Gobots and Machine Robo News & Discussion

[Haywire]

Thought we had a thread for this, but couldnt find it.

Discotek Media is releasing Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos the complete series on Blu Ray next month. Preorders are up on Amazon.

I, for one, am excited. I have the 3 Central Park DVDs, and always wanted to finish the series. Its so divergent from what Gobots and even Transformers was back in the day, so it will be fun to finally see how the story unfolds!

 

[Sabrblade]

Thought we had a thread for this, but couldnt find it.

The hack attack killed it with the old site.

 

[Haywire]

Huh, I thought we had one since the new site, but I guess not.

Anyway, on the figure side of things, did anyone else get the Action Toys Jet Robo? What did you think? I thought it was a decent companion figure to Drill, but not my favorite in the series. The workaround for the jet nose was decent, but I worry about its durability.

I know Ive said it before, but I wish they would tap some show-only characters like the Leo Tribe or the hearse-black Limousine Robo. Also, Supercar Robo could come out any time.

 

[LordGigaIce]

Anyway, on the figure side of things, did anyone else get the Action Toys Jet Robo? What did you think?

He's no Tank or Drill but he's fun! And has infinite pose potential.

 

[Haywire]

So these just showed up on BBTS:
UNITROBORN
Supposedly part of the Machine Robo universe. There are some...interesting combinations, to say the least. I'll be interested to get my hands on a couple and see what they are like.

 

[ZakuConvoy]

That theme's surprisingly catchy.

 

[Donocropolis]

Those are....strangely fascinating.

Ah, the shark/vending machine. Natures perfect killing machine.

 

[ZacWilliam1]

Whenever I see a really weird or interesting TFing toy I feel like I need to draw it in an attempt to understand it. So I was doing this the last two days:

 

[Platypus Prime]

You see, this is a Predacon/Decepticon plot to destroy mankind through cholesterol and poor judgement. They put the snack machine next to the beach, so people eat too much junk and have heart attacks and die. If that doesn't work, the beach is RIGHT THERE so they can go in the water right after eating, cramp, and drown. And the shark is backup in case they have one of those floaty-tubes, it can pick off the stragglers.

 

[ZacWilliam1]

Funny part is from the video above that’s less weird than the actual storyline, which best I can tell is:

Evil ghosts are trying to kill humans so magical singing television robots have come to earth to stop them. When the ghosts cause trouble the TV-bots use their magical powers to combine any two random items in the area into a robot that will save the day.

-ZacWilliam, “Apple! Lobster!” Is pretty damn hard to out-weird.

 

[Platypus Prime]

That they don't show is that this plot was hatched by two lab mice in a plot to take over the world.

 

[Haywire]

Funny part is from the video above that’s less weird than the actual storyline, which best I can tell is:

Evil ghosts are trying to kill humans so magical singing television robots have come to earth to stop them. When the ghosts cause trouble the TV-bots use their magical powers to combine any two random items in the area into a robot that will save the day.

-ZacWilliam, “Apple! Lobster!” Is pretty damn hard to out-weird.

Burger-Bulldozer is pretty out there, too...

I'm not sure they're meant to be ghosts? I think Machine Robo Rescue had some non-toy villains that seemed to exist just to cause chaos and destruction (and possibly even Confusion and Delay!), and the baddie kind of has a similar look? Also, the baddie doesn't look that different from the TV dudes, except it's got a flame where the TV has a musical note? Not that ghost-busting robots made from improbable combined objects isn't a unique take on the transforming robot genre...

I've got a couple on pre-order, may add a couple more. I wish I could go all-out and just order them all, but I also had to preorder some Super7 Godzilla reaction figures, and there's only so much a person can spend on non-necessities...

 

[Platypus Prime]

I think Confusion and Delay is the function of the Beetle/Train...

 

[Donocropolis]

Go-Bots/Machine Robo and Transformers always had a bit of cross-pollination. Often both lines would have similar (though not identical) ideas, which were then executed differently for an added layer of separation. I see these as almost Machine Robo's answer to Transformers BotBots.

 

[Sabrblade]

That they don't show is that this plot was hatched by two lab mice in a plot to take over the world.

Wait wait wait. Are you... Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

 

[Dekafox]

In before they release a Rabbit/Tank figure.

 

[Platypus Prime]

I think so, Sabrblade, but now that we've found him, I'm more worried about what he was doing...

 

[ChessPieceFace]

These are pure chaos and I LOVE THEM. Pre-ordered Bulldozerburger, Sharkvendingmachine, Taxitree, and Tomatobster (I'm sorry, that's clearly not an apple).

 

[Platypus Prime]

"Go home, Duocon designer, you're...well, ok, we're not actually sure, toxicology hasn't come back yet, it doesn't matter, go home."

Seriously, these are awesome, but is there any indication as to size? I doubt they 'scale' with anything including themselves, but I was just wondering how tall the robots generally were.

I wish I could get a half dozen of the lobster/apple ones, and arrange them like a snack platter.

 

[Sciflyer]

Yeah, these are right up my alley. Preordered all but the non-transforming TV dude, and I'm looking most forward to Snacky Shark and Burgerdozer.