Ok I just noticed something pretty weird with my RiD Prime. Well, the batteries wore down on it, from sitting so long, and I unscrewed the battery cover only to discover two different brand AAA batteries in it! Thats really weird to me! I have never changed the batteries in this thing. There was a Duracel battery and Varta "Pager" battery
Unless you did that yourself without realizing it, someone's messing with you. Maybe. He doesn't even come packaged with batteries.
Yeah he does.. I bought him from TRU The AAA are already installed so that he sirens and voice work.. I have never even seen a Varata "Pager" battery before. Plus I just took him out of storage. I was going to try an see if I could you the lights on it in my alt prowl.
I've got the carrobots one, and I don't remember if he came with them or not, but I was going through my toys one day and messing with the electronics. his weren't working, and I found out that the batteries had leaked. didn't ruin the figure or anything, but that's the only transformer that had ever happened to.
The Car Robots one definately doesn't come with batteries. In fact, any TF using that size battery won't come packaged with them, since it would be too expensive. Odds are, yours was a return that someone had put batteries in and then forgotten to take out again.
I for one think it's better when toys don't come with batteries in them. Saves time having to pull them out. I can't remember many moons ago whether mine came with bats or not but maybe if someone still had a box it would say it on that whether they were supposed to be included or not.
I can say for certain that the CR version, TRU Japan version, RiD version, Universe version, and the Cybertron version do NOT come with batteries. I think what others have suggested is the most likely solution - must have been a return.
Weird, cuz even my Magnus was working right out of the box. And I bought them both seperatly. And neither looked like they were EVER opened. The factory tape on the box had not been touch, and usually when someone peels the tape off the boxs it usually tears the design off the box.. All the ties were still on it, basically it looked as if the box had never been opened or tampered with. And As I said my Ultra magnus was working right out of the box as well. Batteries already installed in him just like my prime.
