{"id":36259,"date":"2022-01-11T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=36259"},"modified":"2023-12-18T05:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T10:59:02","slug":"soon-forget-transformers-botbots-series-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/soon-forget-transformers-botbots-series-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Transformers BotBots Series 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's <i>BotBots<\/i> Series 6.<\/p>\n<p>Series 6 was first hinted at at Toy Fair 2020, where a new pair of \"Surprise Unboxing\" sets were shown: a toilet and a treasure chest. Those were planned for release in Summer 2020, but failed to appear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tfbb6su.jpg\" title=\"Surprise Unboxings\" width=\"520\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Hasbro gave no further comment on the status of the series, but eventually a PDF checklist was found on their customer service site, revealing the full lineup, including several new tribes:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Botbots-Series-6-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Botbots-Series-6-1-258x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Botbots-Series-6-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Botbots-Series-6-2-258x300.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tfbb_caco_1.png\" title=\"Caffeine Collective\" width=\"80\" height=\"95\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tfbb_plpl_1.png\" title=\"Play Plexers\" width=\"90\" height=\"75\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tfbb_pm_1.png\" title=\"Pet Mob\" width=\"135\" height=\"95\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tfbb_gigu_1.png\" title=\"Gifted Guild\" width=\"115\" height=\"95\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the chart showed a slightly redesigned version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=28421&page=16\">Playroom Posse<\/a> faction symbol:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tfbb_pp_2.png\" title=\"Playroom Posse 2\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>There's still been no official comment, and we can hope some news will come out of this year's Toy Fair next month, but for now we have to consider the series cancelled.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Megatron was right?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2023\/11\/megatron-was-right\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Megatron was right?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Trans rights are sentient rights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/06\/trans-rights-are-sentient-rights\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Trans rights are sentient rights<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"The Transformers G1 song\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/the-transformers-g1-song\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Transformers G1 song<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Soon Forget: What (was) UNIT:E?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/soon-forget-what-was-unite\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Soon Forget: What (was) UNIT:E?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Tuesday: Where's my Megatron?!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/transformers-tuesday-wheres-my-megatron\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Tuesday: Where's my Megatron?!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's BotBots Series 6. Series 6 was first hinted at at Toy Fair 2020, where a new pair &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/01\/soon-forget-transformers-botbots-series-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,8],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-36259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancelled-toys","category-hasbro","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41372,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36259\/revisions\/41372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}