As you’re probably aware now they did set the stage for the Transformers toys and cartoons but the success of Transformers made GoBots look like the rip-off. @Maximus: I paired the Battle Patrol with Ironworks and they look good together, though the Off Road Patrol would probably fit best as vehicles you're likely to find at a construction site. Some stuff can be brought forward because of an inherently timeless nature or the simplicity with which it was made but lots of media is a time capsule of the period of when it was made. Or wave 2. Irrelevant. Some people might say Transformers had better animation too but honestly Gobots animation wasn't that bad, it was just horrible character designs. Goodnight! My local Symths is still chock full of Earthrise wave 1. One walmart moved the whole lot of them off to a side shelf, but couldn't be added to liquidate them. Instead of the sleek looking Transformers from the cartoon, the robots featured in the movie had lots of moving parts and gears to the point where it … In a similar fashion to Bumblebee, Sqweeks is unable to talk properly but is still scrappy enough to survive in what remains of the former great Illinois city. Dark Nights: Death Metal - Robin King #1 Doubles Down on Bloody Mayhem, Batman: White Knight Presents Harley Quinn #1 Shifts the Spotlight, Warhammer 40K - Marneus Calgar #1 Is Off to a Solemn Start, Review: Rorschach #1 Is a Meditative, Noir-Tinged Return to Watchmen's World, Sneeze: Naoki Urasawa Story Collection Reveals a Master's Odds and Ends, King of Eden Vol. Yep, Gobots came out on September 8, 1984, while Transformers debuted on September 17, 1984. This is not recommended for shared computers. The intro to Challenge of the Go-Bots had horns blaring and a chorus of voices mightily chanting the name of the franchise. It’s just weird that the iconic Transformers voices of Cullen and Welker were in the competing transforming robot show that was out at the same time. To possibly add insult to injury, the Decepticons that are telling Cy-Kill to turn around aren't such heavy hitters as Starscream or Megatron, they're two of the transformed mini-cassette tapes that Soundwave ejects from his chests. The first episode of Transformers would air nine days after the first episode of Challenge of the Gobots. They're both crazy and sadistic... it sounds like the perfect pairing. They weren’t just all dump trucks and backhoes there…. Hasbro would try to work around this by just slapping the GoBot name on to things like they did with a Playskool line called Transformers: GoBots in 2002. Not only was he the voice of Megatron, the leader of the Deceptions, he was also the voice of the Guardian known as Scooter. The Go-Bots and Transformers had radically different worlds and storylines, so saying that the Go-Bots are a knock-off version of the Transformers is inaccurate. We've all had those moments where your parents try and get you a gift but mess it up due to their unfamiliarity with the toy. Popy was making toy figures that were named Machine Robo. Is this an amazing dream in which robots are fashion conscious and often frequent robotic haberdasheries? As they say, all is fair in love and war, and during times of war is when you sometimes find love. The movie does have some stellar voice talent however including Margot Kidder, Telly Savalas, and Roddy McDowall, But the writing was basically on the wall for all things GoBots. I was going over some old episodes of Challenge of the Gobots that I had not watched before, and I'm still hit by the parallels between the series. In some cases, they were almost nothing alike. When the Transformers animated show came out in 1984, kids enjoyed watching the battles between the Deceptions and the Autobots on Earth. Casual shipping is put aside when you're talking about your OTP, the One True Pairing that you hold above all else. Before the conflict between the Renegades and the Guardians, Crasher admitted to having a crush on Leader-1. The one thing Tonka did that was original was they recognized the big money that was in playsets and accessories. Sounds like they need to clean more often. In 2007, the live-action Transformers was made and there were a number of very clear changes. Fairy Tail: 10 Things That Make No Sense About Laxus Dreyar, One Piece: 5 Other Crews Franky Would Love To Join (& 5 He Would Hate). Please don't post Youtube videos in the chat box. They were a line of transforming robots and were released in 1982. I don't see any of Friday's reveals at Walmart. Let's also be clear: Stretch is not a good guy. As luck would have it, Sqweeks' last repair saw Izabella replace his damaged arm with a new one that had a Decepticon symbol on it. And I don't buy the "they all sold out" explanation. Is he "smiling" because although he's saying he likes Go-Bots it's actually a lie? However this meme has a different pair in mind. Now they might have almost had some good foresight as they knew that Transformers: The Movie was being made and they made sure to release 5 months before as a way to get a jump on the market and maybe steal some of Transformers thunder. Piling five to six robots together often resulted in a heavy toy with parts not staying on properly or not physically connecting at all. Megatron was the menacing leader of the Decepticons but when we transformed into a pistol he was small enough for even a human hand to hold him, yet when he was a robot he was just as tall as Starscream, who was the size of a jet. Which franchise is better: Star Wars or Star Trek? The 1980s were a golden age of transforming alien robots, but this isn’t about the Transformers but the OTHER line of toys that always took second place eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'everything80spodcast_com-box-3','ezslot_2',102,'0','0'])); The GoBots were a transforming toy robot line put out by Hasbro in 1983. We get it, you're a gluten-free juggler who rides a unicycle to work to reduce your carbon footprint; you don't have to tell us for the 30th time! The Go-Bots Command Center was an impressive toy, and the commercial for it hilariously insists that your parents put it together, so you kids better sit on your hands while your parents figure out how to make this sucker work. It's the age old question: Go-Bots or Transformers? What the heck are we looking at? Can you watch Justice League and still be a fan of the Avengers? The Machine Robo hadn’t followed this concept so Tonka had the foresight to see it. In The Last Knight, Sqweeks was discovered by Megatron himself. At the same time, the GoBots need to fight the Renegades who decide to team up with Magmar. Chris is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Honest. Morpheus was first introduced to audiences in the 1999 film The Matrix as a mentor to Neo, the man that would eventually bring an end to the robotic slavery of humanity. It was not just a war between Autobots and Decepticons, or Guardians and Renegades. I was not yet a fan of Transformers, but I knew that wasn't Bumblebee. Here are some of the notable characters from that first release: Tonka would also put out the “Super GoBots” which were larger figures about 5-6 inches tall. No one knew they were the original transforming robot but they were getting the name of a cheap knock off compared to Transformers. The figures would be around 2-3 inches high and were based on pretty basic things like cars and planes. Perhaps shipping these characters together isn't such a bad idea after all. Apparently she had a thing for robots that turned into gray F-15 Eagle fighter jets. Although some of the Go-Bots were made of metal, the overall production, packaging and presentation of Transformers had a better perceived value to it. Megatron looked down on Sqweeks due to his size and fragility, and in this meme insult is added to injury by having the Decepticon leader ask if he's holding a Go-Bot in his hands, because to Megatron that's probably the lowest form of life that he knows about. His number one brute was Crasher, and she was as crazy as robots get. Challenge of the Gobots was put together by Hanna Barbera and here’s a quick backstory as a whole new mythos was developed for the … Nobody suggested that '80s music was any more "of it's time" than '70s music. ). The Machine Robo is an interesting toyline as they are based on designs that were submitted by children. Challenge of the Gobots vs. QUOTE(BB Shockwave @ Oct 7 2011, 10:57 AM). Since there were so many episodes a lot of freelance writers were needed including Kelly Ward aka Putzie from Grease. But depending where you lived and what channels you watched that might have determined which order you saw them in. Here’s an interesting thing; each GoBot toy would also have a marking on it that started with MR as a connection to their Machine Robo lineage. We could use Morpheus right now to let us know that in the long run there's nothing wrong with liking Go-Bots and the Transformers. How about five or six robots transforming into one giant robot? At least you got listings for kingdom. Something to consider, in another universe, had one company or the other (Hasbro/Tonka) started earlier, they could have easily snatched up the others toyline before anything else had happened. Autobots would transform into cars that were significantly larger than such Go-Bot characters as Turbo or Crasher. According to the meme, Crasher has a crush on Starscream. Thank goodness that in the battle between Go-Bots and Transformers cooler heads can prevail? They come from a company called Bandai who ran a division called Popy. Many people loved Michael Bay's Transformers but many people that experienced the show growing up found the movie to be unrecognizable and devoid of some of the campy charm that the animated show had. Considering that Hasbro was so desperate to snatch up designs in 86 to expand the TF line, if Tonka didn't already have the rights to the Machine Robo toys, Hasbro probably would have bought the US rights and sold them as mini-vehicles. Ouch, Megatron, you sure know how to kick a robot while he's down. When Turbo transformed you could see his face under the car and in robot mode he looked like he was wearing a skirt. It's an all-terrain vehicle in which the wheel treads lengthen to form legs, allowing it climbing and walking abilities. Kids preferred the lie I guess. This is when Transformers is in peak form and there was not a lot you could do to compete with them. Edited by mignash, 07 October 2011 - 12:41 PM. She turned to Cy-Kill and embraced him passionately over the bodies of Scooter's teammates...". Frank Welker can be heard in all of them and dozens more! He has been teaching cinematography and editing at New York University Tisch School of the Arts since 1999, and served as NYU’s Executive Director of Post Production for over two years. And I realized the two could exist together in the same universe. They weren’t big size wise like Transformers or the Diaclone robot line and were more the size of a Matchbox car.

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