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News Credits: 26 · Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:55 am

I finally found it...After years of talking about it I finally found this commercial that aired during 1984-1985

Its a Transformers commercial indirectly taking a jab at the Gobots at the end you can hear the narrater saying theses are the real transformers

Megatron and Prime also speak in this commercial also

I found it with a collage of other 80's commercials belive it or not this is a commercial brake from the Gobots youi can see the bimpers for it The Transformers commercial is about 2 minutes 12 seconds in this 4:47 minute video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2x1tc1O_7s

News Credits: 349 · Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:31 pm

That was pretty good.

Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:51 pm

Poor Go-bots, even in their own commercial breaks the TFs outshine them.

Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:58 pm

gobots = OWNED!!!!!!!!!

Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:40 pm

BURN!!! Stupid Go-Bots........I hate you all......heheh, the real TF's.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:47 pm

Yeah, the Gobots commercial breaks are better than the show. Of course! That was kewl!

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:24 pm

hey hey hey. so i guess it was to promote rub signs

News Credits: 5 · Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:10 am

*gasp!* The C.L.A.W.!!!!!! I remember begging for that thing because of that commercial. Awesome to the max!

News Credits: 4 · Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:46 am

Heh-Tonkas clutch popper, :-?

sounds mildly homoerotic

I dig the kid speaking in the robot voice

Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:08 pm

Ninja Sixshot wrote:hey hey hey. so i guess it was to promote rub signs

I believe the same, as well as to show how to avoid knockoffs by looking for the rub symbols.

News Credits: 26 · Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:39 pm

Whats the matter with rub signs?

Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:11 pm

There's nothing wrong with them, they're just one of the big things that Hasbro has always advertised as a mojor aspect of what separates REAL Transformers from knockoffs like Gobots and stuff like that.

Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:27 pm

Nemesis_Apoc wrote:There's nothing wrong with them, they're just one of the big things that Hasbro has always advertised as a mojor aspect of what separates REAL Transformers from knockoffs like Gobots and stuff like that.

Not so much as Gobots, since they were not knockoffs. More of them telling us to differentiate the TF knockoff's from the real ones by looking for the rub symbols.

News Credits: 26 · Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:34 am

Back in the day parents didn't know the difference between Transformers and Gobots so Hasbro decided to put up the rub signs so parents could look and if they seen no rub sign they knew it wasn't a transformer

To us its easy to see one package says Transformers and one says Gobots

But to parents it's all the same

I went to see Transformers the movie in a theater when it first came out and I could here a father talking to his son a few seats down asking him if these were the Gobots

News Credits: 3 · Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:57 pm

Man, my parents were never so benign as to not know the difference. I always thought the rub sign was to show the allegiance. It was probably easier to put a sticker on instead of painting it on too. AND... the Go Bots weren't that bad. They were on in the morning and the Transformers were on after school with G.I. JOE. It all evened out. Why does everybody give those poor Go Bots Hell?

News Credits: 26 · Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:51 pm

Back in the day I HATED them I seen them as copycats

I wish I did have some of the figures now

But the cartoon was bad
They have some of the episode up on youtube

News Credits: 3 · Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:51 pm

Back in the day I never saw the Go bots as copy cats, I was a kid and I loved all those robot shows. And Crasher was one cool go bot. Awesome colors and a mean streak to boot. Plus they're not made of bad construction, they're pretty solid. Sure scooter was/is a huge dork, but times were different then.
Before you know it there's gonna be a game like HMW for go bots.

Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:50 pm

DISCHARGE wrote:Back in the day I never saw the Go bots as copy cats, I was a kid and I loved all those robot shows. And Crasher was one cool go bot. Awesome colors and a mean streak to boot. Plus they're not made of bad construction, they're pretty solid. Sure scooter was/is a huge dork, but times were different then.
Before you know it there's gonna be a game like HMW for go bots.

Woot!

Plus the toys were more 'show accurate' than the G1's were. :wink:

My favorite Gobot ep was "Invasion from the 21st level"

Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:19 am

"only the transformers are REAL trnsformers" ... mighty competative prime ;p

News Credits: 26 · Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:59 am

Emperor Primacron the 1st wrote:
DISCHARGE wrote:Back in the day I never saw the Go bots as copy cats, I was a kid and I loved all those robot shows. And Crasher was one cool go bot. Awesome colors and a mean streak to boot. Plus they're not made of bad construction, they're pretty solid. Sure scooter was/is a huge dork, but times were different then.
Before you know it there's gonna be a game like HMW for go bots.

Woot!

Plus the toys were more 'show accurate' than the G1's were.

The G1 cartoon came out after the toys and if you look at both The Gobots had basic looks to them then

News Credits: 3 · Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:57 pm

DISCHARGE wrote:Man, my parents were never so benign as to not know the difference. I always thought the rub sign was to show the allegiance. It was probably easier to put a sticker on instead of painting it on too. AND... the Go Bots weren't that bad. They were on in the morning and the Transformers were on after school with G.I. JOE. It all evened out. Why does everybody give those poor Go Bots Hell?

beause they are devil spawn

Fri Feb 16, 2007 12:52 pm

Wheeljack35 wrote:
Emperor Primacron the 1st wrote:
DISCHARGE wrote:Back in the day I never saw the Go bots as copy cats, I was a kid and I loved all those robot shows. And Crasher was one cool go bot. Awesome colors and a mean streak to boot. Plus they're not made of bad construction, they're pretty solid. Sure scooter was/is a huge dork, but times were different then.
Before you know it there's gonna be a game like HMW for go bots.

Woot!

Plus the toys were more 'show accurate' than the G1's were.

The G1 cartoon came out after the toys and if you look at both The Gobots had basic looks to them then

What you saw on the gobots show, 9 times out of ten, with the execption of Leader-1 and maybe Crasher, was what you got in the toy form.

And I myself liked the show. Yes, a few episodes were not that hot, like Time Wars of Cy-Kills Shrink ray, but G1 had quite a few stinkers themselves.

It seems that, with a few exceptions, Gobots are more accepted and liked by younger viewers, while the older ones are not. :-?

News Credits: 1 · Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:24 pm

Megatron and Thundercracker's head looks different. :-?

Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:12 am

killer wrote:Megatron and Thundercracker's head looks different.

As were Bumblebee's, Ironhide's, Ratchet's, Trailbreaker's, Tracks', Galvatron's, Brawn's, Astrotrain's, Superion's, The Headmasters, Sandstorm's, Swindel and Brawl's entire show bodies....

And those are the one's I can think of off the top of my head at this moment. :lol:

News Credits: 1 · Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:19 pm

DISCHARGE wrote:Man, my parents were never so benign as to not know the difference. I always thought the rub sign was to show the allegiance. It was probably easier to put a sticker on instead of painting it on too. AND... the Go Bots weren't that bad. They were on in the morning and the Transformers were on after school with G.I. JOE. It all evened out. Why does everybody give those poor Go Bots Hell?

hehe, yeah, I rather like the GoBots myself

lol too bad they're no match for the "real" Transformers though :lol: