I loved how Armada used Leader-1. It established that Leader-1 was the peaceful commander of all Mini-Cons (just like the Go-Bot version before Cy-Kill went all rogue), but Megatron enslaved him for his nefarious purposes (just like how Transformers bought Go-Bots to use for their own products). It’s kinda hilarious if you think about it
I also love how Armada Cy-Kill (an easter egg in one of the Armada comics) looks just like the original Cy-Kill, while Armada Leader-1, just like most Armada characters, looks nothing like his original namesake.
I love how this is an April fools joke but at the same time is actually still a really good quality, informed and researched video and not just some shitty YTP like most people do! Nice work!
Yes, for a joke this was actually a very good video, up to his usual high standards! Surprised no mention of that classic "Unicron devours GoBotron" video though :D
@TET - COM this is an April fools in a sense that Chris McFeely is supposedly abandoning Transformers to shift to Go-Bots. Nobody said Go-Bots is a joke.
What I appreciate most about this is that you didn't just tell a joke, you gave us a brilliantly informative episode that left no stone unturned. Bravo!
Honestly, I had that Rock Lords movie on a vhs somewhere and actually had one of the rock lords figures. You may initially think it's "stupid" to have a figure who turns into a rock, except when you realize it was meant to be a method of stealth, and nothing is more easily overlooked than a rock.
That'd also be a great Alt mode for alien invaders. Just think about it: 1. They transform into small rocks 2. Launch themselves at a planet 3. The inhabitants think that they’re just meteors 4. The invaders are just small enough where a meteor of similar size would either burn up in the atmosphere or be destroyed upon impact 5. The invaders then go into hiding until there's enough of them on the planet to do a proper invasion 6. Even if the inhabitants investigate the impact area, there's nothing suspicious (see 4.) 7. The invaders all come out of hiding and catch the planet's inhabitants off guard, easily taking over the planet It kind of reminds me of what Hive Fleet Jormungandr does (though they take up residence inside meteors rather than transforming into them).
I think that is where I began to loose interest in Go-Bots and started focusing more on Transformers. I couldn't stand the rock lords toys. I do understand your point about stealth though.
@@gridlo In their rock form they could be thrown at a kid you didn't like, and when they burst into tears and ran off to tell your mum, you could transform it back into a robot and claim they were a liar.
I think the Michael Bay movies (or at least the tie-in comics) took some inspiration from the old Gobot cartoon. The relationship between Optimus & Megatron is pretty similar to that of Leader-1 & Cy-Kill in that they used to be friends until one of them got jellous cause their master favored one over the other. Also, The Fallen is rather similar to a Gobot character called The Evil One. I would like if the Gobots were used more in modern Transformers media. Gobotron could be a colony world for Cybertron
The GoBots story actually sounds pretty interesting to me. I think GoBots should be given a second chance with Transformers. They showed good potential! I have some good ideas.
Arguably the only reason that it hasn't happened outside of Fun Publications is the confused tangle of rights that Challenge of the Gobots continuity exists in (the Gobots IP is Hasbro's, but the original toy modes belong to Bandai and the cartoon itself was swallowed up by AOL/Time-Warner). That didn't stop Jim Sorenson from giving us synopses of a virtual Season 2, or having universe-hopping refugees from Gobotron show up in Beast Wars: Uprising, but a more prominent crossover would either need a lot of collaboration and signoffs, or involve a similar-but-distinct Gobots universe. Until then, we still have our homages such as Fracture....
Gobots has just made their big comeback, in the Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special, and Gobots are officially alive in the MCU, not only do we see a guy dressed like Cykill next to Jack Sparrow, but Drax even mentions his cousin was killed a Gobot
Great video! The Go-Bots don't get the love they really deserve. In most households in the 80's, for every one large diaclone sourced Transformer, most of us had 3-5 Go-Bots. While they didn't compete with the diaclone toys in style, they were much better than the mini autobots with their die cast parts. Hannah Barbara cartoon troupes honestly hurt the line as much as anything. While Transformers focused heavily on serious characters like Optimus Prime, Go-Bots loaded up the Scooter stupidity and had Masters of the Universe level incompetent villains. Megatron seemed a conceivable threat, Cy-Kill did not. Still, the toys were, despite their simplicity, well conceived, fun to play with, and very durable.
The gobots are pretty underrated and shouldn’t get the hate they deserve. I agree I’m pretty sure that crappy Hannah Barbara cartoon is what drove the gobots down the gutter.
This was to be their downfall considering what they did to Mighty Orbots, I wish that show had the light of more episodes than having been shot down mid season
This reminds me of the American Dad episode where Steve dresses as Cy-Kill and lashes out when someone calls him a Transformer and he says something like "Transformers are for children. I am a Go-Bot"
Seems like ever since the release of the first gobots dvd, along with the other two dvd releases and the new gobots (machine robo) toys, a lot of people are giving gobots a second chance. That’s awesome. Lately, I see more love for the gobots and less “gobots are the k-mart transformers” kind of stuff. Being that gobots was one of my favorite shows and toys back then, it makes me happy to see the change of heart people are having for the gobots.
6:10 Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos is my favorite mecha anime ever! I also have exciting news about it, Discotek Media announced that the entire series is coming to Blu-ray next month! All 47 episodes will be released in 1080p picture quality with remastered audio.
Vangelus I kinda wanna get into GoBots cuz of those CyKill pics you took on twitter. I like how dumb they look but I get no emotional twinge from them. Guess I should watch them cartoon stories.
I think this episode is a great idea. You’re coloring outside the lines and going beyond just the one franchise. You’re branching out. Good job. Happy Easter!
While potentially even more off-beat than this, I'd love a similar April Fools video dedicated to BIONICLE. Growing up in the 2000s, it was difficult not to compare the two, with both having very similar appeals - being toylines about robot action figures that you could transform (or build) into other kinds of toys. With the fact that Transformers was experiencing a big revival with Armada and later Bayformers and Animated, and Bionicle (besides being the new kid on the block) itself being unfathomably huge, quickly establishing itself as arguably one of the most important toylines from the 21st century, it was extremely common to see other kids besides myself treat the two franchises as sort of rivals - or, at the very least be interested in both franchises, lol.
1:36 When I was very young my Dad bought 'TrainMan' it blew the minds of kids and adults alike. We take transforming toys so much for granted now! Of course, MachineMen were all but forgotten shortly after when the Transmogrifiers came out.
Excellent work. People give the Go Bots a lot of crap, but they had a lot cross potential. Transformed, you could use them with any Matchbox set. Combiner? They did it first. Beast machines? Same. Even had their own AT-AT base. And Puzzler was metal. Always had the canon that they were a lost Cybertronian group that developed their own society with no knowledge at all about Cyberton. Recently discovered your channel. Excellence.
Really wouldn't of been too hard either back in the day with doing a crossover as Hasbro bought out the Gobot franchise in the early 90's, they even used the name Leader 1 in the Transformers Armada with one of the mini cons. Personally loved both franchise growing up, even had a load of the toys and some of the Rock Lords too :D
Man, that brings back old memories!!! Thankyou again!!! I normaly know everything you say about transformers, but it is intresting to watch your videos. Now, gobots, I only knew a few things. The cartoon I watched, the toys I owned, and how they fit into the Transformers Omniverse. With this I learned SO MUCH!!! Thankyou Chris!!!
Ah if only you knew 4 years later when this got posted! Crasher get a new mold althought she's a retold of Earthrise Mirage and Cy Kill make a cameo in Guardian of the Galaxy Holiday special!
I am always thinking that it would be cool if Gobots and Transformers will run on the same universe with of course the bad guys and good guys teaming up.
Stephen Castro they do exist in the same multiverse but I doubt the decepticons would put up with the renegades and especially with them being organics. In some versions of transformers lore, the decepticons conquest began with a hatred of organic life. O doubt the renegades would survive too long.
You really committed yourself to this joke. I will say this though. I do think that if the robot designs in the cartoon weren't so literal, we would be having a way different discussion about GoBots. Imagine if Megatron looked exactly like the toy in the cartoon. How different are the Ironhide and Ratchet toys from some of the deluxe GoBots figures. I got made fun of hard in elementary school when I brought in my Ironhide. Everyone said it was a GoBot.
I didn't mind GoBots back in the day. They transformed, looked decent and were no worse than the mini-Autobots, for the most part. And they were cheap, so you could fill out your Transformer ranks pretty easily to have large scale battles. Most kids I know did the same thing. In 'The Toys That Made Us' TF episode, one guy says he got a GoBot from his dad and he tossed it into the fire. That guy was an idiot if that's true. First, never through away a toy. I shouldn't have to explain why. Second, if you really don't like the toy or character, make him fodder for your better toys during play. Even broken toys that looked robotic could serve as dead bodies to litter the battlefield of your living room or bedroom. After all, maybe they weren't quite dead, but were crawling across the carpet, torso broken and missing an arm, toward your unsuspecting heroes.
I liked GoBots better than Transformers. There...I said it. Feels good to get it out. The main reason was that GoBots were pretty perfectly in scale with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, so they could actually blend in and be vehicles in disguise, especially if you had some of the Hot Wheels playsets. Transformers on the other hand were all over the place in scale. Look at Soundwave, Starscream, Megatron, and Bumblebee....it's madness I tell you! Madness!!
Those bloody Super-GoBots! Made of die-cast metal with hard edges and spring-loaded bodies, the friggin things almost chopped off my fingers when they transformed!
I still have fond memories of the Go Bots despite having both toy lines I always preferred their show. I even saw the Rock Lord movie in theaters but have never seen Transformers The Movie. When I played with them Leader-1 was a co-leader/2nd in command to Optimus Prime. They stand side by side on my shelf to this day.
I know this was an April Fool's day joke, but this was actually really interesting. I think I still have one of the 2003 Transformers: Go-Bots line, the one that the clip you used actually shows transforming, lying around in a box in my attic...
Believe it or not, my introduction to the GoBots actually came from a videocassette I owned in my childhood. That video contained two GoBots episodes: Trident's Triple Threat, and Doubleganger. And apparently, those two episodes entertained me just fine. Once I got older and started getting an interest in animation, I decided to watch the Gobots show itself; all 65 episodes of it. My main reason for watching the show was to observe how overshadowed it was by Transformers, but apparently, I still enjoyed the show as actual entertainment. I even ended up getting two favorite characters of the show; Scooter, who I found absolutely cute and decided was one of my favorite Frank Welker voices, and Small Foot, who I will have to complain was severely underused. I wish the show had more episodes that starred Small Foot. There were still enough that I cannot keep count of how many, but somehow, I am wishing there were more. But you know what? I actually like the GoBots show on its own. Even though I do think Transformers is the better robots story, I honestly would not mind watching multiple GoBots episodes. I don't know how other people feel about how Hasbro is treating the GoBots now, but I am just happy they allowed all 65 episodes (and the Rock Lords movie) to be watchable on DVD. That would be just fine with me, as long as it means anyone who likes the GoBots can watch as many episodes as they want.
I read the 2018 Gobots comic from IDW a time ago, basically it reinvented 90% of the cartoon lore, mixed it up with a 60s movie and the ending it´s a mindblower
You know..I'm just gonna say it, I liked them both. As a kid I immediately picked up any and all transforming robots, they were my thing, and still are.
wouldn't be rather cool if one day they make a proper and faithful animated crossover movie with the G1 Go-Bots & G1 Transformers meeting for the 'first time' with perhaps a merging of the two universes while keeping the previous continuity semi-separate (i.e. the Go-Bots don't become Transformers and are a separate race altogether, retaining their cartoon origins and homeworld, becoming sort of allies/ rivals to the Autobots/Decepticons depending on their alignments)
Ugh finally someone said it. I'm glad the patreon crowd got to you and convinced you to make the change. After a year on the deep, vast history on the GoBots, I mean you could do several segments on Puzzler alone his story is so rich and intriguing, maybe then do MASK ? Changing focus completely is the best way to keep a fan base happy.
Machine Men were the first transformers, without them the Transformers brand would be less than nothing outside of US. only a fool would try to downgrade them honestly. Both IP's are part and parcel of the same multiverse. Why piss off part of the fan base to promote a very biased opinion.
Actually Hasbro bought out the IP rights themselves and made it part of the multiverse. Even though its a pretty much a dead IP, Hasbro in its own way is keeping it alive as a part of its multiverse.
From what I remember at school in the 80' the better of family's had Transformers where as the less well off family's had GoBots. It was defiantly a class divide in the UK.I had Transformers, my first being Optimus Prime purchased by my Grandma. I wanted the TYCO Transformers train set but it was very expensive so I settled for Prime. At that age I had no concept of the reality of money. But I led to a life long love of Transformers and a massive collection, some gifts and some purchased with my own one money when I was a little older. I sold them all to get more model trains. As a middle aged man I recently purchased the Transformers train set :)
Cy-kil: "Get the repair crews out, and have my Thruster prepared" Y'know. Taken out of context. That quote from Battle of the Rocklords sounds filthy. lol
Damn! This is one of those times I REALLY wish a Chris McFeely video had been held off for just a tiiiiiny bit longer. For those interested in a small expansion, IDW would publish a Go-Bots comic mere months after this, where they were built by humans, created a gigantic world literally built around ours, revolted, flew off into space and then decided to seed the multiverse with cybertronic life forms modelled after themselves. "Optimised versions," they said. YES TRANSFORMERS THROUGHOUT THE MULTIVERSE ARE ACTUALLY THE DESCENDANTS OF GO-BOTS!!
I could tell right away based on the narraration that this was an April Fools joke. As a long time GoBots fan, that's disappointing but I'm glad to see that it still turned out to be a quite informative and well done video. The downside of that though is that it leaves me wanting more.
Thank you for making this more than just a gag. I didn't realize that the cheap transforming robots with friction-motors that I'd get as a kid were actually Go-Bot-related.
I was actually more into Go-Bots then I was Transformers as a kid, probably because my parents just so happened to buy me more of that merchandise without thinking about it. I have my VHS copy of the first couple episodes standing next to Transformers the Movie.
My dad has a Gobot. It looks like hound from transformers g1, so i played with him and i call it hound. For now i know that's not him. But i know his real name now. Its Geeper Creeper.
I feel like even if the Go-Bots did come back, most of them would just wind up getting killed by a cosmic-empowered Copter
Yeah that's totally true
I almost spat my drink out 😆
You mean by a cosmicly powered zero
Or kilked of in the movie
Thats true
I loved how Armada used Leader-1. It established that Leader-1 was the peaceful commander of all Mini-Cons (just like the Go-Bot version before Cy-Kill went all rogue), but Megatron enslaved him for his nefarious purposes (just like how Transformers bought Go-Bots to use for their own products). It’s kinda hilarious if you think about it
I also love how Armada Cy-Kill (an easter egg in one of the Armada comics) looks just like the original Cy-Kill, while Armada Leader-1, just like most Armada characters, looks nothing like his original namesake.
@Shield Liger Yes, it was.
@Shield Liger Yeah, it was just one of those 'Ha, GoBots were shite, let's kill them because its funny!' easter eggs.
I always thought that perceptor was the leader of the minicons at least in the show
@@joseangel1686 he served as a sort of Minicon/Autobot ambassador.
I love how this is an April fools joke but at the same time is actually still a really good quality, informed and researched video and not just some shitty YTP like most people do! Nice work!
Tracytron 54321 that's why he's called Chris McFeely and not Chris McLazy. ... I'll see myself out.
Yes, for a joke this was actually a very good video, up to his usual high standards! Surprised no mention of that classic "Unicron devours GoBotron" video though :D
@TET - COM this is an April fools in a sense that Chris McFeely is supposedly abandoning Transformers to shift to Go-Bots. Nobody said Go-Bots is a joke.
No
@@zuttoaragi8349 Ba Dumm Chsshh! Bazinga!
What I appreciate most about this is that you didn't just tell a joke, you gave us a brilliantly informative episode that left no stone unturned. Bravo!
DragonTail49 *rock lord unturned
It was an Andy Kaufman style joke. The whole time you are wondering if its legit. Look up his feud with Jerry Lawler
Honestly, I had that Rock Lords movie on a vhs somewhere and actually had one of the rock lords figures. You may initially think it's "stupid" to have a figure who turns into a rock, except when you realize it was meant to be a method of stealth, and nothing is more easily overlooked than a rock.
Excepto en una habitacion
@@astorojeda6935 ah, but what if you're a geologist or a simple mineral enthusiast?
@@arempy5836 Very Niche
That'd also be a great Alt mode for alien invaders. Just think about it:
1. They transform into small rocks
2. Launch themselves at a planet
3. The inhabitants think that they’re just meteors
4. The invaders are just small enough where a meteor of similar size would either burn up in the atmosphere or be destroyed upon impact
5. The invaders then go into hiding until there's enough of them on the planet to do a proper invasion
6. Even if the inhabitants investigate the impact area, there's nothing suspicious (see 4.)
7. The invaders all come out of hiding and catch the planet's inhabitants off guard, easily taking over the planet
It kind of reminds me of what Hive Fleet Jormungandr does (though they take up residence inside meteors rather than transforming into them).
I think that is where I began to loose interest in Go-Bots and started focusing more on Transformers. I couldn't stand the rock lords toys. I do understand your point about stealth though.
6:55 - Transforming ROCKS? That was their big gambit on which they gambled future of Gobots franchise? Freaking ROCKS?
shinobody they got the idea from the Great Pumpkin. No wonder the GoBots were absorbed by Primus! Charlie Brown sued Tonka!
@@richieosborn2639 There's even a GoBot named Block Head, an insult Charlie Brown's friends use on him.
To quote Tom Hanks in BIG: What's fun about that?
@@gridlo In their rock form they could be thrown at a kid you didn't like, and when they burst into tears and ran off to tell your mum, you could transform it back into a robot and claim they were a liar.
@@gridlo "Nobody wants to play with a building!!!(rocks)
Mom: "We have Transformers at home!"
Transformers at home:
But go bots is pretty good wat i mean to say is the joke doesn't fit
Favour R. You sure man? You REALLY sure?
My favourite transforming robot alt modes a rock
@@GhaniKeSawah dwane johnson transformer...
Oh that's depressing
I love that for an April Fools gag I feel as informed about the Gobots as with any other video you've put out 😃
So cool :) Even your April Fool's videos are interesting and informative.
I like transformers more then go bots but I do want some Rock lord toys.
@TET - COM Yes. We know it's real.
@TET - COM Not gonna lie, the Go-Bots made me cry because my mom gave one to me instead of the Mirage figure
Hasbro: The General Motors of the toy business.
I love how this is still a proper episode of The Basics.
I forgot that today is April Fool's Day, so when I read the description my heart felt like it had skipped a beat. I got 'got.
I think the Michael Bay movies (or at least the tie-in comics) took some inspiration from the old Gobot cartoon. The relationship between Optimus & Megatron is pretty similar to that of Leader-1 & Cy-Kill in that they used to be friends until one of them got jellous cause their master favored one over the other. Also, The Fallen is rather similar to a Gobot character called The Evil One.
I would like if the Gobots were used more in modern Transformers media. Gobotron could be a colony world for Cybertron
The GoBots story actually sounds pretty interesting to me. I think GoBots should be given a second chance with Transformers. They showed good potential! I have some good ideas.
Arguably the only reason that it hasn't happened outside of Fun Publications is the confused tangle of rights that Challenge of the Gobots continuity exists in (the Gobots IP is Hasbro's, but the original toy modes belong to Bandai and the cartoon itself was swallowed up by AOL/Time-Warner).
That didn't stop Jim Sorenson from giving us synopses of a virtual Season 2, or having universe-hopping refugees from Gobotron show up in Beast Wars: Uprising, but a more prominent crossover would either need a lot of collaboration and signoffs, or involve a similar-but-distinct Gobots universe.
Until then, we still have our homages such as Fracture....
Well since Bug Bite, we night just get a chance
You could always write fanfiction 👀
I don't see how any of these got a foothold over M.A.S.K.
@@meganvincent5381 or make YT channels about our favorite gobot 😁
*THE GOOOOBOTS! THE GOOOOBOTS!*
Comodin Cam didn't expect you to be here
+BlueStorm same, I didn't know he liked GoBots
I watch your vids man!
Comodin Cam c
Comodian Cam please don't change to go bots
Imagine the Go-Bots as an alternate universe of Transformers. Now imagine Optimus Prime and Leader-1 teaming up to kick ass.
The world needs this.
Oh YEA
imagine an grimlovk that turned into zod
This is semi canon, they're alternate universe versions
Gobots has just made their big comeback, in the Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special, and Gobots are officially alive in the MCU, not only do we see a guy dressed like Cykill next to Jack Sparrow, but Drax even mentions his cousin was killed a Gobot
“DIE CY-KILL!!”😠
- Drax the Destroyer
I still can't fucking believe that the GoBots are now canon in the MCU.
Both as presumably a show but also an actual freakin' species.
This viedo was very well made i honestly wouldn't mind some gobots basics every once and a while
*video
*wouldn't
Great video! The Go-Bots don't get the love they really deserve. In most households in the 80's, for every one large diaclone sourced Transformer, most of us had 3-5 Go-Bots. While they didn't compete with the diaclone toys in style, they were much better than the mini autobots with their die cast parts. Hannah Barbara cartoon troupes honestly hurt the line as much as anything. While Transformers focused heavily on serious characters like Optimus Prime, Go-Bots loaded up the Scooter stupidity and had Masters of the Universe level incompetent villains. Megatron seemed a conceivable threat, Cy-Kill did not. Still, the toys were, despite their simplicity, well conceived, fun to play with, and very durable.
Nailed it.
The gobots are pretty underrated and shouldn’t get the hate they deserve. I agree I’m pretty sure that crappy Hannah Barbara cartoon is what drove the gobots down the gutter.
I did like the Gobot pilot more than the TF G1 pilot, though.
This was to be their downfall considering what they did to Mighty Orbots, I wish that show had the light of more episodes than having been shot down mid season
I actually went to search on eBay and got some of them to my collection
It’s soooo nostalgic
This reminds me of the American Dad episode where Steve dresses as Cy-Kill and lashes out when someone calls him a Transformer and he says something like "Transformers are for children. I am a Go-Bot"
The Gobots may have been rivals to the Transformers, but they have a rich history too. And I'm a fan as well. Go Gobots! 👍👍🤖
Mighty Robots! Mighty Vehicles!
And now..They turned into Transformers:Gobots.
Seems like ever since the release of the first gobots dvd, along with the other two dvd releases and the new gobots (machine robo) toys, a lot of people are giving gobots a second chance. That’s awesome. Lately, I see more love for the gobots and less “gobots are the k-mart transformers” kind of stuff. Being that gobots was one of my favorite shows and toys back then, it makes me happy to see the change of heart people are having for the gobots.
I was one of the kids who loved the show, and had a bunch of the toys... and they were still "the K-Mart Transformers" lol.
This is the most complete Gobots history video that i saw. Amazing work! Thx
Transformering...Rocks?
I've never seen any of them before, strangely it still works.
transformering
transformering
I like to think of them as a like a spin-off species of the transformers
seeing as they came before the transformers... sure
gundam fan I know but if you would have to make them into tf series.
@@cyanrex1074 Me and my friends called them gaybots.
Spinoff Cybertronians?
Idw made it
6:10 Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos is my favorite mecha anime ever! I also have exciting news about it, Discotek Media announced that the entire series is coming to Blu-ray next month! All 47 episodes will be released in 1080p picture quality with remastered audio.
Mine is transformers robots in disguise ( 2001 )
For an April foes joke this was pretty informational
I love how this is an April fools day video yet seems like a real proper video great job!
Even though it was an April Fools video, I appreciate how you gave us some good info on the GoBots, Chris! Never stop being you.
I know it's an April Fools Joke, but your retrospective on GoBots was quite informative.
Vangelus I kinda wanna get into GoBots cuz of those CyKill pics you took on twitter. I like how dumb they look but I get no emotional twinge from them. Guess I should watch them cartoon stories.
You mean it was better than "Hoist Goes Hollywood" or the one where Seaspray falls into a wussy kind of love with a mermaid? It must be good!
I think this episode is a great idea. You’re coloring outside the lines and going beyond just the one franchise. You’re branching out. Good job. Happy Easter!
Finally, some good, wholesome, april fools day content.
While potentially even more off-beat than this, I'd love a similar April Fools video dedicated to BIONICLE. Growing up in the 2000s, it was difficult not to compare the two, with both having very similar appeals - being toylines about robot action figures that you could transform (or build) into other kinds of toys. With the fact that Transformers was experiencing a big revival with Armada and later Bayformers and Animated, and Bionicle (besides being the new kid on the block) itself being unfathomably huge, quickly establishing itself as arguably one of the most important toylines from the 21st century, it was extremely common to see other kids besides myself treat the two franchises as sort of rivals - or, at the very least be interested in both franchises, lol.
What a blast from the past! I love the Gobots as much as love the Transformers. Well done! 🤖🤖🤖🤖
8:41 Cy-Kill being murdered is such a good panel lol
That gobots fan on twitter is really pissed off now
1:36 When I was very young my Dad bought 'TrainMan' it blew the minds of kids and adults alike.
We take transforming toys so much for granted now!
Of course, MachineMen were all but forgotten shortly after when the Transmogrifiers came out.
Excellent work.
People give the Go Bots a lot of crap, but they had a lot cross potential. Transformed, you could use them with any Matchbox set.
Combiner? They did it first.
Beast machines? Same.
Even had their own AT-AT base.
And Puzzler was metal. Always had the canon that they were a lost Cybertronian group that developed their own society with no knowledge at all about Cyberton.
Recently discovered your channel. Excellence.
Really wouldn't of been too hard either back in the day with doing a crossover as Hasbro bought out the Gobot franchise in the early 90's, they even used the name Leader 1 in the Transformers Armada with one of the mini cons.
Personally loved both franchise growing up, even had a load of the toys and some of the Rock Lords too :D
I know this is an April's Fool (a very good one, by the way), but I hope we can see more of these videos on Go-Bots in the future.
The issue with the GoBots is that new viewers to the animation will not be able to identify who's the good guys from the bad guys.
And there's also the fact that they all have the most uncreative names of all time
@@izzyandthesubterraneans370 "Hey Wrong Way, you're going the wrong way!"
For a series about two very distinct factions, I’d have thought faction symbols would’ve been a no-brainer.
11:09 metroplex be hanging out with go-bots. TRAITOR!
Very entertaining! Your series has brought back some great memories from childhood! Thank u!
I was looking forward to Scooter!!! I’m glad you’d taken the time to really dive into the Gobots and their lore, too. A real ... a real episode! 👌🏽
Man, that brings back old memories!!! Thankyou again!!! I normaly know everything you say about transformers, but it is intresting to watch your videos. Now, gobots, I only knew a few things. The cartoon I watched, the toys I owned, and how they fit into the Transformers Omniverse.
With this I learned SO MUCH!!! Thankyou Chris!!!
best april fools prank ever
Edit: Happy Easter
Ah if only you knew 4 years later when this got posted! Crasher get a new mold althought she's a retold of Earthrise Mirage and Cy Kill make a cameo in Guardian of the Galaxy Holiday special!
HELL YEAH!! (I actually freaking wanted this!)
Amazing, this was actually quite interesting and helped fill in a lot of the gaps I had about the shared history of Transformers and GoBots.
I am always thinking that it would be cool if Gobots and Transformers will run on the same universe with of course the bad guys and good guys teaming up.
Stephen Castro they do exist in the same multiverse but I doubt the decepticons would put up with the renegades and especially with them being organics. In some versions of transformers lore, the decepticons conquest began with a hatred of organic life. O doubt the renegades would survive too long.
You really committed yourself to this joke. I will say this though. I do think that if the robot designs in the cartoon weren't so literal, we would be having a way different discussion about GoBots. Imagine if Megatron looked exactly like the toy in the cartoon. How different are the Ironhide and Ratchet toys from some of the deluxe GoBots figures. I got made fun of hard in elementary school when I brought in my Ironhide. Everyone said it was a GoBot.
Did ANY of these people read the catalogues? Other kids said the same about my Ratchet.
Then I bought Devastator and that shut them up.
I didn't mind GoBots back in the day. They transformed, looked decent and were no worse than the mini-Autobots, for the most part. And they were cheap, so you could fill out your Transformer ranks pretty easily to have large scale battles. Most kids I know did the same thing. In 'The Toys That Made Us' TF episode, one guy says he got a GoBot from his dad and he tossed it into the fire. That guy was an idiot if that's true. First, never through away a toy. I shouldn't have to explain why. Second, if you really don't like the toy or character, make him fodder for your better toys during play. Even broken toys that looked robotic could serve as dead bodies to litter the battlefield of your living room or bedroom. After all, maybe they weren't quite dead, but were crawling across the carpet, torso broken and missing an arm, toward your unsuspecting heroes.
3:47 I saw that RoGun thing at a local vintage toy store (that store is my heaven)
Next time on the Basics: Go-Bots Scooter!
Best April fools I've heard in a long time! Thanks and keep them comIng!
I liked GoBots better than Transformers. There...I said it. Feels good to get it out. The main reason was that GoBots were pretty perfectly in scale with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, so they could actually blend in and be vehicles in disguise, especially if you had some of the Hot Wheels playsets. Transformers on the other hand were all over the place in scale. Look at Soundwave, Starscream, Megatron, and Bumblebee....it's madness I tell you! Madness!!
Those bloody Super-GoBots! Made of die-cast metal with hard edges and spring-loaded bodies, the friggin things almost chopped off my fingers when they transformed!
Christ
4:55 WEEE
Yeeeees.
(Little dinosaur fingers tapping each other)
I still have fond memories of the Go Bots despite having both toy lines I always preferred their show. I even saw the Rock Lord movie in theaters but have never seen Transformers The Movie. When I played with them Leader-1 was a co-leader/2nd in command to Optimus Prime. They stand side by side on my shelf to this day.
I love the Go-Bot/Machine Robo toys. April Fool's aside, this was a good video.
I know this was an April Fool's day joke, but this was actually really interesting. I think I still have one of the 2003 Transformers: Go-Bots line, the one that the clip you used actually shows transforming, lying around in a box in my attic...
Wow! I didn't know that. This video is so informative. I am into Transformers and the toy collections.
Believe it or not, my introduction to the GoBots actually came from a videocassette I owned in my childhood. That video contained two GoBots episodes: Trident's Triple Threat, and Doubleganger. And apparently, those two episodes entertained me just fine. Once I got older and started getting an interest in animation, I decided to watch the Gobots show itself; all 65 episodes of it. My main reason for watching the show was to observe how overshadowed it was by Transformers, but apparently, I still enjoyed the show as actual entertainment. I even ended up getting two favorite characters of the show; Scooter, who I found absolutely cute and decided was one of my favorite Frank Welker voices, and Small Foot, who I will have to complain was severely underused. I wish the show had more episodes that starred Small Foot. There were still enough that I cannot keep count of how many, but somehow, I am wishing there were more. But you know what? I actually like the GoBots show on its own. Even though I do think Transformers is the better robots story, I honestly would not mind watching multiple GoBots episodes. I don't know how other people feel about how Hasbro is treating the GoBots now, but I am just happy they allowed all 65 episodes (and the Rock Lords movie) to be watchable on DVD. That would be just fine with me, as long as it means anyone who likes the GoBots can watch as many episodes as they want.
12:17 Yeesssssssssssssssssssss
I read the 2018 Gobots comic from IDW a time ago, basically it reinvented 90% of the cartoon lore, mixed it up with a 60s movie and the ending it´s a mindblower
You know..I'm just gonna say it, I liked them both. As a kid I immediately picked up any and all transforming robots, they were my thing, and still are.
me too...anything that transforms, be a legit product or its rip-off or any other obscure toyline without a tie-in cartoon, I'd buy one in a heartbeat
wouldn't be rather cool if one day they make a proper and faithful animated crossover movie with the G1 Go-Bots & G1 Transformers meeting for the 'first time' with perhaps a merging of the two universes while keeping the previous continuity semi-separate (i.e. the Go-Bots don't become Transformers and are a separate race altogether, retaining their cartoon origins and homeworld, becoming sort of allies/ rivals to the Autobots/Decepticons depending on their alignments)
The basics on cykill please
I remember as a young kid ,maybe 6/7 years old maybe there was always kids running round school claiming to have seen a transformers vs gobots film.
Its not coptor its GYRO ROBO!!!
Thanks Robot Chicken.
Yeah, look up Zybots, just do it
Ugh finally someone said it. I'm glad the patreon crowd got to you and convinced you to make the change. After a year on the deep, vast history on the GoBots, I mean you could do several segments on Puzzler alone his story is so rich and intriguing, maybe then do MASK ?
Changing focus completely is the best way to keep a fan base happy.
Wow, my childhood toys
I didn’t know it’s called Gobots in US
It’s awesome and nostalgic
While an april fool's joke it is still as high quality and informative as your other viedos. I wouldn't mind seeing viedos on other gobots viedos.
Gobots are part of the transformers universe but a good Aprils first joke :D
Machine Men were the first transformers, without them the Transformers brand would be less than nothing outside of US. only a fool would try to downgrade them honestly. Both IP's are part and parcel of the same multiverse. Why piss off part of the fan base to promote a very biased opinion.
Oh yeah I remember reading somewhere on TFWiki that IDW officially added Gobots to the Transformers Multiverse or something didn’t they lol?
Actually Hasbro bought out the IP rights themselves and made it part of the multiverse. Even though its a pretty much a dead IP, Hasbro in its own way is keeping it alive as a part of its multiverse.
ShadowDarter huh. Cool.
ShadowDarter definitely wouldn’t have expected that from HASBRO of all people/company’s/whatever’s.
From what I remember at school in the 80' the better of family's had Transformers where as the less well off family's had GoBots. It was defiantly a class divide in the UK.I had Transformers, my first being Optimus Prime purchased by my Grandma. I wanted the TYCO Transformers train set but it was very expensive so I settled for Prime. At that age I had no concept of the reality of money. But I led to a life long love of Transformers and a massive collection, some gifts and some purchased with my own one money when I was a little older. I sold them all to get more model trains. As a middle aged man I recently purchased the Transformers train set :)
I died laughing when i realized that this was an april fools joke.
RIP big man. Gone but not forgotten.
Cy-kil: "Get the repair crews out, and have my Thruster prepared"
Y'know. Taken out of context. That quote from Battle of the Rocklords sounds filthy. lol
I actually am interested in checking out the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon one day, if I ever can. :)
Even an April Fool's Day video is compelling and well researched. Love this page 👍🏼🙌🏽
What, no mention of Cy-Kill getting slagged every time he shows up in a Transformers comic?
Watching this again I'm impressed with how smooth the animation was in gobots
When I saw this I was afraid it would just be some half-assed joke but no it's actually good and informative!
Damn! This is one of those times I REALLY wish a Chris McFeely video had been held off for just a tiiiiiny bit longer. For those interested in a small expansion, IDW would publish a Go-Bots comic mere months after this, where they were built by humans, created a gigantic world literally built around ours, revolted, flew off into space and then decided to seed the multiverse with cybertronic life forms modelled after themselves. "Optimised versions," they said.
YES TRANSFORMERS THROUGHOUT THE MULTIVERSE ARE ACTUALLY THE DESCENDANTS OF GO-BOTS!!
As a kid I knew Go-Bots were dead when they released a movie about rocks.
I could tell right away based on the narraration that this was an April Fools joke. As a long time GoBots fan, that's disappointing but I'm glad to see that it still turned out to be a quite informative and well done video. The downside of that though is that it leaves me wanting more.
quite the april fools
Thank you for making this more than just a gag. I didn't realize that the cheap transforming robots with friction-motors that I'd get as a kid were actually Go-Bot-related.
If gobots were still arround, we would even have bay bots!
HAHAHA! GASP! not funny. Michael might hear you.
I'd like to see a series where Cy-kill and Starscream team up for some slapstick comedy
Maybe you'll cover Bots Master next year?
Lord Sathien it's lazer time!
This was amazing! Very informative for an April Fools joke. Bravo!
Okay, but when are you planning to cover the Brave series? That's definitely gonna be the next big thing.
I want Transformer's style knock-off rename for the Mechanoids and the Symmetrical Docking from GGG.
whenever I buy a job lot of broken bots off e-bay, there's always a Gobot.. bit like how there's always a spoon left when you've done the dishes.
I was kinda hoping this was gonna be a new series, despite being an April Fools joke, I did learn some new stuff about the go-bots from this.
In 2020, Bug Bite is going to be in the Earthrise chapter of the War for Cybertron trilogy cartoon!
I love your voice
I was actually more into Go-Bots then I was Transformers as a kid, probably because my parents just so happened to buy me more of that merchandise without thinking about it. I have my VHS copy of the first couple episodes standing next to Transformers the Movie.
My dad has a Gobot. It looks like hound from transformers g1, so i played with him and i call it hound. For now i know that's not him. But i know his real name now. Its Geeper Creeper.
He’s Creep Creep now.
This is a very nice twist on the april fools joke video. Props.
I WISH THIS WASN'T A JOKE
6:41 Why was this animated with so many frames?! I genuinely thought it was 3D for a second!