Medix (RB)
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- Medix the Doc-Bot is an Autobot from the Rescue Bots portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Medix is the Rescue Bots' Doc-Bot, ready to help out Autobots and humans alike when they need medical help.
Sometimes he pals up with Sawyer Storm.
Fiction
Rescue Bots Academy cartoon
- Voice actor: Adam Andrianopoulous (English)
Medix was among a batch of new recruits sent to the Rescue Bot Training Center on Earth to learn to be Rescue Bots. Like the others, he treated Hot Shot's addition to the team with skepticism, especially when Hot Shot screwed up a fire rescue training exercise. Recruits Part I Medix and the other recruits were surprised when Hot Shot later turned up with two additional alternate modes, however when it turned out he could only pick one a day, and the jet mode he'd picked was useless for the cave rescue they were assigned, Medix and the others encouraged him to persevere and they completed the exercise. Recruits Part II
Following a rescue in Griffin Rock, the recruits persuaded Hoist to make new rescue tools for them all. Medix got new claws to allow him to cut through things, and though the initial test went horribly wrong, he and the other recruits enlisted the help of Boulder, and Hoist eventually perfected the tools. If at First... After Hot Shot damaged Tough Luck Chuck and then shirked his duty in bot-sitting, the recruits were forced to hunt Chuck down through the streets of Milford. Medix later repaired Chuck using new parts created by Boulder. Tough Luck Chuck Bored by Chase's class on police codes, Medix and the other recruits persuaded Chase to let them try to do a practice rescue, and ended up being rescued themselves by Whirl when they got stuck in the snow. Whirl'd View When the recruits didn't understand why Boulder was having them plant flowers, the Rescue Bot set them a task which taught them that all parts of nature are important. Plan Bee
Toys
Rescue Bots
- Medix the Doc-Bot (2012)
- Part of the fifth wave of the original Rescue Bots toyline, Medix transforms from ambulance to robot with a press of the flashers on his roof, automatically springing him into robot mode. (Though you'll have to stand him up yourself.) Medix comes packaged with a DVD of the Rescue Bots episode "Under Pressure".
- The wave with Medix and Hoist was originally a bit scarce on retail shelves (though it hit Target clearance in some places), and as such the two demanded some hefty prices on the secondary market. However, there must have been a warehouse find or something, as eBay sellers eventually started listing them in large numbers for roughly original retail.
- This figure was redecoed and given a new head to create the Amazon-exclusive fire search and rescue vehicle version of Heatwave.
- Medix the Doc-Bot (2016)
- A brand-new mold in the smaller Playskool Heroes scale, Medix once again transforms into an ambulance in a single "Easy 2 Do Conversion". Robot-to-ambulance conversion is done by pushing his arms in, and ambulance-to-robot by pulling them out - as this typically doesn't fold the legs in all the way, pushing up on the cabin roof can solidify the transformation. In ambulance mode, his back-end roof has a 5mm post-hole, nominally to mount the concurrent Rescue Bots Mini-Con partners in their rescue-tool modes. His fists also have 5mm post-holes, though their lack of posability makes holding the rescue tools... awkward.
- He has an entirely new headsculpt that arguably matches the cartoon's general aesthetic better.
- Medix the Doc-Bot (Flip Racer, 2017)
- Part of the first wave of individually packed Flip Racers, Medix transforms automatically from ambulance to robot when the vehicle mode is lifted up and placed on its end.
Rescue Bots Academy
- Medix the Doc-Bot (2019)
- The first toy of Medix under the Rescue Bots Academy brand, and in his new appearance for the cartoon, is sized similarly to the previous Megabots line, at about 11 inches tall. He transforms into a medical emergency car in a couple of "Easy 2 Do Conversion" steps. In bot mode, pressing a switch on his left arm slides out a tool which is in place of his hand. He comes packaged in robot mode, enabling this gimmick to be tried in-store without removing him from the package. He shares engineering and a transformation pattern with the Rescan car version of Bumblebee and Quickshadow.
Notes
- The package art for the first Medix toys shows him paired with Sawyer Storm. This was, of course, before the toyline shifted to better reflect the cartoon.
- His Playskool Heroes packaging art is just a recolored version of his original toy's.
- An ambulance that looks a lot like the original Medix toy's alt-mode appears in the Rescue Bots episode "Family Business".
