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.
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. By year two (the line's Energize refresh), the line began to line up more stylistically with the cartoon, eventually adding toys based directly on in-show characters.
Standard retail toys
Rescue Bots
The Rescue Bots assortment consists of autotransforming figures, which can hold Rescue Gear in robot mode. These figures are larger than the later "mainline" toys. For the Energize subline imprint, the original 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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| Wave 5 | Energize Wave 1 | Energize Wave 2 |
Rescan Series
Premiering in 2014, "Rescan" toys are the smaller successors to the Rescue Bot assortment, featuring brand-new molds of previous characters, some with new alternate modes. This would become the main "scale" for the series going forward, including new characters.
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Rescue Rigs
- These sets combine a Rescan bot toy with a towable trailer, which itself converts into a role-play gauntlet toy with action features for kids to wear.
Superchargers
- These barely-larger-than-Rescan toys of special guest bots have pull-back motor action, launching them forward.
Griffin Rock Rescue Team
- A four-pack of the main four Rescue Bots in their Rescan-scale show-forms, all nice and neat.
Rescue Teams
- These multi-packs include one Rescan-sized Rescue Bot, a human partner, and rescue gear which can combine and form robots.
- Arctic Rescue Boulder (with Graham Burns and Windchill the Yeti-Bot)
- Bumblebee Rock Rescue Team (with Cody Burns, Talon the Eagle-Bot and Hunter the Lion-Bot)
Figure Packs
- Figures w/ Rescue Gear
In the first year of the line, the Figures assortment consisted of individual soft-plastic human figures with basic articulation, and a piece of Rescue Gear each.
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- 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.
- 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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- 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)
Mini Dinos
The tiny Mini Dino toys are small autotransforming figures of the main four Rescue Bots with dinosaur alternate modes.
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Mini-Cons
These small animal-bots convert into rescue tools that can be held by larger toys.
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Playsets
Available at a number of pricepoints, playsets typically include at least one human figure or smaller version of a bot.
- 2013
- Bumblebee Rescue Garage (with Bumblebee and Axel Frazier)
- Electronic Fire Station Prime (with Heatwave and Cody Burns)
- Electronic Rescue Bots Mobile Headquarters (with Optimus Prime and Cody Burns)
- Bots & Robbers Police Headquarters (with Chase and crook)
- 2014
- Optimus Prime Rescue Trailer (with large, transforming Optimus Prime)
- Bumblebee Rescue Repair Station 3D Pop-Up Playset (with unchanged Singles/2-Pack Bumblebee)
- 2015
- High Tide Rescue Rig (includes rig, Rescan-size High Tide, and cardboard standees of Cody Burns and Servo)
- 2016
- Griffin Rock Firehouse Headquarters (with Cody Burns)
- Griffin Rock Garage (with Kade Burns & Fireplug the Dalmatian-Bot)
- Griffin Rock Police Station (with Chief Charlie Burns & Growl the K-9 Bot)
- Optimus Prime Racing Trailer (with Optimus Prime & Blurr)
Large figures
A variety of large figures serve as flagship pieces, many of which are non-transforming, and/or feature lights and sounds. While the first year's assortment included a human partner figure, later waves dropped them.
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Flip Changers
Flip Changers are larger semi-motorized figures, sporting a gimmick whereby pulling a lever causes the toy to roll forward briefly before flipping over into robot mode.
Megabots
Though the pricepoint was introduced in 2015, it didn't become an ongoing assortment until 2016. These massive bots, while roughly the same size as the Epic Figures (see below), are fully transformable toys.
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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 or similar accessories.
| Wave 1 | Wave 2 | Wave 3 | Wave 4 | 22-inch assortment |
Flip Racers
Simplified Bot Shot scale figures with automatic gravity-powered transformations activated by flipping the figure up or down.
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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.
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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, with Rescue Bots characters finally getting into the mix late into the line (and barely hitting Us retail).
- Single Figures
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- Figure 2-Packs
"2-Packs" in this context mean that Mr. Potato Head has two different costumes to put on: a robot-mode outfit and a vehicle-mode one!
- Multi-Packs
Double your potatoes, double your fun! One small tater, one huge!
Exclusives
| Amazon.com | Target (Canada)
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