Grimlock)

Wave 5 (July 25, 2015)

• TED-10 Strongarm (redeco of One-Step Changer Strongarm)

Wave 6 (August 29, 2015)

• TED-11 Big Steeljaw (redeco of Three-Step Changer Steeljaw)

Wave 7 (September 19, 2015)

• TED-12 Thunderhoof (redeco of One-Step Changer Thunderhoof)

Wave 8 (October 24, 2015)

• TED-13 Drift (redeco of One-Step Changer Drift)
• TED-14 Fracture (redeco of One-Step Changer Fracture)

Wave 9 (November 14, 2015)

• TED-15 Big Sideswipe (redeco of Three-Step Changer Sideswipe)

Wave 10 (January 30, 2016)

• TED-16 Big Thunderhoof (redeco of Three-Step Changer Thunderhoof)
• TED-17 Quick Bumblebee (redeco of One-Step Changer Patrol Mode Bumblebee)

Wave 11 (February 27, 2016)

• TED-18 Big Drift (redeco of Three-Step Changer Artic Strike Drift)
• TED-19 Springload (redeco of One-Step Changer Springload)

Mini-Con Series

Wave 1 (April 29, 2016)

• TMC 01 Jetstorm (redeco of Mini-Con Jetstorm)
• TMC 02 Slipstream (redeco of Mini-Con Slipstream)
• TMC 03 Divebomb (redeco of Mini-Con Airazor)
• TMC 04 Airazor (redeco of Mini-Con Divebomb)
• TMC 05 Windra (redeco of Mini-Con Dragonus)
• TMC 06 Psychobat (redeco of Mini-Con Ratbat)

Exclusives

Gift campaigns

Clear Color EZ Collection Gift Campaign (March 21, 2015)

• Bumblebee Clear Ver. (Toys"R"Us)
• Steeljaw Clear Ver. (EDION, Bic Camera, Kojima)
• Strongarm Clear Ver. (Hakuhinkan Toy Park, White Peony, Yamada Denki, Yodobashi Camera)

Limited Clear EZ Collection Optimus Prime Gift Campaign (April 2015)

• Optimus Prime Clear Ver. (Toys"R"Us)

Limited EZ Collection Gift Campaign (July 2015)

• Toys"R"Us Prime (Toys"R"Us)
• Grimlock Clear Ver. (EDION, Bic Camera)
• Sideswipe Clear Ver. (Hakuhinkan Toy Park, White Peony, Yamada Denki, Yodobashi Camera)

Limited Micron Gift Campaign (November 2015)

• Divebomb (Toys"R"Us)
• Sawback (AEON Cybertron Satellite stores, Yamada Denki, Yodobashi Camera)
• Beastbox (EDION, Hakuhinkan Toy Park Ginza, White Peony Ishinomaki, Bic Camera)

Limited Micron Gift Campaign (December 2015)

• Velocirazor (Toys"R"Us)

TakaraTomy Mall Limited Micron (December 2015)

• Ratbat

Other

TV Magazine (September 2015)

• Kuro Kishi Bumblebee

Transformers Generations 2015 (2016)

• TAV VS-SP Dogfight vs Decepticon Runamuck

Notes

• Because Hasbro stopped printing assortment names on the toys' packaging, confirmation of just what exactly the various price points are named needs to be taken from other official sources. Unfortunately, Hasbro toyed around with several alternate working names, which then ended up being used not only by different online retailers, but also for international versions of Hasbro's official website. This results in a situation similar to 2005's Legends of Cybertron price point (also known as "Cybertron All-Stars" and "Cybertron Micro Series"), the Construct-Bots line (aka "Construct-A-Bots", "Construct Bots" or "Construct A Bots") and the Age of Extinction line's Power Battlers (aka "Power Attackers" or "Deluxe Attackers"), where it's difficult, or even impossible, to conclusively determine the "official" name for these price points:
  • The One-Step Changers are identified as "One-Step Warriors" on the United Kingdom, Canadian, German, Singaporean, Australian and Belgian versions of the Hasbro website, among others. The United States version initially also called them "One-Step Warriors" (with overview listings identifying them as "One-Step Changers"), but later changed the individual figures' entries to "One-Step Changers"… yet a few instances of "One-Step Warriors" still persist. Online retailers (among them Amazon UK, Toys"R"Us Canada and Walmart USA) also use the "One-Step Warriors" name in their listings.
  • The "Three-Step Changers" aka "Hyper Change Heroes" (also "3-Step Changers" or "Hyperchange Heroes") are a similar mess: The Hong Kong, Singaporean, Canadian and United Kindom versions of the Hasbro website identify them as "Hyper Change Heroes", whereas the United States, Australian, German and French versions use the name "3-Step Changers". The Malaysian version uses different names for different individual figures. Again, retailers around the world have picked a name and are running with it. The press releases distributed by Hasbro's PR agency to news outlets after various media events all use "Three-Step Changers", and a Hasbro representative at BotCon 2015 further confirmed that "Three-Step Changers" was supposed to be the "final" name… then again, a Hasbro representative at Toy Fair 2013 had insisted on the name "Construct-A-Bots", too. Hasbro would eventually officially reiterate that "Three-Step Changers" was supposed to be the final name during the Hasbro panel at BotCon 2016.
• On multiple occasions, major updates to the Robots in Disguise mobile game's list of available characters and variations thereof have indirectly revealed massive bulks of previously unannounced toys. This wiki, however, does not add them to the toy list unless they are explicitly officially confirmed as toys.

References

• NYCC 2014 - TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE Press Release