Steve From Accounting quickly became a fan-favorite, both due to his nervous nature and how generic his name is for a Transformer.
Quackles became a sought-after and popular character for his alt mode, making him a popular purchase to use with Beast Wars-era Megatron.
The most recent series introduces a Botbot that turns into G1 Megatron's gun mode and whose robot mode resembles a kremzeek, instantly making it popular.
Fan Nickname: The Bakery Bytes and Lawn League, two tribes that were released in a "middle period" during Series 1 as an additional wave are coined as being part of "Series 1.5" by fans.
The Starbomb song "Robots in Need of Disguise" has ridiculous new alternate modes for the Autobots, such as food and beauty products, along with "random kiosks at the local mall". BotBots ended up turning this song true, being a Transformers line of various stores at a mall having their products turned into miniature Transformers with similar wacky alternate modes.
33 years before the BotBots, Computer Warriors had already given us tiny robots that disguise themselves as household objects.
In the Marvel UK Transformers comics there was bonus strip called "Robo-Capers", with some strips showcasing Autobots and Decepticons who “didn’t make the cut”. Among these section 8ers were a television, an alarm clock, and a refrigerator, alt modes that wouldn't be out of place as a BotBot. The television even had a test pattern design, similar to Goob Toob.
Similarly, none of MAD's "Rejected Transformers" would look out of place here.
Mall products being brought to life, dividing themselves up into "Squads" roughly based on what they are, with a group for the Lost & Found specifically? Are we talking about BotBots or The Grossery Gang?
Toy Story Toons has the minor character T-Bone, a toy robot who turns into a t-bone steak. He and his whole toyline wouldn't look out of place in the Hunger Hubs.
Before BotBots gave us the Music Mob, there were the Band Botz◊.
Yu-Gi-Oh! actually did a Homage to Transformers in general with the Morphtronics, tiny robots that turn into household items.
Older Than They Think: The idea of mundane objects turning into robots was explored in the live action Transformers film series. But while that is a likely inspiration (especially how the BotBots came to life originally), the idea goes all the way back to the pre-Transformers series Micro Change. There, the robots were actually the size of the toys and hiding among humans as everyday things. Some of those designs carried over into G1, like Soundwave, Megatron, and Bumblebee.
Spiritual Adaptation: The toyline is often compared to the "Changeables" line of Happy Meal toys from McDonald's, being robots that transform from food items.
A good chunk of the female BotBots have no defining feminine features, which ends up getting them mistaken for male quite often. Most of them only have their gender revealed in their bios.
Of the few that do, the female Slappyhappy got recolored into the male Short Edge whose artwork tries to play off the twintails design as a cape, but the toy still looks like it has Sailor Moon hair.
Before bio release, Fancy Flutter was thought to be a female character, due to stereotypical design additions (being pink and purple, having eyelashes, and being a macaron, an often "feminine" food). Despite all of these design additions, the bio revealed him as a male character.
For the animated series
Les Yay: Bonz-Eye and Lady Macaron's close 'friendship', including Macaron approaching her at the Bot Prom.
One-Scene Wonder: 24K-Bit only has a speaking role in one episode, but his Nice Guy attitude towards the Lost Bots and Duffman inspired personality makes him memorable. Oh, yeah!
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