Transformers: BotBots (toyline)

Don't eat the ones that turn into food, or you'll get botbotulism!

Transformers: BotBots is a toyline set for release in late 2018, involving small, cartoony, super deformed robot characters who transform into mundane items. These 1-inch tall soft-plastic bots are marketed in the same style as the insanely popular Shopkins toys and other collectible mini-toys.

In the universe of the BotBots, a mysterious cloud of energon gas drifted through a shopping mall, bringing tools, electronics, and even food to life as tiny transforming robots. By day they hide, and by night, mischief aplenty.

Overview

Each BotBot is a tiny, roughly-1-inch tall PVC-plastic toy that converts from a robot into... something else... in a few short, simple steps. Each character belongs to a themed team depending on the "store" their alternate mode is found in, though the individual members of the team are spread out among a lot of packages:

• Single-Bot Blind Bag Mystery Figures
• 5-Packs with two Bots from the pack's theme team, two Bots from two other teams, and an additional blind-packed (but not random) "Lost Bot"
• 8-Packs with two Bots from the pack's theme team, five Bots from five other teams, and an additional blind-packed (but not random) "Lost Bot"

Naturally, there is a ton of overlap, with many figures available in multiple different packs. These redundant Bots are meant to encourage trading among the kids.

The blind-packed portions are opened by pulling up a tearable flap on the back of the card, revealing a perforated paper layer. The instruction say to then push the red bubble with both thumbs to pop the Bot out through the paper, but you can just tear the paper and pull it out too.

The singles do have individual ID codes (at least as of Series 1) that allow you to tell what toy is inside, lightly embossed on the back of the card on the bottom-right, near the pull-up flap.

Toys

As each individual toy can appear in multiple multi-packs, we're simply listing them by team, with which packs they come in listed on the individual entries.

Series 1

Backpack Bunch Cranks Ms. Take Point Dexter Professor Wellread Slappyhappy Snippy Snappy Sticky McGee Totes Magotes		Greaser Gang Angry Cheese Duderoni Fottle Barts Hawt Diggity S'up Dawg Shredder Jack Spud Muffin Twerple Burple		Jock Squad Arctic Guzzlerush Batsby Fit Ness Monster Kidd Klobber Laceface Pucksie		The Lost Bots Bonz-Eye Burgertron Clogstopper Dimlit Frostferatu Game Over Stinkeye Stapleton		If ever there was a time to give us a new toy of Ejector, Hasbro, this is it.
Shed Heads Cuddletooth Fun Gus Grit Sandwood Major Lee Screwge Nail Byter Rootwing Slobber Rock Venus Frogtrap		Sugar Shocks Cocoa Crazy Lolly Licks Nrjeez The Plop Father Remorsel Sippy Slurps Sprinkleberry D'uhnut Unilla Icequeencone Waddlepop		Techie Team Chilla Gorilla Dr. Moggly Fomo Goob Toob Raddhaxx S.A. Cheez Screen Fiend Skillz Punk		Toilet Troop Frohawk King Toots Nobeeoh Poo Sham Sergeant Scrubadub Stinkosaurus Rex Sudsbeard

Notes

• Though the checklists "rank" the individual BotBots with one to three stars, these ratings do not consistently line up with relative rarity or anything. For example, while all 3-Star Bots in Series 1 only appear in a single multipack or in the one-per-case blindpack assortment, there are several other "one of a kind" Bots who are ranked as 2- or 1-Star.
• Promotional art for Series 1 shows two Bots who are not actually in Series 1, a baseball and a soccer ball. Presumably they will be in a later Series, as the Hasbro website claims 190 characters will be released in 2019.
• All of the characters introduced thus far are entirely new, separate from any traditional "Generation 1" characters: a rarity in today's Transformers toy market.

-However, the European packaging uses the name Techo-bots for the French translation which is an inadvertant nod to G1.

External links

• Page on the Transformers website
• Google Spreadsheet of all BotBots pack contents