The Energon Pub

News Credits: 13 · Sun Apr 03, 2011 8:27 pm

we've seen a couple Gobots homages in Classics form in the past, do you think if Hasbro can, they should add more Gobots to the roster?

personally id be all for it

Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:18 pm

I'd love this, leader 1, cykil etc, would be great!

Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:50 am

What were the Gobot homages' in the classics line?

News Credits: 7 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:36 am

Technically not in Classics but we've had Crasher (Walmart Fracture), Bugbite (Botcon 07) and the RotF forklift repaint (forget the names...) off the top of my head.

Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:30 am

I'td be awesome to do, but only if new molds and specifically them. Hasbro owns their rights, right?

News Credits: 241 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 9:45 am

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I'td be awesome to do, but only if new molds and specifically them. Hasbro owns their rights, right?

Only to the names, but not the original toys, as they were Bandai property. So far, Hasbro has officially homaged:

Crasher with Movie Decepticon Fracture
Spoons with RotF Deadlift
Night Ranger with the canceled Movie Backtrack
Cop-Tur with TFCC Cop-Tur

Bug Bite is the same character as BotCon 2007 Bug Bite, the only Gobot to do so. Though in all honesty Crasher came pretty close.

If the Seeker mold is still good to go, Hasbro or FP can't go wrong with Leader-1. We also need a new Turbo, Cy-Kill and Scooter.

News Credits: 16 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:30 am

And Baron Von Joy. The world needs a new Baron Von Joy

News Credits: 23 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:48 am

We can probably add Reverb (ROTF) as GoBot Dart as well to the list.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:07 am

What about the e-hobby repaints of the minibots with Go-bots names....do they count? But if some how that route were taken I think mostly good would come of it...'nuff said!

News Credits: 217 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:20 am

There are a lot of Transformers characters I'd rather see before we get any more GoBots.

News Credits: 12 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:32 am

The only one I'd want is a repainted WreckGar as Cy Kill using the Scraheap head.

I'd rather get more TF though first. Puzzler would be nice though.

Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:35 am

I had them as a kid but have no desire to even say the word Gobot these days. Dang it! I said gobot!

News Credits: 13 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:45 am

robofreak wrote:The only one I'd want is a repainted WreckGar as Cy Kill using the Scraheap head.

I'd rather get more TF though first. Puzzler would be nice though.

i think animated oil slick would make for a better cykill

News Credits: 241 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:12 pm

Prime Evil wrote:We can probably add Reverb (ROTF) as GoBot Dart as well to the list.

Pure coincidence, really. As RotF Knock Out is a homage to BW Waspinator, Reverb is another BW homage to a different insect: Inferno. "Calany Racing" was supposed to say "Colony Racing", plus the "96" refers to his release year.

Nemesis Destron wrote:What about the e-hobby repaints of the minibots with Go-bots names....do they count? But if some how that route were taken I think mostly good would come of it...'nuff said!

They were never officially named by Takara, as they feared to get in trouble with Bandai, with using names associated with Gobots who used Bandai molds. That was unfounded however, and the TFCC gave them their original names.

News Credits: 12 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:13 pm

grimdragon2001 wrote:
robofreak wrote:The only one I'd want is a repainted WreckGar as Cy Kill using the Scraheap head.

I'd rather get more TF though first. Puzzler would be nice though.

i think animated oil slick would make for a better cykill

Yeah, but it wouldn't fit well with the Generations stuff.

Cy Kill looks kind of lame to begin with, but I think the Wreck Gar mold would give him some much needed bulk and really do a good job of actually making him look good.

News Credits: 7 · Mon Apr 04, 2011 1:59 pm

We need a Hubcap remold as Tux.

As well as a new Bad Boy - Uni Powerglide, perhaps?

Mon Apr 04, 2011 4:26 pm

Diem wrote:There are a lot of Transformers characters I'd rather see before we get any more GoBots.

Me, too. But, I wouldn't mind a GoBot or two sprinkled in each year.

Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:33 pm

Someone put up a neat pic of HFTD Tomahawk's head(very Leader-1 looking) on a blue HFTD Terradive body, it is just digibashed but it looks awesome, too bad I can't paint!

Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:42 pm

Starwave Prime wrote:Someone put up a neat pic of HFTD Tomahawk's head(very Leader-1 looking) on a blue HFTD Terradive body, it is just digibashed but it looks awesome, too bad I can't paint!

Why blue? Leader-1 was light grey.

Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:12 am

He explains in his post on his blog:http://transformersvsgobots.blogspot.com/2010/06/just-saw-these-new-pics-on-tfw2005.html

Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:58 am

Starwave Prime wrote:He explains in his post on his blog:http://transformersvsgobots.blogspot.com/2010/06/just-saw-these-new-pics-on-tfw2005.html

Okay, I can buy that... but Dark Leader-1's blue was actually closer to grey than to that brilliant of a blue:

http://www.tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/Le ... ader-1.htm

Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:20 am

Bad Boy. I want Bad Boy.

Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:23 am

I want Go Bots.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:45 pm

Off the top of my head, in addition to Dart/Reverb, other really good coincidence stand ins are HftD Highbrow as Bolt, Universe Sunstreaker as Pocket, and RotF Stalker Scorponok as Scorp. I'm sure there's more too.