Playgor Cardquest - Transformers Wiki

Playgor Cardquest is a member of the Gamer Geeks from BotBots.

A BotBot with an overwhelming flair for the melodramatic, Playgor Cardquest lives to share his love of fantasy with others, and will quickly befriend anyone who takes an interest in his favorite pastime: role-playing games! Armed with his trusty lute, he frequently breaks into song to enhance the mood of any scene... whether it's a role-playing scene or not, and whether you want him to or not. And eventually, you'd really like him to just not.

“	♬Bard and lore-keeper, Playgor Cardquest! / Happy to greet a wandering gueeeeeeeest!♬	”
—Playgor Cardquest introduces himself, "Live and Let LARP"

Fiction

BotBots cartoon

Voice actor: Brandon Hackett (English), Milan van Weelden (Dutch), Serge Faliu (French), Michael Pink (German), Gábor Varga (Hungarian), Aaditya Raj Sharma (Indian), Hardianto (Indonesian), Ahmad Azizi Abdul Karim (Malay), Wilken Mazzei (Brazilian Portuguese), Simon Frankel (European Portuguese), Mikhail Filippov (Russian), Dan Osorio (Latin-American Spanish), Valentino Tiron (Romanian), Felix von Bahder (Swedish), Ali Erdinç (Turkish)

Playgor welcomed the Lost Bots (sans Burgertron) to his store, introducing them to the joys of LARPing via Obscure Darkness 3: Rise of the Spells of the Necro Realm, 4.5 Edition. (4th Edition rules were too unbalanced.) When Burgertron came looking for his fellow Lost Bots in order to check out some mysterious goings-on in the mall, Playgor regaled him with song and tried to get him to join in. It almost worked on the skeptical patty-bot, appealing to his ego and need to be a hero, but the size of the rulebook instantaneously dissuaded Burgertron, who decided to go hunting the mysterious mystery alone. Shortly after, he joined the still-LARPing Lost Bots as they rushed to the food court to fight the thing Burgertron had found, a bird that had gotten inside the mall. As the Lost Bots used their role-playing skills to bafflingly good effect, Playgor offered rhyme after rhyme as a play-by-play. After the bird was released and it was revealed that Burgertron's stargazing through an open window was what let the beast inside in the first place, Playgor continued to offer the Lost Bots rhyming couplets until Burgertron made it quite clear he'd heard more than enough and Cardquest should stop now. Live and Let LARP

Playgor joined the other BotBots to watch the Ruckus Rally, cheering the competitors on. The Ruckus Rally When the Lost Bots were "solving" ""problems"" throughout the mall as the "Crime Solvers", Burgertron and Kikmee unwittingly used a deck-mode Playgor to prop up a chair with a busted leg. Playgor did not appreciate it. He then sat in witness during the trial of Burgertron when the Lost Bot was accused of murdering Sprinkleberry D'uhnut (he was innocent, of course). Crime and Bun-ishment

When Clogstopper got scanned out (bought by a human during the daytime and taken from the mall), Playgor sang a sad song in his memory at the mall's main fountain, and it fell on him to break the news to the rest of the Lost Bots. Then he kinda went a bit too far by continuing to play sad music as the Lost Bots started grieving. Scanned Out

Toys

BotBots

• Blind Bag Mystery Figures (Single pack, 2022)

• Series: 6
• ID Code: F
• Rarity: Common
• Known designers: Robby Musso (concept artist)

Part of the sixth series of BotBots, Playgor Cardquest is a redeco of King Cheats, transforming from a tiny robot into a stack of gaming cards.

He is only available in the blindpacked "Blind Bag Mystery Figures" assortment, and like all Bots in the assortment, comes one to a case of 24.

This mold was also used to make Mr. MoneyBanks.

Notes

• Playgor's lute appears to be made from one of those small ice cream sample spoons... making him literally a "spoony bard". "You spoony bard!" is a line from the Square Enix JRPG Final Fantasy IV (or II as it was originally known outside Japan) that has become a decades-long running joke among fans due to the questionable translation choices that led to its use in the English version.
• It was initially thought that Playgor was a member of the Gamer Geeks due to a then-unnamed gaming card member of the Gamer Geeks being shown in the toyline's sixth Series that was assumed to be him. It was later clarified by Chris Wyatt that he belonged to an unnamed tabletop gaming store squad.^[1] The "ULTIMATE Guide to EVERY Bot in Transformers: BotBots" video on the Netflix After School YouTube channel later claimed Playgor was a Gamer Geek, though it's stated more as a guess than fact.^[2] And then the toys came out and yep, the toy was Playgor and he was a Gamer Geek.
• Toy-Playgor's "Rarity" rating of "common" doesn't really make sense, as he's only available in a single pack, with no duplicates in any other package.

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