Transformers: Rescue Bots (toyline)
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The Transformers: Rescue Bots toyline is released under Hasbro's Playskool Heroes brand, the latest of many Transformers lines to be aimed at the preschool demographic.
Toys
2011-2012
Beginning in late 2011, the Rescue Bots toyline's initial offerings are noticeably divergent from the cartoon that they inspired, featuring different robot stylings and a mostly different human cast. Some of the last product before the line's Energize refresh, the Mobile Headquarters and Bots & Robbers playsets, began to feature changes to align with the cartoon, such as a show-accurate Cody Burns and blue coloration for Chase.
Figures
The Figures assortment consists of individual human figures with basic articulation, and a piece of Rescue Gear each.
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Rescue Bots
The Rescue Bot assortment consists of autotransforming figures, which can hold Rescue Gear in robot mode.
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Electronic Figures
Electronic Figures are larger, non-transforming figures, featuring lights and sounds, and a human partner figure.
- Chase the Police-Bot (with Jack Tracker)
- Heatwave the Fire-Bot (with Cody Burns)
Playsets
Available at a number of pricepoints, playsets each include a human figure, and a basic Rescue Bot with a RPM-style "transformation" that they can ride in.
- Bumblebee Rescue Garage (with Bumblebee and Axel Frazier)
- Electronic Fire Station Prime (with Heatwave the Fire-Bot and Cody Burns)
- Electronic Rescue Bots Mobile Headquarters (with Optimus Prime and Cody Burns)
- Bots & Robbers Police Headquarters (with Chase the Police-Bot and crook)
Exclusives
- Walmart
- Electronic Fire Station Prime (includes everything from the regular release, plus Cody Burns & Rescue Hose from the Figures assortment)
2013 (Energize)
For 2013, Rescue Bots was refreshed with the Energize branding, which saw most toys feature blue, 'powered-up' color-schemes and weapons. It was also at this point that the line began to tie itself more closely to the Rescue Bots cartoon, with package art and new toy molds being based on the show's character models.
Figure Packs
- Figure 2-Packs
Figure 2-Packs include a PVC Rescue Bot with basic articulation and a static human partner figure. Unlike previous merchandise, the robots and humans are based on the models of the Rescue Bots cartoon.
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- Singles Packs
Singles Packs are the same Rescue Bot figures from the 2-Pack assortment, only without their human partner and in small plastic baggies with a nice big window showing who's inside.
Rescue Bots
For the Energize subline imprint, the original Rescue Bot toys were partially redecoed in clear blue plastic, and retooled to include new rescue tools and additional 5mm ports to hold them in vehicle mode.
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Flip Changers
Flip Changers are larger figures, sporting a gimmick whereby pulling a lever causes the toy to roll forward briefly before flipping over into robot mode.
Electronic Figures
The Electronic Figures are again larger, non-transforming toys with lights and sounds, although no longer including a human partner.
Playsets
- Optimus Prime Rescue Trailer (with large, transforming Optimus Prime)
- Bumblebee Rescue Repair Station 3D Pop-Up Playset (with unchanged Singles/2-Pack Bumblebee)
Beam Box Game System
The Beam Box Game System is a basic video games console, inspired by the popular Skylanders model. The player places a static Rescue Bots figure into the eponymous "Box" and pushes a button, "transporting" the character into the video game. The "Expandable Starter Pack" includes the Optimus Prime figure.
- Individual Figures
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Exclusives
- Walmart
- Optimus Prime Rescue Trailer
(includes Rescue Garage Bumblebee and 2-Pack figures Graham and Cody Burns)
2014
2014 saw another theme for Rescue Bots in the form of new alternate modes, including both vehicles and dinosaurs, seemingly in a loose tie-in to the concurrent Age of Extinction franchise. Dinosaur-themed toys sport Roar and Rescue branding on the back of their packaging, but unlike Energize there is no line-wide subtitle. Much of the year's product apparently suffered paint budget cuts, with packaging stock photography often showing significantly more paint operations than the final toys.
Figure 2-Packs
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Rescan
Smaller successors to the Rescue Bot assortment, Rescan toys are brand-new molds of previous characters, some with new alternate modes. This would become the main "scale" for the series going forward.
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Mini Dinos
Mini Dinos are small autotransforming figures with new dinosaur alternate modes.
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Epic Figures
The Epic Figure assortment consists of 12-inch tall non-transforming figures with basic articulation. Their chests open up to fit a 2-Pack human figure, and they feature 5mm ports to interact with Energize rescue tools.
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Electronic toys
Heatwave and the larger Optimus Primal feature electronic lights and sounds and, in Primal's case, can also transform into robot mode.
Exclusives
- Target Canada
- Silver Force Optimus Prime & Bumblebee
Mixable, Mashable Heroes!
Branded as Rescue Bots, presumably due to the Playskool connection, this line of Transformers-themed Mr. Potato Head toys is entirely unrelated to the rest of the line. Lotsa figures of Mr. Potato Head in different scales, dressing up as... Generation 1 characters, oddly enough.
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2015
Rather than any broad theme, 2015's Rescue Bots line instead saw the expansion of the current lines with new characters and new price points, with a focus on bringing back the core cast in "classic" forms.
Featured Bots
Similar in style to the Figure 2-Pack toys, Featured Bots are non-transforming figures with a rescue tool action feature on one arm.
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Rescan
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Epic Figures
Mini Scene Packs
These sets pack in Figure 2-pack bots and humans along with a larger vehicle with gear-driven action gimmicks.
- Shark Sub Capture (with Dr. Morocco and Blades the Flight-Bot)
- Tunnel Rescue Drill (with Graham Burns and MorBot)
Large figures
Playsets
- High Tide Rescue Rig
(includes rig, Rescan-size High Tide, and cardboard standees of Cody Burns and Servo)
- High Tide Rescue Rig
Mixable, Mashable Heroes!
More figures of Mr. Potato Head in robot costumes!
Exclusives
2016
Mini-Cons
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Rescan
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Superchargers
Rescue Rigs
Megabots
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Epic Figures
Adventure Playsets
- Wave 1
Larger sets
| Griffin Rock Rescue Team | Optimus Prime Racing Trailer
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Griffin Rock Firehouse Headquarters
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Exclusives
