GoBots Explored - This Brilliant Innovative Cartoon Always Gets Overshadowed By Transformers
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- The Transformers franchise has thrived throughout the years, both on the small and large screens, thanks to Michael Bay's huge, and occasionally monstrous, live-action adaptations. The toys are once again selling like hotcakes, flying off shelves as swiftly as they did in the 1980s, at the zenith of Transformers popularity. GoBots was essentially the same concept as Transformers, however, it was the first on the market, debuting in 1983, about a year before the Transformers. The initial five-part run that began the GoBots series is called Challenge of the GoBots: The Original Mini-Series. Essentially, the plot is similar to that of the original Transformers miniseries - good GoBots, who are Guardians strive to preserve Earth after some villainous GoBots, also known as the Renegades plot to take over the world. From then, it's all action, with shape-shifting cars, young heroes, and wacky characters. Challenge of the Gobots is available on DVD as one of Warner's Archive Collection on a single-layered DVD5 in full-frame. There are no other features included. According to the packaging, this DVD was restored from the actual film elements rather than being copied from an obsolete tape source. Challenge of the GoBots should bring a smile to the faces of nostalgia geeks with a soft spot for this underappreciated transformation series.
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For Hanna Barbera, this is actually one of their best series, Challenge of the Gobots, with Cykill, Crasher and Coptur vs Scooter, Leader 1 and Turbo. A very entertaining show with really good storylines throughout the 65+ episode series. Fun show. Thanks for covering it.
Even though I did not like the toys,I really enjoyed the animated show.
@@Saturndragonfly Yes, definitely a well-written show, with plenty of variety and good storytelling with the Gobots spanning 65 episodes. The premiere mini-series was good too. Would be nice if Gobots vs Rocklords the movie ever hit disc format.
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I was really big into Go-Bots as a kid. Then Transformers came along and stole their thunder. Both the Transformer toys and the animated series are far more dynamic than Go-Bots. I do still have many fond memories of playing with my Go-Bots figures. My favorite toy was Zod.
Damn, this guy is everywhere.
Personally, my favorite Gobot was the Renegade Loco. He transformed into a steam locomotive, and I’m a huge train fan.
And a Macross fan too...which places him in my cool book
@@derrickhough5854 Thanks, Macross is definitely one of the best anime ever made in my book.
@@bigboy4006 I had him, two actually because one was wore out LoL. Good Go-Bot!
I can't get over how, early on in the video, the good guys went from being "Guardians" to being "Gardens"
Renegade's Cykills. Then later the Cy-Renegades-kill.??? I feel this channel is being written by an AI
Yeah the narrator on this must be Ron Burgundy and just reads exactly what he sees without any thought
@@neiltattersall2078 I think he's just got a speech impediment & he's doing his best to keep it at bay.
@@neiltattersall2078 and keeps saying "feetor"
@@boomstand2872 hi dude how are you
Transformers purchased Gobots and now they appear in the background
Machine Robo were robots. It was Diaclone that were piloted mecha. The Diaclone line had pilot figures, and all the early Car Robots-based Transformers figures still had seats for them.
I loved Go-Bots and Transformers... I can easily see Hasblow using their Transformers Core class/Size to remake the Go-Bots while making the higher quality TFs in the other scales
This would be a good idea!
Any GoBot representation is a good thing.
Half surprised Michael Bay didn't try "reinventing" the Go-Bots in his "signature style". Maybe he'd have them turn the humans into cyborgs with Cybertronian tech from a sliver of Allspark. Maybe have Starscream be the main antagonist because F-15 battle.
It would end up being nothing like Go-Bots, while calling itself Go-Bots.
One thing to note is how in comparison animationwise to most previous HB productions, there's more actual sense of three dimensions as opposed to characters walking sideways in the same plane much of the time.
Good point.
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I remember seeing the Go Bots and Rocklords in the theaters. Can’t remember anything else about it. I had a few of the toys but they were shit. I think if the toys were better the show would’ve lasted.
@@jesset2504 they had a Go-Bot and Rock Lords crossover movie I went to the theater to see it toom
Gobots are better than many ppl give them credit for!
Damned right!
@@johngavin1175 Yup!
I love gobots have just about all of them plus the dvds to
@@vernwhite568 :)
@@vernwhite568 :D
One thing I like about Gobots is how they shoot energy beams out of their hands.
I liked both. Gobots did come out a little earlier than Transformers but Transformers TV show came out first. I wish they could Bring Gobots back and do a live movie or series.
Michael Bay Presents: the gobots
Nah Travis knight should directed the movie , while Michael bay should be a producer and the vehicle mode provider for the gobots
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Time to drink some RC Cola, eat some Hydrox cookies, and watch Gobots!
I see what you did there,though I think Hydrox was around before Oreos
@@johngavin1175 Right. GoBots existed before Transformers. RC Cola before Coke. Hydrox before Oreos.
They were all (GoBots arguably) the "big brands" before their rivals marketed better.
@@iamsemjaza Wasn't sure about RC. RC is pretty good
@@johngavin1175 There's even a song about RC Cola :)
"RC Cola & A Moon Pie" ua-cam.com/video/loamVbAOsPo/v-deo.html
Bug Bite from the Go Bots universe has be come a Transformer.
Ah early childhood memories. I had tons of Gobots as a child and would record the cartoon on my parents VHS system. I can still remember finding Scooter and Coptur at a store called Toys and Wheels in Calgary, Alberta when my family was driving across Canada for Expo '86. Those last two completed my set of the 6 main cartoon toys, I was so happy lol. I also got that Puzzler combiner set but didn't like it much because it came apart too easy.
The bigger reason why Transfomers won the hearts of many was the story lines, versatility of characters, and the was they transformed from robots to anything they were. The Gobots literally transformed exactly like the toys and the story lines were as effective as well it was like you said revolved around the same 6 characters.
I posted above that I actually like them BETTER than Transformers because Transformers focused almost entirely on the "war" between the 2 factions and GoBots did have that similar conflict yes BUT it ALSO had VERY captivating and interesting as hell stories.
When a STORY is captivating enough you don't really care about bad special fx or other flaws. There is a reason the original Star Trek and Twilight Zone are still popular. GoBots had way more interesting stories and way more likable characters.
Now all Transformers series since Beast Wars have used a small cast thus better characterisations... it's amazing what they've stolen from the Gobots to make the transformers better I modern times lol
@@CopturGobot "it's amazing what they've stolen from the Gobots" Hasbro can't steal from themselves. Hasbro acquired the rights to Gobots, and even Micro Machines, during the 80s. Since then, Gobots and Micro Machines has been incorporated in Transformers.
@@Zurround "GoBots had way more interesting stories and way more likable characters" That's simply a personal preference, although not a popular one. I, for one, thought the characters were rather silly, including seeing their faces while in their vehicle modes.
@@DPXEntertainment yes technically true but this type thing does happen within marvel where one department will 'borrow' from another etc
Ultimately whatever a lot of what people like about Transformers today was originally an idea from the ye olde enemy the Gobots.
Nothing’s cooler than a scooter with a face on it lol… Leader-1 and Stacks were good but the rest were pretty questionable.
My first toy was a Go-Bot, Crash. Even as a kid you can see the differences to Transformers toys.
Love the recent retrospectives on the B-Tier/Overlooked 80s/90s cartoons.
So far, the closest we’ve had to a Gobot toy revival are the figures produced and released by Korean toy company (I think it’s Korean) Action Toys. Action Toys acquired the rights to produce figures based on the anime series Machine Robo; Revenge of Cronos.
More than ten characters that appeared in Gobots have been released, but since then, despite further figures announced. Action Toys have not made any further releases.
One figure they released was a deluxe Bike Robo. This came with swap-out face plates based on Cy-Kil’s actual face so you could create an actual MP Cy-Kil. It even came with swap out hands with moulded energy bolts to mimic Cy-Kil’s energy blasts.
Cy-kill~ up there in awesome Villain boss names.
Oh and don't forget Saw Boss
Because he kills and he's a psycho. Psy - Kill. xD
Yeah Go-Bots were my gateway drug into Transformers. I still have my very first one I ever had, Turbo
I love doing Stop Motion animation with my Go Bots & Transformers🎬📸🎞️🤖‼️
My favorite Gobot was Scooter. My favorite color was red and the transformation was cool (to me). My parents bought me Turbo who is not bad but I always regretted not getting Scooter. Years later I went to a specialized toy store and they had it. I bought it for $20US.
I completed The TV Series and watch the GoBots Movie on one of my Sunday Movie Nights. 🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍
I love the Gobots. I like Transformers too but the Gobots have a special place in my heart because I knew them first. For this reason I have a lot of videos about them. Thanks for this video!
I was gifted the Go Bot, Loco. He was one ornery cat... had this evil look on his face and all.
Go-Bots will always have my respect
Robot Chicken roasted the hell out of GoBots!
Badly 🤣
Deservedly lol
they roasted the hell out of everything. including transformers, and more on them than gobots
@@earlfrancart5687 Optimus Prime had cancer
@@thebrownbaldy and when he died he transformed into a robeast coffin from voltron. yes im a kid of the 80's
Lol last engineer looks like super powers cyborg and marvels cable combined.
Females were a part of the Go-Bots story from the beginning. Females were an after thought for the Transformers. Go-Bots weren't that bad. I like them as much as Transformers. Still need Battle Of The Rocklords on DVD. Although I can watch either Go-Bots or Transformers any time I want, I kind of miss watching Go-Bots before school and Transformers after school. HasTak doesn't own the actual toys, they belong to Bandai, they own the names of the the characters and do use them.
And half-women (and half-men too actually) made sense in GB's due their organic nature. TF's are much less so, so it didn't make as much sense for them.
This is getting tiresome. Females were part of go-bots unlike transformers? WHO CARES! That doesn't make it interesting or better. Both were boy franchises there's nothing wrong with that. If it mattered then go-bots would of sold more and would of been more popular It wasn't and I seriously doubt there was an army of girls running to the store asking mommy and daddy to buy them a go-bots.
@@avalond1193 Then or now?
I still have a lot of love for GoBots. Heck, I still have several from my childhood. I have the DVDs and they look great btw. The planet is pronounced Gobo-Tron
aah yes indeed my 1st transforming toy back in the early 80,s was a gobot
Me too! I used to collect them as a child. I even had the gold corvette one. He was so cool!
I actually liked the Gobots cartoon a bit better than the Transformers as a kid. I just wish they had comic books like the TF (that's what held my interest in the late 80s after I was a teenager, and too old to play with the toys (or so I thought)
Actually, I knew the Gobots well. A friend coudn't afford the Transformers, so he had tons of Gobots. We used to get together and pretend that Leader-1 had to call for aid from Optimus Prime (or vice versa), and so the Autobots and Guardians teamed up to stop a Renegade/Decepticon plot! We actually made up our own story books about that too. That was such fun! Hard to believe that was almost 40 years ago
Funny thing is Hasbro Own gobots and the planet gobotron was a cybertronian colony
Awesome! I wish I could have played with you guys as a kid. Ya'll sound very imaginative! I was a poor kid too and most of my new toy robots were Go-Bots or knock-offs of Go-Bots. If I wanted regular size Transformers, I either got them second hand with broken or missing parts or occasionally found some in Zayre or K-Mart that other kids had opened and played with which usually meant getting them at a massive discount but, sadly incomplete. No accessories, no weapons. Just the figure. Not even any decals which really sucked for chairhead - I mean Ratchet!
@@user-sy3nd8yz9j We had a BLAST as a kid. The town I was in in Northern Ontario was very safe, and my friends and I had a good time outdoors, as well as playing with our imaginations and being kids. Sadly, not something many children can do nowadays.
Want to hear something strange? The friend I was talking about and I (along with a few more friends) are getting together in a few weeks! I'm looking forward to it as I haven't seen him in person in some years (we are all hundreds of miles away from each other)
lol man I remember Cy-Kill throwing his tire. Even as a 8 year old, I was like WTF lol
You've taken all my weapons, all I have left are my wheels.
That Cykill. You never know what he'd come up with. Made him unpredictable, and that made him an interesting character.
I liked both. I do remember that GoBots were on more in the afternoon. My favorite GoBot was Tux.
I have Stretch, aka Tux. He is very fancy looking.
Where I lived they both came on once a day in the evening. Well, until Go-Bots stopped airing and Transformers kept going.
Technically the GoBots are cyborgs, not extraterrestrial living robots.
It's weirder in the original Japanese toy/anime, were they are actually sized.
TECHNICALLY THEY'RE NOT, JUST LOOK AT THE DEFINITION OF A CYBORG
@@philipwright9736 A cyborg a portmanteau of cybernetic and organism-is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts...technically gobots fit that definition. You can see some of it in the episode called Sentinel - episode shows their organic brains.
@@Crasher1982 DAMNED RIGHT. Nowhere is it written that it has to be fifty fifty. Any COMBINATION of biology and technology is a cyborg even if its mostly one or the other. Those were ORGANIC BRAINS much like a human would have. As a child it creeped me out slightly when an X ray image of their heads was shown because I thought they were fully robot and seeing a human brain (not technically "human" but that was what it looked like to a 10 year old kid) inside of what I thought was a ROBOT shocked me a tad.
@@Zurround well gobeings were said to have been pretty much the same as humans so it's not out of the realm of possibility to say gobots are half-human.
@@Crasher1982 They are still living machines. They can be referred to as cyborg but since they are alien they don't follow human rules. Everything alive in space is not flesh and bone. It can be a bit of all organic, metal and most of all pure energy.
I guess I am in the minority because I enjoyed the Challenge of the Gobots as much as the Transformers. I think the storylines aren't as bad as people think. I wish I could buy the whole series on DVD.
You are wrong. Its BETTER than Transformers. The stories were way more interesting. Transformers loved to cram lots of laser gun battles and other conflicts down our throat and GoBots had its battles between the 2 warring factions too but it ALSO had some VERY interesting story lines. Some even included elements of the paranormal and spiritual and one of them even had a "mirror universe" a lot like the "Mirror Mirror" episode of Star Trek where every hero in the regular story was a villain and vice versa. Transformers should have done a story like that. (Imagine a parallel universe in GI Joe where Cobra is a heroic army that is protecting the world from the evil forces of GI Joe).
@@Zurround Good point, I will concede that one.
@@Zurround yep all true and if you look at the transformers now they've stolen a lot of those ideas that were originally in Gobots.
@@Zurround "Its BETTER than Transformers." That's a very extreme personal opinion, not widely shared by the majority.....which is fine. The Gobots animated series suffered a lot of drawbacks that kept it from elevating itself beyond the strengths that Transformers offered (Despite its own flaws)
You can. WBros released the series on dvd.
I had scooter turbo n leader 1 toys as a kid in the mid 80s
born in 1983 kinda remember this show been forever thankk
Frank Welker also voiced Megatron
This is brilliant. I remember having some Go Bot toys, they were better made then transformers. I had at least 2 Diecast Go Bots. 🤖
No they weren't!🤦🏿♂️🙄
Actually they really where better,especially the smaller bots. Transformers where blocky whereas Gobots where mostly die cast and better engineered.
@@miggypeso909 simpler means less engineering thats like saying a hotwheel is better engineered than a gunpla I think you mean better playability
Lol no they weren't. Wtf
It wasn't that they were better made. The smaller ones were very detailed and some of them had very interesting transformations and looked cool in both vehicle form and robot form but, standard sized Go-Bots mainly had no elbow articulation just as some had no knee articulation. Some Super Gobots had more articulation and were usually a bit larger than 1:43 scale but, unfortunately some of those could not hold a blaster gun. Transformers on the other hand were roughly 1:43 scale for regular Autobots and usually had more articulation and interesting ideas for what parts of the vehicles became body parts in robot mode. They just seemed more mature in some way. The small Transformers were usually all plastic and cute and cartoonish but, with limited articulation. Decepticon jets were on a smaller scale than most Autobots and there was a lot left to imagination when it came to the sizes of alt modes which the Transformers cartoon demonstrated. Some of this was also true of Go-Bots. Both toylines and shows were great but, Transformers seemed to be directed at a slightly older audience and shows and toys of things like that usually sale pretty well. I still like both Go-Bots, Transformers, Starriors, Zoids, Voltron, Robo-Tech and generally any kind of robots with personality and cool features. Lack of articulation really can be frustrating though.
9:17 - Oh, my God, Small Foot has nipple lasers! 😂🤣😂🤣
I wasn't thought they were worse than transformers. They origin recap made me like them a little more.
I'm a fan of the gobots. Got the DVD. Yeah I do. 😆
So despite the clip showing Cy-Kill calling the character FAI TORR, a play on FIGHTER, since the robot is a fighter jet variant - You chose FEETORE?
Crasher didn't kill Hans-Cuff. He's ok and appears in later episodes. Crasher actually kills no one in the show.
Zods the only one that died, getting his head squashed in a car crushing machine 😊
why does go bots remind me a lot of transformers.
Interesting note: Both Herr Fiend & Dead End were voiced by the late great Phillip C. Clarke
Ky ann you mean shy-anne (Cheyene) a real place in the state of Colorado.
I had Zeemo!! He turned into a Nissan Z I think. I remember him being difficult to transform at first. It was like fixing a rubik cube lol. But we eventually figured it out. I also had that Zod GoBot, he took three C-batteries to operate. He didn't transform, he was just a vehicle type machine. I also had the Courageous action figure, me and my mom never figured out how to attach his arms and legs. 😭
I vaguely remember GoBots on TV here in the UK. I thought they looked kind of cool.
I have been fantasizing about a GoBots and Transformers CROSSOVER as far back as I can remember. A plot device to bring the 2 groups together could be something similar to how the comic books of DC and Marvel would have their crossovers, with some kind of a dimensional rift or portal temporarily linking the 2 universes.
Maybe the Decepticons would join forces with the Renegades and the Guardians would join forces with the Autobots. I wonder why something like that was never done?
Would have been AWESOME.
💯 🤖 👍👍
Prime and Leader-1 would be a good team. Also Ironhide and Turbo would be like brothers. Scooter and Bumblebee well a ok team. Cy-kill and Megatron would have problems. Soundwave would have Rumble bully Copter to death. Crasher and the Stunticons would have a orgy.
@@hamhockbeans Fi Tur, the jetfighter who is Cy Kill's right hand man would be analogous to Star Scream but UNLIKE Star Scream he is totally loyal to CyKill.
My best friend Brian and I used to have team ups all the time! (He couldn't afford TF as a kid, so he had Gobots, while I had TF. We got together and had team ups all the time. One thing was that Cy-Kill lent Soundwave (Soundwave was the Decepticon leader for our toys as we weren't allowed to play with guns (which is what Megatron was)) the stealth device and the astro-beam, so Optimus had to get aid from Leader-1 to counteract it
@@hamhockbeans This is going to sound weird, but my friends and I played that Bumblebee and Small Foot were a couple. She kind of is like the little sister of the Guardians
Gobots are cyborgs not robots, they have organic brains.
I think it was more than just their brains were organic. They had lips and teeth as well.
@@Crasher1982, some transformers had a little bit of lip and even eye animation like when Megatron or Starscream sneered or Nightbird became enraged after being sealed and put away.
@@user-sy3nd8yz9j I agree with that. Some did.
@@Crasher1982 , you have an eye for detail.
@@user-sy3nd8yz9j Thank you :) I try :)
I still remember when our parent company shipped us a new product, and I opened the box to discover "Transformer Go-Bots". God damn you! [Hasbro/Matel] God damn you all to hell!"
As always thank you so very much for the video.
I loved Go-Bots as a child and missed the cartoon when it stopped being shown. My first converting robot toy was a Go-Bot and Leader-1 was my favorite! My mom bought him for me at K-Mart. I played with him a lot and got more Go-Bots and some knock-off versions as well. I even had the model kit version. I still have a few left from those days and unpacked some of my old Transformers last month. In my robot "Toy Box" I found Tank, Jeeper Creeper, Crasher, one of the other tank types, Defendor and Zeemon. My brother has Herrfiend. I also played with other cool toy robots of the 1980's. It would really be cool to see some decently designed Go-Bots make a comeback instead of the garbage that Hasbro has tried calling Go-Bots.
I just managed to get the mini series and complete series on DVD. I fell in love with this series first before Transformers. Love the Nostalgia.
I always loved how car characters like Baron Von Joy used the cab of the car for the head. It looked kinda freaky. The toys were also really cool and as good or sometimes better than transformers
Massive TF fan here but I did enjoy some of the gobots episodes. The puzzler episode is always a fun one.
Who doesn't love Puzzler? xD Puzzler's cool.
I had the Puzzler toy as a kid. It was cool. I miss it.
Go-bots always seemed like a low budget Transformers knock-off to me. Both in the toys and the shows. Take Leader-1 and Starscream for instance. Both were F-15s but Starscream was way more detailed on the show and as a toy🤷🏾♂️
Cry in GoBot tears, GoBot was introudsed in 1983 Transformers 1984, and the GoBot is called knock-off...... But to be fair Transformers was the superior product.
Nah,the full sized Leader 1 was complete without a bunch of easily lost parts. Plus L1 looked more like an F15.
@@miggypeso909 starscream still subjectively looks cooler plus Optimus did too and Shockwave and Soundwave were also great for the time you also had the macross sdf 1 briefly join the line Shoji Kowamori designs just looked better regardless of partsforming
@@kirgan1000 Hassenfeld Brothers (otherwise known as Hasbro) had patents with Japanese toymaker Takara for transforming toys back in 1974. That toy would eventually become GunRobo (known outside of Japan as the Megatron toy). Hasbro made a deal with Takara to bring the Japanese toys they were working on together to the USA in 1981. Tonka heard about the deal and got with Bandai in 1982 to bring Bandai's transforming Machine Robo toy line to the USA in 1983. They rushed the toy line and show to market and beat Hasbro by less than a year. Didn't matter though. Hasbro had the superior marketing, figures and reception. Go-Bots were cool and I had a ton of them, but looking back you can tell that they sacrificed quality to beat Transformers to the market.
My favorites were Leader-One, Turbo, and Crasher.
My favoite is smallfoot
Crasher is my girl! LOVE her! My beautiful sassy girl! Glad I'm not the only one who loves her!
Man I forgot I had these toys! They were kinda known as the lesser transformers!
Take it from someone older than google….go bots were pushed to low income kids and Transformers were pushed to mid-high income kids. You wanted to Go bots you went to Zayers, Bradlees or Kmart…you wanted Transformers you went to KB Toys or Toys “r” Us
truth
And this is exactly why Transformers outlasted Gobots: they were marketed as better product than they actually were. The PERCEPTION that persists today was that they were inherently better, because they were more expensive, but the reality is that the first years of Transformers figures were full of tiny parts that got lost easily. And very few of them looked like their cartoon versions. (Looking at you, Ironhide and Ratchet!) I won't say that Gobots were superior to Transformers, but they were at least as good, with a lot more variety in their short run. Yes, Transformers won the war, but it doesn't mean Gobot fans were on the wrong side.
@@haywire9125 Very well said.
I Love Gobots and I always will.
man this brings back memories
Scooter was voiced by none other than Frank megatron Welker
Scooter is MEGATRON???!!!
I know the Go-Bots are usually either forgotten or the brunt of pro-Transformers jokes, but I actually preferred them and still do. It felt more like the cartoons I'd grown up with and was on my list for shows I never missed (though I can't recall them being Saturday mornings; weekly like He-Man and GI Joe?) But every episode I tried to catch. Transformers is no doubt more iconic, but I never watched more than 2 or 3 episodes all the way through and think none after the 1st season. I think they're a worthy fixture of the Hanna-Barbera universe. (Now if only they'd tried to save it by doing some big crossover special with other H-B characters. Frankenstein Jr, sounds like a natural? Cy-Kill and Uglor team-up? Super Powers Darkseid or Brainiac setting his eyes on Gobatron?).
I liked the Go-Bots it was different than Transformers for me. A different universe.
Some people are worse than just pro transformers. Pro transformers is just fine with me, I respect the franchise. I have some pro transformer comments on my channel. I'm fine with them. One guy was too far though. Came into my Crasher channel telling me to stop making my Crasher channel because HE hated gobots. Like pffffft. Wouldn't leave me alone, either. I had to block him. Like, Eff off! I'll make a channel about my fave gobot if I want to. And I wanted to. Pfffft....the audacity of some people.....
@@Crasher1982 , I know exactly what you mean. Back in the Yahoo Groups days there were some video game console groups dedicated to collecting for specific consoles and members of one of the largest groups would join smaller groups for no other reason then, to demand that they close their groups down and join the "more popular group" that had "more members". They even tried that in one of my groups. We just let them know that we didn't care for their group, were not all that impressed with their group and would do what we wanted to. Besides, we had a better gallery of nostalgia.
@@user-sy3nd8yz9j I remember Yahoo Groups! Yeah there could be very nasty people in them.
I remember go bots. But Transformers was the superior show.
In the UK, the line was called Robo Machine, and imported the original Bandai toys instead of Tonka’s. Yet, the figures did use the Tonka branded names. To promote the toy line, a comic book series was commissioned and published in the Eagle annual comic series.
This comic had its own story separate from the tv series, yet similar in plot. Instead of Gobots, they are called Robo Machines, and come from the planet Robotron; a metallic world consisting of robotic and cyborg beings.
The comic was a little more darker and violent with both human and Gobots casualties. For instance, Cy-Kil uses a disintegrated ray on a policeman that sees the guy melt away.
After two story arcs, the comic was axed, probably due to the tv show about to debut. And ended on an unresolved climax where the Guardians, after suffering losses at the hands of the Renegades are forced to withdraw from Earth, leaving the planet in their control.
i am from the uk and it was definitely gobots in the uk.... i had not even heard of robo machines till i was an adult and looked into them... dunno if you are from the uk or not but they were definitely gobots in the uk lol
@@jaynadiah5498 I looked at photos of the original packaging. At first they just used the Robo Machine logo. But once the series debuted they included the Gobots logo as well.
@@jaynadiah5498 yes they were robo machine and the Bandai original toys in the UK before they changed to tonka gobots. We also got them here in Ireland too and my very 1st transforming robot was the Bandai robo machine cy-kill back in 1983,i also remember the robo machine comic strip and even as recently as 2018 I picked up a carded Bandai robo machine version of slicks at that years tf nation... A 3day transformers convention in Birmingham.
@@jaynadiah5498 also if you look at the gobots wiki and scroll down to where it has worldwide (as in worldwide releases) it CLEARLY states the following..in the UK, France and a number of other European countries, BANDAI released the figures as ROBO MACHINE, utilising most of the Tonka names. Later on when the challenge of the gobots cartoon arrived this was changed or modified resulting in clumsy branding such as "robo machines featuring challenge of the gobots" or "challenge of the gobots-a robo machine production".
@@Kickback-dm7zt Ok fair dues... i guess as a 6 year old i wasnt really aware of them until after transformers and the gobots cartoons came out so i guess all my memories are after the cartoon started so hence only remembering gobots on all the packaging...
I think my mom bought Leader One for me when I was begging for toys at Woolworths.
Woolworths was an excellent store. They even had Stompers!
I loved both. Yes Transformers seemed more serious and had more detailed toys but the Go-bots was great to watch. I really liked that the toys were exactly the same as the cartoon characters so I was never disappointed but the same could not be said about Transformers. Loved Gobots battle of the Rock Lords and had a few of them. Boulder was the first them nugget. Never understood choosing a side. Lived them both like Star Trek & Star Wars. I just saw it as more cartoons for me to enjoy. 😊
Please do Visionaries next
Some GoBots made it into the Transformers universe. Bug Bite was pulled over beings changed from a yellow to a white Voltswagon beetle and even has a faction symbol now.
Smallfoot is like Transformers Brawn daughter. Tough and brave.
You make it sound so much better than it really was. Enjoyed this!
This cartoon is actually really good. I bought the dvds from Warners and my kids absolutely love them. Way more than G1 TFs which really surprised me. I do have to admit,Gobots storyline is actually better written after watching both. The animation isn’t as stylized as TFs but it has way less errors and is more fluid overall.
I had to get the whole series on dvd.
The Mini series and 65 episode Challenge of the Go-Bots series are both excellent entertainment, agreed.
@@BlackArroToons I personally liked Crasher. She was wild and crazy and homicidal but kinda sexy.
It should be pointed out that the main obstacle to a GoBots revival is likely that while Hasbro owns the name and characters, Bandai still owns the original Machine Robo toy molds.
Barring a collaboration between the two companies, Hasbro's hands are tied.
Interesting... I did not no that. Hmm...
This was my favorite cartoon
I have completely forgot about robots ever existed
Narrator is eating peanut butter and reading notes that were written in pen that has gone through a dishwasher..
The guy can't help it. It may be a speech problem. There is no need to be cruel.
@@user-sy3nd8yz9j so syrrious
Cy-Kill and leader 1 we're my favorites!
I loved Go-Bots as a kid, but it never came close to my love for Transformers. It was noticably more cheesy, even for the four year old I was at the time.
The Go-Bot toys just played better imho, not to mention a lot less expensive.
I still have one of my toys around someplace, the train.
I just noticed Cy-kill sounds a lot like Apocalypse from the X-men cartoon from the 90s
I'm still in disbelief that the Gobots never had a chance to air on Cartoon Network back in the 90s. They had so many other Hana Barbara shows from Centurians to Smurfs, even older cartoons like Yogie Bear & Flintstones. But they never even tried to get The Gobots on there, not even for the Super Chunk weekend special.
I loved watching Gobots as a kid, it was to me the bets series over the Transformers. I LOVE the characters, especially Crasher for her bad ass aggressive attitude and abilities.
Even the writing and characters had some unique qualities compared to the Transformers. I mean, look at the 5 part mini series that started: Cy-Kill conquered Earth in little over 3 days, Megatron never came that close. Once more, Cy-Kill enslaves humanity with mind control, using them as a labor force to amass the Zods too invade Gobotron. Then leaves Earth with a bomb that'll crack it in half, erasing all traces of his ever being there. Now that's a villain you never see from any other 80s line, Thundercats, Transformers, you name it. I doubt any cartoon villain of the 80s can hold a candle to that level.
I love doing Stop Motion animation with my Go Bots & Transformers🎬📸🎞️🤖‼️
I was into both Go-Bots and Transformers. I had Leader 1 and a couple of the Rock Lords from movie Go-Bots: Battle of the Rock Lords
Never liked the Go Bots. Their Japanese MR Machine Robo series was far better presented.
Insofar as Hasbro-Marvel/Sunbow’s Transformers simply were better presented in terms of character names, premise, animation and toyline variety and complexity, its hardly a wonder why it’s superior. It didn’t help matters that the Go Bot vehicle/robots were simply basic in transformation, a kid can afford to lose the instructions and wing it to convert a Go Bot, and he/she can do it inside 5 minutes or so. No wonder they’re referred to as ‘the poor man’s Transformers’, although the Transformers line had many characters sold in blister packs and in varying price points (same as G. I. Joe and MASK).
Er... There simplicity it was makes them superior and less likely for breakage and the ability to pick up and play and didn't have a mass of parts that were lost out of the box
@@CopturGobot Go bots were trash. Who cares about simplicity. If I wanted simplicity as a kid I'd play with my Hot wheels.
I wish that they would make a GoBots movie.. We are due for such a great vision!
I was thinking it would be cool if a Go-Bots live-action were made like "The Boys" vs DCEU/MCU.
Just keep Michael Bay away from it. xD
Unless it were fan made it would more than likely be a mess because of how different things are today and how Holly Wood tends to destroy things anyway. I think maybe the people who did the Mega Man fan made movie could maybe do a good version.
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There was a Go-Bots cartoon around 2013.
Go-bots just seemed so generic to me. The stories became stale, so when Transformers hit the scene it was a breath of fresh air. I had no favorite Go-bot that I can actually remember. Unlike Transformers where Grimlock and Omega Supreme were my favorites. I preferred Transformers toys over the Go-bots as well. Go-bots served it purpose for kid entertainment b4 TF, but so did other cartoons such as Rock Lords etc. Transformers just was better in my own personal opinion.
Frank Welker voiced nearly half of the voices of The transformers show who you are directly comparing this to and yet you chose to ignore that fact and go with him voicing Fred from Scooby-Doo?
Who are you talking to?? Surely not the narrator of the video. How is giving coverage to the old Go-Bots toys and show comparing it to Transformers??
I love these guys more than the Transformers
Why can you not pronounce "Fitor" correctly? They pronounced his name correctly more than once in clips shown here.
I remember Go-Bots, I had toys of Turbo and leader one, Jesus takes me back.
I'm going to amv this whole series to pay my respects
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Please do another video going in-depth into all the Gobots characters
I wonder why this series isn't available on Hasbro's UA-cam channel..they own it now, don't they?
Littlefoot shoots beams out of her chest mounted "headlights"? Hmmmm...😜
She does! haha xD And her name is Smallfoot.
The cartoon sucked and killed the toy line. 2 things killed the cartoon for me. 1. All the characters could fly. That meant any ground based alt mode characters lost speed, terrain and sensory advantages in any battle. Why Cy-kill would transform to a motorcycle against a jet when he could fly and be on a more equal playing field is crazy. 2. The Astrobeam. It reversed. If I were Cy-kill I would have Astrobeamed myself and then never have to worry about being caught and that is what happened to most of the additional Renegades they brought in. It was a quick and easy way to introduce temporary characters. The Autobots, after the original miniseries, lost the ability to fly in robot mode. It meant they needed their alt modes to get around quicker. Also because they weren't always trying to be in the public eye they used their vehicle modes for disguise purposes. Secondly when a Transformer was captured he either escaped or had to be rescued. It gave the show more drama and because the Transformers had more limited access to their home world it made their struggles a little more intense whereas Cy-kill could have just decided to ditch Earth and try somewhere else. Don't get me wrong I loved the Gobots. I loved the toys with their seemingly infinite array of vehicle forms. I just think a better cartoon could have done wonders for them. I liked the video and am glad Gobots are getting more content and respect these days. They do deserve it.
I loved the Gobots simple and plain!