![]() My kid brain was certain that Crasher was a lady bot, then I as I got older I tried to tell myself Crasher was a male GoBot, only to be re-assured (thanks Google) that Crasher is in fact a super cool female bot. Sure he wasn’t exactly to scale, but find me toys from the 80’s that were. While GI Joe and Transformers shared the crossover in their respective toy-lines, considering I didn’t have any military type vehicles from Transformers, Geeper-Creeper and his sweet jeep mode was paired with my GI Joe’s at all times. What a weird albeit lazy name for a suitably weird and diabolical looking member of the Renegades. Scooter was super easy to transform, but he offered hours of fun and of all the GoBots in my collection both past and present, he’s definitely a favorite and is the most prized of my current collection. But, maybe that’s why I identified and dug Scooter as much as I did, because I’ve always been kind of dorky and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Except while Bumblebee was diminutive in size like Scooter, Bumblebee wasn’t quite so…dorky. Much like Leader-1, here we have another example of a GoBot standing in for a Transformer on my shelf with Scooter.Ĭase in point, we have the GoBots answer to Bumblebee. While he doesn’t compare to the Transformer Seekers or Aerialbots or even the Coneheads, he was still a pretty rad looking and fun jet that scratched the itch that those high flying Transformers that I didn’t own couldn’t. The numero uno, the grand poobah of the Guardians, Leader-1 was another I was scouring my house for last summer when retrieving my old toys, and unfortunately didn’t come across. Screw Head is one of those names a kid in the second grade would’ve come up with I’m that kid, that kid is me, and while it’s not as cool of a name as Soundwave or Rodimus Prime, I always dug this guy.ĭug, right? Get it? Huh? Ah, this baby is wasted on you, but having Screw Head in my collection is most definitely not a waste. I’m not sure why I have two of this guy, but it doesn’t hurt to have a back-up. While green is my favorite color, I have a deep love for reds as well, and a friend of mine who I had met in kindergarten had Turbo, and I took advantage of every opportunity to play with Turbo whenever I’d go over to their house.įrom the overall look and asthetic, and the beautiful red coloring of this GoBot Guardian, Turbo is definitely going to have to find his way into my collection, sooner rather than later. 8) TurboĪnother that eluded my collection. While in some respects, Pincher could’ve looked a little silly to some with the overall look and simple transformation, I was always jazzed to play with Pincher and while they weren’t an Insecticons level of cool, for me they still looked suitably sinister and evil as part of Cy-Kill’s Renegade group. I had Pincher, keyword is had, because when I recovered my childhood collection last summer, Pincher was there but not in salvageable shape, sadly. While I never owned an AT-AT or this GoBots Command Center, I can’t imagine there’d be any shortage of fun invading Hoth, err, Earth if this had appeared under my Christmas tree. The poor kids AT-AT Walker if you or your parents couldn’t afford Star Wars toys in fact a friend of mine from high school recently called it exactly that when discussing GoBots. Sure, they were simplistic in their transformations, and Tonka didn’t dig too deep into the creativity well when it came to names, but the heroic Guardians and evil Renegades deserve some shine, so while I patiently wait for the Action Toys Steam Robo that I ordered to arrive in my mailbox, let’s take a look at ten of my favorites from the mighty GoBots line. I loved them then, and I still love them now. While I’ve referred to the GoBots in the past as the Mega Bloks to Transformers Lego, I had my share of GoBots toys in the eighties. And while I’m not a fan of the Studio Series, even he couldn’t ruin the franchise toyline.īut there’s another transforming robot toyline that doesn’t get nearly the love Transformers receives, in fact they don’t get nearly enough love, period. For 35 years Transformers have always been nothing short of awesome, well except for maybe that stretch where Michael Bay got his hands on the franchise. Transformers get all the love, and rightly so. ![]()
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