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...OK, OK, we've all had our laughs at the expense of the "other" transforming robot toys from the 80's. Now it's time to face facts: as far as toys go, the Go-Bots actually kicked a not-inconsiderable amount of ass. Sure, they didn't have the comic or the established universe/personalities, the cartoon sucked ass (like most late-80's Hanna-Barbera, and this is from an H-B groupie), and many of the toys tended to wear down and get all wobbly if you played with them too much...for a kid whose family was on a tight budget, though, they were cheap, looked fucking sweet, and could take a serious beating (let's face it...most G1 Transformers would snap into pieces if you sneezed on them). My first "fan characters" were an entire roster of Autobots and Decepticons that were made of re-named Go-Bots and various swap meet bootlegs...until college, I only actually owned 3 or 4 legitimate Transformers toys.
SO...come on, all you closet Go-Bots fans! The toys rocked even if nothing else did really, so declare that loud and proud to the next sneering TF fan badmouthing our bots!
...just...just don't mention the Rock Lords. Seriously. That's grounds for manslaughter in many states.
BTW, the two Go-Bots here are Vanguard and Rest-Q, the former being my favorite (despite him turning into a mini-van...hey, it was a better disguise than a fucking Formula-1 race car!) and the latter being the first transforming robot toy I EVER owned.
RESPECT THE G'S!
SO...come on, all you closet Go-Bots fans! The toys rocked even if nothing else did really, so declare that loud and proud to the next sneering TF fan badmouthing our bots!
...just...just don't mention the Rock Lords. Seriously. That's grounds for manslaughter in many states.
BTW, the two Go-Bots here are Vanguard and Rest-Q, the former being my favorite (despite him turning into a mini-van...hey, it was a better disguise than a fucking Formula-1 race car!) and the latter being the first transforming robot toy I EVER owned.
RESPECT THE G'S!
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Man, I miss gobots. If I weren't getting ready to move I'd be investing in some. (Don't need MORE things to move. Already got three people to move 6 vehicles not encluding an estimated 2 moving trucks) Plus... you seen my yard. All that shit has to come.
Man, Vanguard was always one of my favorites too. I even recently found my old one... well... half of him. He didn't fare so well in the havoc of the flood.
Man, Vanguard was always one of my favorites too. I even recently found my old one... well... half of him. He didn't fare so well in the havoc of the flood.
Well, the toy Brawn left a lot to be desired, but it was honestly a bit better then the peculiar "man face" the character tended to sport in both comics and animation. But come on man, no Bot should be able to lay out Brawn that easily, even if he IS one of those infuriating "micro" transformers, I remember his power chart and he truely is a man cracker man... at least, as far as wavey blue lines on a red distortion field could tell me.
I will admit though, I had both a Leader 1 and a Cy-kill.
I will admit though, I had both a Leader 1 and a Cy-kill.
The "trick shoulder" is actually a reference to his death in "Transformers: The Movie" when Megatron shoots Brawn in the left shoulder, causing him to fall over supposedly dead and not be seen for the rest of the series. A lot of TF fans, myself included, actually think the idea that a character who's supposed to be as tough as Prime when it comes to taking damage could be killed by a shoulder hit is pretty damn funny, although there was apparently a whole group of TF fans who claim that "Brawn LIVES!" (not that any of them have any explanation as to where he went afterwards)...my favorite joke/explanation is that he kept coming back to attack Megatron/Galvatron offscreen throughout the rest of the movie, each time in worse shape until, after Galvatron gets chucked into space by Rodimus Prime, all that's left of him is his spark core and a few wires attacking Galvatron's foot like a rabid chihuahua.
Believe me, before the movie Brawn was the epitome' of macho-bothood, which is what makes the fact that his death, one of the few G1 deaths actually shown onscreen in the film as well as the first one of the "shuttle massacre" scene, was so ridiculous. Far be it for me to pass up a 20-year-old running gag, tho'..!
Believe me, before the movie Brawn was the epitome' of macho-bothood, which is what makes the fact that his death, one of the few G1 deaths actually shown onscreen in the film as well as the first one of the "shuttle massacre" scene, was so ridiculous. Far be it for me to pass up a 20-year-old running gag, tho'..!
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