Challenge of the Gobots: The Series DVD Available For Preorder
Saturday, April 19th, 2014 7:58pm CDT
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They’re back-at last! Cy-Kill! Leader-1! Cop-Tur! Turbo! Crasher! Scooter! The noble Guardian GoBots and the nefarious Renegade GoBots continue the war begun in The Battle for Gobotron across time and space in their epic series that comes to you factory fresh! With Earth as their chosen staging ground, the Renegades deploy Earth’s worst such as the deranged Dr. Braxis [voiced by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Rene Auberjonois], in the quest to conquer Earth and then Gobotron, so it's a good thing the Guardians have Matt, Nick and Ad of UNECDM on their side! This 30-episode, three-disc collection finds the amazing, metamorphing cyborgs taking their fight to Ancient Rome, lost Atlantis and back to Gobotron in a series of adventures that will leave you shouting for “MOAR”!
This nostalgic set can be ordered by clicking here!
This follows the Original miniseries, available for sale at $14.39.
This article was last modified on Saturday, April 19th, 2014 8:04pm CDT
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Posted by fenrir72 on April 19th, 2014 @ 8:29pm CDT
Posted by Fires_Of_Inferno on April 19th, 2014 @ 8:47pm CDT
Posted by Megatron Wolf on April 19th, 2014 @ 8:51pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 19th, 2014 @ 9:34pm CDT
Posted by Bumblevivisector on April 19th, 2014 @ 9:47pm CDT
Funny how nostalgia works: I actually get more nostalgic for GoBots than Transformers because I never gave up TF, but GoBots was something I had to get reacquainted with via old VHS rentals in college, just after Beast Wars wrapped up.
What I'm most nostalgic for is how every toystore, drugstore, and 5 & dime in the mid-'80s had a huge selection of random robots, haphazardly repainted from whatever Japanese figures smaller companies could get their hands on, making it seem like outer space had hundreds of different worlds with sentient mechanical life. Sadly, I don't think even those of us old enough to remember really appreciated how good we had it back then, because we were too eager to see the Transformers prove the greatness we knew they had by crushing their competition.
And even then, how many remember them having any competition besides GoBots?
You know you must for your mental database to be truly complete, even if its place in the universal streams is in permanent legal limbo.Sabrblade wrote:Been curious about seeing this show.
While greater Sunbow continuity gave me the idea that about half of the weekday cartoons I watched existed in the same universe, GoBots was also a contributing factor. When I was 5 or 6, I was positive that Dr. Arkeville was really just Dr. Braxis disguising himself in a cheap cyborg costume in order to sneak into the superior alien robot cartoon. Makes his fate in Countdown to Extinction all the funnier to me.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on April 19th, 2014 @ 10:23pm CDT
Posted by Heckfire on April 19th, 2014 @ 10:31pm CDT
Mkall wrote:That's slightly less than $1 per episode.
...which is still more than Hanna Barbera spent
I can kid. I love my Go-Bots, and I even actually paid money to see "Battle of the Rock Lords" in theaters when it was released. Most expensive tranquilizer ever...
Bumblevivisector wrote:And even then, how many remember them having any competition besides GoBots?
Huh...off the top of my head, I remember the Convertors, which were mostly mechs from obscure animes repurposed as good and evil bots (I had all of the five bird-based subset, plus Tentacus, the spider from their opposing "insect" enemies...I made him the leader of my Decepticons and recently "upgraded" him for my Neo-G1s with the Fox Kids Transmetal Tarantulas).
The original Revell Robotech line, before the cartoon started, was similar, but it was mostly models (transformable ones, too...complex as Hell to build, but AWESOME) and these sweet little combiner figures called "Robolinx"...sort of proto-Ammonites, mostly in blue.
Those are the only ones off the top of my head, other than the numerous knock-offs.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on April 19th, 2014 @ 10:46pm CDT
Heckfire wrote:Mkall wrote:That's slightly less than $1 per episode.
...which is still more than Hanna Barbera spent
I can kid. I love my Go-Bots, and I even actually paid money to see "Battle of the Rock Lords" in theaters when it was released. Most expensive tranquilizer ever...
Bumblevivisector wrote:And even then, how many remember them having any competition besides GoBots?
Huh...off the top of my head, I remember the Convertors, which were mostly mechs from obscure animes repurposed as good and evil bots (I had all of the five bird-based subset, plus Tentacus, the spider from their opposing "insect" enemies...I made him the leader of my Decepticons and recently "upgraded" him for my Neo-G1s with the Fox Kids Transmetal Tarantulas).
The original Revell Robotech line, before the cartoon started, was similar, but it was mostly models (transformable ones, too...complex as Hell to build, but AWESOME) and these sweet little combiner figures called "Robolinx"...sort of proto-Ammonites, mostly in blue.
Those are the only ones off the top of my head, other than the numerous knock-offs.
Those $60-$75 Bandai imports of their mecha? Some were Sentai Zords
Posted by ausbot on April 20th, 2014 @ 12:31am CDT
Posted by Heckfire on April 20th, 2014 @ 5:12am CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Those $60-$75 Bandai imports of their mecha? Some were Sentai Zords
Nope, these were actual Revell paint-glue-and-decals model kits of mecha from Macross, Orguss, and the like, the same ones that also showed up in the original print run of the Battletech tabletop RPG. Bandai had nothing to do with them, except maybe licensing them to Revell in the first place (I can't recall who owned the rights to the mecha designs back in the early/mid 80s, I was about 9 or 10 at the time).
Posted by Coptur on April 20th, 2014 @ 5:59am CDT
http://www.counter-x.net/gobots/challen ... index.html
Posted by Sabrblade on April 20th, 2014 @ 8:46am CDT
And did the show's final episode feel like a series finale, or did it just end like any ordinary episode with little closure?
Posted by Bumblevivisector on April 20th, 2014 @ 9:40am CDT
That's what I'm guessing too.Sabrblade wrote:Since there were 65 episodes, I'm assuming that 1-5 got released before, 6-35 must be in this set, and 36-65 could be in a Volume 2 release, right?
I'm pretty sure Gobots: Battle of the Rock Lords comes after the series, but it's been too long since I saw it for me to recall many details. The movie ends their continuity on something of an epic note, but since it was more concerned with introducing new factions and battlefields, if anything it leaves more loose ends than the show.Sabrblade wrote:And did the show's final episode feel like a series finale, or did it just end like any ordinary episode with little closure?
Posted by Coptur on April 20th, 2014 @ 10:33am CDT
Posted by shajaki on April 20th, 2014 @ 11:35am CDT
wait wait wait.... this set wont include the first five episodes?Sabrblade wrote:Since there were 65 episodes, I'm assuming that 1-5 got released before, 6-35 must be in this set, and 36-65 could be in a Volume 2 release, right?
Posted by Bumblevivisector on April 20th, 2014 @ 2:10pm CDT
Nope. They released that DVD well over a year ago, I believe. I never bought it because I thought this inevitable larger set might include them for a double-dip, but now I'll need to order it too.shajaki wrote:wait wait wait.... this set wont include the first five episodes?Sabrblade wrote:Since there were 65 episodes, I'm assuming that 1-5 got released before, 6-35 must be in this set, and 36-65 could be in a Volume 2 release, right?
I never had any of those, but I did read both issues of their DC comic: Robotech Defenders. It was about a diverse group of aliens seeking out ancient mecha hidden on different planets to combat a common enemy. It was supposed to be 3 issues, but condensed down to 2 when they had to wrap up early due to Comico putting out their own comics based on some other, unrelated franchise with the same name.Heckfire wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Those $60-$75 Bandai imports of their mecha? Some were Sentai Zords
Nope, these were actual Revell paint-glue-and-decals model kits of mecha from Macross, Orguss, and the like, the same ones that also showed up in the original print run of the Battletech tabletop RPG. Bandai had nothing to do with them, except maybe licensing them to Revell in the first place (I can't recall who owned the rights to the mecha designs back in the early/mid 80s, I was about 9 or 10 at the time).
Posted by Wheeljack35 on April 20th, 2014 @ 7:41pm CDT
Posted by T-Macksimus on April 20th, 2014 @ 8:29pm CDT
Heckfire wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:Those $60-$75 Bandai imports of their mecha? Some were Sentai Zords
Nope, these were actual Revell paint-glue-and-decals model kits of mecha from Macross, Orguss, and the like, the same ones that also showed up in the original print run of the Battletech tabletop RPG. Bandai had nothing to do with them, except maybe licensing them to Revell in the first place (I can't recall who owned the rights to the mecha designs back in the early/mid 80s, I was about 9 or 10 at the time).
I know exactly what you are talking about since I still have a standard VF, and Armored version and a Robot Recovery Unit flatbed. All from Revell. Most certainly not anything close to those Bandai kits and yes, they were hard as hell to assemble but way cool when you finally got them completed. I also had a number of the Convertors figures that you had mentioned from your earlier post and more Robo-Links than I knew what to do with. The came in at least 3 shades of blue, some with the bodies blue and the arms and legs white, some the mirror image of that and some red and white and I had a ton of the add-on's that went with them to combine them into larger mechs and vehicles. They were like Ammonites on steroids.
Sabrblade wrote:Been curious about seeing this show.
A part of me is curious to know what it feels like to be shot but I can guarantee you that if either of us satisfies our respective curiosities, it's going to hurt, just in different ways.

Posted by AutobotAlvaron on April 20th, 2014 @ 8:57pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 20th, 2014 @ 9:06pm CDT
Oh, I'm aware of it being beneath the G1 cartoon's quality, but any enjoyment I'd get out of it would probably guilty pleasure stuff.T-Macksimus wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Been curious about seeing this show.
A part of me is curious to know what it feels like to be shot but I can guarantee you that if either of us satisfies our respective curiosities, it's going to hurt, just in different ways.![]()
Besides, I've sat through all of Armada, Energon, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Turbo, Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, every English dub of Digimon, some of Voltron: Defender of the Universe, some of Super Friends, a bit of the Adam West Batman series, the English dub of Sailor Moon, 4Kids anime dubs, and a fair amount of the films reviewed by the Nostalgia Critic. I think I could handle this too.
