The Energon Pub

by **Emperor Primacron the 1st** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:11 pm

I thought a nice lil gobot thread would be in order.

For starters, here's a neat little site with reviews and images of the toys.

http://www.counter-x.net/gobots/reviews/index.html

So let's talk about some of them, shall we?

And please no gobot bashing, this thread is for talking about the good stuff, mmmkay? :-P

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:20 pm

Emperor Primacron the 1st wrote:this thread is for talking about the good stuff

This should be a very long and quick to grow thread then ...

News Credits: 5 · by **--B--** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:25 pm

I liked some of them, Res-Q and Dozer are still in my collection from way back in the day when I got them as a kid. Honestly, they were better figures than some stuff out today.

Some stuff

News Credits: 1 · by **Duke of Luns** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:58 pm

Cool, so there is a website with reviews of Gobots.

But they only gave Dive Dive a 3.5! But then again, they did give Flip-top a 5 out of 5, so they aren't TOO off the mark. Dive Dive and Flip-Top are two of my fave Gobots, but my Fliptop is pretty messed up, and I need to get a new one someday :-(

.

Other really cool guys are Flytrap and Vamp. Flytrap is awsome cause he transforms into a garbage truck, which is unique. Vamp is awsome cause he(or was it she? never heard it speak in an episode) is just plain cool in both alt. and robot modes.

Zod was one of my favorite figures as a kid. Plus, he made annoying sounds, which was awsome. Wasn't articulate, but he was great.

Oh, and GoBots are just as good as most Transformers at the basic size, and they had a larger variety of alt. modes in the beginning.

by **Shin Getter Robo** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:03 pm

My brother had the motorbike one (Steed or something?) and I had Ladder 1. I smashed the **** out of his Steed, so he took a **** on my Ladder 1.

Seriously, true story.

by **Valandar** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:59 pm

Spoons was one of the first transforming robots I ever had, and even now, looking at the pics on TFU.Info, I STILL think he's one of the best of that era, especially for his size.

by **Emperor Primacron the 1st** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:13 pm

I always like Vanguard

News Credits: 4 · by **GrimSqueaker** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:32 pm

i never had a megs as a kid (thats why i have 12 now!) so cy-kill took over leading my cons for most of my battles ith my brother :grin:

good times :grin:

News Credits: 5 · by **REMINATOR** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:45 pm

I love the Gobots, have a couple of them including the gestalt Puzzler and Guardian. I too have a Gobots website as well, hehehe:
http://www.angelfire.com/ny5/reminator/ ... otmain.htm

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:04 am

Primacron here is another site I have on the front page of The Transforum

http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Go-Bots.html

News Credits: 18 · by **Immortal Starscream** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:29 am

i had a bazzilion leader-1, in all the diffrent sizes, because thats what my perents got me whenever i asked for a starscream.

always wanted cykill though, and i loved the gestalts more then the 1 tf gestalt i had, which was defensor.

News Credits: 1 · by **simonightmare** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:09 am

What was the female car called? She was mostly black and a renegade. It doesn't look like there was a toy of her after looking at that site

by **Swerve** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 2:12 am

Checking out the website and then going to: http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Go-Bots.htmlI never realized I had as many as I did. I still have Staks (the one with blue back instead of black which we used to call fake Optimus Prime as kids), Psycho, Dive-Dive (although I think the one I have may have been a KO because he was all grey and no markings), Elf, Water Walk (may have also been a KO he had white wings, red chest and dark blue legs), Blaster (green version) and I can no longer find them but HansCuffs and Van Guard. I think I also have several other KOs somewhere else.

I haven't seen any DVDs out there of Go-Bots but I know you can see a few episodes on youtube. I don't remember the show being as good as Transformers but I can remember several character like Scooter, Leader-1, and Cy-Kill.

News Credits: 20 · by **Chosen** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:16 am

simonightmare wrote:What was the female car called? She was mostly black and a renegade.

Crasher. Not exactly a looker, this one...

by **Emperor Primacron the 1st** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:20 am

Wheeljack35 wrote:Primacron here is another site I have on the front page of The Transforum

http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Go-Bots.html

Thank you, though I had this one bookmarked for years.

by **Godmodule** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:42 am

My favorites were:

Leader 1
Coptur
White Crasher
Green Cykill
Fitor (is that how it's spelled?)
Ace
Turbo
and last but not least:
Puzzler!!!!! (Better than a lot of gesalts)
and the powersuit thing (cool concept...)

by **Swerve** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:19 am

Immortal Starscream wrote:i had a bazzilion leader-1, in all the diffrent sizes, because thats what my perents got me whenever i asked for a starscream.

always wanted cykill though, and i loved the gestalts more then the 1 tf gestalt i had, which was defensor.

I think a lot of people ended up with Go-Bots because people thought they were buying them Transformers.

by **Dagon** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:45 am

I had gobots as a kid, but didn't like them. Recently I have acquired Puzzler and Monsterous, the two combiners, and they are fantastic. Especially Monsterous, he's as good as Transformer gestalt figures.

News Credits: 4 · by **Milanion** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:48 am

Emperor Primacron the 1st wrote:I always like Vanguard

That guy was my favorite too.
Ah, the memories.

by **Emperor Primacron the 1st** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:59 am

Swerve wrote:
Immortal Starscream wrote:i had a bazzilion leader-1, in all the diffrent sizes, because thats what my perents got me whenever i asked for a starscream.

always wanted cykill though, and i loved the gestalts more then the 1 tf gestalt i had, which was defensor.

I think a lot of people ended up with Go-Bots because people thought they were buying them Transformers.

Sometimes the opposite. Gobots was more popular in the town I grew up in. In fact, when one of the kids in my kindergarden class dressed up as optimus prime for holloween in 1985 ( nice costume too, it was actuall solid pieces of plastic parts and helmet and a pistol. The costume looked expensive :shock:

), he said he was a gobot for halloween. :grin:

I did not have the heart to tell him he was not a gobot. :wink:

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:26 pm

I love the top hat that this guy wears. That is all kinds of cool.

http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Regular/Tux.html

Hasbro -> learn!

News Credits: 4 · by **Milanion** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:48 pm

Psychout wrote:I love the top hat that this guy wears. That is all kinds of cool.

http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Regular/Tux.html

Hasbro -> learn!

That's awesome.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:21 pm

Go-Bots need to come back. Or at least get bootleged.

by **Swerve** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:48 pm

Megatron_Wolf wrote:Go-Bots need to come back. Or at least get bootleged.

They seemed really bootleged when they came out. I stated in my previous post that I had at least a couple of bootleged Go-Bots but I never had any bootleg Transformers.