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News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 12:42 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:Nice! It only makes sense to appeal to us GoBot aficionados too...
I'm amazed to see this having happened at all since I didn't think they even could do so at first, what with the rights having been split between three different companies, two of which being rival companies even.

I'm right there with ya! How many things in life are overly complicated due to regulation or IP rights holding. But, since we actually got a VW Beetle MP Bumblebee, I like to think anything is possible. This only furthers the hope!

On the other hand, might there have been some rights lapse or other timing? (Actually, I'm not that curious. This is one of the reasons I have no desire to become a lawyer...)

News Credits: 435 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Oct 02, 2017 1:25 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:Nice! It only makes sense to appeal to us GoBot aficionados too...
I'm amazed to see this having happened at all since I didn't think they even could do so at first, what with the rights having been split between three different companies, two of which being rival companies even.

I'm right there with ya! How many things in life are overly complicated due to regulation or IP rights holding. But, since we actually got a VW Beetle MP Bumblebee, I like to think anything is possible. This only furthers the hope!

On the other hand, might there have been some rights lapse or other timing? (Actually, I'm not that curious. This is one of the reasons I have no desire to become a lawyer...)

Having asked around about this, this appears to be a case of "Action Toys just did it on their own to see if they could get away with it since no one at Warner Bros. would really care that much to make any kind of fuss over it".

So... yay for WB's apathy?

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Tue Oct 03, 2017 7:17 am

*chuckle* Sure, why not? Better to ask for forgiveness? I suppose it is just a Cykill face at this point. And Warner may have other issues to deal with anyway. (Discussion for another thread.) I might have to get this Cykill now. I have their Leader-1. Might as well get the pair...

News Credits: 4490 · by **william-james88** » Sun Oct 22, 2017 6:36 am

I don't have too many regrets in life, but searching for Machine Robo on ali express is definitively one of them.

News Credits: 317 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sun Oct 22, 2017 1:24 pm

william-james88 wrote:I don't have too many regrets in life, but searching for Machine Robo on ali express is definitively one of them.

Why do you do that to yourself?

News Credits: 435 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 3:13 pm

DX Bike Robo is up for preorder on BBTS!

http://bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/67882

This is the 7-inch one with the the extra Cy-Kill faces.

News Credits: 4490 · by **william-james88** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 3:19 pm

Sabrblade wrote:DX Bike Robo is up for preorder on BBTS!

http://bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/67882

This is the 7-inch one with the the extra Cy-Kill faces.

That price is ridiculous.

News Credits: 317 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:30 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:DX Bike Robo is up for preorder on BBTS!

http://bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/67882

This is the 7-inch one with the the extra Cy-Kill faces.

That price is ridiculous.

I saw Peaugh's review and it sold me on it. Then I saw the price, sighhhhhh.

News Credits: 3 · by **bvzxa** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 9:04 pm

They still haven't released Blue Jet yet, and I need to get Rod Drill. Machine Robo Revenge of Chronos was actually a good series, some animation errors though because Zeta Gundam is in an episode somehow lol

News Credits: 317 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:20 pm

Maybe I read it wrong or BBTS has lowered their price to match TF Source. $120 either way.

News Credits: 317 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:55 am

Here's my look at MR-01 Bike Robo, the smaller version

News Credits: 435 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 8:29 am

Amid all of the SDCC news, there has actually, finally, been an update on the status of the forthcoming figures of this Machine Robo line.

Action Toys was at TFCon Toronto and showed off the following figures on display:

Supercar Robo (GoBots counterpart: Turbo)
Blue Jet (GoBots counterpart: Fitor)
Prototype of Pro Truck Racer
Prototype of Jetlancer (whose name would make more sense as "Jettranser" since it's a jet and transport truck)

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 8:58 am

FINALLY! There's Turbo! :KREMZEEK:

News Credits: 317 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:52 pm

I think I see the locomotive guy too. Really excited for these. I hope they're as good as DX Bike Robo

News Credits: 435 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:49 pm

Some other Machine Robo toy news has been revealed at SDCC, but not from Action Toys.

Tamashii Nations is launching their own separate line of Machine Robo toys in 2019, and I'm not sure if they look like they transform, or if they're just normal action figures.

Well, "normal" isn't exactly the right word for these as far as their looks go. Two figures on display were Supercar Robo and Bike Robo, and both of them look... weird. Very weird.

Supercar Robo is all blocky and boxy for some reason, resembling neither his original toy nor his Revenge of Cronos animation model (and especially not Turbo's animation model from GoBots).

Bike Robo, meanwhile, looks more like something out of Gurren Lagann or Evangelion, having some freaky looking proportions, details, and weaponry.

Here are the pics from Toyark:

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:43 pm

Not all that crazy about the new designs, hopefully we'll get an explanation at Wonder Festival.

Emerje

News Credits: 317 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:05 am

First look at a new machine robo series?

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Jul 31, 2018 2:23 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I think I see the locomotive guy too. Really excited for these. I hope they're as good as DX Bike Robo

Yup, that's Loco, aka Steam Robo.

And Tamashii Nations... Machine Robo, or a Netflix-exclusive Gobots reboot?

News Credits: 435 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:57 pm

Finally! Colored pics of one of the bigger, non-GoBots-related Machine Robo figures coming from Action Toys: Tough Trailer, whose original toy was made from the toy mold of the mech named Titan Boy from the 1986 Super Sentai series Choushinsei Flashman.

What's more interesting is that Titan Boy was part of a truck-and-trailer mech called Flash Titan that was originally an attempt by Bandai to make their own answer to Transformers's Optimus Prime/Convoy for Super Sentai. When the mold was used to make Tough Trailer for Machine Robo, the original trailer unit itself was not carried over.

https://www.facebook.com/606937242796422/posts/1108515632638578/

News Credits: 4490 · by **william-james88** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:09 pm

woah woah wait a sec, is that Spoon?

News Credits: 435 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:19 pm

william-james88 wrote:woah woah wait a sec, is that Spoon?

That's Missile Tank Robo, counterpart of Blaster.

News Credits: 317 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:10 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Finally! Colored pics of one of the bigger, non-GoBots-related Machine Robo figures coming from Action Toys: Tough Trailer, whose original toy was made from the toy mold of the mech named Titan Boy from the 1986 Super Sentai series Choushinsei Flashman.

What's more interesting is that Titan Boy was part of a truck-and-trailer mech called Flash Titan that was originally an attempt by Bandai to make their own answer to Transformers's Optimus Prime/Convoy for Super Sentai. When the mold was used to make Tough Trailer for Machine Robo, the original trailer unit itself was not carried over.

https://www.facebook.com/606937242796422/posts/1108515632638578/

When this line was first announced there was speculation about characters like this, that were borrowed from other lines being included. I think we've seen prototypes of the "Brother" mech that was also retooled from the Sentai figure. Due to the size do you think this will be released under the DX lable?

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 6:39 pm

Are these two sizes comprable to Deluxe and Voyager? I seem to remember reviews of the first ones ( I think even Chuck's) comparing them to TF Deluxes.

This big truck dude is so cool looking. I love how they aren't trying to modernize these. Just doing them better, but sticking to their OG 80's designs.

News Credits: 317 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:39 pm

Cobotron wrote:Are these two sizes comprable to Deluxe and Voyager? I seem to remember reviews of the first ones ( I think even Chuck's) comparing them to TF Deluxes.

This big truck dude is so cool looking. I love how they aren't trying to modernize these. Just doing them better, but sticking to their OG 80's designs.

Right now there's only one figure at the DX size, Bike Robo, and it's closer to Voyager. They haven't done a basic/regular figure as big as truck guy. While this is cool I feel there are other figures that should be released sooner than this.