So cool that you did this! I grew up with the Transformers and Gobots. My friend Brian's parents were poor, so he had quite a few Gobot toys while I had Transformers. We would pretend they were in the same universe (along with my friend Deanna's Voltron), and Optimus Prime had to ask Leader-1 for help (or vice versa) or Soundwave and Cy-Kill were scheming together (I wasn't allowed to play with guns, so Soundwave was leader of my Decepticons)
I still have my GoBots. I moved around a lot but I never let my Bots go. What I like about the original GoBots and Transformers is that they were made partially of metal. I think that's why they've lasted so long in my collection. It's nice to see the original cartoons again.
yeah you also forgot to mention, Crasher's Evil Laugh which i always found Memorable, that laugh she pulls off everytime she gets a mission done or defeats one of her opponents, it's easily one of the best moments in anime history. her Laugh is what i remember from the evil 1st Female Villain in robot form.
A fun fact about Crasher is that she was voiced by the same woman who played 'Miss Stacy" in the Anne of Green Gables TV movies with Meegan Follows. It shows how great an actress she is
If the Gobots series had more of a Japanese Amime aesthetic than the cheesey Hanna Barbara Saturday Morning style, the series would have caught on and had more staying power.
Thanks a lot for the very informative video explaining the backstory behind the characters. Long to see the day this franchise getting a well deserved reboot or better yet some kind of crossover with Transformers 🤞🏻.
Young man, the owner/producer of Marvelous Videos, I believe that it's your voice i hear under the cartoon video clips... Well, I must say you have created a fine work here in a very careful breakdown and narrative of the birth and struggles of The Gobots! I was the actor who portrayed Turbo and i REALLY like and admire your work here... thank you... oh, and you must know... I had a lot of fun performing in that serial with all the other members of the ensemble! Frankly, I miss all of them... speaking for them I am glad that you loved our efforts. Good luck. LEADER ONE, THIS IS TURBO, COMING BACK TO BASE... TIME TO GO!! blessings, arthur b (Ngai)
@@irongunmen9446 I noticed even in transformers a few of the robots head design did look similar. Also one of the aerial bots looks kind of like leader 1 from Go bots
Yup. They have used the designs for some of the GoBots characters for Transformers. I think they even put Crasher in a comic in the last few years. @kennethpoole5354
This is a very entertaining classic Hanna Barbera show about the Gobots. Really enjoyed watching the story of Leader 1, Turbo and Scooter vs Cy-Kill, Crasher and Copter. The style is more cartoony, but appealing IMO. Great show, thanks.
They were marketed as "Machine Men" in New Zealand. We got "Train Robo" who had an extremely simple transformation, but it was a totally novel gimmick at the time, and it blew our minds. But shortly after, Transformers came out, and we forgot all about Machine Men. It was the Transformers cartoon that stuck with me, though. It was my formative franchise. Go-bots seems fun, but I can definitely see why it has a reputation as Transformers' weaker cousin. It's not Go-bots' fault, but when you have two competing franchises that are so similar, there can be only one winner.
Gobots were generally smaller and cheaper than Transformers so i would often use them as TF characters. Leader 1 was Starscream, Slicks was Mirage, Cy Kill was Wreck Gar and Road Ranger was Ultra Magnus.
Gobots do make good ‘civilian’ transformer characters that can be held hostage or thrown into the smelting pit or recruited to one of the Cybertronian factions.
One of the best attributes of Gobots was the humans. They actually contributed in significant way. There's a lot of criticism about most of the humans in Transformers cartoons but Matt, Nick and AJ were really essential to the story.
The whole reason gobots failed was because it was not as mature as Transformers at the time. The animation the storyline everything about Transformers was more mature more grown up big robots ever was forever hope to be. Given the fact that it was a Hanna-Barbera production I'm surprised they didn't try to stick a talking dog in it. The animation was immature on the level of Super Friends which for the 70 was great. But as we grew up we wanted our cartoons to grow up with us. I think you're reading a whole lot more Indigo Bots than was there. It was good but Transformers was better then and now
One of the things I like about Gobots is that it has female Guardians and Renegades and that they aren't treated any differently from the males in their respective factions.
Ok, I grew up with both, and while you think the Gobots are more geared towards adults, their lack of info and weapons on their toys, compared to the Tech Specs and arsenals in Transformers, made them seem more 'kiddie'. They were cheaper in both price and quality, in all aspects, including animation, and an older child naturally gravitated towards Autobots and Decepticons.
The Tonka line of GoBots were the first line of transformation robots to enter the market first for 6 months before the Hasbro Transformers came to market. But Hasbro and it's developers got the marketing out on it's product with 1st the Marvel line of comics with the anticipation of the 84 G1 cartoon. They were neck and neck in the market change until Transformers took the lead and never looked back.
Gobots were the first to make it to the US market, but the first generation of Transformers were taken from two separate Japanese transforming robot toy lines, both of which predate the Gobots toy line. So yes, the Gobots line is older than the Transformer line because there was no "Transformers" line in Japan prior to it being created in the US, but all of the individual toys that made up the first series of Transformers were older than the Gobots - they were just originally from different lines.
Ironically, I think the Japanese cartoon was even better than the American. The Hannah Barbera cartoon did not test well in Japan, so they redid it under the machine robo title. I've only seen maybe a quarter of the series, but I thought it was actually better done than the American because it has elements of the American cartoon mixed with aliens. The sequel to alien. Where the renegades aren't totally evil, but do start initially pirating and attacking mankind on the planet Kronos. But eventually form an alliance with the guardian council and humans to fight off the monster bots who act more like aliens from the second alien movie. Funny thing is if they were able to take that old cartoon and dub it in English and broadcasted on TV today, I got a feeling to do pretty good here in the states! And also what's interesting is the characters in the series have different backgrounds. Crasher for example is no longer a chick. She's a dude in machine robo. And Cy-Kill isn't a villain, but rather more like a street punk, or a anti-hero. Actually a very interesting series. I'd recommend watching it if you haven't!
I don't remember the "Super go-bots" (the larger models , Zeemon and Herr Fiend) showing up in the show. Never saw the toys in real life, either, just on the back of cards. Always thought they looked awesome though, and wanted one.
UK also. I had a few Transformers and a couple of Gobots. I remember having a silver Porsche 928 and A-10 Thunderbolt/Warthog. Every bit as good as Transformers.
Wow... I'm realizing that I apparently never saw more than a handful of GoBots cartoon episodes as a kid in the 1980s. I had a couple of those toys (Zeemon, Fi-Tor) and don't remember them being in the cartoon. Also don't remember the storylines presented here. I obviously jumped ship to Transformers and GI Joe very quickly.
Autobot Small Foot was not "inspired by" the Go-Bot, they're the same being. A group of Go-Bots (three from each side) went to one of the Transformers dimensions to determine the source of something threatening their dimension, and they adopted more Cybertronian bodies, all based on the Autobot mini vehicles. The Small Foot figure that just came out based on Gears is the Go-Bot in a new chassis. The Bug Bite that looks like Bumblebee in white IS the Bug Bite from Go-Bots. The Cosmos repaint IS Path Finder. I swear, every time I watch one of these you make some glaring error or other. Every single time.
Uhhh. Am i the only one that noticed Fitor and Coptor are the same bot just with or without rotors? Yeah. Gobots tried to me more mature, and that was its downfall. The animation wasn't as good and honestly it just wasn't as much fun. They tried too hard.
Do more go bots like this please love this. Gobots was actually pretty good transformers has gotten all the attention and to be honest it's not really as good as people make it out to be
As Transformers are based off of the Japanese Diaclone. In the Go Bots case, they are based off of Machine Robo. The one Guardian that I wished they made a toy of is Steamer.
A lot of people don’t remember this cartoon. My favorite character is, Crasher. That lady hot rod black car. That laugh she will do and stomp the ground and cause a earthquake
Cy-Kill has join the Renegades. Never in a million years would have pictured the guy with the word "kill" in his name turning heel. With all the biker bots being released in the past few years not one Cy-Kill? Why hasn't Starscream ever been repainted into Leader-1?
you know watching this im reminded of lost media where the transformers G1 met the go-bots.. Ive searched and searched for it but cant find any reference to it ever existing
Do you mean this fan made mash up? Part 1 ruclips.net/video/oFeEwZB1oJY/видео.htmlsi=QVHdyfhcUgnZNyJ4 Part 2 ruclips.net/video/PS2wGwmndq8/видео.htmlsi=IgQQSJi4jgh84Yf0
Who remembers the Go Bots spin-off the Rock Lords, robots that would turn into… you guessed it, rocks. Bought one and it took me all of two minutes to realise turning into a rock was literally pointless
Alot were easy, bad boy, stinger, coptur broke. Night ranger was a hard one. Those gobots were not easy. Cykill turned on his friend leader one. One choice I would never back, like people I know.
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So cool that you did this! I grew up with the Transformers and Gobots. My friend Brian's parents were poor, so he had quite a few Gobot toys while I had Transformers. We would pretend they were in the same universe (along with my friend Deanna's Voltron), and Optimus Prime had to ask Leader-1 for help (or vice versa) or Soundwave and Cy-Kill were scheming together (I wasn't allowed to play with guns, so Soundwave was leader of my Decepticons)
I still have my GoBots. I moved around a lot but I never let my Bots go. What I like about the original GoBots and Transformers is that they were made partially of metal. I think that's why they've lasted so long in my collection. It's nice to see the original cartoons again.
I still watch the The Gobots old episodes ❤
I wish it streamed for free
@@freddyvidz - It does on Sunday at 3Am to 4Am on Me TV Toons.
I loved watching both growing up. But it was the Combiners and Dinobots that had me watching Transformers more. But I still love both shows.
I agree with your statement 😃
GoBots/Machine Robo toys are underrated. They were easy and not expensive. I preordered some MR third party figures.
MR third party?
I am sorry, i really hate doing this, i must stop you getting third party toys. Please think about this, think about all the harm you are causing.
This show gobots gets more criticism than it deserves. It's actually great, and so are the characters. :)
Good point.
@@altarush :)
@@altarush Thanks. :)
@@Crasher1982 welcome.
@@Crasher1982 hello crasher how are you
I still like this show
Me too
There really isn't any question as to which cartoon was first... Challenge of the Gobots (9/8/84) started 9 days before Transformers (9/17/84).
And almost 40 year's later transformers became the dominant franchise.
@@keithwiggins299um, it didn’t take 40 years, more like 3 years later when Gobots ended their toyline.
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES.... LOVE THE GO-BOTS...
yeah you also forgot to mention, Crasher's Evil Laugh which i always found
Memorable, that laugh she pulls off everytime she gets a mission done or defeats
one of her opponents, it's easily one of the best moments in anime history.
her Laugh is what i remember from the evil 1st Female Villain in robot form.
Crasher is the best thing about Gobots.
A fun fact about Crasher is that she was voiced by the same woman who played 'Miss Stacy" in the Anne of Green Gables TV movies with Meegan Follows. It shows how great an actress she is
Don't make me .......Laugh!
If the Gobots series had more of a Japanese Amime aesthetic than the cheesey Hanna Barbara Saturday Morning style, the series would have caught on and had more staying power.
Thanks a lot for the very informative video explaining the backstory behind the characters. Long to see the day this franchise getting a well deserved reboot or better yet some kind of crossover with Transformers 🤞🏻.
Young man, the owner/producer of Marvelous Videos, I believe that it's your voice i hear under the cartoon video clips... Well, I must say you have created a fine work here in a very careful breakdown and narrative of the birth and struggles of The Gobots! I was the actor who portrayed Turbo and i REALLY like and admire your work here... thank you... oh, and you must know... I had a lot of fun performing in that serial with all the other members of the ensemble! Frankly, I miss all of them... speaking for them I am glad that you loved our efforts. Good luck. LEADER ONE, THIS IS TURBO, COMING BACK TO BASE... TIME TO GO!! blessings, arthur b (Ngai)
Fun Fact: Go-Bots are not fully Mechanical. They have Organic Brains
They were once human in fact like the Engineer and Master Renegade. They were given robot bodies to survive from what I remember.
that explains the uncanny head designs...
Correct. Which is why it makes sense that a good number of them are female
@@irongunmen9446 I noticed even in transformers a few of the robots head design did look similar. Also one of the aerial bots looks kind of like leader 1 from Go bots
Yup. They have used the designs for some of the GoBots characters for Transformers. I think they even put Crasher in a comic in the last few years. @kennethpoole5354
I loved Scorp and Vamp as a kid, as well as Stacks. Leader-1 was my first ever transforming robot. Great video!
Drax attacking a Cykill cosplayer in the GOTG Christmas special was an unexpected easter egg.
This is a very entertaining classic Hanna Barbera show about the Gobots. Really enjoyed watching the story of Leader 1, Turbo and Scooter vs Cy-Kill, Crasher and Copter. The style is more cartoony, but appealing IMO. Great show, thanks.
The 80s was a wonderful time to be a Kid. Saturday Morning Cartoons, every single cartoon had its very own toy line.
Still got Leader-1,Turbo, Scooter goth color Cy-Kill,and some of Super Gobots.
I may have missed it if you mentioned it but Transformers are robots and gobots are cyborgs
I like Fitor ( He's the Gobot combo version of Shockwave & Cyclonus )
more like soundwave and cyclonus ( he's the comunicatons specialist) shockwave is more like Dr.Go
Follow up gotta be Battle of the Rock Lords 😂
Ohhhh yeah I remember those too, mainly the gold nugget dude 👍
They were marketed as "Machine Men" in New Zealand.
We got "Train Robo" who had an extremely simple transformation, but it was a totally novel gimmick at the time, and it blew our minds. But shortly after, Transformers came out, and we forgot all about Machine Men.
It was the Transformers cartoon that stuck with me, though. It was my formative franchise.
Go-bots seems fun, but I can definitely see why it has a reputation as Transformers' weaker cousin.
It's not Go-bots' fault, but when you have two competing franchises that are so similar, there can be only one winner.
I hate to burst your bubble but transformer was out way before gobots.
@@edt5976 Go-bots were released in 1983. Transformers in '84.
Gobots were generally smaller and cheaper than Transformers so i would often use them as TF characters. Leader 1 was Starscream, Slicks was Mirage, Cy Kill was Wreck Gar and Road Ranger was Ultra Magnus.
I think you just described over 90% of the boys back in the 80's. 😂 We all wanted Transformers but had to settle for Gobots.
Gobots do make good ‘civilian’ transformer characters that can be held hostage or thrown into the smelting pit or recruited to one of the Cybertronian factions.
One of the best attributes of Gobots was the humans. They actually contributed in significant way. There's a lot of criticism about most of the humans in Transformers cartoons but Matt, Nick and AJ were really essential to the story.
I can't be the only kid who dreamt of a Transformers/Go-Bots crossover.
The whole reason gobots failed was because it was not as mature as Transformers at the time. The animation the storyline everything about Transformers was more mature more grown up big robots ever was forever hope to be. Given the fact that it was a Hanna-Barbera production I'm surprised they didn't try to stick a talking dog in it. The animation was immature on the level of Super Friends which for the 70 was great. But as we grew up we wanted our cartoons to grow up with us. I think you're reading a whole lot more Indigo Bots than was there. It was good but Transformers was better then and now
Ironically it was an early draft of what became the transformers cartoon series that did include a dog.
Animation was better quality and different from the Hanna - Barbara. Change is good.
Skeeter, leader 1 and thats all I remember and some dude welding "Thisss will hold them"
One of the things I like about Gobots is that it has female Guardians and Renegades and that they aren't treated any differently from the males in their respective factions.
thank you, this makes me want to re-watch the gobots, it has been years
The K-Mart of all Transformers.
Ok, I grew up with both, and while you think the Gobots are more geared towards adults, their lack of info and weapons on their toys, compared to the Tech Specs and arsenals in Transformers, made them seem more 'kiddie'. They were cheaper in both price and quality, in all aspects, including animation, and an older child naturally gravitated towards Autobots and Decepticons.
Cykill with a 6 o'clock shadow is still hilarious
The Tonka line of GoBots were the first line of transformation robots to enter the market first for 6 months before the Hasbro Transformers came to market. But Hasbro and it's developers got the marketing out on it's product with 1st the Marvel line of comics with the anticipation of the 84 G1 cartoon. They were neck and neck in the market change until Transformers took the lead and never looked back.
Gobots were the first to make it to the US market, but the first generation of Transformers were taken from two separate Japanese transforming robot toy lines, both of which predate the Gobots toy line. So yes, the Gobots line is older than the Transformer line because there was no "Transformers" line in Japan prior to it being created in the US, but all of the individual toys that made up the first series of Transformers were older than the Gobots - they were just originally from different lines.
Ironically, I think the Japanese cartoon was even better than the American. The Hannah Barbera cartoon did not test well in Japan, so they redid it under the machine robo title. I've only seen maybe a quarter of the series, but I thought it was actually better done than the American because it has elements of the American cartoon mixed with aliens. The sequel to alien. Where the renegades aren't totally evil, but do start initially pirating and attacking mankind on the planet Kronos. But eventually form an alliance with the guardian council and humans to fight off the monster bots who act more like aliens from the second alien movie. Funny thing is if they were able to take that old cartoon and dub it in English and broadcasted on TV today, I got a feeling to do pretty good here in the states! And also what's interesting is the characters in the series have different backgrounds. Crasher for example is no longer a chick. She's a dude in machine robo. And Cy-Kill isn't a villain, but rather more like a street punk, or a anti-hero. Actually a very interesting series. I'd recommend watching it if you haven't!
Ohh I loved these!
I don't remember the "Super go-bots" (the larger models , Zeemon and Herr Fiend) showing up in the show. Never saw the toys in real life, either, just on the back of cards. Always thought they looked awesome though, and wanted one.
Stunning visuals? Go-Bots?!
Otherwise known as the Kmart Transformers 🙃
Lol
Before Walmart, "Kmart is the saving place" lol
My favourite gobot character is Bugbite.
great and underrated show. I liked the toys, they mixed well with my transformers
They were cheaper so I had go bots 🤖
Haha I had Turbo !!
if hasbro bought out the gobot's. i would love to see hasbro add the gobot's into the transformers.
crasher’s foot stomp attack is the best
I remember Go Bots having a creation period. We got to see how they were made.
While I do remember watching Go-bots I can barely remember it and I don't remember a single character.
same here
Excellent video 😊
Im from the UK and by chance I got the F-15 and bike on the right and the blue robot on the left. I always wanted the black Lamborghini. 😂
UK also. I had a few Transformers and a couple of Gobots. I remember having a silver Porsche 928 and A-10 Thunderbolt/Warthog. Every bit as good as Transformers.
Gobots was no transformers, but it was a kick ass cartoon with a dope toy series.
Real talk Crasher was my favorite. I still have her toy somewhere in the attic.
Wow... I'm realizing that I apparently never saw more than a handful of GoBots cartoon episodes as a kid in the 1980s. I had a couple of those toys (Zeemon, Fi-Tor) and don't remember them being in the cartoon. Also don't remember the storylines presented here. I obviously jumped ship to Transformers and GI Joe very quickly.
Before the Transformers series
Very Good I just wish the narrative reader said something about Leader 1 force field, but it's okay.
From what I remember, the gobots can transform with a person/passenger inside them, which even at a young age, I found weird.
Let's have them team up
Autobot Small Foot was not "inspired by" the Go-Bot, they're the same being. A group of Go-Bots (three from each side) went to one of the Transformers dimensions to determine the source of something threatening their dimension, and they adopted more Cybertronian bodies, all based on the Autobot mini vehicles. The Small Foot figure that just came out based on Gears is the Go-Bot in a new chassis. The Bug Bite that looks like Bumblebee in white IS the Bug Bite from Go-Bots. The Cosmos repaint IS Path Finder.
I swear, every time I watch one of these you make some glaring error or other. Every single time.
Religiously Dope‼️
Cop-Tur's voice was epic!!!
Do the rocklords next. I love gobots
Never really was a fan of it but some i liked
Didn't know about a Transformer named Little foot. I know there's several characters but again, never heard of that one.
Uhhh. Am i the only one that noticed Fitor and Coptor are the same bot just with or without rotors?
Yeah. Gobots tried to me more mature, and that was its downfall. The animation wasn't as good and honestly it just wasn't as much fun. They tried too hard.
Do more go bots like this please love this. Gobots was actually pretty good transformers has gotten all the attention and to be honest it's not really as good as people make it out to be
What was the origin of the go bots in their continuity
What happened to power warrior and puzzler. The two combiners
I always wondered if the personalities of the three main Renegades in the cartoon were based on the three Kryptonian villains from Superman 2.
Why is there a picture of Jeeper Creeper included with Bad Boy?
I think I had Fly tor as a action figure toy when I was a kid.
As Transformers are based off of the Japanese Diaclone. In the Go Bots case, they are based off of Machine Robo. The one Guardian that I wished they made a toy of is Steamer.
I remember having a toy of Fitor
sounds like a bad ChatGPT script read by bad AI
Scorp and the Monsters Bots are awesome deisgn wise
A lot of people don’t remember this cartoon. My favorite character is, Crasher. That lady hot rod black car. That laugh she will do and stomp the ground and cause a earthquake
"gobeings and renegades did not agree on" some the gobeings ARE renegades. Surviving gobeings became gobots all except two that we know of.
Never understood why this cartoon only focused on three characters per team… terrible marketing decision.
GoBots was fun to watch, but I swear the Renegades would scare me as a kid, especially Crasher and Cop-tur.
Great Value Transformers
Cy-Kill has join the Renegades. Never in a million years would have pictured the guy with the word "kill" in his name turning heel.
With all the biker bots being released in the past few years not one Cy-Kill? Why hasn't Starscream ever been repainted into Leader-1?
You forgot gaurdian heat seeker. If I remember it correctly he transform in to an F-16 jet.
The grammar on this is not great, but this was very informative.
Who has the rights of the challenge of the gobots cartoon and why can't there release the cartoon on dvd for the fans
It has bee . Just write buy robots on DVD in you're search bar
Warnerbros
It is out on DVD. WB released it years ago.
I personally don't think Crasher and Turbo hated each other as much as they claimed to. Just my opinion.
I agree. It was like Starscream and Megatron . A love- hate relationship.
@@altarush yeah.
Made "Tank" out of the Cobra HISS....
you know watching this im reminded of lost media where the transformers G1 met the go-bots.. Ive searched and searched for it but cant find any reference to it ever existing
Do you mean this fan made mash up? Part 1 ruclips.net/video/oFeEwZB1oJY/видео.htmlsi=QVHdyfhcUgnZNyJ4
Part 2 ruclips.net/video/PS2wGwmndq8/видео.htmlsi=IgQQSJi4jgh84Yf0
Maybe not officially, but my friend Brian and I had many adventures where this happened
So Cop Tur is the Go Bots version of Starscream.
Leader 1 head looks like the Tin Man from the Original Wizard of Oz movie! LOL
L1 flying in robot form instead of his jet mode it's kinda weird 😐
Nice
Crasher the best character of the gobots!
My only criticism is Scooter's transformation being changed from the toy.....I keep asking "why?"
Hasbro wasted a perfect opportunity to include the Gobots in the Transformers universe after they bought the rights for them. .
the go bots! the go bots!
Who remembers the Go Bots spin-off the Rock Lords, robots that would turn into… you guessed it, rocks. Bought one and it took me all of two minutes to realise turning into a rock was literally pointless
I remember the movie because "Lois Lane" was in it (Margot Kidder was one of the voices)
It would have been cool if they had a Rock Lord cartoon series.
hey where's Zod?????
GoBots had names like 'Hans Cuff' , 'Fi-tor' and 'Cop-tur'. Transformers had names like Starscream, Shrapnel, and 'Devastator'. There's no contest.
That's just the North American/European marketing. The original toys were Asian, and they all were basically human controlled machines
As a kid I thought that Gobots copied Transformers. Without RUclips I wouldn't have known that Gobots was first
Scooter & me! SCOOTER BROTHERS!
Alot were easy, bad boy, stinger, coptur broke. Night ranger was a hard one. Those gobots were not easy. Cykill turned on his friend leader one. One choice I would never back, like people I know.
Im Turbo,come get some.
Fitor was my dude…cy-kill was the best vehicle; like megatron…he and leader 1 were the hardest figures to find