Why is rescue bot blades so expensive

What's worth doing is worth doing well, I say. He's not even for sale any store I look for him in! Nowhere in person or online.

And he's not only the last Rescue Bot I need, but the one I wanted the most! His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman. Caelus wrote: My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did. No kid over 4 would want to be seen with these around their friends.

At 5 kids are entering Kindergarten and try to distance themselves from "baby toys". I just don't see an inherent adult desire for these outside toy reviews, obsessive compulsion or ultimate completionism. Blurrz wrote: Transformers fans are just like real people. I try not to judge what people buy, because it's easy to do. Someone who doesn't buy toys can easily see me getting any transformer as childish.

So, being that these are for even younger kids, who cares? Playskool Heroes Transformers Rescue Bots Figures Sometimes, even the most ardent of Transformers fans just want to play with robots — no vehicles, just robots.

Fireplug is the Dalmation-Bot who goes where most humans fear to tread — fire! Transform him from dog to water cannon and shoot the projectile at the flames on the garage to put them out. Set includes Fireplug, Kade Burns, garage, and projectile. This set of Transformers rescue bots comes with a ferocious foursome: Boulder, Blades, Chase, and Heatwave, each capable of transforming from robot to dinosaur quicker than you can say Prehistoric!

Who needs time travel when you have Dinobots? This impressive Transformer might just be too hot to handle as he converts from robot to Fire Boat in the blink of an eye. Made especially for smaller hands, this is one toy which little ones will most certainly warm to. Complete with rescue saw accessory. This no-mercy drill instructor is one tough cookie, and is a valuable asset to the Rescue Bots and your toy collection! Keep him in his dog mode for some canine capers, or transform him into an actual spinning drill for some heavy duty rescue work!

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The perfect Rescue bot for years. Blurr is well-known for fast action, fast thinking, and fast talking, so when you need to get a message to someone fast, this is the bot for you!

Transforms easily from robot to car and back again, and is perfectly sized for little hands. With Medix the Doc Bot, medical assistance is always on hand! This caring Transformer Rescue Bot is there to place a hand gently! Playskool Heroes Transformers Rescue Bots Bumblebee Transformers Rescue Bots take to the skies with Bumblebee, the cute yellow and black bot which is as at home on land as a robot as in the air as a plane.

Easily converted in just one step, Bumblebee flies into action in his jet form, before returning to robot mode when back on terra firma. Luckily Boulder and crew have come to the rescue! This set features Boulder, who converts to a snow plow for pushing through those huge snow drifts, with Graham Burns in command.

Windchill the Yeti-Bot completes this trio of super-cool Transformers toys. Kids aged 3 — 7 will have endless fun with the leader of the Autobots as they switch him between robot and dino mode.

The Lost Bell. While on a mission to Wayward Island , Blades was excited to meet Bumblebee, however his attempting to show off backfired when he got stuck to a tree and Bumblebee had to rescue him. Back on Griffin Rock, the team attended another rescue, but when the other three Rescue Bots seized up, Bumblebee once again had to help Blades complete the rescue.

As it turned out the others had been infected by a virus from the meteorite, Blades stayed at the fire station while the humans and Bumblebee went to deal with it, but ended up flying out himself to rescue Bumblebee from an undersea trench. Faced with an out-of-control bomb, the two Bots used it to destroy the meteorite, but were infected by the virus themselves. Luckily a sample of the meteorite they'd obtained resulted in the finding of a cure, and Blades was overjoyed to get some photos of himself with Bumblebee.

Bumblebee to the Rescue. When the Rescue Bots were called out to deal with a huge blob of space goo, Blades was horrified by it eating Mister Pettypaws and tried fruitlessly to hit it with a park sculpture. He and Dani tracked the Squilsh from the air, and later provided an air lift when the team cornered it at the Griffin Rock Community Pool.

You've Been Squilshed Blades and Dani rescued Frankie from tracers after most of the townspeople were teleported elsewhere by them, and had to fly through the wind farm to try to lose a swarm of the bugs. Back at the fire station, the Bots had their work cut out squishing bugs, though Blades managed to catch one, enabling Boulder to find a way to neutralize them.

The four Bots later tracked down the cavern where the townsfolk had been teleported and rescued them all.

Countdown When Griffin Rock was hit by an infestation of what appeared to be ghosts, Blades was particularly hesitant to deal with them, having watched all fourteen Haunted Halls movies.

He was especially unnerved when one manifested right inside his cockpit. The Haunting of Griffin Rock. Blades helped search the island for Chief Burns and Chase after the pair went missing, though when the trail led to the old lead mine, he was almost too worried about blood-sucking bats to go in. He, Graham and Dani followed Boulder's sonar and managed to find Chase. Little White Lies The Rescue Bots were forced to be extra attentive to their cover as robots when Frankie started filming them for a school project.

They stopped a swarm of earthquakes by tracking down the cause in the caves under Griffin Rock. Shake Up Following Blades's discovery of fireworks, Cody got a repulsor badge , granting the boy superhero-like powers.

When the badge overloaded, trapping Cody in an energy bubble, Blades declared it his mortal enemy, as he and the other Bots worked to rescue Cody. Rescue Boy. Blades, the other Rescue Bots, Cody and Frankie were sent back in time to in a time travel accident. There they fell into the hands of a team of scientists headed by Doctor Morocco who performed experiments on them.

Morocco was getting to the point of dissecting the four Bots when Optimus and Bumblebee came to their rescue.

On returning to the present, they found that Morocco had taken over the town with the aid of his MorBots. It's a Bot Time The four bots managed to elude the MorBots and soon established that leaving Dither in the past had resulted in the changed.

After an encounter with an alternate version of the Burns family, including a version of Dani who didn't like flying, the Rescue Bots returned to and retrieved Dither, returning the timeline to normal. Bot to the Future. Blades took to playing a dance video game with Frankie, once she and Doc Greene knew the Rescue Bots' secret. He assisted in the rescue of Taylor , whom he was amused to note that Dani had taken a liking to, and had to rescue the other Bots when Doc Greene's Vacuum Accelerator warped them to the top of Mount Griffin.

Road Trip The Rescue Bots helped construct Frankie Greene's Sky Forest , only to have to rescue the town's citizens when the plant life grew out of control. Sky Forest When Chief Burns was ill, the four bots had to contend with Kade appointing himself new team leader, and Cody being aged into an adult in a lab experiment. Blades's attempt to salvage a crashed rocket from where it was tangled in power lines resulted in it exploding.

One for the Ages. He and Dani tracked an iceberg, only to discover it was actually a ship frozen by a piece of cargo it was carrying, the Sub-Zero Expander.

After accidentally getting frozen by the machine, Blades returned to base, and took part in an attempt to get rid of the device by blowing it up, which was aborted when it turned out Doctor Morocco had claimed the vessel as salvage. The team had to deal with the fallout when the device exploded and froze a five-mile section of ocean. Tip of the Iceberg After a rescue mission where Blades became frightened of the snowy weather, Cody took Blades to the Hall of Inspiration where they played the Doc's new virtual reality game.

Inside the game, Cody taught Blades about video games, such as power-ups and boss fights, but the game bugged out when lightning struck the Hall. The bosses could hurt the two and Blades overcame his fear and gained the courage to protect Cody, much to Heatwave's surprise. The three beat the game, thanks to Blades, and were teleported out of the game.

Heatwave later commented on Blades's courage. A Virtual Disaster. When the rest of the team was mesmerized by cellphones, Blades escaped by virtue of being out on patrol at the time, though it did mean he and Dani had to put out a fire without Heatwave's help.

They were subsequently mind-controlled as well, and forced to excavate Blossom Vale until the cell tower was taken out. Spellbound Huxley Prescott's reality show featuring the bots was approved by the mayor, and Blades was caught up in the idea of gaining fame. He began trying to think up catchphrases, but was disappointed when it turned out Prescott had begun manufacturing emergencies to make the show more exciting.

Prescott's Bots. Blades took part in a rescue when Taylor's plane was stricken with an electrical fault. He and the rest of the team later had to face a horde of gremlins conjured from Kade's nightmares. Blame the Gremlins When a monster was spotted during a star-gazing expedition with Cody, Blades and the other Rescue Bots helped the boy hunt for the beast, resulting in an encounter with it at an old cannery.

It transpired that the "Magic Meat" that Mayor Luskey had been selling was Fo-Foo , an experimental food with lycanthropic side effects, and the team had to track down Luskey and Graham who were both infected. Feed the Beast. The revelation that there was energon under the island resulted in Optimus Prime arriving, and the whole team had to go rescue Woodrow and Cody after the pair became trapped in a cavern deep underground, which ended up with Blades having to fight giant spiders.

What Lies Below After Blades, Boulder and the three older siblings were separated from the others, Blades had to brave luminous fungus, pterodactyls, and giant fish as they searched for a way out. Once the team was reunited, they escaped from underground by blasting themselves out of the top of Mount Magma. What Rises Above. The Rescue Bots had to bring out their spaceship for another mission to save Graham and Doc Greene after the space elevator they were on was hit by an asteroid.

Space Bots The team had to deal with a runaway mechanical bull. When a mishap occurred while transporting the creature to the Island of Misfit Tech , Blades, Chase and Boulder ended up tussling with a prototype Scrapmaster. The Island of Misfit Tech The town's new central computer Vigil was unable to control the four Rescue Bots, so when it attempted to take control of Griffin Rock, the Bots were able to get the rest of the team into its vault to stop it.

The Vigilant Town. Blades finally achieved his ambition to become a Lad Pioneer when he was appointed troop mascot. Going on a nature hike, Blade was linked with Cody via Buddy Bracelets , the keys for which were accidentally destroyed. Consequently, Cody had to come along with Blades when the Rescue Bot took part in a snake hunt around town. Buddy System After an earthquake and a rash of objects being pulled into the air, Blades became convinced that invisible griffins were to blame.

He and the other Bots accompanied Graham and Cody to Wayward Island, where it turned out that it was just a super-magnet causing the trouble. In Search of the Griffin's Nest. When Chase appeared to join with Evan and Myles during their crime spree, Blades and the rest of the rescue team found themselves going against him. Bots and Robbers Following the rescue of a dog, the Rescue Bots were joined in their work by Noble , at least until the dogs real owner turned up to claim him.

Rescue Dog The team had to deal with a storm without Heatwave. When their leader returned with a second alternate mode, Blades was interested in finding out how to acquire one himself. After a sea rescue Blades took part in resulted in everyone's midwinter holiday presents sinking to the bottom of the ocean, Blades and the rest of the team took on the mantle of the Rider of Midwinter and delivered loaves of bread to the townsfolk. The Riders of Midwinter When a Power Planter was struck by lightning and ran wild, the team was forced to respond to a number of emergencies caused by it.

They eventually succeeded in luring it into a trap using Boil Coils and destroyed it. Blades found himself being used as a ramp during a rescue of the mayor, something he didn't enjoy much, though he later got to help rescue some dolphins.

Chief Woodrow. Blades was excited at the news that Bumblebee was coming and made plans to enjoy his friend's visit, however it turned out Bumblebee was there on a relic-finding mission. What's worse, Dani's pilot license was suspended, so unable to fly in Blades, she was partnered with Bumblebee.

Though he grew jealous of the pair's growing bond, Blades was soon distracted by helping Optimus retrieve the relic from the ocean, and was later happy when Bumblebee saved Dani from quicksand. Odd Bot Out The rescue team was roped into completing a rail tunnel to the mainland, mainly because Mayor Luskey regarded the Bots as heavy machinery.

When the Griffin Rock Express went out of control, the Bots had to rescue everyone on board, with the help of Frankie and her phasing technology. The Griffin Rock Express. Following a game of Rescue Ball and an impromptu rescue mission, Blades's attempt to watch Cupcake Hoarders was thwarted when he was lured into a trap and kidnapped by Dr. Morocco used a memory-erasing ray on him and convinced him that the doctor had been assigned as the Rescue Bots' liaison on Earth by Optimus Prime.

Once the other Rescue Bots were similarly brainwashed, Morocco put Blades in charge and sent the team to a cavern under Griffin Rock to mine gold. Unfortunately Blades accidentally set off a methane explosion and when the Bots climbed out of the crater, they were confronted by the dastardly Burns family. Double Villainy. The suspicious Bots were taken back to the fire house, where the evidence soon convinced them that the Burns family was on their side and they'd been misled by Morocco.

Unfortunately the methane explosion cause the island to begin to sink, and given the choice between helping out or regaining their memories, the Bots chose the former option. Blades was relieved to discover he wasn't team leader though. With the help of some tech from Doc Greene, the team was able to raise the island once again, and Morocco was forced to restore their memories. Rise of the Heroes. During a routine inspection by Optimus, Blades and Dani encountered an unexpected pterodactyl.

After they captured and tagged it, the team tracked the creature back to Wayward Island where they found a whole group of dinosaurs, one of which damaged Blades's tail rotor. The team was subsequently chased into a tar pit and had to be rescued by Optimus Prime. Once they established what the dinos were upset about, the team was able to get them to return to the underground cavern they'd come from. After catching Blades repeatedly with nets, the hunter managed to trap the trio in a cage and was about to take them off the island in his heli-jet when Optimus and Boulder came to their aid.

Big Game. Following the accidental creation of four extra Kades, Blades found himself having to take them all back to the first station after their squabbling caused an accident. He later attempted to rescue the rest of the team from a gas leak, but ended up himself needing rescuing by the quintet of Kades. Too Many Kades The team was sent ten years forward in time when they boarded the S. Phantom Voyager , however Boulder and Graham were able to reverse the time machine stored in the ship's hold, returning them to present day.

Phantom of the Sea After having to deal with a flooding disaster, Blades and Heatwave had to try and cover for Chase and Boulder during their mission in space. Unfinished Business. After the town was sealed inside an energy dome by Vigil, Blades and the others pursued the AI to try to beat it to the dome controls in the lab.

Despite being injured during the chase, Blades beat Vigil to the lab along with Chase, but Vigil stuck them to the floor using the Collision Foam Cannon, leaving it to Frankie and Cody to save the day. He later saved the day, using Confident Me to lure a swarm of mutant army ants to a place where they could be successfully captured. Bugs in the System. During a trip on the space elevator Asgard, Blades switched bodies with Dani.

He binged on yogurt and potato chips, much to her disgust, and she forced him to exercise to work off the calories. For his part, he was smug when she found being a helicopter wasn't as much fun as she thought. They were eventually swapped back into their own bodies. Switcheroo Blades and the rest of the team were shrunken down to microscopic size so they could enter Kade's body and retrieve the scrubmites he'd accidentally ingested.

Unfortunately Blades then found he could no longer transform, and ended up bringing Cody along by accident when Quarry took them all to an island. As Quarry was taking the other Autobots to be sold, Blades finally found the strength to transform so that he could rescue them. Quarry's Quarry.