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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 items to decorate their nest. The world included 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 made money with a large amount of sponsored content, advertising various toys and other things that could be appealing to young children. These sponsorships frequently included games, videos in their in-game theaters, or scavenger hunts to find various sponsored items.
Weevil World
Weevil World was similar in art style and basic content to Bin Weevils, but had a different, 2D platformer like layout. The game had more customization options for dressing the player Weevil.
Transformers content
Bin Weevils had many small Transformers sponsored events and features over the years. These most often took the form of scavenger hunts, though other content (either standalone or accompanied by the hunt) is not unheard of.
Cyber Missions
The first documented Transformers promotion occurred in 2010. They aired episodes of Transformers: Cyber Missions in Rigg's Palladium, a cinema area.[1] A billboard featuring Bumblebee was placed in front of the shopping mall to promote them.[2]
Kre-O
A Kre-O Transformers event took place in 2011. The Dirt Valley area was redecorated for the occasion, including a link to the official website and a countdown to the Kre-O Transformers taking over, though what exactly that entailed is unknown.[3] It was the first Transformers event to use the common 'scavenger hunt' base of finding themed items. This event involved finding four Kreons hidden around the map.[4] There was also a nest item, a poster featuring Kre-O Optimus Prime, which may have been included as a prize.[5]
Beast Hunters
A scavenger hunt event promoting Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters took place in 2013. Players found bubbles hidden around the map, containing various Transformers characters. The outside of the mall had Optimus Prime, but it was not decorated to the same extent that the KRE-O event was.[6] This Optimus Prime was not only there as decoration, as it led to a toy giveaway, where Bin Weevils would give Beast Hunters figures to 10 players weekly.[7]
Construct-Bots
Another Transformers event took place in 2013, this one promoting Construct-Bots. It involved a scavenger hunt where players found Transformers, similar to the Beast Hunters and Kre-O events before it. It also included its own separate area, the Construct Bot Cybertron HQ. This area featured Optimus Prime and Megatron, and included quizzes and a multiplayer minigame known as the Energon Battle Arena, where players could choose between the Autobots and Decepticons.[8][9]
Robots In Disguise
-'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.
Weevil World
Weevil World, the spinoff game, had its own promotion for Robots In Disguise. It allowed players to dress their weevil in clothing based off of various Transformers characters, and go to a Transformers-branded cinema, complete with a personality quiz and Transformers characters in the theater itself.[10]
Power Heroes
A scavenger hunt based off of the Power Heroes toys took place in 2016.[11]
References
- ↑ Bin Weevils Blog, "Transformers Cyber Mission Premiere on Bin Weevils", 2010/4/15
- ↑ ronnoc3k8, Youtube, "How to rate your own nests on binweevils", 2010/04/19
- ↑ XDKnowYourLimitz, Youtube, "binweevils track 3 racing glitch", 2011/08/3
- ↑ "Kre-o Transformers are due to arrive any day now. Four Kreons have been sent first and they are hiding in the Bin. If you can find them you’ll be rewarded Mulch! Remember, they can change their form…. so finding them may be a tough challenge!"—Bin Weevils Blog, "KRE-O TRANSFORMERS HUNT", 2011/08
- ↑ Weevil Wizzard, Youtube, "Binweevils Optimus1's Nest", 2012/07/23 It is not strictly confirmed that this is related to this particular event, but considering this is the only Transformers Kre-O event we know they ran, it is hard to imagine where else the item would have come from.
- ↑ hf556, Bin Weevils Company, "Transformers Beast Hunters Hunt Answers!", 2013/06/03
- ↑ Bin Weevils Company, "Transformers Beast Hunters Competition!", 2013/06/18 Mirror of a post from the official Bin Weevils Blog.
- ↑ Bin Weevils Company, "Transformers Construct Bots!", 2013/09/4 Mirror of a post from the official Bin Weevils Blog.
- ↑ Bin Weevils Company, "Transformers Construct Bots Energon Battle Arena!", 2013/09/11 Mirror of a post from the official Bin Weevils Blog.
- ↑ Weevil Post, "Weevil World: Public Release", 2017/06/08
- ↑ Bin Weevils, Twitter, 2016/10/04
sources to source from
weevil world
https://binweevilsrantcentral.weebly.com/chernobyl/july-on-bin-weevils-its-replacement
RID
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???
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/20150914163449/http://blog.binweevils.com/page/2/ apparently rid episodes were aired before the drive in theater thing i think??
