Spotted Online – “20 Gobots That Remind Us Why the Gobots Sucked So Incredibly Hard”
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I’ve made no secret in the past about how I thought Go-Bots was an inferior line back in the eighties, but I’ve also grown to appreciate the line and today have even started grabbing a few of the toys. The Go-Bots toys are still somewhat lesser quality than the Transformers toys of the same age, but those Go-Bots toys have a charm to them that Transformers sometimes lack.
Well, in an attempt to make sure I don’t ever forget the worst sins of the Go-Bots line there’s this post at io9: “20 Gobots That Remind Us Why the Gobots Sucked So Incredibly Hard.” Special thank you to Lord Shadowcat on Twitter for directing me to the post; I would have missed this without his help.
Click through for the list. I don’t agree with every single toy shown — Scales, for example, is a pretty neat idea — but there are some pretty bad designs hiding in there and just like the old transforming robots toy list at Topless Robot a few years ago (mentioned here) I’m going to look at this Go-Bots list as a potential shopping list.
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Found alot of the list was abit of a cop-out being alot of kids meals toys, but glad to see Rob’s bringin some Topless Robot’ness to io9.
My biggest clue that they sucked was going through a gobot database and realizing a good amount of minutes into scrolling through pics waaaaaiiiit a minute, I owned a lot of these. If you would have asked me moments before I would have told you that I only owned leader one. It actually took a few minutes of looking at pics of them to recognize them. I even confirmed that I still have some of them and can’t name without the database. The fact that I have robotech and transformers in lit detolfs and cannot muster any memories of gobots
Oops 🙂 CONT. It’s awful, I think I made joshb mad posting my gobot phenomena but my brain truly obsesses over other transforming toys and rejects the existence of gobots.
@Court – Also notice that the fast food toys all had only a single point of articulation BUT that fact was only used once to say why the toy sucked. I enjoyed the list, but my only complaint is how so much of the writing seemed aimed at mean-spiritedness more than fun.
@Openchallenge – I’ve posted way too many times about cheap transforming robot toys of the eighties for me to do anything except admit that I think there’s some real fun in the crappier of the toys out there.
But yeah, you don’t hear a lot about people tracking down Go-Bots toys for collections.
One of my favorite Transforming toys was a the GO-Bot Rube.