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| Developer | Budge Studios | ||||||
| Platform | Android, iOS | ||||||
| Release date | May 5, 2016 | ||||||
Transformers Rescue Bots: Hero Adventures is a mobile game released by Budge Studios.
Plot
Natural disasters are occurring all over Griffin Rock. The Rescue Bots are tasked with saving as many people as possible, as they try to figure out who's causing them.
Considering Doctor Morocco is on screen as Cody is narrating to explain this, it isn't really much of a secret. He's using a weather machine attached to a buoy to control the weather.
The Rescue Bots save people from wildfires, volcanic eruptions, avalanches and earthquakes.
After the Rescue Bots save many people from several natural disasters, Doctor Morocco appears on the screen at the firehouse, laughing evilly, and an invasion of Morbots begins causing trouble around Griffin Rock.
Bumblebee keeps the Morbots from attacking the civilians, fending them off with lasers. Chase leads the Morbots into a trap. In a bit of a non-sequitur, Optimus Prime runs towards a single Morbot and takes it out. Heatwave sprays the remaining Morbots with water, and Blades carries them into a crater. Boulder then clears a path from a nearby river to flood the crater, defeating the Morbots.
Dr. Morocco retreats in Nemo, plotting his revenge.
Featured Characters
Gameplay
Natural disasters appear on a menu showing a map of Griffin Rock. The player selects a mission, and then chooses from the six available Rescue Bots. The earlier levels require only one, while eventually they require up to four Rescue Bots to be selected.
After this, the player transforms their Rescue Bot of choice by swiping a slider--up for robot mode, down for vehicle mode. This then begins a minigame. The game played depends on the Rescue Bot selected. There's different set dressing for them depending on the natural disaster selected, but they boil down to two kinds of mission per Rescue Bot, one for their vehicle mode and one for their robot mode.
The vehicle minigame for Chase has him drive away from approaching danger, dodging various obstacles in the process. His robot mode game has him finding civilians in a dark room
-blades
-optimus prime
-bumblebee
-heatwave
-boulder
After enough disasters are cleared, the game brings the player back to the map menu. A gauge is filled, and more disasters come to take the cleared one's place.
Notes
- As is common for Budge Studio games, Hero Adventures is free-to-start, but eventually requires money to progress, as the amount of Rescue Bots the player needs to complete a mission outpaces the two freely available, Chase and Blades.
- Bumblebee and Optimus Prime were late additions who weren't in older builds of the game. This results in Optimus Prime and Bumblebee's segments being awkwardly shoved into the ending sequence. Bumblebee's feels somewhat natural, as it is incorporated into the beginning. But for Optimus, the camera in Chase's minigame 'still pans to Heatwave' before his part begins,
- Fire safety tips are worked in occasionally between levels.
Bin Weevils
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| Developer | 55pixels | ||||||
| Platform | Android, iOS | ||||||
Bin Weevils was a virtual world browser game, launched in 2004.
Bin Weevils included promotional content for several Hasbro properties, including My Little Pony, Nerf, Furby, and several different promotions for Transformers.
There was also a spinoff title, named Weevil World, released in 2017. It also had a promotional tie-in with Transformers.
Bin Weevils was shut down in 2021.
Gameplay
Bin Weevils
Bin Weevils, unsurprisingly, took place in a trash bin. Player avatars took the form of colorful weevils. They could chat, play games, and earn Mulch to buy stuff to decorate their nest. The worlds were a mix of both 2D and 3D areas.
Like many virtual worlds, it had a premium membership that allowed players to access more features. It also kept the lights on with a large amount of content advertising various toys and other things that could be appealing to young children. These sponsorships frequently included games, content in their in-game theaters, or scavenger hunts to find various sponsored items.
Weevil World
Transformers content
Bin Weevils had many, many Transformers sponsored events and features over the years.
2010
The first documented Transformers promotion. They aired episodes of Transformers: Cyber Missions in Rigg's Palladium, a cinema area. [1]
-a kreo transformers scavenger hunt in 2011
-some sort of scavenger hunt thing for prime from 2013
-construct bots event, including an 'energon battle arena'? also from 2013
-'drive in theater' where people could watch robots in disguise episodes around 2015 to 2016. also had more gameplay to it i think but details are scarce.
-transformers power heroes hunt in 2016, literally only a tweet of info so far
-weevil world released in 2017 but it had an rid event also, involving wearables and a theater like bin weevils
sources to source from
https://web.archive.org/web/20160413123930/https://licensing.biz/news/read/superawesome-and-hasbro-team-up-to-bring-kids-new-transformers-content/043628 an article written about the RID promo at the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSfWcDnWvZ4 scavenger hunt in 2013
https://web.archive.org/web/20160309142852/http://news.binweevils.com/brand-new-transformers-robots-in-disguise-episode-04 earning energon points and items?? hmm
https://web.archive.org/web/20120810005943/http://blog.binweevils.com:80/2011/08/kre-o-transformers-hunt/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120810073802/http://blog.binweevils.com:80/2011/08/kre-o-transformers-coming-soon/ kre-o appears to have come with a poster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ6KuGKvArM
https://binweevilcompany.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/transformers-construct-bots-energon-battle-arena/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150914163449/http://blog.binweevils.com/page/2/ apparently rid episodes were aired before the drive in theater thing i think??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuYF4PMAXrM ok wow i am digging myself into a pit of obscure bin weevils youtube but i do it for the just cause of ensuring we have a complete look at things. Assuming the video was uploaded shortly after it was recorded, this would place a KRE-O transformer takeover somewhere around the beginning of september?? i mean idk why the hours are at 42 when a normal timer would have that rolling over into the days but. hm. worth noting for later even though i dont see anything immediately helpful on youtube.
https://x.com/Bin_Weevils/status/783252935652233216
A billboard featuring Bumblebee was used to promote the cyber missions videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGbkULJAOek
https://binweevilsrantcentral.weebly.com/chernobyl/july-on-bin-weevils-its-replacement https://weevilpost.weebly.com/news_archive THE SPINOFF GAME ALSO HAD TRANSFORMERS STUFF. i am not making a dedicated article on weevil world since it just has the one event afaik
https://binweevilcompany.wordpress.com/tag/optimus-prime/ omg wait that one wordpress blog had more info!! construct bots had an associated hunt, quizzes, etc
https://web.archive.org/web/20160603201015/http://news.binweevils.com/win-a-ride-in-to-school-in-optimus-prime they ran a contest where you answered a question/a couple questions for a chance to win a ride to school in optimus prime???
