Colour Images of Action Toys New Machine Robo figures aka GOBOTS

These are well cool; absolute 80s cheese. Does anyone know if they scale with modern CHUG transformers figures well? Like, are they deluxe or voyager or are they more akin to Masterpiece-style toys?
If they make a Pathfinder I'm sold. I dunno why I like Pathfinder. I just kind of do.

"Rod Drill" sounds more like a porn star than a GoBot.

There are not enough drooling emoticons in the world to express how down with this I am.

Because the toys are owned by Bandai (One of Takara's biggest competitors) I don't know if they can work a deal, even though Hasbro owns the Go-Bots rights in North America. It would be cool if they could...

I'd love to see the rest of the Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos anime, after only 3 DVD's containing 15 episodes were released by Central Park Media.

It is really a cool anime. Its just crazy to me to think that in France RoC was dubbed as an official "sequel" to the Go-Bots

But oddly enough, I can see some Go-Bots influence. Bike Robo & Eagle Robo (Cy-Kill and Leader-1), had minimal screen time and influence in the anime series. Rod Drill & Blue Jet (Fitor) *not pictured* were Rom's closest associates at least in the early episodes.

o.supreme wrote:Because the toys are owned by Bandai (One of Takara's biggest competitors) I don't know if they can work a deal, even though Hasbro owns the Go-Bots rights in North America. It would be cool if they could...

I am pretty sure there is no talk of a deal. This is really its own thing and will not be associated in any way with hasbro. These will have to be imported just like any other asia exclusive toy, the only question is from where.

Kurona wrote:These are well cool; absolute 80s cheese. Does anyone know if they scale with modern CHUG transformers figures well? Like, are they deluxe or voyager or are they more akin to Masterpiece-style toys?
If they make a Pathfinder I'm sold. I dunno why I like Pathfinder. I just kind of do.

How would any of us know? These are just getting revealed. How would anyone here know what scale they are?

Aw, yeah! You know, I was remembering this just yesterday and was beginning to think it wasn't going to happen. But there they are!

Now, I gotta be honest. I was never into GoBots at all. I saw them as low rent Transformers. But I did get Leader-1 and CyKill and have a lot of pleasant memories playing with those guys as if they were proper TFs. I am stoked that new toys, based on the old toys (as opposed to the cartoon) are coming out!

Let the prorders begin!!

Prior to combiner wars, I bought the Power Warriors for my son as I was able to find them cheap on eBay. However using the "chart" to find a good mix of Guardians & Renegades that fit each suit was a PITA. I ended up with Guardians: Leader-1, Turbo, Scooter, Pathfinder, and Spoons. Renegades: Cy-Kill, Crasher, Cop-Tur, Vitor, and Screwhead

It's about time more info hit for these guys.


I just need to figure out how I'll afford them is all.

One of the facebook posts confirms they're being released "this summer" and the price was previously listed in Yen that (at the time) was equivalent to $23 USD.

They've been said to be shorter than MP cars but not by much. So not quite MP sized and a little too big for chug (unless you like your gobots tall)

That said, I'm all in on these guys!

jamesbenjamin wrote:One of the facebook posts confirms they're being released "this summer" and the price was previously listed in Yen that (at the time) was equivalent to $23 USD.

They've been said to be shorter than MP cars but not by much. So not quite MP sized and a little too big for chug (unless you like your gobots tall)

That said, I'm all in on these guys!

That would seem consistent with the Phillips head screws in the figures. If they were bigger than voyager-class those screws would be enormous.

Randomhero wrote:

Kurona wrote:These are well cool; absolute 80s cheese. Does anyone know if they scale with modern CHUG transformers figures well? Like, are they deluxe or voyager or are they more akin to Masterpiece-style toys?
If they make a Pathfinder I'm sold. I dunno why I like Pathfinder. I just kind of do.

How would any of us know? These are just getting revealed. How would anyone here know what scale they are?

If by "just" you mean over a year ago then yeah, they were "just" revealed. lol. It's been so long that most people forgot about or gave up on them.

Either way though, there's been very little information about these so I doubt anyone other than people who have actually seen them would know the size right now. Going by the way Transformers are constructed, I'd guess that with their use of ball jointed hips and mushroom peg thigh swivels, that they're around deluxe sized but they could just as easily be voyager sized as well.

There have also been a few prototype pictures that show that some will be different sizes too. There's a picture with Tough Trailer from Revenge of Chronos next to who we know as Loco and Loco looks tiny next to Tough Trailer. So I'm going to say that Loco would be the same "standard" size as Cykill and the rest and that Tough Trailer will be about ultra/weaponizer/new leader sized. Especially given the construction of his hip joints being detented disk hinges.

If these are cheap enough and easy enough to get I'll buy most, if not all, of them. They all look really good and some great articulation.

Again, its hard to say this early on, but the all-plastic reminds me of the Super Go-Bots (Machine Robo DX and Big Machine Robo). It would be kind of cool if they were to scale with these.

I was kind of wondering if some of the more popular ones would be released as part of the Soul of Chogokin line as GX-39 Baikanfu was nearly a decade ago. But since the SOC line is *seemingly* ending, at least for now, I guess these are the next best thing.

Randomhero wrote:

Kurona wrote:These are well cool; absolute 80s cheese. Does anyone know if they scale with modern CHUG transformers figures well? Like, are they deluxe or voyager or are they more akin to Masterpiece-style toys?
If they make a Pathfinder I'm sold. I dunno why I like Pathfinder. I just kind of do.

How would any of us know? These are just getting revealed. How would anyone here know what scale they are?

Because somewhere there might have been a scale, or other photos, or maybe someone can tell by the screw sizes or whatever. idk, there's a ton of possible ways to know without actually owning the toys

I like what I'm seeing! I loved Gobots! Can't wait to see prices for these!

Randomhero wrote:How would any of us know? These are just getting revealed. How would anyone here know what scale they are?

Welcome to page 8 of the discussion.

Another point of reference is the hands. If those are 5mm peg holes then these really do seem to be in the range of "tall deluxe". If the price really is around US$23 after exchange then that does support the size.

o.supreme wrote:Because the toys are owned by Bandai (One of Takara's biggest competitors) I don't know if they can work a deal, even though Hasbro owns the Go-Bots rights in North America. It would be cool if they could...

I wonder if it's that simple. Hasbro already releases Bandai's Yo-Kai Watch toys over here and Action Toy's Ultimetal Optimus Prime is made under Hasbro's trademark so there is a three-way relationship there. Maybe Hasbro can't release these over here themselves, but Action Toys certainly seems to be appeasing Go-Bots fans with their selection so maybe they could work in between and use Bandai's likenesses and Hasbro's names?

Here's the full list of what they've shown so far, it's pretty substantial actually

MR-01 Bike Robo (Cy-Kill)
MR-02 Battle Robo (Tank)
MR-03 Jet Robo (Fitor)
MR-07 Supercar Robo (Turbo)
MR-14 Shuttle Robo (Spay-C)
MR-17 Drill Robo (Screwhead)
MR-25 Eagle Robo (Leader-1)
MR-36 Mixer Robo (Block Head)
MR-45 Blackbird Robo (Snoop)

I definitely want the more prominent Go-Bots characters, but I really hope there'll be face variants, at least for Cy-Kill.

Emerje

jamesbenjamin wrote:One of the facebook posts confirms they're being released "this summer" and the price was previously listed in Yen that (at the time) was equivalent to $23 USD.

Wow, if they turn out to be $30 or lower, I'll be getting a whole mess of them!

Randomhero wrote:

Kurona wrote:These are well cool; absolute 80s cheese. Does anyone know if they scale with modern CHUG transformers figures well? Like, are they deluxe or voyager or are they more akin to Masterpiece-style toys?
If they make a Pathfinder I'm sold. I dunno why I like Pathfinder. I just kind of do.

How would any of us know? These are just getting revealed. How would anyone here know what scale they are?

It's a legit question. No need to be a Trump about it.

Deluxe to Voyager size is good for me, and if they're around $25 or so U.S price, then I'm definitely in for two of each.

Kurona wrote: I dunno why I like Pathfinder. I just kind of do.

She reminds me a bit of the cylon fighter ships on the original Battlestar Galactica, that's certainly a point in her favor.

I'm not a big GoBots guy, though I have some random ones from the 80s (and Puzzler!), but I'd love to pick some of these up for random/generic bots on my Transformers shelves. Glad they're not dead in the water.

Ironhidensh wrote:

jamesbenjamin wrote:One of the facebook posts confirms they're being released "this summer" and the price was previously listed in Yen that (at the time) was equivalent to $23 USD.

Wow, if they turn out to be $30 or lower, I'll be getting a whole mess of them!

Same here!

Ironhidensh wrote:It's a legit question. No need to be a Trump about it.

o.supreme wrote:I'd love to see the rest of the Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos anime, after only 3 DVD's containing 15 episodes were released by Central Park Media.

Here you go.

o.supreme wrote:Because the toys are owned by Bandai (One of Takara's biggest competitors) I don't know if they can work a deal, even though Hasbro owns the Go-Bots rights in North America. It would be cool if they could...

I'd love to see the rest of the Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos anime, after only 3 DVD's containing 15 episodes were released by Central Park Media.

It is really a cool anime. Its just crazy to me to think that in France RoC was dubbed as an official "sequel" to the Go-Bots

But oddly enough, I can see some Go-Bots influence. Bike Robo & Eagle Robo (Cy-Kill and Leader-1), had minimal screen time and influence in the anime series. Rod Drill & Blue Jet (Fitor) *not pictured* were Rom's closest associates at least in the early episodes.

Blue Jet and Rod Drill are regulars for the entire 47 episode series. Both characters are in Machine Robo: Battle Hackers but they play minor characters who some how guard the base. I had the fan sub of the series since 1999 but its a very good anime waay better than GoBots. Battle Hackers is ok, not as good as Revenge of Chronos. Rom And Leina are also in there own anime, well Leina is in her own anime loosely based on Revenge of Chronos.

I want all of these now!!

Whoa, baby-face Cy-Kill. That's just weird.

I mean, I know it's not really Cy-Kill, but it's still kinda-sorta him. Except instead of the grizzled old mug he could easily pass for a child. It's quite the difference.

Noideaforaname wrote:Whoa, baby-face Cy-Kill. That's just weird.

I mean, I know it's not really Cy-Kill, but it's still kinda-sorta him. Except instead of the grizzled old mug he could easily pass for a child. It's quite the difference.

Bike Robo was a good guy character.

All of these were, actually.

Emerje wrote:I wonder if it's that simple. Hasbro already releases Bandai's Yo-Kai Watch toys over here and Action Toy's Ultimetal Optimus Prime is made under Hasbro's trademark so there is a three-way relationship there.

The world of copyrights, trademarks and licenses is a mess no matter how you try to see it, especially if the total sum ends up split between multiple parties in the end. And business relationships for one project don't necessarily carry over into another, all you'll get is a recommendation

Who initiated the project? Did Action Toys develop them and asked Bandai for approval, or did Bandai commission Action Toys?

And I want that Rod Drill and Eagle Robo

Optimum Supreme wrote:

Kurona wrote: I dunno why I like Pathfinder. I just kind of do.

She reminds me a bit of the cylon fighter ships on the original Battlestar Galactica, that's certainly a point in her favor.

Weird Haven't been on Fourms in months, find out my old account doesn't work anymore... ANyway I blame my friend in Japan. I never liked gobots ether, I had the SuperGobots Future Car, and Stacks but thats it. My Friend who's into zen and said that their beauty is in how ugly they are, and he sent me a Pathfinder. I then noticed her humanoid form just struck me as a Robot Japanese School girl. The red on her chest looked like a Sailor Fuku bow, and had a grey dress.

And now I can not see her as anything other than a RObot School girl.

I hope they make the other Fem Gobots/Mechine Robo's

Though I must say these new images make the toys look like they are lower plastic quality than I expected. Still good but not quite the level I was expecting compared to the look of the Prototypes and the Colored samples from a while back.

Mr Skram wrote:I'm not a big GoBots guy, though I have some random ones from the 80s (and Puzzler!), but I'd love to pick some of these up for random/generic bots on my Transformers shelves. Glad they're not dead in the water.

Puzzler would be a cool one for them to do also.

Noideaforaname wrote:Whoa, baby-face Cy-Kill. That's just weird.

I mean, I know it's not really Cy-Kill, but it's still kinda-sorta him. Except instead of the grizzled old mug he could easily pass for a child. It's quite the difference.

Maybe some 3rd Party will get on that? I know a friend of mine on Facebook wants the Gobot face heh.


A funny thing with Combiner wars, a lot of Gobots could be recreated using CW molds. Especially thanks to Computron coming out soon. Cosmos would have to be Repainted into Pathfinder.

JasonCanty01 wrote:Weird Haven't been on Fourms in months, find out my old account doesn't work anymore...

Would you like assistance in getting that account fixed up?

People hoping for a Path Finder figure should keep their expectations low since this a Machine Robo: Revenge of Chronos line and Path Finder's MR counterpart, UFO Robo, didn't appear in the Revenge of Chronos anime.

JasonCanty01 wrote:A funny thing with Combiner wars, a lot of Gobots could be recreated using CW molds. Especially thanks to Computron coming out soon. Cosmos would have to be Repainted into Pathfinder.

FunPub is way ahead of you:



From left to right:

Hans-Cuff
Scooter
Turbo
Leader-1
Flip Top
Staks

wheres Fitor?

Ultra Markus wrote:wheres Fitor?

Blue Jet is simply not included among these pictures.

Blue Jet (Fitor) is probably a later release, they're now starting to number them:

01 Bike Robo (Cy-Kill)
02 Rod Drill (Screwhead)
03 Eagle Robo (Leader-1)
04 Battle Robo (Tank)

Burn wrote:

JasonCanty01 wrote:Weird Haven't been on Fourms in months, find out my old account doesn't work anymore...

Would you like assistance in getting that account fixed up?

Hmm Sure, though to be honest Its not like I really posted much before anyway. I think it has to do with my account being under a Hotmail adderss.

Sabrblade wrote:People hoping for a Path Finder figure should keep their expectations low since this a Machine Robo: Revenge of Chronos line and Path Finder's MR counterpart, UFO Robo, didn't appear in the Revenge of Chronos anime.

Hope they still cram her in anyway. ^_^ Oh well.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

JasonCanty01 wrote:A funny thing with Combiner wars, a lot of Gobots could be recreated using CW molds. Especially thanks to Computron coming out soon. Cosmos would have to be Repainted into Pathfinder.

FunPub is way ahead of you:



From left to right:

Hans-Cuff
Scooter
Turbo
Leader-1
Flip Top
Staks

Cool.

Grove makes a good Cy-Kill.
Dragstrip/Mirage as Crasher/Fracture.
Skylinx could be power suit Courageous.
Silverbolt as Grungy.
Onsluaght as Powersuit Nemisis.
Any of the Copters as Cop-Tor and Fliptop.
Afterburner as Dart.
Strafe as Fitor.
Hound = Geeper Creeper.
Prowl = Hans-Cuff.
Ironhide = SmallFoot.
Takara Blastoff as Spay-C.
Nosecone or Drillhorn as ScrewHead
Killbison as TANK
Powerglide as Badboy
ANy of the Areobots as any of the other GObot Jets.


Heh Combiner wars Gobots could be done with current CW figures just need repaint.

You won't get Challenge of the Gobots likenesses as neither Hasbro or Bandai own those that is Warner Bros.

I'll get Bike Robo and Eagle Robo and hope that a 3rd party company does alt heads

OT isn't it!

These modern take on the are so awesome!

JasonCanty01 wrote:

Optimum Supreme wrote:

Kurona wrote: I dunno why I like Pathfinder. I just kind of do.

She reminds me a bit of the cylon fighter ships on the original Battlestar Galactica, that's certainly a point in her favor.

My Friend who's into zen and said that their beauty is in how ugly they are, and he sent me a Pathfinder. I then noticed her humanoid form just struck me as a Robot Japanese School girl. The red on her chest looked like a Sailor Fuku bow, and had a grey dress.

And now I can not see her as anything other than a Robot School girl.

Well shit, now I can only think of her as a sailor scout. I don't know if this is good or bad.

My wallet hates me right now for looking at these.

Sabrblade wrote:

o.supreme wrote:I'd love to see the rest of the Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos anime, after only 3 DVD's containing 15 episodes were released by Central Park Media.

Here you go.

Thank you kind sir. Been wanting to finish this amazing series for a while.

These look right on par, in terms of complexity, with the current Combiner Wars deluxe figures, especially now that CW deluxes are fairly large and chunky compared to many previous lines and we may get a few slightly larger deluxes in the upcoming Titan Wars line.

I'm all in at he $25-$30 price range!

Now we just need Ryan to give us a Gobot emoji.

Just imagine if they give us a Puzzler in this new Line!

Kurona wrote:Well SHIZZLESNIT, now I can only think of her as a sailor scout. I don't know if this is good or bad.

Well, that term is now obsolete considering the newer, more faithful English dub the series now has ("Sailor Guardian" is what the Sailor Senshi are called in English now).

Leader_Ultra_Magnus wrote:Just imagine if they give us a Puzzler in this new Line!

Puzzler was exclusively a Go-Bot (not a part of Machine Robo as far as I know) however... We could get Devil Satan 6 (Monstrous) that would be cool...

o.supreme wrote:

Leader_Ultra_Magnus wrote:Just imagine if they give us a Puzzler in this new Line!

Puzzler was exclusively a Go-Bot (never a part of Machine Robo) however... We could get Devil Satan 6 (Monstrous) that would be cool...

What? Then what's with this "Machine Puzzler" commercial?

Robogeek1973 wrote:Deluxe to Voyager size is good for me, and if they're around $25 or so U.S price, then I'm definitely in for two of each.

Presumably they'll be ~$25 to import and $30 at places like BBTS.

Sabrblade wrote:What? Then what's with this "Machine Puzzler" commercial?

I figured that would come back to bite me, that's why I changed it to *as far as I know*, but you were quickly on the case. -That's what I get for trusting a wiki (Machine Robo Wiki specifically). I thought they had all Go-Bots & Machine Robo counterparts as one listing, as they all had been for every entry I had seen until now. They list Go-Bots Puzzler and Machine Puzzler separately...Go Figure. Still...I don't *think* Puzzler was in Revenge of Cronos (but again I haven't seen past episode 15 so I may be wrong)

These are awesome. The clampy hands on not-Cy-kill really take me back. I'll probably get him so that Megatron can kill him repeatedly. Then I'll get the not-Leader-1 and have Optimus... I don't know, repeatedly pass him up for promotions. Whatever the good guy equivalent would be.

Glarryg

I'd love a cool Pathfinder, especially if they feminized it a little to diversify her from the others

Glarryg wrote:These are awesome. The clampy hands on not-Cy-kill really take me back. I'll probably get him so that Megatron can kill him repeatedly. Then I'll get the not-Leader-1 and have Optimus... I don't know, repeatedly pass him up for promotions. Whatever the good guy equivalent would be.

Glarryg

Put Leader-1 in a position equivalent to Animated Sentinel Prime. Done.

BBTS Preorders in, and you're not going to like the price:

Bike Robo $45.99
Rod Drill $45.99

Stands 4 1/2 inches tall [Edit: Bike Robo]. Actually a small deluxe or even scout sized? (CW hound is roughly 5 1/2 inches.)

I have to say that I am disappointed in both the size and price...

[Edit] Estimated delivery of 2nd Quarter 2016