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by **Mike-Towns** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:28 am

Hey
I just bought this little Astrotrain toy for $5AU($4.29US), and had a few questions about it.

(sorry for the poor quality pics)

It's made of both plastic and metal.

I just wanted to know what year do you think it was probably made it, if it's a G1 figure, and how much anyone thinks it's actually worth.

Thanks!

by **Rodentus Prime** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:55 am

Thats a gobot, not a transformer - worth a few pence.

by **Valandar** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:56 am

Spay-C.

http://www.tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/Spay-C/spay-c.htm

by **Cornicer** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:02 pm

Valandar wrote:Spay-C.

http://www.tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/Spay-C/spay-c.htm

Sometimes I wonder why Go-Bots failed and Transformers survived, but all it takes is a name like that to remind me.

by **Riotflea** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:12 pm

Valandar wrote:Spay-C.

http://www.tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/Spay-C/spay-c.htm

It says it has no parts or accessories, but didn't the tailfin come off as a lame "weapon" that looked like a flag?

(Maybe it was just the knockoff version I had...)

by **Altertron** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:53 pm

what's a gobot, is it a anime or a cartoon series? cuz i never heard of it, is it a very old cartoon? maybe it was so rotten and stinks that even i haven't heard of when i was a child. that show never air oversea. i saw it, it will show some recollection, no, it doesn't ring a bell.

News Credits: 5 · by **decepticonjon** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:54 pm

man, that thing looks wicked fun! :shock:

News Credits: 1 · by **pittsburg_22_m** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:01 pm

Altertron wrote:what's a gobot, is it a anime or a cartoon series? cuz i never heard of it, is it a very old cartoon? maybe it was so rotten and stinks that even i haven't heard of when i was a child. that show never air oversea. i saw it, it will show some recollection, no, it doesn't ring a bell.

Gobots were competitors of Transformers. They sucked and they sucked hard. I had some of them too. Most had like windshields for heads and such....lol. And pretty simplistic transformations for the most part. The cartoon was dumb too.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:10 pm

pittsburg_22_m wrote:
Altertron wrote:what's a gobot, is it a anime or a cartoon series? cuz i never heard of it, is it a very old cartoon? maybe it was so rotten and stinks that even i haven't heard of when i was a child. that show never air oversea. i saw it, it will show some recollection, no, it doesn't ring a bell.

Gobots were competitors of Transformers. They sucked and they sucked hard. I had some of them too. Most had like windshields for heads and such....lol. And pretty simplistic transformations for the most part. The cartoon was dumb too.

I cant vouch for the cartoon (never saw it) but not all the Gobots were crap. Just their names.

by **Emperor Primacron the 1st** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 3:29 pm

pittsburg_22_m wrote:
Altertron wrote:what's a gobot, is it a anime or a cartoon series? cuz i never heard of it, is it a very old cartoon? maybe it was so rotten and stinks that even i haven't heard of when i was a child. that show never air oversea. i saw it, it will show some recollection, no, it doesn't ring a bell.

Gobots were competitors of Transformers. They sucked and they sucked hard. I had some of them too. Most had like windshields for heads and such....lol. And pretty simplistic transformations for the most part. The cartoon was dumb too.

Speak for yourself.

Plus G1 was no masterpiece, either. :-P

News Credits: 2 · by **tacogrande** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:13 am

Gobots were a missed oppurtunity. People tell me that gobots actually came first, toys and cartoon, and if that's the case maybe it's just an odd coincidence, but to me it seems like gobots wanted to be too much like the transformers. If they had just marketed the toys as hot wheels that did more than just sit there, i think they would have sold a lot better. Make the names better or don't name them at all. They wouldn't even need a cartoon (trust me, the toon didn't help at all). Hot wheels have been a top selling toy since the beginning of time, gobots could have taken them a step further.

Then again I'm glad they didn't amount to much. Transformers have always been better in almost every way. Gobots had the mini figures down great though, guys like brawn and cosmos pale in comparison to the awesomeoness of your spay-c there.

by **tentagil** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:29 pm

pittsburg_22_m wrote:
Altertron wrote:what's a gobot, is it a anime or a cartoon series? cuz i never heard of it, is it a very old cartoon? maybe it was so rotten and stinks that even i haven't heard of when i was a child. that show never air oversea. i saw it, it will show some recollection, no, it doesn't ring a bell.

Gobots were competitors of Transformers. They sucked and they sucked hard. I had some of them too. Most had like windshields for heads and such....lol. And pretty simplistic transformations for the most part. The cartoon was dumb too.

Actually a good number of them had Transformations more complicated then the first two years worth of Transformers. They also used a bigger variety of alt modes. I mean they even had a forklift. They suffer not because of poor toys, but because they had stupid names and a crappy cartoon. Lets all be honest, if Transformers had sucked as bad as Gobots did the toys wouldn't have mattered to most of us as kids.

Spay-C is actually a pretty nifty figure. Had him as a kid, but managed to destroy the poor guy along with most of my other toys, I was an evil child. Grimlock discovered he couldn't fly when he went out a two story window when I was 7.