“Robot Roll Call” in 1984 Featuring Transformers, GoBots, and Robo Force

The December, 1984 issue of Enter Magazine offers up this Holiday Buyers’ Guide in which Fred D’Ignazio provides readers with a fun collection of (at the time) new robot toys.

Ideal’s Maxx Steele from the Robo Force line gets an entry all its own, but Tonka’s GoBots and Hasbro’s Transformers toys must share an entry. In the article D’Ignazio writes of the transforming robot toys:

“These aren’t blinking, romp-around robots like we’ve mentioned above. The GoBots and Transformers are non-electronic toys that look like jets or cars or other normal objects. Press a button here, move a wing there, and they turn into robots. GoBots and Transformers can’t be programmed and have no sensors, but they’re fun to play with.”

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