Dave's BotBots Rant: Series 3 Singles 5-Packs 8-Packs Permalink: http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/BotBot/Series3 [Update 12/25/19: Got the five-pack with Halloween Knight, so added notes on him.] [Update 2/21/20: Found Rink Stink.] Note, this does not include the Arcade Renegades sets, which while technically part of Series 3 were not available at regular retail in stores in America. Nor does it include the Con Crew, who are kind of between series. No separate Capsules, as most of these will be covered only briefly anyway. I'll copy in the relevant info from their online entries, make such comments as I feel are called for, and give a general good/bad/meh rating on them. The order I use will be the order in which they show up on https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/botbots when I clicked "Series 3" and skipped past the Arcade Renegades batch. Here's a short list of the new molds that have impressed me and I think are worth seeking out, in no particular order: Nampy, Sensei Spiney, Shushifier, Quackles, Note, in this series, there are nine tribes present in the regular releases, with the Arcade Renegades forming an oversized tenth tribe. They're all in their own review. As in previous series, only the single-packs have the role info. And, of course, there's several that contradict the online roles. (I didn't buy all the singles, so there may be a few that I only got in multipacks where the single pack role is not the same as the online.) TRIBE: FRESH SQUEEZES These are basically BotBots from a juice bar. They kinda seem to be the Fun Police. NAME: SMERG THE SAD Altmode: Potted Shrub Role: Sad Spinach Dragon Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Rootwing Smerg the Sad dreams of being loved like one of the deliciously greasy, cheesy, burger-fry-pizza types. Spinach? Way less popular. Deep down Smerg the Sad knows he's way too nutritious, so he leafs away his days among the greens ... wating. *Sad Face* I'm pretty sure spinach plants don't have woody stems, but I guess there's only so much you can do with a potted shrub/tree mold. Unlike Rootwing, they actually painted all the pot bits for altmode. Same brown plastic as Rootwing, but the leafy bits are a lighter/yellower green plastic...very unlike spinach even in color. The blue paint on the pot makes the dragon mode look like it's wearing bib overalls. Jragon? It ain't spinach in any way, but it's a slight improvement over the original version of the mold. NAME: SENSEI SPINEY Altmode: Pinapple Role: Savagely healthy samurai Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 5 Sensei Spiney uses stealth to fight unhealthy snacking. He moves with ninja speed to replace everyone's greasy foods with fruits and vegetables. He can smell calories from miles away, and will trim out anything unnatural with a quick flick of his ninja sword. Clearly he and Hamurai are deadly enemies. While the arms are hard to get pulled out during transformation, his sword can be used to pry them out. Pulling the feet down is quite easy unlike most transformations that have the legs pull down rather than fold down. A panel folds down to reveal the face and form a grass skirt. Pineapple mode looks pretty good. It has a few gaps, a hinge on one side, and the brown paint along the bottom does not continue onto the arms, but it looks as close to being a pineapple as Bunches looks like grapes. And unlike Bunches or Avocando, it's not a horrible shellformer. All made of pineapple yellow plastic, with green paint on the leaf bundle on top and brown on the bottom. In bot mode, there's brown leaves printed on the fold-down panel, a sort of skirt. The blade of the sword is painted green, it's basically the longest single leaf when stored on top of the head. The face is white with bright green forehead, chin, and eyes, and a serious expression. A scar across the right eye is yellow with black outline. Like Hamurai, he has a weapon built into his altmode, and the hands to hold it. The shoulders are swivels, and the hips can wiggle a little. One of the good new molds, although there's really nothing it can be redone as other than other pineapples. NAME: AVOCANDO Altmode: Avocado Role: Health nut avocado Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 3 Get pumped! Get hyped! Eat right with Avocando! No more sugars in your boogers! Get some greens in your spleens! Remember kids, you are what you eat! Never say can't do, say CAN do! Like Avocando! That's me! Yes, avo-can-do, not avo-con-doh. Not only a total shellformer (the outer shell halves just separate to show a robot inside), the shell pieces pop off very easily, and it's very difficult to pull the legs down. Seriously, the real transformation is "remove the shell entirely, struggle to get the legs down, separate the struts on back, reattach the shell pieces to the struts." Avo-can't-do. Lazy design, badly implemented. Oh, and the ones that are packaged in bot mode tend to get warped so that they can't transform properly back to avocado mode unless you unwarp them. NAME: BUNCHES Altmode: Bunch of grapes Role: Doting bunch of grapes Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Bunches loves to dote on his friends with anything they want. Whether it's a warm glass of Energon, a pillow to rest on after a hard day of mischief, or a luxurious bath to wash the troubles they've gotten into away.Anything, because when they're happy, he's is happy [sic] Yeah, several typos in there. I tried, but there's no real way to make the whole face visible in bot mode. There seems to be a molded and yellow-painted visor, but you have to peek up under the edge to see it. The grape shell bits are purple plastoc, but the body inside is hot pink plastic. Botmode is really crippled by kibble. I think the instructions just photoshopped out the lower grape shell stuff, because it's simply not visible until the step where it folds around the legs. I could get it to fold mostly out of the way by taking advantage of the flexibility of the plastic. The arms are molded inside of grape shell pieces but not painted, so it really just looks like he's waving around bits of grape. The left arm has the grape leaves on it like a shield. Altmode is okay, although the pink butt sticks out in back. It does't really lock of peg together, just arrange the shell pieces in roughly the right placs and it looks like a bunch of grapes with seams between grapes. Bunches of disappointment. NAME: TREND BLEND Altmode: Drink cup Role: Nutritional Scientist Smoothie Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Sippy Slurps Trend Blend is so healthy! So fresh! So new! He packs the latest nutritional science into the ultimate bot-boosting blast! Get an edge. Keep your edge. Reach peak performance. Trend Blend stays on top of the latest fads so you don't have to! Yet more of this mold. Transforming it caused arms and hat to come off rather easily, especially the arms. It takes a lot of force to get the arms to pull out, and only a tiny bit more to rip off entirely. Somewhat light blue plastic, yellow-green paint on the lid. The helmet is black, as are the feet and the straw. The front of the cup has a bright green label with yellow-green leaf logo. He has a worried expression with o O eyes in yellow- green...certainly not projecting the attitude of his bio note. NAME: LATTE SPICE WHIRL Altmode: Disposable coffee cup Role: Celebrity Latte Level: 3 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Coffeemus Prime Latte Spice Whirl is the "it" bot of the juice bar. Loved by (almost) all bots, she can't go anywhere without being surrounded by fans begging for selfies. No wonder she only comes around once a year -- what latte could handle the pressure of so much fame? So, yeah, she's pumpkin spice latte. As I expected, two fewer transformation steps than Coffeemus Prime, since she has no sleeve to remove and invert. The Optimus-like molde details are still there, but with no paint to pick them out they're not very obvious. Brown plastic with orange paint bands around the cuo, a white lid and face. Oddly, the cup-mode side of the chestplate is painted pale yellow, but there's no paint on the bot-mode side. The expression is reminiscent of Sippy Slurps's brain freeze. [Later note: She's also in the Lost Bots slot for one of the Seasons Greeters 5-packs.] TRIBE: GOO-GOO GROUPIES Baby supply store, like Babies R' Us used to be before the forces of evil intervened. NAME: BOTTLE O-TEARS Altmode: Baby Bottle Role: Cry-Baby Bottle Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Bottle O'Tears can't help but cry -- all the time. You may think there is no use crying over spilt milk, but he certainly does! It's hard for him not to take the loss personally... sometimes Bottle O'Tears gets upset about crying all the time -- so he cries. Yeah, inconsistent name between the top of the card and the bio text. The hardcopy instructions agree with O'Tears. And the incorrect ellipses use is in the original. Decent white bottle mode with pink stripes, a blue cap, and yellow nipple, only a bit of gapping in the back. Bot mode has a major shell chunk just sort of folded back as wings, the helmet rotates to reveal the face, arms and legs come out easily. Bot mold has molded utensils on its pockets (a bit pointy for a baby, yes?) and a cow face on the bib. Overall, kind of a cheap transformation, but otherwise okay. NAME: SHUSHIFIER Altmode: Pacifier Role: Shushing Pacifier Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 5 Whenever things get loud, the Shushifier quiets them down. He's highly noise sensitive and can detect even the smallest disturbance. If you need total quiet, the Shushifier is on it. But remember: no one shushes the Shushifier. He's the one who does the shushing. NOTE: This also appears as the Lost Bots figure in one of the Seasons Greeters packs. (The one with the candy corn and silly string.) The instructions don't call it a Lost Bot, though. Pretty involved design, I'm impressed. The nipple part splits into legs, the sides of the face shield bit swing down as sort of cape bits, and the middle splits into arms with little molded fists. The handle swings back. A cyclops type, with a single eye warped in what I guess is a crying shape? The neck is painted white and maybe it's supposed to be the mouth, with something black in the middle. Made of light pink plastic, with magenta paint on the head and chest, yellow on the legs. While the feet are small and rounded (a problem with the maracas mold), the cape bits can help stabilize it. NAME: NAMPY Altmode: Crib Role: Napping Grandpa Crib Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Nampy needs naps. He's a loving grandpa, but can get cranky when the little bots get too rambunctious before he's had his nap. Nampy is known to say: "I'm too old for this!" before converting to crib-mode for some much needed Z's. Okay, this is one of the good designs. Sure, in crib mode it looks like someone dumped some robot bits into the crib, but it's otherwise solid and the transformation does not involve parts falling off. In fact, you have to actually pay a little attention to where things go, this one doesn't just slap closed. My only real complaint about transformation is that the mobile bit is just pegged in, it's very small and easily lost if it comes off. (It's also a 2mm peg, so it can be removed and held in either hand.) As a crib, it's very lithe yellow with a powder blue mobile hanging over the sleeping Nampy head. As a dragon, the crib walls make the wings, the rest of the toy is powder blue. The upper torso, abdomen, and goggles are painted dark blue, with white lenses and grinning-closed eyes printed on them. The toothy grin is painted very light yellow. Good articulation, with restricted ball joint neck and shoulders, tiny legs sharing an axle, hinged wings, hinged tail root, and the peg-swivel tail tip. If you're just looking to get the good new molds, this is one of 'em. NAME: HIGH ROLLER Altmode: Stroller Role: Top-of-the-line luxury stroller Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 5 High Roller is the best baby carrier on wheels. Her integrated GPS ensures she never gets lost. Her wheels feature automatic terrain stabilization for a smooth ride. And, the cockpit contains a multi-point airbag system for maximum safety. The transformation is a lot simpler than the five steps implies. A couple of steps are just moving things a tiny bit. In bot mode, he looks like he has his butt stuck in a stroller. It's not as bad as some of the shellformers, because the stroller bit is actually part of his torso, but still. Dark grayish brown plastic, with bright yellow paint on the helmet and pale yellow paint on the chest. White face with blue eyes, molded glasses Transformation is just flipping up the chest so that the feet can fold in, putting the arms down, and tilting the head forwards. The result is a stroller with very little room for the baby, and a poorly hidden robot face on the folded-back roof. A bit back-heavy, it's prone to tipping backwards. NAME: DRIPPY PUP Altmode: Sippy Cup Role: Slobbering Sippy Cup Dog (instructions leave off "dog") Level: 3 Transformation Steps: 4 Other bots say walking Drippy Pup is like taking a ride down the grossest waterslide, ever. Sure, he's adorable, but the rivers of drool he leaves behind have everyone slipping and sliding all over the place. Be warned: if you take him out for a walk, bring a mop! So, it's a sippy cup with handles, and markings on one side with ounces and milliliters. The handles and bottle part are bright blue plastic, while the cap is orange plastic. There's orange paint on the outer surfaces of the handles, blue paint on the sipping bit, and the volume measumrement bit is printed in orange on a white field. It's kind of halfway between a sippy cup and a regular water bottle, so I can see it getting repurposed as a Jock Squad member. To transform, turn the lid around 180 degrees, flip up part of it to reveal the dog features, fold the handles down to be floppy ears, and flip out the limbs and tail. The result is a decent floppy-eared dog bot. The painted blue sipping part forms a sort of robot crest. The expression printed on the face is a closed-eye grin with lolling pink tongue, a blue nose, and a blue spot over the left eye. The forelegs swing forwards and backwards as a unit, while the hind legs spread out for sploot action. The tail wags up and down, and the head can tilt for that "baroo?" pose. Not an outstanding mold, but a pretty good one. No hassles transforming, both modes are decent. NAME: CRIB WATCH Altmode: Baby Monitor Role: Overworked Baby Monitor Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Screen Fiend Being on constant baby watch is hard work. Who's crying? Who's screaming?? WHAT WAS THAT NOISE!? Crib Watch has become slightly paranoid (and a little bit twitchy) from being so overworked. What Crib Watch really needs is a good night's sleep. White plastic. The front in altmode has a powder blue border, a slightly darker blye monutor with black screen (just soundwave bars, an Autobot symbol, battery level and time). The lower half of the front has speaker hole dots and volume control buttons. In bot mode, the helmet is light pink and the chest is bordered in powder blue. The eyes are bright blue, and she (I guess) has flop sweat and a bunch of question marks on her face. TRIBE: JOCK SQUAD While there's a lot of new tribes, the old ones still get some new members. No new MOLDS, mind you. NAME: DINGER Altmode: Baseball Role: Forgetful Baseball Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Lovestruck Dinger always getting whacked with stuff. Other bots whack Dinger and Dinger fly through air. When Dinger go far, other bots happy. It make Dinger not smart, but Dinger like make bots happy. Yeah, this one might get them some heat for the whole "Hurr durr, me am brain damaged" thing. Especially since it's in the sticker book too (this was originally planned for Series 2, with Lovestruck being a redeco of Dinger, but Dinger got pushed back). His expression is hurt and crying, which only makes it worse. He doesn't even seem to LIKE being hit, so his whole bio note is a lie intended to make others feel good about hitting him. Man, this was a mistake on so many levels. All white plastic with red stitching. Feet, face, and left hand are light gray, right hand is dark red. His one open eye is blue. NAME: RINK STINK Altmode: Gym Bag Role: Smelly Sports Bag Level: 3 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Con-Packtor When it comes to funky smells, the sports bag bot, Rink Stink, is committing a power play. He's packed with smelly sports equipment! Hockey is his favorite, and he hordes [sic] gear from any sport. This bot loves to wreak havoc -- and to just plain reek. Okay, a power play is what happens when the other side commits a foul that sends someone to the penalty box, one does not commit a power play. Even I know that. And wreak is pronounced like wreck, not like reek. Plus, one hoards gear. I think they need some editors on this page, or at least beta readers. All done in blue plastic with light gray face, "mohawk," and legs, black strap details and side pockets. Bright blue eyes. No details suggesting stinkiness, although mine has a blemish on the face that doesn't seem to have been intentional. NAME: TERROR TALE TORCH Altmode: Flashlight Role: Scary Storyteller Flashlight Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Dimlit When Terror Tale Torch turns on her light, you're in for a fright! She lvoes it when the sun goes down and bots gather around to listen to her scary stories. Her chilling tales are the stuff of legend, full of ghosts, goblins, skeletons, witches, and zombies. BOO! Dark gray plastic, yellow on the bulbs-end, and dark red around the barrel (including the grip bits that end up on the arms). The entire head inside the helmet is painted light gray, oddly, rather than just painting the face part so that when the top is rotated it all ends up dark gray. Yellow eyes and power button icon, and a terrified expression. Looks like the one most scared by her stories is her. NAME: MAL CONTENT Altmode: Tent Role: Cranky Camping Tent Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Vigitente Mal Content is a cranky tent bot. If he had his way, the farthest outdoors he'd ever go is the outdoor store. After spending so much time outside, he's decided things are just much more comfortable inside. Camping inside can be just as fun, right? While this is a redeco, the original appeared in the Con Crew exclusive set, so this is the mold's first regular retail appearance. The roof is medium gray plastic and the rest is bright yellow-green plastic (same as Smerg's leaves). The rest of the front of the tent is painted lighter gray than the top, poor match there. The face and chestplate are the same lighter gray, with white eyes and snarling mouth. As noted in the Con Crew review, this seems to be a Megatron homage mold. NAME: CITRUS GUZZLERUSH Altmode: Sports Drink Role: Benchwarmer Sports Drink Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Arctic Guzzlerush Citrus Guzzlerush is a true underdog. They said he wasn't as good at tasting good or quick at quenching thirst. But Citrus Guzzlerush tries. So. Hard. He shows up every day on the shelf, gives his all, and waits patiently for his shot at the big time. Yet another Guzzlerush, this time in Constructicon green (same shade as Mal Content). He seems happy enough, but really, there's nothing more to say about this mold. LOST BOTS One more time around for the Lost Bots, who are only MOSTLY redecos. NAME: GREENY REX Altmode: Potted Plant Role: Herbal Healing Plant Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Stinkasaurus Rex All the health-concious bots go to Greeny Rex for her Energon-boosting magical healing herbs that mix perfectly into a cup of Energon tea or homemade kombotcha. Her remedies are 100-percent all natural, ethically sourced, and not tested on bots. A Fresh Squeeze refugee, probably. Still a pretty good mold with an almost one-step transformation (push down on the plant). This one is in darkish blue plastic, reminiscent of one of the G2 Grimlock decos. Brown dirt and top of head, bright green plant bits, white teeth, bright blue eyes. NAME: FAIL POLISH Altmode: Nail Polish Role: Messy Nail Polish Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Bottocorrect Fail Polish loves giving her fellow bots manicures with her pretty, pretty polish, but she just doesn't know when to stop. If you see splatters of shiny paint all over the place and a bot you could have sworn wasn't pink before, you probably just missed Fail Polish. Likely lost from the Swag Stylers, but they're not sorry to see her gone. Cap is black plastic, the rest is light pink plastic. Blue and black details on bot mode, sticks with the cyclops look molded into the face, but with more personality. NAME: STRIKE FOUR Altmode: Baseball Bat Role: Clumsy Baseball Bat Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Batsby LOOK OUT! Strike Four is up at bat. TAKE COVER! Poor kid means well, but he doesn't know what he's doing. He's treat at taking big swings. Problem is. YYYYYYIKES! He hits his teammates more than the ball. OOOOOOMPFFFF! Another novelty-colored bat, made from red plastic with very dark blue tape around the grip (and also on the arms). He has a white Autobot symbol on each arm (both visible in altmode), a white or very light gray face with a determined but embarrassed expression. The art gives him a full batting helmet not supported by the mold. Normally I'd suspect him of being a refugee from the Jock Squad, but he could also be from the Playroom Posse...because who doesn't want a bat with aim issues in the playroom? (A red baseball bat is in use in the Jock Squad team art, though, which does suggest S4 is lost from that tribe.) NAME: TRISOURTOPS Altmode: Moldy Orange Role: Sour Surfer Orange Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Trisourtops is a bitter old dino dude with a stinky surfer attitude. This beach bum is way past the days when he was fresh. Now, he's always thinkign of ways to make a sweet time turn sour. Dude thinks it's cool to go to the bathroom in the pool! A definite Spoiled Rotten. But would his pool antics be yellow or orange? Anyway, I really tried, but I couldn't get the head out of the body for transformation without using a knife. Turns out that the instructions are wrong, though. It shows pulling the neck out for dino mode, but it should be pushed in for dino mode and pulled out before transforming back to orange mode. With the hinge pushed back, the head can't be gotten past interior hang-ups. But with the hinge pulled out all the way, I could get the head back out with a little fiddling, even with my short fingernails. I'm reminded of the egg-bot dinosaurs, although this adds the stem and leaves at the top of the orange. One cute detail is that the tail has orange slice interior detailing on it. The mold is just painted on blue-green airbrushing, this could easily be redone as a non-rotten orange if they wanted. NAME: SMOOTH SHAKER Altmode: Maraca Role: Laid Back Maracas Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Dizzy Bones Smooth Shaker is all about chilling out and letting the maracas roll. She doesn't bother anyone, and doesn't let anything bother her. Smooth Shaker just wants to shake it to the beat and get other bots dancing along. Peace, love and groovy times! Hm, I suspect that one person didn't write all of these. Some entries use the Oxford Comma, others don't. Usually, a writer is consistent one way or the other. Anyway, a lost bot from the Music Mob. Black plastic with red, green, and yellow paint. The face has closed eyes and appears to be singing or maybe snoring. The art kinda plays up her being feminine, but they don't put lipstick on a skull or anything for the toy. NAME: NANNY MCBAG Altmode: Diaper Bag Role: Super Nanny Bag Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 3 steps Original Mold: Tool Bag Nanny McBag is always prepared, whether her fellow bots are tired, hungry, or scared. She'll reach in her bag and pull out just the thing, and sometimes she'll even sing. But when naughty bots need a lesson learned, she'll be kind, but she'll be stern! Name suggests Nanny McPhee, which I haven't seen/read. But the singing part is more Mary Poppins. Lost from the Goo Goo Groupies. Light gray plastic with light yellow abdomen and arm pouches, light brown straps and handle, powder blue goggles and white face. Nothing about the design really screams diaper bag. NAME: GRAVE RAVE Altmode: Deodorant Role: Life of the Party Tombstone Level: 3 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Nobeeoh Grave Rave is on every party's VIP list. She's got enough jokes, high-fives, and dance moves to keep things energized and make sure the party never dies. Even if someone is dead tired, she's right there to lift their spirits and get them back on the dance floor. So, apparently she's supposed to be an actual tombstone, not a goth deodorant bar. A bit of a stretch there. But I guess that would put her in the Seasons Greeters originally. All gray plastic, with the face covers printed in black with a skull and cracks. The dial is also black, as are the thighs, forearm fronts, and faceplate. The face and hands are white, and the eyes are red. It's really just goth deodorant, it doesn't work as a tombstone. TRIBE: MUSIC MOB Well, at least they're not all redecos of series 2 Music Mob members. Three of the five are from singles. NAME: DINGLEDEEDOO Altmode: "Bell" Role: Goody-Two-Shoes Bell (Angelic Bell on her instructions) Level: 3 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Clogstopper Dingledeedoo is too good to be true. She's an angel and a shining example of how to do things the right way. She's a goody-two-shoes who rings her bell when bots break the rules. So everybot better be on their best behavior! She's a toilet plunger painted gold, is what she is. Gotta admit, wasn't expecting that sort of reuse of this mold, and it works a lot better than Grave Rave's lateral redeco. Made of golden yellow plastic with brown paint on the handle (most music bells have black leather strap handles, but googling around shoes some do have wood-tone). In Bot mode, there's white paint on the face, hands, and most of the torso front, but gold paint on the torso sides and pecs/breasts. She has an innocent smile and rosy cheeks. No sinister expression as suggested by the bio note labeling her a narc. NAME: CALAMITY KEYS Altmode: Piano Role: Rootin' Tootin' Player Piano Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Grampiano Yee-haw! Calamity Keys is an old timey player piano bot. His wild piano playing is perfect for a rootin', tootin' standoff in an old saloon where a sheriff might be facing off with the local most wanted mischief makers. This one's for you, lawdogs! Go get 'em! Warm brown plastic with white paint on the keys and sheet music, plus black keys and score. The toes and foot pedal chunk are painted gold. The face is white with a gold forehead tablet and blue eyes. The overall expression seems more kindly and mild than rootin' or tootin'. I get the feeling that there was little to no communication between the deco artist and the people doing the names and bio notes. NAME: LOUDSY Altmode: Speaker Role: Know-it-all Wood Speaker Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Technotic Sonic Not sure the name of a song? Loudsy can tell you. Who sings it? He can tell you that too. And at least 100 more things you didn't ask. He'll tell you every.single.thing.he knows about that song. Then rant about how he has all his favorites on vinyl because it sounds WAY better that way. All brown plastic with some nice tan woodgrain pattern on the sides. The border around the speaker cones. The tweeter is painted white, the woofer is left unpainted brown. NAME: AXWELL Altmode: Electric Guitar Role: Mopey Blues Guitar Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Rock Swagger Axwell has got the blues. His best string nas gone and gotten out of tune. He doesn't know what he'll do if it's not fixed soon. His chords are flat because of that sour string. Can't play the blues no more, it's a sad sad thing. Now he just wonders, wound and round. Can't play his music, just wears a frown. He's got the out-of-tone guitar blues. Bright blue plastic with white paint on the strings, brown edging and hair helmet, light gray face and hands. This time there was a bit more communication, as his expression is on the verge of bursting into tears. He still looks like a rockin' guitar, but if he doesn't look like a blues guitar, he's at least a blue guitar. NAME: BATTERHEAD Altmode: Drum Kit Role: Heavy Metal Drum Kit Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Dumbeats Batterhead blasts out heavy metal beats that echoe [sic] through the night like the battle cry of a thousand wolves howling at the moon during an eclipse on the winter solstice. Look no further, ye seekers of musical power, for you have found the metal. HE is the metal. Long live the metal. All orange-yellow plastic with white drumskin on front and silver on the top drumskins and cymbals. Bright blue helmet and chest in bot mode, white face and collarbone, yellow-orange headband sort of deal, blue eyes, snarling expression. TRIBE: PLAYROOM POSSE Another new tribe, these are more for toddlers old enough to play with toys and games, where the Goo-Goo Groupies are for babies. NAME: D-PAD CHAD Altmode: Handheld game Role: Snooty Handheld Game Console Level: 3 Transformation Steps: 5 Original Mold: Captain Cartridge D-Pad Chad is so totally all about gaming. That's because he's all over the leaderboards. Way more than you. "The Chadster" is the kind of bot who, when he's playing video games, shoots his teammates in the back and thinks it's hilaaaaaarious. Yuh! Bro! No cape on this version, obviously. Made of red plastic with bright blue paint on the antennae, face, arms, and screen, plus two of the buttons. The collar and two more buttons are yellow-brown, no paint on the analog stick button thing. White eyes and mouth with something of a sneering expression. A bit under-painted, but a decent mold, and this one can be gotten without buying a convention exclusive. NAME: KIKMEE Altmode: Soccer Ball Role: Playful Soccer Ball Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 3 (more like 2) Original Mold: Sprinkleberry Duh'ball Kikmee never stops playing. He plays games, sports, and tricks. He's a fun-loving prankster who's good at causing trouble and tricking other bots into thinking he didn't do it. Most of the time he gets away with it. This was actually listed as a Lost Bot in the sticker book, much like Dinger, this was originally slated for Series 2 but got pushed back and put in another tribe. Instead, the Lost Bot slot was taken by the "predeco" Sprinkleberry Duh'ball. Held in the blister so strongly that trying to remove it left the shell cover piece behind. Anyway, this is clearly what the mold was intended for, what with the hexagons and pentagons molded into the surface of altmode. It has two 2mm sockets and a 3mm socket on the alt mode, so I suppose it could attach to a Titans Return figure or a Siege figure. The 2mm sockets are a bit loose, but I did stick Kikmee onto Zetar successfully. The 2mm openings are actually a shaft all the way through, so I suppose you could string it onto a necklace or something too. The bot mode has a little musical note next to the 2mm shaft opening, so he's whistling. All white plastic with black paint. NAME: QUACKLES Altmode: Rubber Duck Role: Daring Rubber Duck Diver Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Quackles may be ridiculously brave, but he's no quack. In fact, he considers himself something of a deep-sea excplorer. Unfortunately, he's never actually seen the ocean, but that doesn't stop him from exploring the murky depths of a sink, or the bottom of a watery bucket. I think I can say without exaggerating that this was easily the most anticipated BotBot in Series 3, at least by fans of a certain age. That's because of the rubber duck in Beast Wars...pretty much everyone who still owns a T.rex Megatron wants a Quackles. Fortunately, he appears non-blind in three different sets, plus is single pack #16 if you're willing to paw through those looking at the tiny numbers. (When packaged in bot mode in one of the Fresh Squeezes sets, I had to cut him out of the blister.) Okay, as a rubber duck, the main flaw is that the bottom isn't flat due to the robot forehead being on the duck butt, although you can pull his robot feet out a tiny bit to help with that. Solid yellow plastic with bright orange bill and bright blue tiny ovals for eyes. There's a few seams in the head due to the transformation scheme, and gaps on the sides for where the arms fold down, but a decent rubber duck overall. 1.5" (4cm) long, making it about a third the size of a standard rubber duck. It can only be held by figures with hinged hands that are large enough, as it lacks pegs or sockets. Transformation starts with folding the robot feet down, then separating the back of the head into the arms and folding the front of the head backwards onto what is now the robot chest. Finally, rotate the rear half of the duck 180 degrees so as to reveal the robot face, and pose the arms to taste. With tiny feet, it can be hard to get the robot mode to stand up, but the hip joint is stiff enough that you can get it to stay put once balanced. The robot head is molded with a sort of rebreather mask, and there's bubbles inside the visor (methinks Quackles has a leak in the mask somewhere). The helmet design is crested like a wood duck, reminiscent of the Beast Wars Transmetal duck I came up with back in the day. The feet are painted bright orange, the rebreather is painted silver, and the upper face is bright blue with very light blue printing for the eyes and bubbles. The shoulders are universal joints, the neck turns, and the hips bend as a single joing. Definitely one of the molds to get, even if you don't want one for your Megatron. NAME: Q.U.R.O.B.O. 600 Altmode: Stack of blocks Role: Basic Toy Blocks Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Q.U.R.O.B.O. 6000 is a simple bot. Some might even call him basic. He was once cutting edge -- the most intelligent, highly advanced robot in the tribe. Now his programming isn't as advanced as the other bots'. What he can do is so simple a baby could do it. This implies that the BotBots have been around since BASIC was a current programming language, and that they're limited by the level of human tech at the time they are born. That's...kinda disturbing given what minimal lore we have. Altmode is a somewhat unstable stack of three blocks, two small blocks next to each other on top of a larger block. It's all purple plastic, but one topside block is painted almost entirely bright green, and the base block is almost entirely bright yellow. The green block has a purple triangle on it, the purple block has a yellow circle, and the yellow block has a sort of graphic equalizer thing printed on it in purple. I think the transformation and bot mode changed between the design phase and the paint and instructions. It's pretty clear that the green block is supposed to swivel around 180 degrees so that it would be roughly under the center of the yellow block when it becomes the head. The arms that pull out from the sides have no details indicating front or back. The purple block swings down to make the lower section, and it has tank treads molded onto it. The yellow block pulls apart to reveal eyes and a flat head with a fold-out antenna that evokes a mortarboard top. So, kinda professory. Bot mode is more stable if you ignore the instructions and rotate the neck as noted above. This does leave the chest without much detailing, but the foot piece can be rotated on its double ball joint strut to get the dot pointed forwards. The eyes are bright blue, and the graphic equalizer pattern becomes the mouth. The arms just flap up a bit, but the neck turns. NAME: CUDDLE WUDDLE Altmode: Teddy Bear Role: Cuddly Teddy Bear Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 4 Who's cuter than Cuddle Wuddle? Absolutely no one! This teddy bear bot is soft and petable [sic] and huggable and sooo cuddly! He fills his day with cuddle time, snuggle time, hugging time, and napping time. Now, who needs a hug? Given what term often gets swear filtered to "hug," as well as some of the other innuendo related terms up there, this is a bio note guaranteed to draw an immature snicker. Paint or something keeps me from being able to fold the teddy face down to form the bot chest, it'll flip out a tiny bit and then snap back in when my short fingernails lose purchase on the surface. The rest I can do without tools, though. The bear mode's surface is like a cross between corduroy and bad 3D printing artifacts. All medium warm plastic, with tan paint on the snout and ears, and bright blue eyes and bowtie. The nose is gloss black. Because they become the bot legs, the hind legs are on ball joints and the bear can stand up, although it looks a little weird. Toebeans are reverse molded as indentations in the bottoms of the hind legs. The bear arms and chest split apart into wings, with little bot arms unfolding underneath and the face folding down so that the snout fits into a round depression on the chest. Well, it would if it could fold far enough, but the "pants" stop the faceplate before it gets that far. A sort of robot chest is painted on the inside of the faceplate in tan and white, but it's not very convincing. The face is white with bright blue goggles and a big toothy grin. The arms can flap up and down, no ability to grip things, and the legs are ball joints. The tiny feet are hard to balance on, but not impossible. Looks nice as a bear, but bot mode looks more like he's wearing a partially open bear suit. Note, the ones packaged in bot mode have the faceplate flattened a bit, so it doesn't go back properly in altmode. NAME: POP-O THE CLOWN Altmode: Jack-in-the-box Role: Super Surprising Jack-in-the-box Level: 2 Transformation Steps: 4 Unlike most jack-in-the-boxes, Pop-O the Clown never pops out at the same part of his song twice. This keeps the other bots on edge for the maximum surprise level! Lately he's started popping out at bots from closets and around corners. GOTCHA! Okay, winner of most totally evil BotBot. While the instructions have the obvious bot legs in front of the altmode, the springy clown bit can rotate to make one of the blank faces the front instead. It's not a complicated enough design to let the head stow away in altmode, though. All dark blue plastic, with red paint on the crank and the side of the box with the crank. The clown head is white with red nose and smile, the eyes and hair are left unpainted. Most of the transformation is pretty easy, but pulling the legs and torso out from inside the head is a bit of a hassle. No tools needed, but some excessive force. The faceplate is painted white with red nose and smile printed on that, while the crank piece becomes a Blurr-like helmet crest. There's red paint on the molded bowtie and suspenders, plus on the feet (which were part of the box surface in altmode). The legs are painted bright yellow. The legs bend as one piece at the hips, the left arm lifts up on a hinge, and the right arm is the springy clown which has a swivel shoulder. The left hand can hold a 2mm rod. TRIBE: SEASON GREETERS A tribe that will never all look correct together in the stores while in disguise, because they are based on different holidays. In fact, they're likely to be found in the sort of pop-up stores that appear around those holidays, so most of them might have to hide in the back. NAME: HALLOWEEN KNIGHT Altmode: Jack-o-lantern Role: Gallant Dragon-Chasing Knight Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 5 Halloween Knight is destined to someday battle with a mystical candy corn dragon on Halloween. Each year, the deceptive dragon takes flight and eludes her sword.But her oath is strong, and she won't give up on her quest to slay the mythical candy corn beast Spacing and punctuation issues in original. The design seemed to be going for almost a Batman motif, but the bio note steered away from that. Wonder how she gets along with Sugar Breath? While other BotBots have removable pieces that become accessories, this one is really blatant about it. The top and front of the altmode come off to become a really big shield. It's also prone to warping in package if you get one where he's in bot mode, so it may be difficult getting in to fit properly. Oh, and if you leave the shield on, you can still pop out the arms and legs and get a credible bot mode. (Note, the shield can be used as a tool to help get the arms and horns out.) Bot mode is careful to keep the inner face details covered by the shield in altmode, so the features are just purple in altmode. In bot mode, neon green eyes and a yellow mouth (above the altmode mouth) are added. The hands and pumpkin stem are also neon green, and the belt in bot mode is purple. The Batman-ish horns are coated in neon green. The shield has a 3mm peg that goes into a socket on either arm in bot mode, or connects to a 3mm socket on top of the head. There's also slightly smaller than 3mm holes in the forehead and the back, and the shield can be stored on the back by applying a little extra force. (If you have any 3mm peg weapons leftover from older Transformers lines, you can mount one on top of the head.) NAME: WIZENGREEN Altmode: Christmas Tree Role: Magical Wizard Tree Level: 3 Transformation Steps: 4 Have you heard the tale of Wizengreen? Legend has it that once a year an eternal and magical wizard tree named Wizengreen comes and uses his great powers to conjure gifts. It is believed that in a single night he brings those gifts to every bot who made his list. Tannenbomb's mortal foe. Also, I think this may be the first explicitly mystical BotBot whose magic isn't dismissed as probably fake (like the occult book in Series 2 had happen). Something of a shellformer, in that the lower 60% of the tree just splits into (proportionally) huge wings, leaving just the top 40% as a hat on the tiny bot inside. One bit covering the face folds down to be a tabard with star-buckle belt. Tree mode has a sort of 5mm socket on the bottom, but since nothing really locks together, this isn't something that can be used to attach the tree to anything. All green plastic with red bands around the bottom and the middle, and a yellow star, 1.5" (4cm) tall overall. So, a decent size of tree for gaming miniatures, a little small for Titan/Prime Masters. When transforming, the shell halves are on double-jointed struts to more easily get out of the way, and they make a token effort to keep it standing with heel spurs on the tiny feet. I suppose if you don't want him taking up 2.25" (6cm) of shelf width you can rotate the wings around to furl them a bit. The shoulders swivel and the hands can hold 2mm rods. The face is white with yellow goggles and the features printed with green ink rather than the usual black. The tabard is painted red except on the belt part, which is left unpainted (yellow on the star buckle would have been nice). I suppose this could be repurposed as a Spoiled Rotten with brown needles? NAME: SUGAR BREATH Altmode: Candy Corn Role: Mythical Candy Corn Dragon Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 3 Sugar Breath only comes out once a year, on Halloween night. All he wants is to spread Halloween cheer throughout the land, but all the bots run from his scary dragon form. And Sugar Breath runs, too, from the Jack-o'-lantern knight who won't stop trying to slay him. Well, that answers that question. Although "Halloween cheer" isn't really a thing, so Sugar Breath may be a touch misguided. Transformation isn't too hard, but one of the face-covering panels (wings) took a lot more effort to peel back than the other the first time. On later transformations it was still a bit difficult, but I didn't need to pull out a knife. Pulling out the arms and legs is easy, though, and the tail is only a little hard to move. One of the very few BotBots whose altmode is bigger than the thing it represents, this is a piece of candy corn that you could choke on. It has the usual problems with seams and gaps, but is recognizably a yellow, orange, and white (giant) candy corn. All the plastic is orange. The face covers become wings, although there's not really any molded detail to support that. Unlike most BotBots, the face is not painted, it just has details printed on the orange plastic (bright blue eyes and an expression that is generally more scary than "spreading cheer"). Ball joint shoulders, 2mm-grip hands, legs joined through the pelvis by a single axle. The tail is hinged, and can be used to stabilize the stance. Decent enough mold, although I'm not sure what they could redeco it as besides different candy corn (e.g. chocolate candy corn, pastel Easter candy corn, etc). NAME: YULE B. BORED Altmode: TV showing a yule log Role: Sleep-Inducing Fireplace Video Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 2 Original Mold: TV Cop Yule B. Bored is an old bot who likes to tell stories that are very (not) interesting. Most bots fall asleep before he's finished. They may not love his stories, but everyone loves curling up in front of the video he plays of the log crackling in a fireplace. Brown plastic, bot mode painted to put him in a santa suit of sorts (red and white shirt, black boots, red on the fronts of the arms, yellow belt buckle). The antenna on top is painted silver, the screen is black with a yellow and brown yule log printed on it. Somewhat impressively, the red of the shirt and the black of the boots goes all the way around the back. NAME: MELTZ DOWN Altmode: Snowman Role: Heartwarming Snowman Level: 3 Transformation Steps: 4 No bot loves winter more than Meltz Down. Snow storms, cold winds, and below-freezing temperatures all warm his icy heart...and that makes him nervous. Anything. Warm. Makes him nervous. One look at so much as a candle flame sends him into a total melt down! Well, I know ONE bot who doesn't love curling up in front of Yule's video. The loop on top of the hat suggests he was supposed to be a snowman- shaped tree ornament, but no one told the bio note writer (or the artist, who depicts him melting). Official transformation just has the chest tilted back to show the bot face, but it looks a little better if you rotate it to the back. Mostly easy to transform, but the left arm is hard to get pulled out. Decent enough snowman from the front, although there's more than the usual amount of gapping in the back. This is an armless two-sphere snowman made of white plastic with a black top hat, red cravat, black spots for coal on the mouth and buttons, blue eyes, and orange carrot nose. Not much they could do with it other than "slightly different snowman." Bot mode is weird. The entire head is the right arm, which unbalances it way too much for the tiny booted feet to support unless you rest the arm on the table too. The removed chest reveals a wide grin and bright blue visor, and the boots are painted brown. The left arm is on a swivel, the hand can't hold things. The right arm is on a restricted ball joint strut, and the feet fold back even when you'd rather they not. Normally I display my BotBots in bot mode, but this bot mode is so wide and unstable I'm just gonna keep it in altmode. NAME: STRINGALING Altmode: Silly String Can Role: Wacky String-Shooting Can Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Frohawk He sprays his string on everything, he's the super silly Stringa ling! What's more silly than Stringa ling? A clown and a goat in a boxing ring? A cat and a dog going skydiving? Not a thing! Nothing is sillier than Stringaling! He's the super silliest Stringaling! Clearly he's hiding his clinical depression. Still no easier to get the limbs out than on Frohawk. All black plastic, magenta top, yellow nozzle/ mohawk. String patterns on the chest and arms, but nowhere else. Really not worth bothering to get, so of course it's Level 1 and shows up all over the place (well, two Seasons Greeters packs and one Fresh Squeezie). TRIBE: SPOILED ROTTENS While the Greaser Gang got dropped for this wave, their leftovers still appear in the Spoiled Rottens. No new molds, but three of the five are reassigned from other tribes. NAME: MOLDWICH Altmode: Moldy Sandwich Role: Supremely Arrogant Moldy Sandwich Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Angry Cheese Moldwich doesn't think he's moldier than everyone -- he knows he is, and loves to lord it over the bots in the Spoiled Rottens. He decides who's really bad, and who's just kind of fuzzy. Think you're gross enough to join his team? You netter have the mold to prove it! Ah, a fandom gatekeeper. Kelly green plastic, light blue cheese/jelly oozing out, and the bread faces are unevenly painted two different tans. I guess only the crust got moldy? Another unusual case of an unpainted face, just black outline and white fill on the printed eyes and mouth. NAME: SARDANK Altmode: Tuna Can Role: Antisocial Can of Sardines Level: 1 Transformation Steps: Original Mold: Big Kantuna Sardank almost made a friend once, and that was close enough for him. He doesn't like other bots. Period. He recently took a class called Mastering the Art of Avoiding Other Bots. (It was an online course, so he didn't have to talk to anyone, obviously.) He got an A+. Well, sardines are generally not in round cans, but there's only so much you can do with this mold. [Another one I couldn't find locally.] NAME: SLIMEY SLURPS Altmode: Slushee Role: Gross Slimeball Slush Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Atomic Freeze Slimey Slurps leaves a slippery, gross trail wherever he goes. And he never helps clean it up! He'll make up any excuse to avoid it. He says he'll clean up "next time," but secretly crosses his straw so he doesn't have to keep his promise Punctuation error in original. This redeco is in dark magenta with light blue paint on the arms and straw. The chest is yellow with black trefoil (as it should be), and yellow is used for the bandage on his cup top and the vents on his helmet. No paint to pick out the slushie. Light gray face, yellow eyes, disgruntled expression. Tended to fall apart a lot during transformation. NAME: DISGUSTO DESSERTO Altmode: Moldy Cannoli Role: Sweet Moldy Cannoli Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: The Plopfather Disgusto Disserto may be covered in mold, but really she's got a heart of gold! She teaches us the important lesson that just because you go bad, doesn't mean you are bad. It's the sweet ricotta inside the cannoli that's what counts. Light tan plastic. Cream-colored paint on the creamy filling and the face, light blue mold airbrushed across the outer pastry on one side. The chocolate bits on the top of the head are paitned brown, as is part of the forehead crest. The chips on the other end are not painted. Blue eyes and a shocked O o sort of expression. NAME: CROAKS Altmode: Venus Flytrap Role: Hungry Buzzkill Plant Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 2, plus much lying. Original Mold: Venus Frogtrap Croaks is such a bummer. He literally ruins everything. This one time, there were a bunch of bots going for a swim...he flushed the toilet! He just can't help spoiling all the fun with his poisonous personality. The character art is recycled from Venus Frogtrap, including the totally inaccurate frog mode that the toy can't manage. The instructions also lie in terms of making it look like the frog mode can be even approximated...you have to carve out a bunch of stuff with a Dremel to get this mold to do what the instructions show. The toy is as much of a buzzkill as the character. Bleh. TRIBE: SUGAR SHOCKS They actually got a new mold, with Swoonberry. Treat Elite is also new-ish, being a redeco of a Con Crew figure. NAME: MINNYCAKE Altmode: Cupcake Role: Honest Cupcake Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 2 Original Mold: Frostferatu Minnycake loves to share a delicious bite of reality with a sweet side of humor. Is a decadent cupcake with extra-buttery frosting good for you? Absolutely not. But when it's gone is it sure to be missed? Yup. Minnycake keeps it sweet and keeps it real. Mini-cakes are a thing, although not served in a cupcake wrapper. The wrapper is lightish blue, the body is light tan, with light blue and brown frosting on top. Blue paint on the body parts doesn't quite match the blue plastic, making for an uneven cupcake cup. NAME: SUGAR SADDLE Altmode: Ice Cream Sundae Role: Noble Steed Sunday Level: 1 Transformation Steps: Original Mold: Unilla Icequeencone Sugar Saddle is always ready for a quick getaway. When dastardly dessert bandits need to escape the scene of the crime, Sugar Saddle sets off on her lightning-swift hooves. If you're running from the law, this sweet scoundrel is the steed you need. [Another from the one 8-pack I couldn't find.] NAME: CHOC-O-LAWLESS Altmode: Chocolate topping bottle Role: Rule-Breaking Chocolate Sauce Bandit Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 5 Original Mold: Poo Sham Choc-o-Lawless believes there ain't nothin' can't be made better with a good ol' squirt of chocolate sauce. Especailly [sic] before dinner. Now the dastardly dessert bandit is on the most wanted list for spoiling suppers with his sweet sauce. This chocolate sauce tasts like shampoo. Brown plastic with red cap and bottom edge. Wordless front label is slightly lighter brown on top dripping down into tan. The face is light gray with blue eyes and white smirking smile. The trick of turning the head to help free stuff up when transforming to bot mode still works fine. NAME: SWOONBERRY Altmode: Basket of strawberries Role: Heartthrob Chocolate-covered Strawberry Basket Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 When Swoonberry enters a room, other bots faint at the mere sight of the heartthrob's smoldering good looks. Swoonberry is used to it. So, he kindly helps them up and makes sure to send them off with an autograph and a selfie. XOXO Transformation reminiscent of Bonz-Eye, rather hard to get the legs pulled out. The berries are kinda generic lumpy berries rather than recognizably strawberries, and the chocolate is a warm brown (looks reddish under some lights) that completely covers the berries in the middle and misses the berries around the edges. As if the paint designer decided "Eh, it's one giant weird-shaped berry, I'll put some chocolate on the middle bit." Decent mold let down by mediocre paint. Botmode has decent articulation in the arms, and the hands can hold stuff. The shoulders and chestplate are painted yellow, the hands and helmet border are white. The face is printed yellow with black stars-in-hearts eyes. The deco suggests she's the one doing the swooning at the presence of a celeb, not that she's the celeb. NAME: TREAT ELITE Altmode: Pretzel Bag Role: Classy Chocolate Pretzels Level: 3 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Hal A. Peno Treat Elite is high class all the way. He's made of nothing but the finest ingredients: gourmet chocolate, refined pretzel dough, and only the rarest of salts. His air of nobility is clear as soon as he walks in the room. He's simply the best and every bot knows it. I wonder if they're going for a samurai ("kabuto") helmet motif with the face cover positioning? The art certainly doesn't embrace that design element. Dark blue plastic, the only paint in altmode is a white label with brown pretzels printed on it. In bot mode, the face is bright yellow while the legs are golden yellow. Eyes and toes are bright blue, the smile is wide and white. I had a slightly easier time transforming this than Hal A. Peno, probably very slight production variations. TRIBE: SWAG STYLERS Another all-redeco group. Two from Lost Bots, two from other Swag Stylers, one from Backpack Bunch. NAME: EXCESSORY Altmode: Backpack Role: Excessively Fashionable Backpack Level: 1 Transformation Steps: Original Mold: Overpack Excessory is so extra. If a bot makes the mistake of asking the backpack bot to carry something, he'll burst into tears and rant about how delicate his straps are and how fragile his leather is and how he just couldn't possible. Uck! Don't they know he doesn't do that. [Another of the ones I'm missing.] NAME: BLABBERBOOK Altmode: Diary Role: Blabbermouth Diary Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 2 Original Mold: Professor Wellread Blabberbook knows everyone's business -- that's why he has so many pages. They're full of secrets. Problem is, he's a total blabbermouth! Tell him a secret, and he just can't keep it. He'll read his pages to anyone who will listen. Like all the post-Wellread uses of this mold, they got the pages to all be painted the same in book mode (bright blue in this case, nicely clashing with the hot pink plastic). The cover has flowers printed in negative space with light pink paint. He has the whole "heart shaped eyes with stars in them" over his glasses lenses and an eager smile. He has white paint for a shirt and black for a tie and belt, but no paint at all on the limbs, so it's more of a vest than a dress shirt. NAME: PERFUMIGATOR Altmode: Perfume Bottle Role: Potent Perfumer Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 2 Original Mold: Prince Perfumius I am the Perfumigator, sent to patrol the aisles of fancy department stores in search of the un-smelly. My mission: maximize your scent, and make the un-smelly...smelly. Target acquired, prepare to be..."perfumigated." All purple plastic with gold and silver detailing, and a heart-shaped eye. Otherwise basically the same as Prince Perfumius. NAME: WRISTOCRAT Altmode: Wristwatch Role: Fancy Wristwatch Level: 3 Transformation Steps: 3 Original Mold: Ol' Tic Toc Wristocrat is so stylish, she forgets she's a watch. In fact, she'd never waste her time on something as ordinary as telling time -- that's the kind of work for a common watch. Don't bother asking her what time it is, she doesn't know and she doesn't care to Again, lack of a period at the end is in the original. Made of light blue plastic, with orange and yellow bands on the watchband. The face is printed so that the time is about 10:37, the bot mode eyes are those little windows that higher end analog watches use for things like the date and phase of moon. the hands are orange, the other windows are a slightly darker blue than the plastic. The back has orange and yellow paint on all the visible gears. Really hard to get the legs folded out. The bot mode switches the orientation so the time appears to be either 1:53 or 2:53. The hands are messed up for either time, though, with the hour hand at about the 15 minute point. In bot mode, the painted gears end u looking like a short dress. NAME: MAKEOVER N. OVER Altmode: Makeup Brush Role: Overly Enthusiastic Makeup Brush (no "Overly" on the instructions) Level: 1 Transformation Steps: 4 Original Mold: Chic Cheeks You want a makeover that leaves you looking entirely unrecognizable? Well you'd better book an appointment with Makeover N. Over! His mistakes with the glitter lead to your makeover having to be made over...and over... and over. Black plastic, but a lot of gold paint, on the head, body, and outer surfaces of the arms. The brush part is painted brown blending towards very light yellow on top. The visor is bright blue, and there's some stereotypically robotic detailing on the rest of the face. Looks more grim than enthusiastic. The instructions ignore the rotation of the brush, but you can use it to create a bit more distinction between him and Chic. Dave Van Domelen, will update this file as (if?) he gets the missing ones.