Talk:Gobots

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Gobots in Australia. I do not recall ever seeing GoBots packaging in Australia, even when the cartoon was on. I don't recall what the cartoon was called but I always knew it as Machine Men (maybe because of the distinctive "Mighty Machine Men, Mighty Vehicles, Mighty Machine Men, Mighty Robot" theme song).

During the 80s there were also small promotional Machine Men comic books which included a short strip and then a catalogue of toys and I think may have been free. I got one from my cousin. There was some controversy over these books but I can't recall if it was because of violence or shameless toy promotion?

see Machine Robo for Machine Men. Evan1975 07:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Transformers rip-off?

Is Gobots a Transformers rip-off? It's often referred to that way... RobertM525 03:48, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

It's probably hard to be sure. I think GoBots came out a little later, but Gobots and Transformers all fell a few years after the transforming robot craze started in Japan. The Transformers Jetfire toy was a rip off of the VF-1S Valkyrie from the series Super Dimensional Fortress Macross down to the last detail (To be fair, that was probably due to a common manufacturer cheaping out. The Jetfire toy was identical to Valkyrie toys that you can still find in Japan to the point where it seems likely the same mold was used).

- It was the same mould, licensed from Bandai... And IIRC, Gobots made it out a couple of months ahead of Transformers, though the point that they were both taken from Japanese lines is a valid one - way I've heard it is that Tonka got wind of Hasbro's plans, and rushed Gobots through to hit the shelves first - though Transformers' more meticulous approach paid off as the releases and promotion were much more organised... Hell, Gobots was rushed out so much the first round of toys didn't even have faction names on them =)

Tom Prankerd 21:29, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite

Given this a bit of a going over, including splitting the majority of the Transformers stuff to Gobots (Transformer) to keep the article relatively short... I'll work on a better picture, with a range of figures by the Command Centre or something. Obviously, the whole thing's not quite there yet, and I've left the tags on there as I'm not sure if it's the sort of thing some idiot like me should be messing with =)

Tom Prankerd 15:47, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] gobot questions

gobots which never were? i remember a store circular from k.b. toystores hapenned to bo in the mail, say, perhaps between 1985 & 1988 at the latest. it listed something called "hotshot gobots" along with some other types of gobots i cannot recall at the moment. has anyone ever seen this store circular, or any mention whatsoever of "hotshot gobots"? it had photos & text for the other gobots, but only text for the "hotshot gobots". were they ever produced or released? i have searched for "hotshot gobots" on the web in the past & found absolutely nothing & a whole lot of it. also, do you ever wonder what is on the other side of the gobots catalog? is there any data on that? i know transformers catalogs had 2 sides so i thought maybe gobots catalogs were the same way. had it ever occured to any any gobots fans that the delta megazord from "power rangers in space" had a gobot-looking face? perhaps it was a gobot that was not used so the power rangers studio used it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.192.20.149 (talk) 00:45, 24 February 2008 (UTC)