As a fan of the Gobots and the Challenge of the Gobots animated series (65 classic Hanna-Barbera Episodes), this was awesome to see such an awesome span of pretty much all of the figures in the line and more, all in one feature-length video. You have an amazing Gobots collection, Mike! Thanks for taking the time to showcase every figure here, explaining the details of each and their robot and alternate vehicle form. Cy-Kill was my first Gobot as a kid, and I still remember the moment I was opening it up in Wendy's back then while eating lunch. What a cool figure, and I went on to collect a good number soon after that. They're a nice line and very affordable back then. The TV show is entertaining, with Leader 1, Scooter and Turbo vs Cy-Kill, Crasher and Coptor as the main leads. Scooter (voiced by Frank Welker) could be brave in a number of episodes thankfully. I bet it took a lot of time and editing to put this all together. Thank you!
The show was fun even though Transformers overshadowed it. Funny you bring up Wendys because they had their own line of gobots I may feature in a video down the road. Yes this one was a lot of work and glad you enjoyed
I had Machine Robo Bike Robo (pre-Go-Bots) in 1983. I was today years old when I learned his engine could be attached to his arm. Thank you for making me realize how much of my childhood was lost for not having known this.
My friend. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!!! I started off with GoBots as a kid, had roughly 10 of them and I enjoyed them very much. As I got into Transformers, my father kept calling my TF "GoBots" because he knew it annoyed me lol... I had the hydroplane, the submarine, the alien crab, the big black porch, and the jeep. I played the hell out of them. They got so lose and scratched. I wish I still had them!
This is a great review of the Go-Bots line. I was more of a GI Joe, TF kid, but I liked Go-Bots, had a good number of them and didn't miss an episode of the cartoon. This video brings back some great memories and learning about Cy-kill's engine on the arm gimmick blew my mind.
I used to fold and tuck Pincher's arms under his wings, I thought it made it look sleeker when he is in bird/jet mode. Mine, was also Black. He was sold as a Gobot. Alot of the "knock offs" are the original, Japanese, toys. If you check them, they will have Japanese stamped onto a more metal body. Up here in Massachusetts, we had quite a few neighborhood/bodega/corner stores that sold these type of toys under another comany name. Before Tonka secured the rights. Snoop is an SR-71 Blackbird. The Night Raven is based on that. You were right it was an A-10 Warthog. The Rattle was based on. Wrong way became an Apache attack helicopter.
I loved Go-bots as a kid, but didn’t know most of these you have in this vid. Since I’ve completed my Transformers collection , I think I’m going to start getting the whole Go-Bots set now, thanks to your video.
I really enjoyed this deep dive into Gobots/Machine Men! It's great to see both modes and the variants you included. I loved Gobots for their affordability and quick/simple transformations. Thanks mate!
Great collection. Loved seeing them in both modes. I only ever owned a couple of toys from this line, so this was a fun way for me to learn a whole lot more about them.
I bought the original 12 when they first came out. They hit the store shelves before The Transformers did. But, I didn't have the money to keep up with them, so after the first 12, I just bought the ones I liked, like the monsters and Leader-1. I regret to this day not getting all of them at the time they were in the stores.
An Amazing Collection, the fact that you have at least 2 of each is Awesome!!!! And as a Toy Collection on You Tube.... You Display it better than most
It amazes me how many of these I can remember having as a kid! Everybit as much fun as Transformers to a little twerp, and So much easier to talk mom & dad into buying over Transformers. I always pretended Cy-Kills Motor was the Astro-Beam. I liked the Green and Black version too. It looked more EVIL than the Red White and Blue Cy-Kill.
This took me back to my childhood I had quite a few of these I remember taking them to school and having some major battles at recess with my freinds. Awsome video and love the collection can't wait to see the super gobots & Puzzler I had him as a child he is most definitely one of my favs again great vid
Great video. I remember having nearly all of these in the 80s. Though eventually got rid of them and I only kept my Transformers. I also remember hating Scooter in the cartoon and that transitioned to the toy. I never had a Scooter figure...well once, for about a day. Received him as a birthday present and just gave it away to my neighbor.
Epic collection brother. This is why I love this channel. Besides the weekly news which I love, this channel actually owns the toys. Excellent channel and collection
Thanks I appreciate it! Yes it is fun to review different toy lines. Some I sell off after the review and others like these Gobots a bigger and badder display
I only ever had 2 Gobots, Cop-Tur and Scooter. I was more into Transformers, but I did love my two little Gobots. Cop-Tur would be a scout for my Decepticon Jets and Scooter was Bumblebees friend.
Thank you Mike...for showing your collection. Yours beats mines, I have 68 of the 72. My favs are Fitor, Pathfinder, Mr. Mo, and Bent Wing. Long Live Gobots...
Those last 4 are the bug looking ones, I'm still debating all these years to see if I really want them. But I know you are right, I'm going to track them down and finish the count.
Awesome video on your go bots collection I remember just owning cykill but I had more transformers figures when I was a kid now I have the super go bots and I have screw head I'll be collecting more go bots in the future
i believe some of that price for the skyline would be because of the history lore and recent obsession with the nissan skyline in general not so much this one , it is my most revered modern skyline tho love the r30 and dr30
This collection is very nostalgic i known transformers were the number 1 transforming robots but my childhood transforming bots was Gobots had a ton of them.
Nice video, I had a few of these as a kid in the early 80's. The grey Bronco guy was one of my favorites: I thought of him as very muscular / strong, that's why he had chunky pieces, plus I remember he had great range of movement. Also the dark sub guy, very nice sub mode, nice cold metal pieces. Had a couple of the red car guys, very cool. Crasher, the female black race car, was a pretty standard toy but the show had her as a loud and outrageous main character, for no real reason, they just chose a random toy and decided to make it a bitchy main character, kinda funny. Also the tiny orange dump truck haha and the tiny orange forklift. ...Life felt different back then, we had these crazy toys to look at and daydream about. He-Man was my favorite though. :)
This is the most exacting, painstaking , extensive, thorough, indepth, detailed, comprehensive,retrospective, look back in the history of go-bots action figure robot dollies pooptube. I watched it all, felt dizzy ,illin' and felt like seeking immediate psychiatric help . Very fartworthy 😛🍿
Great video and information too. I had some of these figures as a kid and some knock-offs too. I still have Crasher, Geeper Creeper, Tank, Treads, Zeemon and Defendor. I may do a video on them some day. You have a new subscriber.
I remember Tank as being called Tankor too. Even as a kid I thought it was unimaginative. But I only knew the Machine Men release in Australia which was different to Machine Robo and GoBots. So maybe that's where it comes from.
even though i was a transformers fan and wasnt a big gobot fan i liked that they started off the same scale and for the most part they were all vehicles . i also liked leadrer 1 and cykill second colors more and i like the green blaster best
I went with Transformers but a few gobots ended up in there, I remember buying the Machine Robo Fightor at a Boston street market, he was my first transforming robot. Some of my gobots were actually knock offs i bought at my local Zayre. Knock off jeepers creepers went to to the Autobots and Tank went to the Decepticons. I wonder how many Turobos are out there hiding in an old box of Hot Wheels...
Zayre was an AWESOME store!! It was my favorite for toys and video games! The toy aisles were always well stocked and they had the coolest of the cool toys and even some weird ones. Electronics was great too as they would demo computer games and video games and let you stand there and play. Back then, if you were a kid and you were bored when your parents were shopping, you could go to the toy department and play with some of the non packaged toys and ones that other kids had opened and left laying around. Great times. Great memories!
That yellow Slicks was made by Imperial. They were first released as a Pepsi promo in North America (actually before Gobots were officially released), and later could be found at some Esso locations. A few of these Imperial bots only came through the Ppepsi promo and not Esso, and are a bit rare as a result. Imperial actually changed the moulds of a few of these, as seen in Slicks. Slicks is actually one of my favorites. His engineering exemplifies Gobot design. Really neat design for part of it, and compromising for the rest being really derpy. His chest design is fantastic, has interesting things going on with his feet and legs...but then has stick arms, zero leg articulation, complicated leg panel flaps and engine that ultimately doesnt meaningfully do anything and just hangs as kibble. All of it just to briefly get everything out of the way so the arms can move out of the way of the front wheels during transformation, so his entire leg designs is just to help transform the front wheels. The is a certain Irony that the Imperial Slicks has different treaded tires, so he doesnt have the racing slicks he is named for. I watched your Super Gobot video before this. Added info for that Psycho is actually based on the car from the anime Cobra.
Awesome collection you have there Mike. I only had dozer as a kid. I picked up a few gobots really cheap at a small toy fair last year. I'm not actively collecting them but slowly picking up more left and right when I come across them. Luckily it's not an expensive toyline to collect for the most part. I found a really cheap snoop and a green gunnar a few weeks ago and I think I'm up to about 25 to 30 of them now. Not sure if I'll collect all of them. Seeing the prices of some of them, probably not.
The fun part of collecting Gobots is buying lots to finish your collection and they come out to only a few bucks each if you get a bit of luck. That is what I did for the most part
Rest-Q was actually the first Gobot I ever owned. He was fun to play with on an early Saturday morning. Personally, I wish I could have gotten the Puzzler set. I would have made the Puzzlers Guardian robots.
I never understood the hostility towards gobot collectors a few years ago. The series ended almost 40 years ago and the little figures look pretty neat
I think part of it is just ignorance and immaturety. Also, times have changed in a lot of ways and there are more people out there who are used to having everything handed to them on a silver platter so, they've come to have an attitude that whatever is the most popular item to have is the only kind WORTH having and that anything else is just trash. Plus, there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation out there too and people who are too lazy to do their research are just believing what is popular to believe. To me it's part of the "In Crowd" mentality. A good example of this kind of attitude is in The Fast and The Furious where Brian and Dom pull up next to the couple in the Ferrari and Brian asks about the retail on it and the guy treats him like dirt because he isn't driving an overpriced, luxurious, ultra fine, elegant super car. Sometimes putting down what someone else likes makes some people feel big and superior.
What I loved most about GoBots over Transformers (I love both though) is that GoBots are mostly Matchbox/Hot Wheels scale in vehicle form. Transformers should do that. Even their small versions that they release (the Core class figures they do) don't quite hit that mark.
LOL this is a great time to buy Gobots. Seems like new stuff shows up every day and if you buy lots they usually come out to only a few bucks each unless one of the expensive ones is in there
I always thought blockhead looked very blocky as well then one day I pulled on his arms at the separation line and learned that they extended out giving them some length and it helps with the proportions so much on him
Cant speak for the Gobots line because here in Ireland we had the "Robo Machine " line and in that version Crasher was originally WHITE and a MALE chracter
Hopefully you will get to mention the Machine Robo figures that didn't come here as Gobots. The doubledecker bus and the Apollo rocket are my favorites of those toys.
20:35 Blockhead's arms actually extend about a 1/4" or so. The circles on Zero are the Hinomaru (circle of the sun) and are used on Japanese aircraft to this day. It's interesting on the episode "The Third Column" Bad Boy sounds like a kid! It's weird how a few of the Renegades (like Fitor) had soothing, comforting voices.
Zero in the show for some reason had to deploy his wings to fire. Cy-kill was actually a member of the ruling council. I do remember these very well. Here’s a funny fact. During the 1980s and kids shows you couldn’t sell your own products if you had a toy line. So if you watched gobots you got hit with transformer adds and if it was transformers you got gobot adds. True fact
To be fair Machine Robo (go-bots) have quite a number of toys that look nice in both modes where Transformers lack of. I recognise a few that were cloned, but with slightly different design and has a little windup motor you can attach. I thing it was mainly the dumpster, fire and crane truck.
Blockhead and Flytrap are my Two Favorites of all the Gobots this size. You have both of them, and your Black Slicks changed partially incorrect. Flytrap (truck) the feet swing down to make the opening where garbage is dumped into the back. Blockhead's arms extend as the bot. Slicks as the car, his front axels push in to make the wheel base narrow and the hinge lock into place, making it more stable.
So cool, always wanted some of these but was never able to get any... I would adore a modern reinterpretation for Turbo and Road Ranger (being late to any party I never even got X-Transbots Hoss)
Yeah... It can be rough missing out on a toy or really any product that you really want knowing that some of your friends have a lot of the cooler ones and you either have trouble finding any or just can't afford it at the time. I've been there. It hurts a lot.
Idk why but Smallfoot, Pathfinder and Spay-C's designs are so appealing to me. Female characters that barely look female is just something i like and idk why
The toyline came before the cartoon which is why the animation resembles the toy. Cartoons, in general, were used to sell the toys, genius, but storyline was lacking in most, which makes watch those old cartoons not interesting for an adult (just my opinion). Anyway, thanks for the vid, great collection and i think you are correct by having 2 (one in robot form, one in alt form) is a great way to display.
Loved gobots as a kid. Yes, sparky is a girl. She had a big role in the second half of the cartoon. By the way spacy-c, vamp, and snoop are also females!
I've got Tux and I love transforming this toy because it was fun then I lost it during a storm along with my other collections. With regards to the recoloured characters, I think it is due to an episode from the cartoons wherein the Guardians are the antagonists while the Renegades are the heroes which is quite similar with TF Shattered Glass
@@tydiriumhanger1320 I will never forget any heroes who turned evil in any '80s cartoon. Unfortunately, I don't know what episode it happened from the CotG.
@@tydiriumhanger1320leader one is 100% an F-15 Eagle...simple way to tell the difference between the F-15 Eagle and F-14 Tomcat is the F-14 has swing wings and the F-15 does not.
Oh, I'm not a Machine Robo expert but i feel like the robots were friendly human driven machines and the monsters showed up so they had something to fight?
To summarize… Vac-Metalized GOBOTS are pretty cool. Do the job. Look like the cartoon and with that, are pretty interesting, and all that kind of stuff. Unless they are stubby, dumpy, strange, floppy mess. 😉
Thanks for the awesome walkthrough Mike. If you are ever to make one of these long form videos with a huge number of figures can I request that you type name of each character at the bottom of the screen if it isn't too much trouble? It would add a lot of value to the video as it could then be used for reference.
Great suggestion. These long videos take a lot of time editing but youtube will add in names for each figure segment after about a week or so and that will also help. I think this is my longest video ever and took 2 days to shoot and edit LOL
I feel like granted yes transformers was superior, but GoBots are definitely a must to add as an army builder, because they look cybertronian and could just build up random autobots and decepticons
My first one were Cop-Tur then Cy-Kill. The rest were i forgot there name its Path Finder, The bulldozer, The cool red space jet! I regret not buying Turbo, Scooter and Leader 1.
@@tydiriumhanger1320 oh im not sure...the original "Thunderbirds' series was puppets and it was from the 1960s...however there was a japanese style anime western cartoon from the 1980s called "Thunderbirds 2086' but it was cancelled after only 1 season due to legal issues.
Can you ask me a question that I have had since I was a child? I know for sure that you are going to tell me, go to Wikipedia, friend, there are the answers, but I want to know it from an expert. I want to know how many total go bots there were, please.
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As a fan of the Gobots and the Challenge of the Gobots animated series (65 classic Hanna-Barbera Episodes), this was awesome to see such an awesome span of pretty much all of the figures in the line and more, all in one feature-length video. You have an amazing Gobots collection, Mike! Thanks for taking the time to showcase every figure here, explaining the details of each and their robot and alternate vehicle form. Cy-Kill was my first Gobot as a kid, and I still remember the moment I was opening it up in Wendy's back then while eating lunch. What a cool figure, and I went on to collect a good number soon after that. They're a nice line and very affordable back then. The TV show is entertaining, with Leader 1, Scooter and Turbo vs Cy-Kill, Crasher and Coptor as the main leads. Scooter (voiced by Frank Welker) could be brave in a number of episodes thankfully. I bet it took a lot of time and editing to put this all together. Thank you!
The show was fun even though Transformers overshadowed it. Funny you bring up Wendys because they had their own line of gobots I may feature in a video down the road. Yes this one was a lot of work and glad you enjoyed
@@tydiriumhanger1320 Cool, thanks Mike!
I had Machine Robo Bike Robo (pre-Go-Bots) in 1983. I was today years old when I learned his engine could be attached to his arm. Thank you for making me realize how much of my childhood was lost for not having known this.
My friend. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!!! I started off with GoBots as a kid, had roughly 10 of them and I enjoyed them very much. As I got into Transformers, my father kept calling my TF "GoBots" because he knew it annoyed me lol... I had the hydroplane, the submarine, the alien crab, the big black porch, and the jeep. I played the hell out of them. They got so lose and scratched. I wish I still had them!
Woah! This is the ultimate Go-Bots reference video. You made a touchdown and spiked the ball! Thanks for sharing it.
This is a great review of the Go-Bots line. I was more of a GI Joe, TF kid, but I liked Go-Bots, had a good number of them and didn't miss an episode of the cartoon. This video brings back some great memories and learning about Cy-kill's engine on the arm gimmick blew my mind.
I used to fold and tuck Pincher's arms under his wings, I thought it made it look sleeker when he is in bird/jet mode. Mine, was also Black. He was sold as a Gobot. Alot of the "knock offs" are the original, Japanese, toys. If you check them, they will have Japanese stamped onto a more metal body. Up here in Massachusetts, we had quite a few neighborhood/bodega/corner stores that sold these type of toys under another comany name. Before Tonka secured the rights. Snoop is an SR-71 Blackbird. The Night Raven is based on that. You were right it was an A-10 Warthog. The Rattle was based on. Wrong way became an Apache attack helicopter.
I loved Go-bots as a kid, but didn’t know most of these you have in this vid. Since I’ve completed my Transformers collection , I think I’m going to start getting the whole Go-Bots set now, thanks to your video.
I really enjoyed this deep dive into Gobots/Machine Men! It's great to see both modes and the variants you included. I loved Gobots for their affordability and quick/simple transformations. Thanks mate!
Yes Gobots are easy to transform and look like their cartoon counterparts and all properly scale together. Glad you enjoyed! Thanks
Awesome set. Thanks for sharing. Brought back some memories. Had more of these than I thought.
Great collection. Loved seeing them in both modes. I only ever owned a couple of toys from this line, so this was a fun way for me to learn a whole lot more about them.
Man thanks for the awesome trip down memory lane. I had a bunch of these and never even heard of so many. Great vid!
I bought the original 12 when they first came out. They hit the store shelves before The Transformers did. But, I didn't have the money to keep up with them, so after the first 12, I just bought the ones I liked, like the monsters and Leader-1. I regret to this day not getting all of them at the time they were in the stores.
These were so much fun to buy back in the day because they were cheap and rewarding. I also regret not paying more attention to these in the 80s
This video is awesome! Such memories! My first Go Bot was the Green Blaster! I remember having the blue leader-1 as well. Such a great video
I had several of these figures, some I forgot about. Thanks for the memories!
Thanks so much for doing this! My childhood is here and with Transformers
An Amazing Collection, the fact that you have at least 2 of each is Awesome!!!! And as a Toy Collection on You Tube.... You Display it better than most
It amazes me how many of these I can remember having as a kid! Everybit as much fun as Transformers to a little twerp, and So much easier to talk mom & dad into buying over Transformers. I always pretended Cy-Kills Motor was the Astro-Beam. I liked the Green and Black version too. It looked more EVIL than the Red White and Blue Cy-Kill.
This took me back to my childhood I had quite a few of these I remember taking them to school and having some major battles at recess with my freinds. Awsome video and love the collection can't wait to see the super gobots & Puzzler I had him as a child he is most definitely one of my favs again great vid
Glad this brought back some memories and Gobots are so fun. More to come for Gobots soon
I liked Puzzler too. I got him for Christmas one year from my mother who purchased him at K-Mart. I played with him a lot.
Fantastic collection, i have many gobots in my collection, but i didnt got all yet. Congrats
Great video. I remember having nearly all of these in the 80s. Though eventually got rid of them and I only kept my Transformers. I also remember hating Scooter in the cartoon and that transitioned to the toy. I never had a Scooter figure...well once, for about a day. Received him as a birthday present and just gave it away to my neighbor.
LOL Scooter is one of those love/ hate characters and yes he can be annoying
EPIC VIDEO! Thanks for the nostalgia ❤
Glad you enjoyed and Gobots sure are fun
Epic collection brother. This is why I love this channel. Besides the weekly news which I love, this channel actually owns the toys. Excellent channel and collection
Thanks I appreciate it! Yes it is fun to review different toy lines. Some I sell off after the review and others like these Gobots a bigger and badder display
@@tydiriumhanger1320 I've been watching every video. Love the channel
I only ever had 2 Gobots, Cop-Tur and Scooter. I was more into Transformers, but I did love my two little Gobots. Cop-Tur would be a scout for my Decepticon Jets and Scooter was Bumblebees friend.
Bro your collection is really cool. I enjoyed seeing this.
That is a hell of a collection you have got there bro. Awesome😊
Thanks it was over 2 decades in the works
Thank you Mike...for showing your collection. Yours beats mines, I have 68 of the 72. My favs are Fitor, Pathfinder, Mr. Mo, and Bent Wing. Long Live Gobots...
Sounds like you are really close to finishing the set and it might be worth your time to track down those last 4
Those last 4 are the bug looking ones, I'm still debating all these years to see if I really want them. But I know you are right, I'm going to track them down and finish the count.
Turbo and Crasher were my favourite Gobots.
Speed is of the essence was my favourite episode
Awesome video on your go bots collection I remember just owning cykill but I had more transformers figures when I was a kid now I have the super go bots and I have screw head I'll be collecting more go bots in the future
I feel I was a kid again thank you for sharing, thanks for taking me back to my childhood
Nice collection! I've grown to love GoBots. It looks like the Dive-Dive variants also have different chests and towers.
The blue dive-dive is the correct version though I don’t remember mine having any markings but the ring around the fins
1:34 Finally, someone that pointed out how cykill can actually use his engine in robot mode!
Great to see these in real time.
I've only saw most of them in pics
There are many resources for Gobots but very few videos oddly enough. Glad you enjoyed
i believe some of that price for the skyline would be because of the history lore and recent obsession with the nissan skyline in general not so much this one , it is my most revered modern skyline tho love the r30 and dr30
That does make sense and might explain the rarity and desirability
As a hugh jass gobot fan, I love this video.
38:45 I had the sea plane, the tan and orange one. IT WAS MY FAVORITE OF ALL THE GO BOTS I HAD, the coolest transformation too.
This looks incredible, looking forward watching this
These are so much fun!
❤❤❤❤❤amazing collection
This collection is very nostalgic i known transformers were the number 1 transforming robots but my childhood transforming bots was Gobots had a ton of them.
Nice video, I had a few of these as a kid in the early 80's. The grey Bronco guy was one of my favorites: I thought of him as very muscular / strong, that's why he had chunky pieces, plus I remember he had great range of movement. Also the dark sub guy, very nice sub mode, nice cold metal pieces. Had a couple of the red car guys, very cool. Crasher, the female black race car, was a pretty standard toy but the show had her as a loud and outrageous main character, for no real reason, they just chose a random toy and decided to make it a bitchy main character, kinda funny. Also the tiny orange dump truck haha and the tiny orange forklift. ...Life felt different back then, we had these crazy toys to look at and daydream about. He-Man was my favorite though. :)
Royal-T Heat Seeker and Hans Cuff were my favorites. I got into go-bots later on. Woolworths and K-Bee had them on clearance for like 2 bucks
Very impressive collection.
Thanks it was 20 years in the works
This is the most exacting, painstaking , extensive, thorough, indepth, detailed, comprehensive,retrospective, look back in the history of go-bots action figure robot dollies pooptube. I watched it all, felt dizzy ,illin' and felt like seeking immediate psychiatric help . Very fartworthy 😛🍿
Why do you feel that way about it?
Great video and information too. I had some of these figures as a kid and some knock-offs too. I still have Crasher, Geeper Creeper, Tank, Treads, Zeemon and Defendor. I may do a video on them some day. You have a new subscriber.
The numbers on Loco are a reference to the identification numbers of trains. Most trains have them on the front of the engine.
Cool video..i had copter and dumper growing up..we couldnt afford transformers lol
I had the blue tank.
The Rolls Royce looks cool. Amd stylish with the hat.
I remember Tank as being called Tankor too. Even as a kid I thought it was unimaginative. But I only knew the Machine Men release in Australia which was different to Machine Robo and GoBots. So maybe that's where it comes from.
even though i was a transformers fan and wasnt a big gobot fan i liked that they started off the same scale and for the most part they were all vehicles . i also liked leadrer 1 and cykill second colors more and i like the green blaster best
I went with Transformers but a few gobots ended up in there, I remember buying the Machine Robo Fightor at a Boston street market, he was my first transforming robot. Some of my gobots were actually knock offs i bought at my local Zayre. Knock off jeepers creepers went to to the Autobots and Tank went to the Decepticons. I wonder how many Turobos are out there hiding in an old box of Hot Wheels...
Zayre was an AWESOME store!! It was my favorite for toys and video games! The toy aisles were always well stocked and they had the coolest of the cool toys and even some weird ones. Electronics was great too as they would demo computer games and video games and let you stand there and play. Back then, if you were a kid and you were bored when your parents were shopping, you could go to the toy department and play with some of the non packaged toys and ones that other kids had opened and left laying around. Great times. Great memories!
That yellow Slicks was made by Imperial. They were first released as a Pepsi promo in North America (actually before Gobots were officially released), and later could be found at some Esso locations. A few of these Imperial bots only came through the Ppepsi promo and not Esso, and are a bit rare as a result. Imperial actually changed the moulds of a few of these, as seen in Slicks.
Slicks is actually one of my favorites. His engineering exemplifies Gobot design. Really neat design for part of it, and compromising for the rest being really derpy. His chest design is fantastic, has interesting things going on with his feet and legs...but then has stick arms, zero leg articulation, complicated leg panel flaps and engine that ultimately doesnt meaningfully do anything and just hangs as kibble. All of it just to briefly get everything out of the way so the arms can move out of the way of the front wheels during transformation, so his entire leg designs is just to help transform the front wheels.
The is a certain Irony that the Imperial Slicks has different treaded tires, so he doesnt have the racing slicks he is named for.
I watched your Super Gobot video before this. Added info for that Psycho is actually based on the car from the anime Cobra.
Awesome collection you have there Mike. I only had dozer as a kid. I picked up a few gobots really cheap at a small toy fair last year. I'm not actively collecting them but slowly picking up more left and right when I come across them. Luckily it's not an expensive toyline to collect for the most part. I found a really cheap snoop and a green gunnar a few weeks ago and I think I'm up to about 25 to 30 of them now. Not sure if I'll collect all of them. Seeing the prices of some of them, probably not.
The fun part of collecting Gobots is buying lots to finish your collection and they come out to only a few bucks each if you get a bit of luck. That is what I did for the most part
Snoops is a SR-71 Blackbird. The cobra nightraven is a stylized version of it
Rest-Q was actually the first Gobot I ever owned. He was fun to play with on an early Saturday morning. Personally, I wish I could have gotten the Puzzler set. I would have made the Puzzlers Guardian robots.
Ah, I remember when I used Road Ranger as my Optimus Prime substitute.
We ALL did
I never understood the hostility towards gobot collectors a few years ago. The series ended almost 40 years ago and the little figures look pretty neat
I think part of it is just ignorance and immaturety. Also, times have changed in a lot of ways and there are more people out there who are used to having everything handed to them on a silver platter so, they've come to have an attitude that whatever is the most popular item to have is the only kind WORTH having and that anything else is just trash. Plus, there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation out there too and people who are too lazy to do their research are just believing what is popular to believe. To me it's part of the "In Crowd" mentality. A good example of this kind of attitude is in The Fast and The Furious where Brian and Dom pull up next to the couple in the Ferrari and Brian asks about the retail on it and the guy treats him like dirt because he isn't driving an overpriced, luxurious, ultra fine, elegant super car. Sometimes putting down what someone else likes makes some people feel big and superior.
What I loved most about GoBots over Transformers (I love both though) is that GoBots are mostly Matchbox/Hot Wheels scale in vehicle form. Transformers should do that. Even their small versions that they release (the Core class figures they do) don't quite hit that mark.
Most of my childhood toys were given away. Only a few survived. Road Ranger is the only Gobot I have today.
Dreading watching this because i know i'll end up on ebay straight after, which was exactly what happened with your MASK series. Damn you, Hanger.
LOL this is a great time to buy Gobots. Seems like new stuff shows up every day and if you buy lots they usually come out to only a few bucks each unless one of the expensive ones is in there
I always thought blockhead looked very blocky as well then one day I pulled on his arms at the separation line and learned that they extended out giving them some length and it helps with the proportions so much on him
Awesome you are right! I pulled harder and they came out guess they were just stuck on mine
would have been cool if you included international variants of the toys such as the uk /european "Robo Machine" or the Australian "Machine Men" lines
Cant speak for the Gobots line because here in Ireland we had the "Robo Machine " line and in that version Crasher was originally WHITE and a MALE chracter
Hopefully you will get to mention the Machine Robo figures that didn't come here as Gobots. The doubledecker bus and the Apollo rocket are my favorites of those toys.
20:35 Blockhead's arms actually extend about a 1/4" or so. The circles on Zero are the Hinomaru (circle of the sun) and are used on Japanese aircraft to this day. It's interesting on the episode "The Third Column" Bad Boy sounds like a kid! It's weird how a few of the Renegades (like Fitor) had soothing, comforting voices.
Zero in the show for some reason had to deploy his wings to fire. Cy-kill was actually a member of the ruling council. I do remember these very well. Here’s a funny fact. During the 1980s and kids shows you couldn’t sell your own products if you had a toy line. So if you watched gobots you got hit with transformer adds and if it was transformers you got gobot adds. True fact
@@matthewcaughey8898 I do remember the episode Et Tu Cy-Kill that shows Cy-Kill and Leader 1 as protector guardians on the council together.
Really Awesome Video!!!
Rest-Q was the first Gobot I ever got. Not the best one I ever had but it was a start.
To be fair Machine Robo (go-bots) have quite a number of toys that look nice in both modes where Transformers lack of.
I recognise a few that were cloned, but with slightly different design and has a little windup motor you can attach. I thing it was mainly the dumpster, fire and crane truck.
Bullseye is a B-1 bomber(not an airliner). I had him at one point.
Blockhead and Flytrap are my Two Favorites of all the Gobots this size. You have both of them, and your Black Slicks changed partially incorrect. Flytrap (truck) the feet swing down to make the opening where garbage is dumped into the back. Blockhead's arms extend as the bot. Slicks as the car, his front axels push in to make the wheel base narrow and the hinge lock into place, making it more stable.
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Man I wish the would reissue these in stores now
It would be cool to see them on the shelves with retro package only they would probably not do the vacmetal
@@tydiriumhanger1320es..gunnyr (or how ever his name is spelled) is indeed a Mig-21
@@tydiriumhanger1320and yes the 1 you showed after Gunnyr is an F4u Corsair
So cool, always wanted some of these but was never able to get any... I would adore a modern reinterpretation for Turbo and Road Ranger (being late to any party I never even got X-Transbots Hoss)
Yeah... It can be rough missing out on a toy or really any product that you really want knowing that some of your friends have a lot of the cooler ones and you either have trouble finding any or just can't afford it at the time. I've been there. It hurts a lot.
Tux is my favorite GoBot character of all time, I have one new old stock unpunched in card mint
I love cykill but never had any of the go bot when was a kid
Only watch some of the cartoons n loved his bike mode
Idk why but Smallfoot, Pathfinder and Spay-C's designs are so appealing to me. Female characters that barely look female is just something i like and idk why
I don’t know . Human females are the only females in the animal kingdom and beauty is varies in cultures.
@@altarush what the hell are you saying... 😐
@@adamshafeeq8685never mind.
The toyline came before the cartoon which is why the animation resembles the toy. Cartoons, in general, were used to sell the toys, genius, but storyline was lacking in most, which makes watch those old cartoons not interesting for an adult (just my opinion). Anyway, thanks for the vid, great collection and i think you are correct by having 2 (one in robot form, one in alt form) is a great way to display.
Loved gobots as a kid. Yes, sparky is a girl. She had a big role in the second half of the cartoon. By the way spacy-c, vamp, and snoop are also females!
so is crasher
Wasn’t there a blue leader one? I recall having a blue and grey one
The round stickers on Zero represents Japan.
The alt colors are the flip universe where Leader-1 is the bad guy and Cy Kil the good guy 😁 I loved Go-Bots
I've got Tux and I love transforming this toy because it was fun then I lost it during a storm along with my other collections. With regards to the recoloured characters, I think it is due to an episode from the cartoons wherein the Guardians are the antagonists while the Renegades are the heroes which is quite similar with TF Shattered Glass
I would like to figure out which episode that is and check it out sounds cool. Yes Tux is so different and cool
@@tydiriumhanger1320 I will never forget any heroes who turned evil in any '80s cartoon. Unfortunately, I don't know what episode it happened from the CotG.
Cykills engine becomes the teleporter he would seldom use for reinforcements.
Ok that is cool! Funny how I never thought to clip to his arm until someone mentioned it a few months back
@@tydiriumhanger1320leader one is 100% an F-15 Eagle...simple way to tell the difference between the F-15 Eagle and F-14 Tomcat is the F-14 has swing wings and the F-15 does not.
Fun fact...in the show Scooter was voiced by none other than Frank "Megatron" Welker himself
Oh, I'm not a Machine Robo expert but i feel like the robots were friendly human driven machines and the monsters showed up so they had something to fight?
All the dumpers i saw as a kid..were always missing wheels. Lol i was always like Awwwwww damn.
I want to see all the other gobots power suits combiners and super ones
Blaster the one wth the misiles in each arm was my favorite
To summarize… Vac-Metalized GOBOTS are pretty cool. Do the job. Look like the cartoon and with that, are pretty interesting, and all that kind of stuff. Unless they are stubby, dumpy, strange, floppy mess. 😉
Thanks for the awesome walkthrough Mike. If you are ever to make one of these long form videos with a huge number of figures can I request that you type name of each character at the bottom of the screen if it isn't too much trouble? It would add a lot of value to the video as it could then be used for reference.
Great suggestion. These long videos take a lot of time editing but youtube will add in names for each figure segment after about a week or so and that will also help. I think this is my longest video ever and took 2 days to shoot and edit LOL
Transformers all look like they probably play racquetball, Gobots look like they sit on the couch and eat cheetos
I feel like granted yes transformers was superior, but GoBots are definitely a must to add as an army builder, because they look cybertronian and could just build up random autobots and decepticons
Man this was cool to see as someone who doesn’t know anything about old Go-Bots! Absolutely awesome collection and idea for a video 🙌
Glad you enjoyed and I hope you learned a bit more about these Go-Bots! Thanks
My first one were Cop-Tur then Cy-Kill. The rest were i forgot there name its Path Finder, The bulldozer, The cool red space jet! I regret not buying Turbo, Scooter and Leader 1.
vivement le film
Thanks
Glad you enjoyed
Just thought of something... Tank might look good as a Cobra HISS tank.
Now we’re talking!!!
Hope you enjoyed the vid! So many more Gobots than I remembered
@@tydiriumhanger1320 loved it!! Very cool!
30:52 Looks more like First Aid from Transformers to me, but anyway... Awesome look
Wow i love Gobots i wosh i have em all
In alt mode "blaster" looks like something straight out of Gerry Andersons "Thunderbirds"
I think I watched that on Sci Fi channel did it have Young Star?
@@tydiriumhanger1320 oh im not sure...the original "Thunderbirds' series was puppets and it was from the 1960s...however there was a japanese style anime western cartoon from the 1980s called "Thunderbirds 2086' but it was cancelled after only 1 season due to legal issues.
I know it says that Stallion is supposed to be a Mustang but he looks way more like a Mitsubishi Starion, which would be a better fit.
I had Bladez. You have his alt mode backwards.
Can you ask me a question that I have had since I was a child? I know for sure that you are going to tell me, go to Wikipedia, friend, there are the answers, but I want to know it from an expert. I want to know how many total go bots there were, please.
For water walk, the red n white is the original. For slicks it was the black one. Re night ranger the blue was the govt, the white the machine robo