After he fails, he flees to Earth and security leader Ex-El follows him and creates modifies robots to fight him: Leader-1, Hans-Cuff and Dozer.
The strip starts on the planet Robotron, where the humanoid scientist Stron-Domez created two transforming robots, Cy-Kill and Tank, and used them to try to assassinate Robotron’s president. In the U.K., GoBots were released under the Robo Machines name and a Robo Machines comic strip ran in the comic magazine Eagle that featured a story line that was more 2000 A.D. If only they could have included put in that fingernails-on-blackboard voice of hers, too!ĥ) In Britain, They Murdered an Entire Town In fact, the Wal-Mart exclusive figure Fracture is clearly based on the GoBot Crasher and would’ve been called that, if they could’ve trademarked the name. Since then, a bunch of GoBot-inspired Transformers figures like Leader-1, Bugbite and Cop-Tur. Takara later made E-hobby exclusive re-deco of mini-cons in Go-Bots colors, although they dropped the specific Go-Bot names for fear of annoying Bandai. But Hasbro has used GoBot names on Transformers, first with the 1993 G2 “GoBots” figure, then with a whole line of “GoBots” in 1995. But before mind fills with dreams of reissues, they don’t own the rights to the toys themselves, which had been licensed from Bandai. ?In 1991, Hasbro bought up Tonka, and the rights to the GoBots toyline.
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He stopped acting after the movie Rock Lords: War of the Rock Lords (can you ever top playing opposite Margot Kidder and Telly Savalas?) and ended up becoming a voice director on Legion of Superheroes and the Watchmen motion comics. Ward was also associate story editor for the series, as well as the voice of Fitor (above). ?Like all ’80s shows, there were a bunch of freelance writers that contributed to the simplistic mess that was Challenge of the GoBots, but 22 episodes were written by Kelly Ward, who is best (or only) known for playing the blonde T-Bird in the movie Grease. So, it should be “Mighty Cyborgs, Mighty Vehicles”… although the “mighty” part is up for debate.ħ) The Cartoon Was Written by Putzie from Grease The cartoon even introduced two GoBots who had been put into cryogenic suspension before falling prey to the disease who still had most of their fleshy bits. Yep, the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon established that they were originally organic aliens identical to humans, but after an asteroid collided with Gobotron, they were forced to put their brains into robot bodies (why they put them in bodies that transformed into limousines and dune buggies is anyone’s guess). ?While you’d assume that GoBots are actually robots by the fact that their slogan “Mighty Robots, Mighty Vehicles,” it turns out GoBots are actually part meatbag. Here are the eight instances of them being interesting we could find. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t sometimes occasionally interesting.
But, whatever the exact reason was for their suckage, GoBots don’t have a tenth of the nostalgic appeal of Transformers and we certainly aren’t going to see them on the big screen peeing on John Turturro any time soon. It might even be that some GoBots were so simple that they transformed by just folding in half. Others think it was because the toys provided almost no information about the characters kids were buying, so kids never got as emotionally attached as they did to their Optimus Prime. Some think it was because the Hanna-Barbera Challenge of the GoBots cartoon was apparently written for particularly slow 4-year-olds. Nerdy historians have debated exactly why GoBots sucked for years. toy shelves first and being a popular line that outlasted many other ’80s toylines. They’ve never been able to escape the reputation of being low-rent Transformers knockoffs, despite hitting U.S. ?GoBots are the Rodney Dangerfields of ’80s toys: they get no respect… and they’re completely dead and never coming back.
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