Damn, this guy is everywhere.

Personally, my favorite Gobot was the Renegade Loco. He transformed into a steam locomotive, and I’m a huge train fan.

And a Macross fan too...which places him in my cool book

@@derrickhough5854 Thanks, Macross is definitely one of the best anime ever made in my book.

@@bigboy4006 I had him, two actually because one was wore out LoL. Good Go-Bot!

Even though I did not like the toys,I really enjoyed the animated show.

@@Saturndragonfly Yes, definitely a well-written show, with plenty of variety and good storytelling with the Gobots spanning 65 episodes. The premiere mini-series was good too. Would be nice if Gobots vs Rocklords the movie ever hit disc format.

@@BlackArroToons hi Darth maul how are you

@@thesadistor-hl7lw Hello, says Darth Maul. Maul is doing well. ;)

@@BlackArroToons great to hear so can I ask you something please my lord

Renegade's Cykills. Then later the Cy-Renegades-kill.??? I feel this channel is being written by an AI

Yeah the narrator on this must be Ron Burgundy and just reads exactly what he sees without any thought

@@neiltattersall2078 I think he's just got a speech impediment & he's doing his best to keep it at bay.

@@neiltattersall2078 and keeps saying "feetor"

@@boomstand2872 hi dude how are you

This would be a good idea!

Any GoBot representation is a good thing.

Half surprised Michael Bay didn't try "reinventing" the Go-Bots in his "signature style". Maybe he'd have them turn the humans into cyborgs with Cybertronian tech from a sliver of Allspark. Maybe have Starscream be the main antagonist because F-15 battle. It would end up being nothing like Go-Bots, while calling itself Go-Bots.

Good point.

Michael Bay Presents: the gobots

Nah Travis knight should directed the movie , while Michael bay should be a producer and the vehicle mode provider for the gobots

Damned right!

@@johngavin1175 Yup!

I love gobots have just about all of them plus the dvds to

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@@vernwhite568 :D

Oh and don't forget Saw Boss

Because he kills and he's a psycho. Psy - Kill. xD

Badly 🤣

Deservedly lol

they roasted the hell out of everything. including transformers, and more on them than gobots

@@earlfrancart5687 Optimus Prime had cancer

@@thebrownbaldy and when he died he transformed into a robeast coffin from voltron. yes im a kid of the 80's

I remember seeing the Go Bots and Rocklords in the theaters. Can’t remember anything else about it. I had a few of the toys but they were shit. I think if the toys were better the show would’ve lasted.

@@jesset2504 they had a Go-Bot and Rock Lords crossover movie I went to the theater to see it toom

I see what you did there,though I think Hydrox was around before Oreos

@@johngavin1175 Right. GoBots existed before Transformers. RC Cola before Coke. Hydrox before Oreos.

They were all (GoBots arguably) the "big brands" before their rivals marketed better.

@@iamsemjaza Wasn't sure about RC. RC is pretty good

@@johngavin1175 There's even a song about RC Cola :) "RC Cola & A Moon Pie" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/otWRoLmTprXXgKM.html

I posted above that I actually like them BETTER than Transformers because Transformers focused almost entirely on the "war" between the 2 factions and GoBots did have that similar conflict yes BUT it ALSO had VERY captivating and interesting as hell stories. When a STORY is captivating enough you don't really care about bad special fx or other flaws. There is a reason the original Star Trek and Twilight Zone are still popular. GoBots had way more interesting stories and way more likable characters.

Now all Transformers series since Beast Wars have used a small cast thus better characterisations... it's amazing what they've stolen from the Gobots to make the transformers better I modern times lol

@@CopturGobot "it's amazing what they've stolen from the Gobots" Hasbro can't steal from themselves. Hasbro acquired the rights to Gobots, and even Micro Machines, during the 80s. Since then, Gobots and Micro Machines has been incorporated in Transformers.

@@Zurround "GoBots had way more interesting stories and way more likable characters" That's simply a personal preference, although not a popular one. I, for one, thought the characters were rather silly, including seeing their faces while in their vehicle modes.

@@DPXEntertainment yes technically true but this type thing does happen within marvel where one department will 'borrow' from another etc Ultimately whatever a lot of what people like about Transformers today was originally an idea from the ye olde enemy the Gobots.

And half-women (and half-men too actually) made sense in GB's due their organic nature. TF's are much less so, so it didn't make as much sense for them.

This is getting tiresome. Females were part of go-bots unlike transformers? WHO CARES! That doesn't make it interesting or better. Both were boy franchises there's nothing wrong with that. If it mattered then go-bots would of sold more and would of been more popular It wasn't and I seriously doubt there was an army of girls running to the store asking mommy and daddy to buy them a go-bots.

@@avalond1193 Then or now?

TECHNICALLY THEY'RE NOT, JUST LOOK AT THE DEFINITION OF A CYBORG

@@philipwright9736 A cyborg a portmanteau of cybernetic and organism-is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts...technically gobots fit that definition. You can see some of it in the episode called Sentinel - episode shows their organic brains.

@@Crasher1982 DAMNED RIGHT. Nowhere is it written that it has to be fifty fifty. Any COMBINATION of biology and technology is a cyborg even if its mostly one or the other. Those were ORGANIC BRAINS much like a human would have. As a child it creeped me out slightly when an X ray image of their heads was shown because I thought they were fully robot and seeing a human brain (not technically "human" but that was what it looked like to a 10 year old kid) inside of what I thought was a ROBOT shocked me a tad.

@@Zurround well gobeings were said to have been pretty much the same as humans so it's not out of the realm of possibility to say gobots are half-human.

@@Crasher1982 They are still living machines. They can be referred to as cyborg but since they are alien they don't follow human rules. Everything alive in space is not flesh and bone. It can be a bit of all organic, metal and most of all pure energy.

I love doing Stop Motion animation with my Go Bots & Transformers🎬📸🎞️🤖‼️

Me too! I used to collect them as a child. I even had the gold corvette one. He was so cool!

Cry in GoBot tears, GoBot was introudsed in 1983 Transformers 1984, and the GoBot is called knock-off...... But to be fair Transformers was the superior product.

Nah,the full sized Leader 1 was complete without a bunch of easily lost parts. Plus L1 looked more like an F15.

@@miggypeso909 starscream still subjectively looks cooler plus Optimus did too and Shockwave and Soundwave were also great for the time you also had the macross sdf 1 briefly join the line Shoji Kowamori designs just looked better regardless of partsforming

@@kirgan1000 Hassenfeld Brothers (otherwise known as Hasbro) had patents with Japanese toymaker Takara for transforming toys back in 1974. That toy would eventually become GunRobo (known outside of Japan as the Megatron toy). Hasbro made a deal with Takara to bring the Japanese toys they were working on together to the USA in 1981. Tonka heard about the deal and got with Bandai in 1982 to bring Bandai's transforming Machine Robo toy line to the USA in 1983. They rushed the toy line and show to market and beat Hasbro by less than a year. Didn't matter though. Hasbro had the superior marketing, figures and reception. Go-Bots were cool and I had a ton of them, but looking back you can tell that they sacrificed quality to beat Transformers to the market.

You've taken all my weapons, all I have left are my wheels.

That Cykill. You never know what he'd come up with. Made him unpredictable, and that made him an interesting character.

Funny thing is Hasbro Own gobots and the planet gobotron was a cybertronian colony

Awesome! I wish I could have played with you guys as a kid. Ya'll sound very imaginative! I was a poor kid too and most of my new toy robots were Go-Bots or knock-offs of Go-Bots. If I wanted regular size Transformers, I either got them second hand with broken or missing parts or occasionally found some in Zayre or K-Mart that other kids had opened and played with which usually meant getting them at a massive discount but, sadly incomplete. No accessories, no weapons. Just the figure. Not even any decals which really sucked for chairhead - I mean Ratchet!

@@user-sy3nd8yz9j We had a BLAST as a kid. The town I was in in Northern Ontario was very safe, and my friends and I had a good time outdoors, as well as playing with our imaginations and being kids. Sadly, not something many children can do nowadays. Want to hear something strange? The friend I was talking about and I (along with a few more friends) are getting together in a few weeks! I'm looking forward to it as I haven't seen him in person in some years (we are all hundreds of miles away from each other)

I liked the Go-Bots it was different than Transformers for me. A different universe.

Some people are worse than just pro transformers. Pro transformers is just fine with me, I respect the franchise. I have some pro transformer comments on my channel. I'm fine with them. One guy was too far though. Came into my Crasher channel telling me to stop making my Crasher channel because HE hated gobots. Like pffffft. Wouldn't leave me alone, either. I had to block him. Like, Eff off! I'll make a channel about my fave gobot if I want to. And I wanted to. Pfffft....the audacity of some people.....

@@Crasher1982 , I know exactly what you mean. Back in the Yahoo Groups days there were some video game console groups dedicated to collecting for specific consoles and members of one of the largest groups would join smaller groups for no other reason then, to demand that they close their groups down and join the "more popular group" that had "more members". They even tried that in one of my groups. We just let them know that we didn't care for their group, were not all that impressed with their group and would do what we wanted to. Besides, we had a better gallery of nostalgia.

@@user-sy3nd8yz9j I remember Yahoo Groups! Yeah there could be very nasty people in them.

I have Stretch, aka Tux. He is very fancy looking.

Where I lived they both came on once a day in the evening. Well, until Go-Bots stopped airing and Transformers kept going.

My favoite is smallfoot

Crasher is my girl! LOVE her! My beautiful sassy girl! Glad I'm not the only one who loves her!

No they weren't!🤦🏿‍♂️🙄

Actually they really where better,especially the smaller bots. Transformers where blocky whereas Gobots where mostly die cast and better engineered.

@@miggypeso909 simpler means less engineering thats like saying a hotwheel is better engineered than a gunpla I think you mean better playability

Lol no they weren't. Wtf

It wasn't that they were better made. The smaller ones were very detailed and some of them had very interesting transformations and looked cool in both vehicle form and robot form but, standard sized Go-Bots mainly had no elbow articulation just as some had no knee articulation. Some Super Gobots had more articulation and were usually a bit larger than 1:43 scale but, unfortunately some of those could not hold a blaster gun. Transformers on the other hand were roughly 1:43 scale for regular Autobots and usually had more articulation and interesting ideas for what parts of the vehicles became body parts in robot mode. They just seemed more mature in some way. The small Transformers were usually all plastic and cute and cartoonish but, with limited articulation. Decepticon jets were on a smaller scale than most Autobots and there was a lot left to imagination when it came to the sizes of alt modes which the Transformers cartoon demonstrated. Some of this was also true of Go-Bots. Both toylines and shows were great but, Transformers seemed to be directed at a slightly older audience and shows and toys of things like that usually sale pretty well. I still like both Go-Bots, Transformers, Starriors, Zoids, Voltron, Robo-Tech and generally any kind of robots with personality and cool features. Lack of articulation really can be frustrating though.

You are wrong. Its BETTER than Transformers. The stories were way more interesting. Transformers loved to cram lots of laser gun battles and other conflicts down our throat and GoBots had its battles between the 2 warring factions too but it ALSO had some VERY interesting story lines. Some even included elements of the paranormal and spiritual and one of them even had a "mirror universe" a lot like the "Mirror Mirror" episode of Star Trek where every hero in the regular story was a villain and vice versa. Transformers should have done a story like that. (Imagine a parallel universe in GI Joe where Cobra is a heroic army that is protecting the world from the evil forces of GI Joe).

@@Zurround Good point, I will concede that one.

@@Zurround yep all true and if you look at the transformers now they've stolen a lot of those ideas that were originally in Gobots.

@@Zurround "Its BETTER than Transformers." That's a very extreme personal opinion, not widely shared by the majority.....which is fine. The Gobots animated series suffered a lot of drawbacks that kept it from elevating itself beyond the strengths that Transformers offered (Despite its own flaws)

You can. WBros released the series on dvd.

I think it was more than just their brains were organic. They had lips and teeth as well.

@@Crasher1982, some transformers had a little bit of lip and even eye animation like when Megatron or Starscream sneered or Nightbird became enraged after being sealed and put away.

@@user-sy3nd8yz9j I agree with that. Some did.

@@Crasher1982 , you have an eye for detail.

@@user-sy3nd8yz9j Thank you :) I try :)

Who doesn't love Puzzler? xD Puzzler's cool.

I had the Puzzler toy as a kid. It was cool. I miss it.

It was called Turbo Teen and due to a weird accident where he crashed his car into a scientist's laboratory during an experiment, he and his car merged and when he gets hot he literally morphs into the car and when cold changes back. One time he got stuck in half metemorphasis because of a temperature problem. It was kind of scary.

I had to get the whole series on dvd.

The Mini series and 65 episode Challenge of the Go-Bots series are both excellent entertainment, agreed.

@@BlackArroToons I personally liked Crasher. She was wild and crazy and homicidal but kinda sexy.

truth

And this is exactly why Transformers outlasted Gobots: they were marketed as better product than they actually were. The PERCEPTION that persists today was that they were inherently better, because they were more expensive, but the reality is that the first years of Transformers figures were full of tiny parts that got lost easily. And very few of them looked like their cartoon versions. (Looking at you, Ironhide and Ratchet!) I won't say that Gobots were superior to Transformers, but they were at least as good, with a lot more variety in their short run. Yes, Transformers won the war, but it doesn't mean Gobot fans were on the wrong side.

@@haywire9125 Very well said.

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Prime and Leader-1 would be a good team. Also Ironhide and Turbo would be like brothers. Scooter and Bumblebee well a ok team. Cy-kill and Megatron would have problems. Soundwave would have Rumble bully Copter to death. Crasher and the Stunticons would have a orgy.

@@hamhockbeans Fi Tur, the jetfighter who is Cy Kill's right hand man would be analogous to Star Scream but UNLIKE Star Scream he is totally loyal to CyKill.

My best friend Brian and I used to have team ups all the time! (He couldn't afford TF as a kid, so he had Gobots, while I had TF. We got together and had team ups all the time. One thing was that Cy-Kill lent Soundwave (Soundwave was the Decepticon leader for our toys as we weren't allowed to play with guns (which is what Megatron was)) the stealth device and the astro-beam, so Optimus had to get aid from Leader-1 to counteract it

@@hamhockbeans This is going to sound weird, but my friends and I played that Bumblebee and Small Foot were a couple. She kind of is like the little sister of the Guardians

Woolworths was an excellent store. They even had Stompers!

i am from the uk and it was definitely gobots in the uk.... i had not even heard of robo machines till i was an adult and looked into them... dunno if you are from the uk or not but they were definitely gobots in the uk lol

@@jaynadiah5498 I looked at photos of the original packaging. At first they just used the Robo Machine logo. But once the series debuted they included the Gobots logo as well.

@@jaynadiah5498 yes they were robo machine and the Bandai original toys in the UK before they changed to tonka gobots. We also got them here in Ireland too and my very 1st transforming robot was the Bandai robo machine cy-kill back in 1983,i also remember the robo machine comic strip and even as recently as 2018 I picked up a carded Bandai robo machine version of slicks at that years tf nation... A 3day transformers convention in Birmingham.

@@jaynadiah5498 also if you look at the gobots wiki and scroll down to where it has worldwide (as in worldwide releases) it CLEARLY states the following..in the UK, France and a number of other European countries, BANDAI released the figures as ROBO MACHINE, utilising most of the Tonka names. Later on when the challenge of the gobots cartoon arrived this was changed or modified resulting in clumsy branding such as "robo machines featuring challenge of the gobots" or "challenge of the gobots-a robo machine production".

@@Kickback-dm7zt Ok fair dues... i guess as a 6 year old i wasnt really aware of them until after transformers and the gobots cartoons came out so i guess all my memories are after the cartoon started so hence only remembering gobots on all the packaging...

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The guy can't help it. It may be a speech problem. There is no need to be cruel.

@@user-sy3nd8yz9j so syrrious

Interesting... I did not no that. Hmm...

I love doing Stop Motion animation with my Go Bots & Transformers🎬📸🎞️🤖‼️

She does! haha xD And her name is Smallfoot.

Who are you talking to?? Surely not the narrator of the video. How is giving coverage to the old Go-Bots toys and show comparing it to Transformers??