There is still another group of fans who for some reason or another like something about Gobots. Other fans are indifferent towards Gobots. Some Transformers fans cringe at the mention of Gobots, because they hate them for some reason. Gobots receive a very mixed reaction from the Transformers fandom. The conflict has had a lasting impact on today's Transformers fans. As a result of the war Transformers and Gobots have been forever linked to each others history. When the dust finally settled there was a clear victor in the contest. The war was a struggle for fans and ultimately survival. It was a war between Transformers and Gobots. It was not just a war between Autobots and Decepticons, or Guardians and Renegades. The Gobots:ĭuring the mid to late 1980's there was a war taking place. Here is Hotrod's article The Transformers Vs. In this article Hotrod takes a look back at the early 1980's when both Transformers were competing with another brand of transforming robot, Gobots. Well, the wait is over! Our next article comes to you courtesy of staff member Hotrod. It has been awhile since we have posted a new article.
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Like GoBots, the series expanded with a collection of other figures, as always borrowing both from Bandai Japanese-exclusive designs like the Combinators and Tonka domestic designs like Zod and the Command Center.īy 1986, Hasbro's Transformers had asserted its dominance globally, spelling the end of GoBots in the US and forcing Machine Robo to undergo a rebrand as an anime toyline corresponding to the Revenge of Cronos series. The DX Robo Machines, initially using the Japanese decoes, evolved into Super GoBots, picking up mostly US offerings, but with an increasing number of unique variants. The figures themselves looked like a hybrid of the US and Japanese lines, incorporating the additional user-applied stickers of Machine Robo, sometimes overtop of Tonka-exclusive decoes. Earlier toys were re-released in 1985 now bearing their GoBots names. Robo Machine was slow to follow, but eventually followed by rebranding itself as Robo Machine: GoBots.Īfter the rebranding, Robo Machine switched to using the Tonka character names, but still occasionally provided its own unique name for figures. By this point, the US had already switched to Tonka's GoBots, with new character names and flashy art. Once Deluxe Machine Robo and Scalerobo figures became available, Robo Machine incorporated them as DX Robo Machines, again using the vehicle form name with the word "Robot".
The figures were sold on blister cards and given ID numbers beginning with "RM-", often paralleling the corresponding Japanese "MR-" nubmers. Like its parent series Machine Robo and the ill-fated US Machine Men series, Robo Machine initially designated each figure by its alternate mode. Paralleling the release of Machine Men in the US and Australia, Bandai sought to be on the leading edge of the coming transformable robot toy wave.
Robo Machine began in 1983 as Bandai's port of Machine Robo to the UK and Europe.
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