Go-bots

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grey fox
Your thoughts on the TF's rials ?

Toku King
Lame.

Scythe
Yeah, they sorta suck. Knock offs aren't cool....

Cough*battletoads*cougH

Sadako of Girth
Rivals...? lol

I had a few before my first TFs.

Leader One, Cykill, Tank and Scooter that lamborghini one and that ambulance dude.. a coupla others..

TFs impressed me more as apart from the bigger, more detailed car Gobots, TFs seemed more elaborate somehow... cooler.... more accomplished.

Looking at say Leader one, you could very easily suss out how he transformed into his robot mode.

Then I saw a couple of the TF seekers in the catalogue. (Thundercracker or Skywarp, maybe both) and I couldn't figure out for the life of me how that Robot mode would come about from the sleek-assed jet next to it in the picture.

Then I saw Mirage, Ratchet and Jazz and it was the same. I was intrugued from then on.

As time went on, and the cartoon was released here, the gulf of difference of quality was becoming more and more evident.
It was possible to take TFs seriously, with great characters, good development, more of a "real" feel (back as a kid especially) and its movie rocked.

Where as Go-bots' silliness and naff movies that looked substandard even by regular TV standards failed to impress anyone but the younger kids in the neighbourhood.

To be honest, in the full-on-ness fo the craze, Star Wars toys was the only other toy line I'd seen people go that crazy over.

A great time but really hard on the wallets of us and our poor old parents..

But Gobots will always be the sad lad of the pack there and no mistake.

Scooter sound like Jar-Jar "f***stick" Binks.
It was all doomed from there..... stick out tongue

Scythe
Every single Go-Bot reminds me of Snarf from Thundercats...

Sadako of Girth
Snarf Snarf. stick out tongue

Scythe
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Snarf Snarf. stick out tongue

Snarf reminds me of Orko from He-Man...

Sadako of Girth
Yep all definitely cut from the same Ewokky cloth.

grey fox
Originally posted by Scythe
Yeah, they sorta suck. Knock offs aren't cool....

Cough*battletoads*cougH

Knockoffs ?

Pfft , when the hell did The TMNT have to fight this ?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/DarkQueen.png

Sadako of Girth
I was browsing through my emulator collection the other day when Double Dragon Vs Battle toads on the Megadrive/Genesis reared its ugly, UGLY head.

I hope Double Dragon wins. stick out tongue

Scythe
Originally posted by grey fox
Knockoffs ?

Pfft , when the hell did The TMNT have to fight this ?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/DarkQueen.png

They don't have to. Battletoads were always lame.

Sadako of Girth
May they rot in hell.

grey fox
Originally posted by Scythe
They don't have to. Battletoads were always lame.



But the cheesecake man...THE CHEESECAKE !

Scythe
Originally posted by grey fox
But the cheesecake man...THE CHEESECAKE !

Battletoads were at least slightly better then Street Sharks.

grey fox
Originally posted by Scythe
Battletoads were at least slightly better then Street Sharks.

Hell No, street sharks were EPIC !

They ATE through the goddamn street !

Scythe
Originally posted by grey fox
Hell No, street sharks were EPIC !

They ATE through the goddamn street !

But Battletoads were paired up with Double Dragons Billy and Jimmy Lee man! That's more respect points earned then Street Sharks!

Sadako of Girth
Ahhhhhh classic coin-op carnage meets reprehensible reptilian retail reproduction rapscallions.

Billy and Jimmy Lee dines on Frog's legs in France after that meeting.
(Even hindered by the existance of that shitty cartoon.)

super pr*xy
oh... go-bots... GO-bots. here i am saying gay-bots all this time...

Scythe
Pretty much I remember back when I was a kid, I turned down a ten pack of go-bots for a Sideswipe reissue.

Sadako of Girth
A wise choice, sir.

lol Superpr*xy

Scythe
Yeah, they were pretty expensive too, the TF's.

Compared to any ten pack of Go-Bots.

Sadako of Girth
Better to pick up syphillis, than some of them Go-bots.

grey fox
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Better to pick up syphillis, than some of them Go-bots.

Lolz

Scythe
I just remembered, there was a Lambo. Diablo Optimus Go-Bot...

Sadako of Girth
Yeah the vehicle designs were pretty mutual.

Made for good comaparisons. smile

Scythe
Optimus Diablo...

pottyboy
This thread cracks me up. Unfortunately I had GO-bots as a kid, and I remember how easy they would break, they just weren't built as solid as transformers. Cheap knockoffs. I vividly remember being called "poor" in the school yard for even having them!

Ericadawn
Aww, I loved them both especially since the GoBots had a space shuttle and the scooter and the Transformers didn't. I also liked that they were smaller since I was little then.

grey fox
Originally posted by Scythe
Optimus Diablo...

Haha Seiriously ?

Btw : Who the heck is that in your sig

Sadako of Girth
Originally posted by Ericadawn
Aww, I loved them both especially since the GoBots had a space shuttle and the scooter and the Transformers didn't. I also liked that they were smaller since I was little then.

Sky Lynx, Astrotrain and Blast off were Space Shuttles.
But they didn't appear til season 2 of the cartoon, so you must be talking TFs season 1.

And you LIKED Scooter??!!!?? You, Madam, are sick...!!!! lol

Scythe
Originally posted by grey fox
Haha Seiriously ?

Yeah, one of Prime's many incarnations was a Diablo Go-Bot. It's extremely rare and a complete piece of crap.

Originally posted by grey fox
Haha Seiriously ?

Btw : Who the heck is that in your sig

Haha, the naked anime chick? It's a Saeki figure from Bible Black only half dressed and lookin' at my iPod.

maxman1180
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
A wise choice, sir.

lol Superpr*xy

wahahahaha lol

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