{"id":28904,"date":"2019-09-03T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=28904"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:18:48","slug":"transformers-botbots-sprinkleberry-duhball-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/transformers-botbots-sprinkleberry-duhball-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformers BotBots Sprinkleberry Duh'Ball & Kikmee reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Now, we understand that when it comes to the Transformers BotBots<\/i><\/a> mall, it doesn't make sense for the Lost Bots<\/a> to be located in one centralized spot - there's no \"lost and found\" store visible with all the rest, so the members of the group can be found all over the place. Perfectly logical. But that doesn't explain why Sprinkeberry Duh'Ball is located up in a tree.<\/p>\n

One of the BotBots shown on the official art used to announce the line was a little soccer ball, presumably meant to be part of the Jock Squad<\/a>. As of Series 2, that ball still hasn't been released, but the mold at least has surfaced here, painted like a doughnut hole. It fades between pink and yellow, and is covered all over with blue sprinkles. For some inexplicable reason, there are six physical holes that run all the way through the figure - like, you can hold it up to the light and see straight to the other side. You could string a bunch of them like pearls. Why was it made like this, Hasbro? What was the thinking?<\/p>\n

All the BotBots<\/i> are easy to convert, but Sprinkeberry Duh'Ball is one of the simplest: pull half the ball down and spin it around to the back, then pull the entire body down out of the head.<\/p>\n

Sprinkleberry Duh'ball is the brains of the operation. He can scam, scheme, and trick his way out of any problem. Don't bother questioning his plans, this donut hole knows he's always right. DUH!<\/i><\/p>\n

One of the downsides to reviewing BotBots<\/i> at random (other than the danger of possibly reviewing members of the same faction two<\/a> times<\/a> in a row) is that sometimes one Bot's bio will refer to another, and we haven't reviewed that yet. So look forward to some day in the unpredictable future, when we will link back to this review and say \"see? That's what we were talking about<\/a>.\" It's very apparent here that this mold was repurposed from the still-unreleased soccer ball, because the shape where the shell splits is hexagonal. The pink and yellow scheme works nicely, but the weird hole ends up right in the center of the face, and looks like a dopey mouth.<\/p>\n

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Being one of the Lost Bots, Sprink is only available in the blind-packed portion of various sets: a Backpack Bunch 5-pack, a Music Mob 5-pack, and a Swag Stylers 8-pack.<\/p>\n

<\/a>All the members of the Playroom Posse<\/a> are based on (non-Transformer<\/i>) playthings, which is why you'll find them in the east wing's<\/a> seemingly hedonistic two<\/b> toy stores! Kikmee is down on the ground floor with Q.U.R.O.B.O. 6000<\/a> and Quackules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hey look, it's the missing soccer ball! We've been waiting for this one since before Series 1 came out, because the official art was part of the big announcement; but here it is Series 3 and it's finally seeing release (though not, as we predicted, as part of the Jock Squad<\/a>. The ball is detailed accurately, with black pentagons and the suggestion of white hexagons between them. A real soccer ball wouldn't be perfectly round like this, instead having lots of flat facets, but that would have limited the mold's reuse potential. And as reader BBShockwave pointed out down in the comments, the holes that run all the way through the ball are there so children don't asphyxiate if they accidentally swallow it.<\/p>\n

The only hard thing about converting Kikmee is finding where the split in his shell is - the line follows the shape so well it nearly becomes invisible. Once that's swung around to the back, you pull the body down out of the head, and you're done.<\/p>\n

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.<\/i><\/p>\n

Oh, he's a prankster - like a \"kick me\" sign on somebody's back! The bot's tiny body is entirely white, so all the neat details that were visible on Sprinkleberry Duh'ball just blend together here - the only things differentiated here are his black \"shoes.\" The face is at least gray, and they've used the hole in his face to be a circular mouth with a musical note coming out of it, like he's singing or whistling. That's smart! His eyes are just slits, closed tight. The original promo art<\/a> showed him blue eyes and an open mouth, while the final product more closely reflects the toy.<\/p>\n

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Kikmee is available in two of the Series 3 Playroom Posse 5-packs. That's a lot more numbers than a soccer ball is usually exposed to!<\/p>\n

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