{"id":29398,"date":"2019-10-15T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=29398"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:51:09","slug":"transformers-botbots-sugar-breath-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/transformers-botbots-sugar-breath-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformers BotBots Sugar Breath and Milton reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>If your local mall hasn't gone out of business, then now is the time of year when those pop-up calendar stores start to appear - maybe that's where all the Seasons Greeters<\/a> are coming from! The group is mostly Christmas-themed, but a couple Halloweenies have slipped in as well: you can find Sugar Breath being fired out of a cannon toward a juice kiosk on the first floor.<\/p>\n

Candy corn!! The best Halloween candy! You think we're too political? Politics are nothing, I will fight you<\/b> over the greatness of candy corn! It's been around for nearly 150 years and the recipe (sugar, fondant, marshmallow) has barely changed a bit - in food terms, that's like alligators having no need to evolve since the Pleistocene. It was originally called \"chicken feed,\" and was designed to appeal to the rural agricultural population of America at the time. Every year, I buy dozens of bags of the stuff, enough to last me until next Halloween so I can enjoy candy corn all year long; yes, there's the chocolate \"Indian corn\" for Thanksgiving, Reindeer corn at Christmas, pink on Valentine's day, pastels on Easter, etc., but nothing compares to the white, orange, and yellow original. Candy corn is the undisputed king of Halloween treats, so there was no way I was going to miss this BotBot.<\/p>\n

The conversion is easy, as always: open the panels over the face, roll down the feet, spread the arms, and unfold the tail. Wait, \"the tail\"?<\/p>\n

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<\/a> who won't stop trying to slay him.<\/i><\/p>\n

This is supposed to be a dragon? That... doesn't really track. Yes, the feet do look a bit \"animal-y,\" but nothing else does. Sure, the panels that hinge open are in the place where wings would be, but lots of Transformers have those without them being anything other than kibble. It really feels like they designed a robot, realized it couldn't stand up, added a tail<\/a> to serve as a tripod, and then came up with an excuse for why it would have a tail. I like the candy corn altmode, but this robot form is only so-so.<\/p>\n

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Sugar Breath is a fairly common figure: he's in three of the four Seasons Greeters five-packs, and one of the Fresh Squeezes 8-packs, too.<\/p>\n

<\/a>BotBots<\/i><\/a> Series 4 has given up on including art of the mall where the tribes all live, so we don't know where Milton's candy store would be located, but at least we know he's a member of the Sugar Shocks<\/a>, one of the groups still hanging around from Series 1.<\/p>\n

Purple and black<\/s> dark indigo may seem like a weird choice for a piece of candy corn, but it's a real thing, apparently - it's black licorice flavored. Black licorice candy is flavored with glycyrrhizin, a sweetener derived from the licorice root that can swiftly lower the body's potassium levels, causing muscle weakness, arrhythmia or other heart problems. A candy that could kill you if you eat it? So metal! No wonder it's black! This big rounded triangle is one of the largest BotBots - if he's really made from a piece of candy corn, in real life he'd be one of the smallest.<\/p>\n

The conversion is easy, as always: open the panels over the face, roll down the feet, spread the arms, and unfold the tail.<\/p>\n

Milton is so emo. The bright and colorful vibe of the Sugar Shocks makes him want to gag. He prefers black. He uses his bat wings to fly off and get away from it all. He'd just rather be alone, you know, contemplating his existence as black liquorish candy corn that came to life after being hit by Energon that can convert into a robot bat and whose name is Milton. It's a lot to think about...<\/i><\/p>\n

So Sugar Breath was a dragon, but now Milton is a bat? Okay, we can roll with that. It's no stranger than giving him a name that calls to mind famous candymaker Milton Hershey, when Hershey's whole thing was chocolate, not candy corn. Or licorice. The toy's face goes along with the idea that he's more emo than Sasuke<\/a>, with a tight mouth and angry purple eyes. The stumpy little tail is necessary to keep the heavy figure standing.<\/p>\n

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Milton is available in one of the \"Claw Machine Surprise Unboxing\" sets - the one with Skitter Chatter and The Cobbler in the clear capsules - or blindpacked<\/a> as #9.<\/p>\n

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