BotBots Appreciation Thread

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by orangeitis, Oct 22, 2018.

  1. Venixion

    Venixion Its always the middle of the night in Moonside

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    Who is that cute lil parrot?! :3
     
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  2. Beastwarsfan95

    Beastwarsfan95 Putting the ‘Bi’ in Bionicle.

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    I havn't been able to find any BotBots in months, I think the only place that still sells them here is Target.
     
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  3. Venixion

    Venixion Its always the middle of the night in Moonside

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    Yeah it sucks. Food 4 Less and Rite Aid were selling em around Christmas but that was it.
     
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  4. Beastwarsfan95

    Beastwarsfan95 Putting the ‘Bi’ in Bionicle.

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    Walmarts here don't sell any smaller transformers, no BotBots, no micromasters, no Battlemasters. Nada!
     
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  5. Venixion

    Venixion Its always the middle of the night in Moonside

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    Saaame. I feel your pain.
     
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  6. Rumble02

    Rumble02 Radicon of Obliticons

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    saaaaaame
     
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  7. Diamondback

    Diamondback Bitterly Clinging G1 Micromaster Malcontent

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    Same-o lame-o here... the only things my Walmarts seem to be getting are deadstock Studio Deluxes and bare pegs. Target is at least getting some of the new Cyberverse... but most of the rest is Siege deadstock and early-waves Botbots.
     
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  8. CrabGrass

    CrabGrass Shrapnel in a trench coat and sunglasses

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    Have any of you had dreams about BotBots?

    I had a dream where they made chase figures. They came in three different colors: purple, green, and yellow. Not only that, they were covered in poorly applied glitter so not only would you have to scour the Earth for them, you’d also be covered in glitter just from touching them. On the bright side, there was a masterpiece Frostferatu.

    Another was about a Japanese release of BotBots. The only one I remember was a little chameleon botbot named “Utah”.

    The final one I had was when series 2 had just come out. I dreamt that series 3 came out before I had gotten all of Series 2. I actually woke up in a cold sweat from that one.
     
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  9. Diamondback

    Diamondback Bitterly Clinging G1 Micromaster Malcontent

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    Dream? Sounds more like nightmares to me... Aren't the Lawn League pain in the ass ENOUGH? :(  Hasbro does enough douchebaggery on us without Chase Figures as it is...
     
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  10. AzT

    AzT Moderator News Staff TFW2005 Supporter

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  11. SectorStar

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    Went to my Fred Meyer after work beings I got off early and was bored. It had been months since I looked at the toy aisle there as they usually weren't good at getting anything new transformers wise (even worse than my wal-mart at times). I was shocked to see they had nearly an entire case of Series 3 botbots singles. First time I've ever seen anything series 3 in the wild as it seemed like Targets were the only stores that had anything to do with the line beyond series 2 brick and morter wise.. Acourse didn't do me any good as I ordered my case from BBTS months ago. Most of what they had transformers wise was Cyberverse stuff (that my wal mart seems to have ignored that line all together) and some Legend figures from POTP and two random Studio Series Voyagers from like wave 1 or 2 I think? <_<
     
  12. Strafe

    Strafe Secretary of Balloon Doggies

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    Sounds like it’s worth rolling the dice for, then. Wal-Mart still has them for half off, so I ordered two sets to go pick up on Saturday, thanks for the affirmation! Fingers crossed.

    Isn’t it adorable?

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    Hash tag, #BirdGang

    2019 was a hell of a year for cute robots. It’s from a line of transforming robots called “Beastbox” that convert from cubes into various animals. They’re (mostly) reasonably priced, too. They have all sorts of wild stuff - raptors, penguins, hippos and mammoths. Even Iron Man and a Xenomorph from Alien! Without cluttering up the thread too much with it, here are a couple of concise pages from their catalog.

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    I’ve got the yellow bird repaint on pre-order.
     
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  13. Max Tower

    Max Tower Well-Known Member

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    I think they make KO's of these that are like dirt cheap I see them on ebay for under £12
     
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    insertblank Well-Known Member

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    Those are great, love the Jojo references on the gorillas.
     
  15. KraegorStark

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    Superbowl this weekend, but I can't wait for baseball to start.
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  16. Max Tower

    Max Tower Well-Known Member

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    Am I the only one who thinks Lovestruck should be a Tennis Ball not a Soft Ball due to the duel meaning of "Love" with regard to Tennis.
     
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  17. insertblank

    insertblank Well-Known Member

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    I thought he WAS a tennis ball for exactly that reason...
     
  18. Noideaforaname

    Noideaforaname Pico, let's go up to Zuma

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    While I impatiently wait for Target to get Series 4, I ebay'd a couple Bots from sets I don't need:
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    Fancy Flutter almost looks like a Metroid enemy, until you notice his eyelashes.

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    Javasaurus is one of my favorite BotBots, so I'm more than happy to have a second version

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    Especially since she goes so well with Dead End
     
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  19. Venixion

    Venixion Its always the middle of the night in Moonside

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    Yesss! :3
     
  20. Jackal07

    Jackal07 Assistant to the Council of Couch Potatoes

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    image.jpg image.jpg Ok so I was looking at the back of the Arcade Renegades pack, and realized that there was a giant map of all of the first three series members. While I was doing this, I noticed three things:
    1. On the art, meltz down is randomly in the series 1 part of the mall near crazy cocoa. However, he is also where he’s supposed to be in series 3.

    2. This is more the characters from the set, but a lot of them are a lot looser than there original molds. For example, my twerple burple’s lega could barely comedown, but the fizz’s slide down with ease

    And Finally, 3. There are( I think) 5 molds that have been used from series 1-4. Those are

    the lollipop(Lolly licks, Lolly mints, Tangry tart, cypops)

    the chocolate bar(remorsel, mocklate, sweet cheat, and dj Fudgey Fresh)

    the bag( totes magotes, tool bag, nanny mcbag, and doc kit)

    The hockey puck( pucksie, songwave, 24k bit, bemyne)

    And the bread( angry cheese, pb junior, moldwich, and hiptoast)
    If there’s any more, let me know, but that’s all I got.
     
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