Dinger
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- Dinger is a member of the Jock Squad from BotBots.
Dinger, as befits his alternate mode of a baseball, gets hit, a lot, and flies through the air, a lot. While he does enjoy this, and it makes his fellow bots happy, all that constant impact has messed with his intelligence quite a bit, but as long as Dinger can fly through the air and make his friends happy, it doesn't seem to bother him much.
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Fiction
BotBots Adventure
BotBots Official Sticker Book
Dinger had the power of indestructibility. BotBots Official Sticker Book
BotBots Mad Libs
Dinger played in the Jock Squad's championship round of adjective Dodgeball. He managed to take out Pucksie, but ultimately lost to The In-Sole. Play Ball
BotBots cartoon
- Voice actor: Deven Mack (English), Théo Frilet (French), Bence Kádar-Szabó (Hungarian), Hardianto (Indonesian), Aiman Afandi Mohd Nadzari (Malay), Adrian Tatini (Brazilian Portuguese), Michel Simeão (European Portuguese), Pavel Dorofeev (Russian), Néstor Moreno (Castilian Spanish), Diego Valenzuela (Latin-American Spanish), Mihai Munteniță (Romanian)
Dinger, along with any bot who was anybot, attended the Ice Cream-a-Palooza, a once in a lifetime event that would never ever be repeated. Naturally, he had a great time, and was still talking about the wonderful memories the night had generated as he and Batsby left. Escape from Snackatraz
When the acclaimed play I, Cheeseburger staged a revival, Dinger and Batsby were in the front row of the audience. They were perplexed by the new play having two versions of the main character on stage at the same time, which Dinger figured was a commentary on how people often felt they were fighting for their own identity. Regardless of this confusing alteration, and the fact the two TronBurgers fighting brought the set down, Dinger appreciated the play. I, Cheeseburger
While out walking around the mall, Dinger and Batsby heard some terrifying noises. A startled Batsby leapt into Dinger's arms and they ran for it, only for Dinger's path to take him through a massive pile of mysterious white goop the Custodial Crew were trying to clean. Live and Let LARP
Having somehow gotten stuck in one of the mall's planters, salvation for Dinger came in the form of the Lost Bots, now calling themselves "the Crime Stoppers"... or would have, if they hadn't screwed up as per usual. Crime and Bun-ishment
One day, several stores in the mall were transformed by a strange force known as "Spector Halloween". The terrified BotBots held a general meeting, with Dinger wondering whether they would one day wake up to find all their respective stores had become infected by the chain. Mercifully, this proved not to be the case, as the Lost Bots soon defeated the store... only for it to be replaced the next night by a new, but equally terrifying store filled with sinister, chanting animatronic humans. Spirit of Halloween
Toys
BotBots
- Playroom Posse (5-pack, 2019)
- Series: 3
- Level: 1 Star
- Part of the third Series of BotBots, Dinger converts from a 1-inch tall soft-plastic robot into a baseball. His right hand is painted brown to resemble a catcher's mitt.
- He was available in one of the "Playroom Posse" themed 5-packs, along with Cuddle Wuddle, Quackles, Swoonberry, and Lost Bot Smooth Shaker.
- This mold was also used to make Goldstruck Out and Love Struck.
- Fresh Squeezes (8-pack, 2019)
- Series: 3
- Level: 1 Star
- Dinger was also available in one of the "Fresh Squeezes" themed 8-packs, along with Avocando, Bunches, Stringaling, Nampy, Sugar Breath, Swoonberry, and Lost Bot Fail Polish.
- Goo-Goo Groopies (8-pack, 2019)
- Series: 3
- Level: 1 Star
- Dinger was also also available in one of the "Goo-Goo Groopies" 8-packs, along with Choc-O-Lawless, Batterhead, Bottle O-Tears, Perfumigator, Shushifier, Trend Blend, and Lost Bot Trisourtops.
Notes
- "Dinger" is one of many names for a home run.
- Dinger was originally intended to be released in Series 1, as indicated by promotional material for the series and his bio in the BotBots Official Sticker Book.
- Dinger's seams are composed of two circles on either side of his body, whereas the seams on a normal baseball are a continuous pattern which creates a "horseshoe" shape not seen on Dinger. As such, it would be impossible to throw many pitches with Dinger were he a real baseball.
- Dinger appears as a prop on the exercise equipment rack at the Decepticon base in the Transformers Stop Motion Netflix Anime shorts "Virtually Reality", "Anime Attack!", and "The Bot Dance Off".
