GoBots Sucked So Bad That Even Their Commercials Were Lame
I’ve written before about how GoBots and their commercials were lame (LiveJournal post here), but I can never get past just how much these toys and their commercials sucked.
What’s really sad is that I have no love for GoBots but I’ve got all kinds of love for even cheaper, more obscure transforming robot toys. I can’t explain it.
Gobots were amazing, great designs and great construction, every one had die-cast metal parts.
I had way more GoBots than Transformers when I was a kid. They cost less and almost fit in with my Hot Wheels cars. Woohoo!
I really do think it was my lack of GoBots toys as a kid that makes me dislike them so much today. Not every toy in the line, but in general there’s just something about GoBots that makes me unhappy with them.
After watching this again I have to say that the most impressive thing about it was the part where Cy-Kill tells the announcer to shut up. He always was pretty hardcore.
The Gobots were made to provide a cheap toy to Japanese audiences, so naturally they are going to be somewhat lacking when compared to a Transformer.
I could probably pull out ten essential Gobots from my shelf. #1 – Tux!
Tux was a stylin’ mofo. That tophat just KILLED the ladybots.
Oh, big Gobot problem – a lot of them don’t have real hands. But they all have big smiles. I bet they are sitting on Gobotron right now, having a party while they reminisce about they all used to be human until the disaster that required they become robots.