Go Bots. The Transformers really cheap looking cousins

I’m a grown ass man and I have a bookshelf full of gijoe, robotech, etc. toys ( most still on the box) and it’s brings my friends so much joy….the wives and girlfriends just share worried looks.

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No lies detected LOL...in my case, it's GoBots, TMNT and ThunderCats, with some Star Warz Pez dispensers just for class. The rest are horror fiction. So agreed with the worried looks. Absolutely no one in my circle (or immediate family, for that matter!) understands my love of horror, 80s nostalgia and/or heavy metal. God bless you guys! I have found my tribe!

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chigoonies@reddit

You and I would be friends irl I’m sure of it.

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AWorkOfArts@reddit

Won't ever say no to that! Honestly that's probably my favorite part of being a Metal Head especially; it really is like one big family. I love it

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GreasyChick_en@reddit

You get all your wives and girlfriends together and their biggest issue is a shelf of toys?

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chigoonies@reddit

lol…yeah I shoulda read before posting , my girlfriends over the years and my friends wives ( to clarify ) :)

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bedspring76@reddit

Can you really call yourself a man if you don't have these things?

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chigoonies@reddit

Thank you….you’re absolutely correct.

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MrVeazey@reddit

I pulled some of my old Go-Bots and Transformers out of the attic for my son to play with. The rubber tires were almost all brittle, but they mostly held up great otherwise. Now, sometimes, he'll ask "Daddy, why don't they make Go-Bots any more?" I don't know, son.

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RLT79@reddit

They technically do. Go Bots were pulled into the Transformers line in early 90s. I'm fairly certain they are supposed to be the "Minicons" from the shows like Armada. I know Optimus had one called Leader 1.

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melanthius@reddit

Fucking wild to me you can remember specific details of go bots

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Dismal-Ad-6619@reddit

Geau Bots...

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Cinnamaker@reddit

In 1984, a Gobot cost like $3.49. A car Transformer cost like $8.99, and even the small cassette Transformer cost like $6.99. For a kid then, the difference was huge! Like a week or two of allowance, which you had to wait all that time to save up.

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HolidayNo4136@reddit

GoBots started in 83, Transformers in '84.

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jerseygunz@reddit

The hydrox of cheap cartoons made only to sell toys to kids hahaha

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SpatulaCity1a@reddit

I think Transformers actually started earlier than GoBots in Japan, but they were brought over at different times.

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CrappityCabbage@reddit

Transformers started in '84. Toy robots that transform into other objects were a big deal in Japan, so Hasbro bought two competing Japanese brands and combined them into Transformers. The first generation toys look like two different brands of the same concept because they literally were. I'm not even a fan. One of my college roommates paid for a solid year of tuition and rent by selling his toy collection, and he recited random Transformers and GI Joe facts constantly.

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Drslappybags@reddit

Megatron turns into a way to realistic looking gun.

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lampshadish2@reddit

I remember a kid bringing megatron in gun mode to school in the early 80s and it wasn’t a big deal.

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nochumplovesucka__@reddit

Literally "We have transformers at home"

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icepick3383@reddit

Unpopular opinion - the Voltron’s (the vehicle one and lions) were better than both of em. I also loved my M.A.S.K. Toys better also. That iroc-z with wings was the boss.

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chigoonies@reddit

VOLTRON DAIRUGGER !!!!! The matchbox full Voltron dairugger set is one of my grail toys. It was the toy that made me realize my parents were lying about loving me because I never got it for Christmas. ;) But yeah Voltron’s vehicle force was awesome

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icepick3383@reddit

Hahaha! Yeah my grandmother knew I was into that stuff and there was this store that had all these super cool Japanese import robots and other toys. I got a Daitarn 3 tank set, some other knockoff transformer thingirs and a mazinger z toy from there. Great stuff.

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chigoonies@reddit

I miss all of that stuff, I still remember “American mazinger”- TRANZOR Z ( and the female robot Aphrodite, whose boobs were missiles)

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chigoonies@reddit

It’s still in existence I had most of the mask toys including the base with the volcano, mask was one of the best toy series of our childhood .

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Leopard__Messiah@reddit

I wrote to the company and told them I lost the pilot for one of their expensive toy sets that I would never, ever get my hands on. I asked if I could buy just the character with his Mask. They sent me a new one in a plastic baggie with no further comment or questions. My mom found out and stopped me from sending letters to all the toy companies. I already had several of them written when my scheme was found out...

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chigoonies@reddit

Moms ruin everything lol!!! What a great scam!

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therealpopkiller@reddit

Plus that MASK theme song went HARD

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AWorkOfArts@reddit

"M-M-M-Mask, feel the mighty power of the masquerade!" LOL...the whole series is free on Tubi, I love that I can introduce my daughters to key points of my childhood.

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therealpopkiller@reddit

There’s a bunch of covers of it on YouTube. I think [this one](https://youtu.be/jnaD7boLjf8?si=GMYUf30x_Q3lncL8) is my favorite

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Spazzrico@reddit

I forgot about MASK…those were great!

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Jimmybuffett4life@reddit

Crasher was a piece of ass.

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Elegant-Law4309@reddit

She creeped me out sometimes - her and Evil Lynn. Like 3 out of 10 episodes I’d just be uncomfortable with those two characters. But that electric stomp was dope.

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Jimmybuffett4life@reddit

Whats your thoughts on Vanessa Warfield and her whip?

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Elegant-Law4309@reddit

Forgot about that one - she was lumped in with the butch (pink hair) GI Joe/Cobra female… just another baddie. I still don’t understand why those other two made me occasionally fearful.

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chigoonies@reddit

Zarana !

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PortlandPetey@reddit

Evil Lynn made me feel things

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SadAcanthocephala521@reddit

Yes! Loved the Gobots and M.A.S.K.. Wish I still had my childhood toys.

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SweatyPalmsSunday@reddit

I liked the Go Bots. I had the Go Bots lunch box and Command Center.

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DarkwingDuck0322@reddit

Command center is in my parent's attic still. Right next to my Ghostbusters Firehouse.

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von_sip@reddit

I loved Go Bots. They were fun! Transformers was so serious and had so much backstory and baggage. And Go Bots is 100% the better name.

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Funwithfun14@reddit

I had some the toys....I liked them

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DickMartin@reddit

…Must upvote to 69…

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will_this_1_work@reddit

We’ll get you there too friend.

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DarkwingDuck0322@reddit

Believe it or not, Go Bots were around before Transformers.

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YorkiesandSneakers@reddit

I was the only kid who preferred the Go Bots. I think mostly because the main good and bad guys were motorcycles.

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OperatorP365@reddit

I LOVED Transformers as a kid. One of my most cherished possessions were 2 of the Dinobots. One year I got GoBots from Grandma cause of course she didn't understand the difference. 5 year old me did a TERRIBLE job at hiding my disappointment... Talked about it later with Grandma and she just laughed it off, super sweet woman.

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JasonZep@reddit

I remember liking them, I probably couldn’t tell the difference.

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Bandando@reddit

My husband says the toys were better made than Transformers, though…

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Stashmouth@reddit

Well sure, to turn the Go Bot car into a robot you just had to...flip the car over

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Bandando@reddit

Oh, come on—it was really that bad?! My brother had a mini Go-Bot that still worked like a Transformer—I think he got it in a cereal box!

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Stashmouth@reddit

lol I'm exaggerating a little bit, but I always thought Go Bots were much easier to transform than Transformers, and that's what made Transformers better. It was like having to learn a secret handshake for each one

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RaphaelSolo@reddit

That doesn't surprise me since they were a Tonka product. They made quality products. Used to ride around in the back of my dump truck. Thinking back it's hard to believe I was ever small enough to fit my knees in the back.

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Bandando@reddit

Yeah, I think he said they had more metal and less plastic than Transformers, but everyone else seems to think Transformers were better, so I don’t know.

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RaphaelSolo@reddit

Don't think I ever had Gobots toys but transformers were more complex in design. Even in the cartoon's their transformations were very simple.

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Markaes4@reddit

gobots were marketed in america by tonka. But the first generations for both were japanese toys imported into the US by Hasbro and tonka. Gobots were Machine Robo (Popy/bandai) and transformers were Diaclone (Takara). And they were similar designs for the most part. The $4 basic gobots were more complex and articulated (and metal pieces) than the $5 transformers minibots. But the Full size transformers were more complex than both. However there was a full line of "[Super Gobots](https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=jEHm-NNj24I)" that was very much the equivalent to transformers in price, size and complexity. Gobots could have been the winner... Ultimately I think it came down to the transformers having a much better backstory, marketing, cartoon and comic series aimed towards older kids while gobots was just a kiddy hanna barbera cartoon...

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Bandando@reddit

Thank you for that explanation, it actually clarifies a lot. I’m really fascinated by which toys took off in our youth and which didn’t. Like, for me, She-Ra looms so large and I had so many toys I thought that line stretched across the decade, but nope, it was 2-3 years and aside from the new Netflix reboot, no one talks about it much (at least not as much as He-Man).

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RaphaelSolo@reddit

She-ra is actually credited in one documentary as being the cause of the fall of He-Man. They already had girls playing with the toys and making She-ra is believed to have just made He-Man less cool for the boys. Not sure I agree as I watched both with my sister in the 80's and thought both were cool. But I am not normal either.

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Bandando@reddit

Interesting…see, and I wanted nothing to do with He-Man. My cousins had that sliming playset which grossed me out and Skeletor scared the shit out of me. So He-Man was not part of the universe in my room! 😂 I’m not sure that She-Ra caused He-Man’s downfall so much as the late 80s started to leave that sort of fantasy/barbarian genre behind anyway.

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BlkSubmarine@reddit

I still have my Tonka dump truck! Thing was built like a Sherman tank.

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RaphaelSolo@reddit

I have no idea what happened to mine.

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aztec_samurai@reddit

I had the little blue submarine figure and it was all metal.

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Bandando@reddit

Did it seem better made because of that? Or were they harder to transform?

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aztec_samurai@reddit

It definitely was heavier and more rigid than the Transformers but it was a smaller model with a basic transformation for arms and legs and I think the head was somewhat static and the nose of the submarine acted as its cover.

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garygnu@reddit

Transformers had more moving parts.

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MrVeazey@reddit

The "deluxe" Go-Bots were at least as good as the original Optimus Prime in terms of metal parts and the quality of the mechanisms, and they were cheaper. But the cartoon was just *not* good. I mean, in retrospect, neither is the G1 Transformers show but the animation is markedly better and it shared a lot of talented voice actors with GI Joe; people like Frank Welker, Michael Bell, Alan Oppenheimer, Charlie Adler, Rob Paulsen, and Chris Collins (RIP Starscream and Cobra Commander).

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Traveshamamockery_@reddit

Pretty sure my gobots did too. I had a blue car? That articulated really well that was a gobot. Have to see if I can find a Google image.

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UGoBoy@reddit

The GoBots were more simple, and die cast parts were common. But man, their joints wore out in no time. All my GoBots were floppy after a couple of months.

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Bandando@reddit

Ok, now that makes sense in context to other comments. My husband thought the metal made them better-made than Transformers, I’ll have to ask if he noticed the joints wore out faster.

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Sdog1981@reddit

You were told an outright lie.

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Bandando@reddit

Ha! I will let him know he’s a fool!

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rjcpl@reddit

Owned some of both and the Go Bots were definitely the wish.com version of transformers.

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Mackheath1@reddit

Yep. When I asked for transformers-anything, I got Go Bots. When my dad got stationed back to the US, my parents thought they were getting us Transformers beach blankets in Germany. We were the only kids in Melbourne, Florida with Go Bot knockoff beach towels... etc.

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octopusma@reddit

The bad guys were savages, though. Cykill and Crasher up there with Starscream and Megatron for all-time biggest psychos.

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Markaes4@reddit

I was a huge transformers fan... But in a lot of ways the gobots were superior toys (cheaper, regular characters were better than minibots and deluxe gobots were awesome). So I used them interchangeably along with my convertors, etc. But man, that cartoon was bad.... I wonder if it was hard for frank welker to finish his lines for megatron and then have to go record his scooter bits...

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VediusPollio@reddit

A lot of my gobots were metal, as opposed to transformer plastic, so they could take more abuse in the wars they all had in my bedroom.

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AreWeCowabunga@reddit

My mom didn't know whether to get Transformers or Go Bots one Christmas, so she got one of each and wrapped them up. I told her I wanted Transformers, so she said "Ok, I'll give the other one to your cousin", but she mixed up which was which since they were already wrapped and I got the Go-Bot. Such disappointment.

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hattrickjmr@reddit

The F - 14 Go Bot looked pretty good. I think Go Bots came out first, didn’t they?

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Firesalt@reddit

They probably only beat them to market because the design and manufacturing phases were longer for transformers I would think.

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hattrickjmr@reddit

I remember getting so excited to see robots that transform. Woke my mom up at 6am on Sat just to tell her. That went over great! 😂

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drums_addict@reddit

Did your cousin end up living a more fulfilling life because of not being burdened by transformers envy?

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F_is_for_Ducking@reddit

He’s currently the president.

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lampshadish2@reddit

Ouch

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tourniquet2099@reddit

![gif](giphy|ro08ZmQ1MeqZypzgDN)

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Zealousideal-Skin655@reddit

Trauma

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Pale-Conference-174@reddit

Oh no.

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Daniel_Molloy@reddit

GoBots had a great storyline.

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wg_nexline@reddit

The Wish version of transformers but I still loved them

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rodPalmer18@reddit

I wish I still had my Go Bots

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Creepy-Floor-1745@reddit

Why the go boy hate? I’m ‘82 and go bots was life for that season of my childhood

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ThirdWorldOrder@reddit

I’m 41 as well and never heard of go bots until this thread lol

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Creepy-Floor-1745@reddit

To be fair, it was apparently on TV from 84-85 so your brain probably pruned those memories out sometime over the last 40 years We were young enough that I apparently though I might be a robot vehicle when I grew up

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Messijoes18@reddit

Go bots killed Drax's brother :(

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InfidelZombie@reddit

I had all of them except for Snoop, which was a Rolls Royce-type car I think. Dad and I would scour the racks at Shopko, K-Mart, and Pamida but never found him. I haven't thought about Go-Bots in almost 40 years--can't believe I remember all this.

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hiro111@reddit

Go-Bot toys SUCKED back in the day. Terrible designs made cheaply. I hated those things.

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Leopard__Messiah@reddit

I tried to get some Psy-Kill merch a few years ago. Maybe a shirt or something... there was NOTHING. Then, all of the sudden, Psy-Kill made a cameo appearance in Guardians Christmas Special. Now he's back in the Zeitgeist. Weird.

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Putrid-Mess-6223@reddit

I liked them both as a kid, transformer toys were bigger i believe.

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imllikesaelp@reddit

I liked my Gobots, even when my friends called them Gobutts.

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Baldydom@reddit

Gaybots in our school

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No_Cow_4544@reddit

They actually came out first but very inferior

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canzicrans@reddit

GoBots are the living embodiment of the "at home" meme. They toys were trash, even the characters looked cheap on the animated show.

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deeweromekoms@reddit

Go-Bots actually came first. And then Hasbro bought Tonka, so Go-Bots retroactively became Transformers.

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Fruscione@reddit

Are go bots in the marvel universe? In the guardians of the galaxy holiday special they’re mentioned.

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Deepcoma_53@reddit

Great Value Transformers

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MeTieDoughtyWalker@reddit

Loved the Go Bots just as much as the transformers.

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GoodEnoughByMudhoney@reddit

GoBots were *first* and they were better. I’ll die on that hill. Transformers are for squares.

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chigoonies@reddit

Gobots never made me cry, Optimus primes death in the movie made me cry. Gobots were for poor people!!!! ;)

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GoodEnoughByMudhoney@reddit

![gif](giphy|0VkEIJJSjKAXM4e0da|downsized)

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Antebios@reddit

DIE you GoBot scum! Transformers for life!!! Optimus Prime for President 2024!!!!

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Heavy-Excuse4218@reddit

The Go Bots stopped me from a life of crime. At 7 I was in Woolworths with my mother shopping. I found a small Go Bot toy (matchbox car sized) opened on a toy shelf. I took it. Played with it while my mom shopped. Then pocketed it when we left. I waited for some beeper to go off as I left the store, or an employee to come rushing after me, or the police to chase our car home. I sweated it out all night believing that I’d be caught (I was a nervous kid). After that experience I never stole anything again. I’m certain without the Go Bot experience at Woolworth my thievery would have progressed to larger toys…Star Wars figures, then Transformers, He Man, then to GI Joe vehicles. Next thing you know I’d be Oceans Elevening Toys R Us for the GI Joe USS Flagg…

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archeomason@reddit

There was always that one kid in the neighborhood who preferred Go Bots and bring them to the big Transformer battles we would have. It really messed up the vibe.

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Hossflex@reddit

One of them looks to be a fan of Sweden.

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bygtopp@reddit

A new phrase I coined. “Fucking gobots!” When you wanted a 28 point of articulation transformer but got a 5 point articulation gobot because it was cheaper and your family didn’t wa t to buy one for you. Same goes with life. Expect option A but you get option D

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chigoonies@reddit

When I was a kid at toys r us I heard another kid trying to decide between a transformer and a few gobots. He asked ( I’m assuming) his uncle/brother what he should do and the older brother replied : “Get the transformer , gobots are for hillbillies “

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AWorkOfArts@reddit

This may have already been said elsewhere, but for what it's worth, GoBots actually debuted in North America a full year before the Transformers. I never really understood the "hate," I liked both series but growing up, we definitely didn't have Transformers money lol. So six year old me was over the moon when I got Cykill and Leader One for Christmas that year from my Grandparents. Still have them on my shelf today!

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tibbycat@reddit

I like that they were meant to be cyborgs and not robots.

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MainSteamStopValve@reddit

Go Bots, the "Transformers" grandma got you for Christmas.

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TommyAtoms@reddit

There's a really great Go Bots comic by Tom Scioli

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ShirmpGoat@reddit

A transformer?? I am not a child madame.. I am a GO Bot.

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Oradev@reddit

Transformers were Ritz. Go Bots were Great Value.

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tourniquet2099@reddit

I loved both but Transformers was far superior. Hell, even their animated movies were incredibly different. The Go Bots movie was aimed at 5yr olds whereas Transformers: The Movie was aimed closer to teens.

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Smittles@reddit

Its posts like these that make me think I’m Xennial and not GenX. 1976

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backyard_bowman@reddit

Mask ruled them both.

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vapre@reddit

Best theme song out of the three, at least

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Rice_Eater483@reddit

I wanted the combiner Puzzler so much as a kid. All the individual vehicles being sports cars was very cool and when combined, the end product actually looked really good by 80's standards. Would be cool to see a super detailed modern update of Puzzler like we have with various Transformer combiners.

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Dog_Baseball@reddit

I still watched it

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SnooPaintings4472@reddit

I loved my Go Bots and transformers

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PapaTua@reddit

Go Bota suck!!!

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jatx3030@reddit

I had some GoBots and they were okay. I played with them along with my other toys, but even as a 6 or 7 year old I knew they were second rate compared to TransFormers. But hey with a few GoBots, GiJoes, Hot wheels, Transformers, and maybe some Legos... endless fun could be had! 😀

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UGoBoy@reddit

The GoBots eventually were bought by Hasbro and kind of amalgamated with Transformers. This Christmas I found a Transformers version of Crasher, which I ended up getting my son. Was basically a re-do of a recent Autobot Mirage, but the black and purple scheme was neat to see again.

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Special_Lemon1487@reddit

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Ignorant_Grasshoppa@reddit

I loved my GoBots.

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Remember_When_Baby@reddit

Scooter was not to be trifled with.

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atari2600forever@reddit

I always liked these better than Transformers. The quality seemed better.

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BigHobbit@reddit

I first learned my family was poor because I had store brand action figures and go bots.

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Espexer@reddit

I was happy with both toys. I also had he-man toys and voltron toys. Ninja turtles came around and everyone joined up to fight each other in a royal rumble ring. Oh yeah, I had wwf toys and the ring, so it was always a tournament.

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lancelinksecretchimp@reddit

Put some respect on the Go Bots. Leader 1 was elite.

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MelodicMasterpiece81@reddit

“Laaaaaame!” - younger me (as I faithfully watched the cartoon because what the hell else is on?)

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DarkMode54@reddit

Had the Go Bots lunch box in kindergarten. Those plastic transforming figures were awesome.

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Numpty712@reddit

WishBots

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Kered024@reddit

They are still awesome and not ruined by Hollywood yet.

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LasagnahogXRP@reddit

Had a cool female villain “Crusher” (pictured left). Wasn’t forced. It actually wasn’t terrible. But their toys were 😬

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itsmejpt@reddit

Go Bots, Go Bots, Gooooo

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Past-Adhesiveness150@reddit

Cy-kill, Cop-tor

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demuro1@reddit

It was so confusing because all the character that were good in transformers were the bad guys in go bots.

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thoroakenfelder@reddit

The cartoon was trash, but the toys were legit. They had a lower price point but the transformations were good.

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Neezy3000@reddit

I'll never understand why everyone insists transformers were better. I'm rewatching both with my 4yo son. I still think gobots was a better kids show. Transformers is a lot of a kid to follow. Also there is a crazy roster of characters to keep track of. I'm still confused. But my kid knows them all already 🤣

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JJbeefsupreme@reddit

They were akin to generic frosted flakes in a bag, they were okay but not GGGREEEAATTTT!!! (Transformers).

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officialdougjudy@reddit

They'rrrreee food!

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Gas_Bat@reddit

"Your Honor, it can't be copyright infringement. My clients' IP is clearly way shittier."

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FireEllenPao@reddit

"shut the fuck up, Go Bot"

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SnooEagles6930@reddit

I think they might have been first

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This_Fkn_Guy_@reddit

Man I wanted Soundwave and got the the car girl and the scooter...butbwe got you two....so disappointed

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jgoja@reddit

Go Bots has a simplistic elegance with without the loose parts to lose.

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SciFi_MuffinMan@reddit

I liked that you could transform the go bots fast - didn’t slow down the playing. Smaller too. Want to bring a few? Stick them in a pocket. Great toys.

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ItsSillySeason@reddit

Aw man. My parent hd a thing about not splurging for the real deal, even though they could afford it. Something about not chase trendy brands I think. So I got the Go Bots for sure. One that turned into a handgun...

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Efficient-Spirit-380@reddit

Go Bots were like Betamax and later Blackberry. Objectively better than their main competitors, but the tide of public opinion was too much to overcome.

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Ezeke81@reddit

I loved Go bots!

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MagnumPIsMoustache@reddit

Yeah we always asked for Transformers but usually got Go Bots.

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melanthius@reddit

Parents be like “it’s the SAME THING” right to your face

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YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit

Does. Not. Hold. Up

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RaphaelSolo@reddit

Used to watch this with siblings. Loved it as a lil kid.

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NoBetterFriend1231@reddit

Gobots are the Mr. Pibb of robot toys. Fake-ass off-brand shit.

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Kryptin206@reddit

I actually liked Go Bots more than Transformers when I was a kid. I had a ton of the toys and remember watching the cartoon a lot on the USA Cartoon Express.

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