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.
Overview
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.
Hasbro Robots in Disguise toyline
General retail
"Standard" line
This is, admittedly, a bit of an arbitrary distinction we're making, but given the sheer amount of product across more price-points than virtually any line in the past has featured, some sorting is in order. These are the more "traditional" toys in "traditional" size classes that the older fanbase would be more likely to care about.
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 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 | Wave 4 |  | ||||
| Wave 5 | Wave 6 | Wave 7 | Wave 8 | |||||
| Wave 9 | Wave 10 | Wave 11 |
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 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 | Wave 4 |  | ||||
| Wave 5 | Wave 6 | Wave 7 | Wave 8 | |||||
| Wave 9 | Future waves |
Activator Combiners
- Future waves
Single-pack 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 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 | Wave 4 |  | ||||
| Weaponizer Wave 1 | Weaponizer Wave 2 |
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 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 |
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 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 |  |
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 being different toys every time.
| Mini-Con 4-Pack (1) | Mini-Con 4-Pack (2)
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Mini-Con 4-Pack (3) |  | |||||
| Mini-Con Mega-Pack |
Simple transformation
With its larger focus on the younger set, Robots in Disguise produced a lot of toys with either very simple transformations, or no transformation at all.
One-Step Changers
- Sub-Deluxe-scale figures with (mostly) single-step transformations, as advertised.
| Wave 1 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 | Wave 4 |  | ||||
| Wave 5 | Wave 6
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Wave 7
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Wave 8 | |||||
Future waves
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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 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 | Wave 4 | |||||
| Wave 5 | Wave 6 | Wave 7 | Wave 8 | |||||
| Wave 9 | Future waves |
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
Titan Guardians
- Wave 1
- Wave 2
Titan Heroes
- Wave 1
- Wave 2
- Wave 3
Electronic Titan Heroes
Titan Changers
- Wave 1
- Wave 2
Tiny Titans
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.
| Legion 2-packs | Warrior Class Wave 1 | Warrior Class Wave 2 | Warrior Class Wave 3 |  | ||||
| Three-Step Changers | Mega Five-Step | Power Heroes
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"Decepticon Island Showdown"
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- Others
Target
- Robots in Disguise Collection (1-Step 6-pack)
TakaraTomy Adventure toyline
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 (3-21-2015) | Wave 2 (4-25-2015) | Wave 3 (5-30-2015) |  | |||||
Wave 4 (6-27-2015)
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Wave 5 (7-25, 2015) | Wave 6 (8-29, 2015) | Wave 7 (9-19, 2015) | |||||
Wave 8 (10-24, 2015)
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Wave 9 (11-14-2015) | Wave 10 (10-??-2015)
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Wave 11 (1-30-2016) |  | ||||
| Wave 12 (2-27-2016) | Wave 13 (3-19-2016) | Wave 14 (4-23-2016)
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Wave 15 (5-28-2016) | |||||
| Wave 16 (6-25-2016) | Wave 17 (7-23-2016) | Wave 18 (8-28-2016) | Wave 19 (9-24-2016) |  | ||||
| Wave 20 (10-29-2016) | Wave 21 (11-26-2016) |
Easy Dynamic Series
This "subline" of Adventure is made up of the 3-Step and 1-Step Changers that didn't get rolled into the normal line.
| Wave 1 (3-21-2015) | Wave 2 (4-25-2015) | Wave 3 (5-30-2015) | Wave 4 (6-27-2015) | |||||
| Wave 5 (7-25-2015) | Wave 6 (8-29-2015) | Wave 7 (9-19-2015) | Wave 8 (10-24-2015) | |||||
| Wave 9 (11-14-2015) | Wave 10 (1-30-2016) | Wave 11 (2-27-2016) |
Mini-Con Series
An oddly small series of individually-sold Mini-Cons, with their weapon sprues and an incredible amount of paint to make them more show-like than even their original Adventure releases.
| Wave 1 (April 29, 2016) |
Exclusives
- Retail/online
| TakaraTomy Mall | ToysЯUs | Multiple outlets |  |
- Media mail-aways
| TV Magazine | Transformers Generations 2015 |
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.
