Medix (RB)

This article is about the Aligned Rescue Bot. For the Generation 1 Autobot, see Medix (G1).

Medix the Doc-Bot is an Autobot from the Rescue Bots portion of the Aligned continuity family.

"What exactly are you standing on back there, Sawyer?"

Medix is the Rescue Bots' Doc-Bot, ready to help out Autobots and humans alike when they need medical help. A bot not for surprises and who works purely with logic may seem unable to work with the unpredictable, but he has been able to find himself a spot during all the works.

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

Medix and the other recruits were bugged when Wedge borrowed the trigger for the rescue alarm and had them constantly running drills to get their response time down. The Bot Who Cried Rescue The recruits had to contend with a runaway rock sculpture of Hot Shot's head when he decided to carve it into a mountain alongside the likenesses of the Rescue Bots. Mount Botmore Medix served as the victim in need of rescuing for an exercise, a role he threw himself into enthusiatically, though it took a while for the recruits to actually rescue him because Hot Shot and Wedge had trouble following Hoist's orders. Mission Inaudible Medix found it difficult to complete a rescue simulation when a girder started glitching on them, however it later gave him any idea during a real rescue on a bridge, and he came up with an unorthodox plan that ended in success. Glitch

After a ride on the Sigma, the recruits assumed the four command chairs meant one of their number wouldn't graduate. The team went on to botch a volcano rescue drill after staying up all night worrying, until Heatwave told them they'd assumed wrong. Five Into Four When Whirl was filming footage for a recruitment video, Medix provided three hours of footage of him discussing bandages. He and the others later helped whip the footage into a usable state. Rescue Promo After a botched rescue had the recruits blaming each other, Heatwave assigned them to cleaning duties. Hot Shot sneaked out to do a rescue, and as a result, the rest of the recruits had to go help him when he hit trouble. Blame Game Medix was bemused by the idea of surprising Cody with an EMT certificate, and the other recruits ended up setting up a surprise rescue mission to demonstrate to Medix how great surprises were. He remained unconvinced. Surprise, Medix!

The recruits got to try out some TX3000s on loan to the rescue center, and even used them during an actual rescue. The TX3000 They had to round up a lost flock of sheep, but were hampered by Hoist malfunctioning. Little Bot Peep

Toys

Rescue Bots

I go in a category that's a homophone of my name.

• 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.

• More information on Medix at TFU.info

The regal flashing lights and royal horns, behold, the great one comes.

• 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. It was redecoed and given a different head as Rescue Bots Academy Medix to more closely match his appearance in that show.

• Medix the Doc-Bot (Flip Racer, 2017)

Good luck seeing out of that windshield!

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

Doctor Doctor, gimme the news.

• 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.

• Medix the Doc-Bot (2019)

First revealed at Toy Fair 2019, this version of Medix is a redeco of his earlier Rescan figure with a new head and color scheme more consistent with his on-screen appearance in the Rescue Bots Academy show, effectively making his vehicle mode resemble his original toy once again.

Notes

Coincidence? I think not!!

• 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".
• Medix is the only one of the original Rescue Bots characters to recieve a heavy overhaul on his appearances, getting 3 redesigns from his first toy's release to his first appearance in media. The others (excluding Hot Shot, Wedge and Whirl) remained closer to their source material.