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[Jalaguy]

Some simple research tells me that Bandai sold a number of unrelated non-transforming robot toys in the European Robo Machine/GoBots line. So that's what those are.

Edited by Jalaguy, 07 December 2015 - 06:27 AM.

[Chip]

It looks like just a robot arm, like an industrial robot. I'm guessing the three things in the blue cutout are different end effectors you can swap out. And it looks like they put caterpillar treads and a canopy or head on this one to make it more sci-fi, but it's hard to see.

[Death's Head]

Counter-X is a great resource for Gobots information: http://counter-x.net/gobots/

[tec]

Aw man I have to get Notimus Prime/Notra Magnus for my Puzzler team now

[Dracula]

Yeah, Europe had some odd exclusives for Gobots/MR. Also, (in France? I think) they aired "Revenge of Cronos" as a sequel to "Challenge of the Gobots," which is bugnuts.

Here's some MR artwork I saw on FB today. Beautiful stuff.

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[HellCat]

And then Bandai was like

[Dracula]

Z'Gok get off that turkey

what are you doing 

no

 

 

...it's like the dialogue was written by people in 2015 who were making fun of how cartoons sounded in the early 90s...

[NovaSaber]

Does the tagalong kid actually being named Tagalong count as self-aware or just really lazy?

[Spark]

Other than a few in there, I think his reviews regarding Gobots are pretty fair.  There are a couple I think are mildly insane, though, like his five star review of Stallion, which is an unremarkable figure at best and kind of garbage at worst, especially against the other figures out in that series, and the absolutely bizarre summaries of regular Cy-Kill versus super Cy-Kill.

 

...An "economic" partsformer and where "as much thought seems to have gone into the robot mode as the motorcycle" is somehow not sarcasm for a thing whose transformation is  "stand up from seated position, take parts off".  Meanwhile, the super version has "an inescapable pre-school feel to this figure with its' chunky limbs and cheerful face."  Er, yeaaaaahh...

Edited by Spark, 25 February 2016 - 03:40 PM.

[Death's Head]

Well, that's opinions for you. For what it's worth, I reckon the little Cy-Kill is better and all. Neither are the best in the line, but the little one is a touch more show-accurate if you fancy that sort of thing, and the simple transformation suits a dinky little toy much nicer.

[Luke]

I have trouble with the raging butthurt he feels at the eHobby Gobots. Just completely insensate anti-Transformers screed... and then he has a Transformers section on his website.

Edited by Lukeblast, 26 February 2016 - 10:17 AM.

[Rycochet]

You can like Transformers and not like the first two years of minibots and that lousy 'homage' set. The toys are plain and the decos are ugly, the only thing it really did well is show that more often than not, the smaller Gobots were better looking toys than their Transformers counterparts.

[Spark]

I have trouble with the raging butthurt he feels at the eHobby Gobots. Just completely insensate anti-Transformers screed... and then he has a Transformers section on his website.

His issue's really with them being just unused Transformers decoes with Gobots names slapped on, which is actually a pretty valid complaint.

[Broadside]

 

I have trouble with the raging butthurt he feels at the eHobby Gobots. Just completely insensate anti-Transformers screed... and then he has a Transformers section on his website.

His issue's really with them being just unused Transformers decoes with Gobots names slapped on, which is actually a pretty valid complaint.

 

Thinking about it, I probably would prefer them to have been original characters instead of GoBots. We wouldn't have got Withered Hope but, considering all the headaches that spun out of that... maybe that would've been for the best.

[NightViper]

Really the Gobots names on them shouldn't be bothersome at all to anyone. Names get recycled all the time and of the Gobots' names those were some of the least GoBot-y (Actually, some were pretty damn good, like Road Ranger and Pathfinder).

 

But taking those names as an excuse to bring the GoBots into Transformers as interdimensional invaders... Yeah okay. Gripes can be given.

[Broadside]

I'm 100% in favour of importing the e-HOBBY GoBots into canon as regular Cybertronians, since they're good names and nice decoes. I'm just keenly aware that that will never happen.

[Cabooceratops]

While I'm not happy with a few of the recent Gobots changes, I absolutely disagree that the Withered Hope crew should have been pure renames as random Cybertronians. That'd be freakin' lame.

[Broadside]

I dunno, e-HOBBY's good at coming up with interesting character concepts. Road Rage, Crosscut, Detritus, Overcharge, the Cobalt Sentries... the Diaclone Insecticons and Tigertrack were kind of duds, but I think they could've come up with some interesting things for the prototype deco set even if they didn't go down the GoBot route.

Edited by Broadside, 26 February 2016 - 12:50 PM.