{"id":35318,"date":"2021-09-28T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=35318"},"modified":"2025-10-08T00:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:07:48","slug":"transformers-botbots-clogstopper-dingledeedoo-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/transformers-botbots-clogstopper-dingledeedoo-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformers BotBots Clogstopper & Dingledeedoo reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Back in the day, the Lost Bots<\/a> were scattered all over the Transformers BotBots<\/i><\/a> mall. For instance, if you look at the first wing of the mall<\/a>, you'll find this little misfit down on the ground - fittingly, near the Toilet Troop's store. You didn't get very far lost at all, did you Clogstopper?<\/p>\n

And honestly, what's with that name? I don't know about you, but when I've got a clog, what I really want is a clog un<\/b>-stopper: it's already stopped up; that's the entire problem. Plungers seem like a quaint throwback to me, because my family didn't have one when I was growing up - they're just something that existed in old cartoons, like milk men or rotary phones. This is a pretty simple shape for a toy, just requiring a red cup with a tan stick. The handle is sculpted with a wood grain to make it look more realistic, so the only flaw (if you want to call it that) is that the plunger part can't be hollow, because that's where the robot hides.<\/p>\n

BotBots<\/i> are simple, so converting them is easy. Pull out the arms, turn them over, fold down the legs, and pull the entire body down out of the cap.<\/p>\n

Clogstopper is the fixer. He goes where no bot wants to go to get the job done. He'll stick his face into any mess and get things working again. Just don't ask him to talk about what he's seen on the job. Ew.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Ew\" indeed. The way the two halves of the body are folded down from opposite directions to create the full thing is an interesting design, one that feels like something we would have seen way back in G1 when Transformers didn't have to move vey well (the only articulation here is the balljointed shoulders). Clogstopper has a fairly happy look on his face, but the plunger's bell is so large it tends to get lost in the shadows.<\/p>\n

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Clogstopper is available in a Sugar Shocks 5-pack, a Greaser Gang 8-pack, or a Jock Squad 8-pack.<\/p>\n

<\/a>In BotBots<\/i><\/a> Series 3, the Music Mob<\/a> only had one store to call their own. But if you look at the diagram of the mall<\/a>, this 'bot is upstairs in the construction zone.<\/p>\n

Part of the fun of BotBots<\/i> is playing \"guess the repaint\" - not for things like \"will this drink be repainted as a different kind of drink,\" but more \"will this deodorant be turned into a tombstone?\" Along those lines, no one was expecting the plunger from Series 1 to become a handbell for Series 3. It's a clever re-use; the shapes are simplified enough that the mold can stand in for two objects that are only so vaguely similar in form. The cup part is a bright yellow, while the handle is a darker brown than on the first use of the mold.<\/p>\n

BotBots<\/i> are simple, so converting them is easy. Pull out the arms, turn them over, fold down the legs, and pull the entire body down out of the cap.<\/p>\n

Dingledeedoo is too good to be true. She's an angel and a shining example of how to do things the right way. At least, she acts that way. She's a goody-two-shoes who rings her bell when bots break the rules. So everybot better be on their best behavior!<\/i><\/p>\n

So she's a Karen? Great. Guess that big smile painted on her face is supposed to be a sarcastic, insulting one? Even without Autobots and Decepticons, some BotBots<\/i> just have to be the villains. The body being formed by folding down two halves from separate directions is an interesting way of doing things, but the giant size of the cap makes the face hard to see.<\/p>\n

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Dingledeedoo is only available in the blind-packs<\/a>, where she's #6. Which means that, yes, I went against my own rule<\/a> to specifically get this one, she's not something I only got as a byproduct of a larger pack.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>