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A very good read, well done and thought out. I remember Gobots more than Transformers in my early childhood. IE around 85-86. I'm something of a fan of both serese but I only have one official Gobot figure while my transformers collection is well over 150 now. I dimly remember actually owning one of the Rock lords figures but I think I gave that one to a friend some time back..

and of course Raymond T. helped

Ninja Sixshot wrote:and of course Raymond T. helped

Without him I would have looked stupid

Posted by Ultra Markus said:
I think the next thing they should do with the gobot name is make a live action movie, or maybe a crossover comic with the superfriends
call it "challenge of the galactic super gobot friends" LOL

Now THAT would be funny. It would have to include the painfully awful Wonder Twins (and I don't mean WonderWoman's airbags)

Here, I put them on my PhotoBucket account. If there's any problem, tell them to come directly to me, and delete the links in the interim, *IF* there's a problem. I see no need to worry about it...





Photos linked from my personal PhotoBucket account, and originally the property (and remain the property of Anthony Brucale of TFU.info, no infringement intended.)

As a kid I liked both Transformers and Gobots. early on I remember more than one kid who used the Gobot Renegade Fitor as an autobot jet before the airealbots gave the autobots air power. What really pushed me to transformers was getting attached to the dinobots and the gestalts and finding them cool as a kid. I had 2 gobots as a kid (jeepers creepers and nuggit) and lots of transformers. Though I liked nuggit I disliked Jeepers because being small and metal made him hard to transform and I had to ask for help to do it. I do remember their was one gobot I really wanted as a kid (I wanted every transformer), it was destroyer, the tank witha turret as a head. A character design I still find cool. Though I liked transformers better, I never hated gobots like some fans do.

I love Go-Bots.

I want the main characters, and those same main characters from the movie as well.

I don't need Spoons and others like that in my collection.

Heck, I even went to the trouble of taking my Go-Bots videos (Challenge Of The Go-Bots: The Battle For Go-Botron, Challenge Of The Go-Bots: The Go-Botron Saga, and Go-Bots: Battle Of The Rock Lords) all on DVD. (I do so love having a DVD Recorder on my TV.)

ShGarland_1383 wrote:It's kind of ironic that Hotrod goes into the history of the two lines some here. Even though the recent G1CS Soundwave reissue is actually a repaint of Soundblaster, it still has the Copyright 1974/1983 inside the battery compartment. 83 would of course be because Soundblaster was a retool of G1 Soundwave to begin with; '74 is likely because Soundwave was originally released as a Microchange Cassetteman.

CassetteMan was released in Japan 1981. But the patent for the design was submitted in 1974, just like the Megatron one. Intended for the GI Joe / Micro series accessories line, that never was released.

When CassetteMan was to be produced for the Transformers line, some design changes were made, including a different mechanism for the cassette-holder. So it was patented again in 1983. The Soundblaster mold (which could hold two cassettes instead of just one) wasn't released until 1987.

Hotrod wrote:

Ninja Sixshot wrote:and of course Raymond T. helped

Without him I would have looked stupid

His words, not mine!

Victory! Nice article there Hotrod, I learnt some new things there, especialy about the Go-bot side of the "war". As for the young kids line being called Go-bots... I like to think of it as winners justice.