Bandai appeared to retain the international marketing rights to the series following the change to GoBots, and so adapted their international toylines when the line was rebranded. Internationalīesides distributing them in the United States as Machine Men, Bandai also sold the Machine Robo toys in other non-Asian countries before their partnership with Tonka began. Note: For Transformers fans, this situation is similar to how some Generation One Transformer molds were released by Takara in the Diakron toyline before their partnership with Hasbro began. Machine Robo toys were initially marketed in the United States under the name Machine Men by Bandai themselves, but the line didn't see widespread success until Tonka adapted the toyline into GoBots and created a new animated series for the brand, as well as an array of supporting merchandise such as coloring books, stickers, and even an official GoBots magazine. GoBots got its start as a Japanese toyline called Machine Robo which was created by Takara-competitor Bandai. The rights relating to the toys that made up the GoBots line, however, are still owned by Bandai, who had merely licensed them to Tonka for GoBots. In 1991, Hasbro bought Tonka and its subsidiaries (including Kenner), and at that time acquired all of Tonka's intellectual property, including jurisdiction over GoBots-related names and trademarks. Tonka also released a number of supporting toys such as spaceships, bases, the Robosaurus deity monster Zod and sets of combining Power Suits which GoBots figures can be placed into. After the line's initial success, a series of larger Super GoBots toys was also released, featuring both new characters and larger versions of some pre-existing toys. Strange as it seems, these beings of metal and flesh may be their universe's counterparts to the Transformers as, according to an edition of Ask Vector Prime in Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II, their home planet Gobotron is the aspect of the omnipresent Primus for their very distant portion of the multiverse.Premiering in 1984, Tonka's GoBots toys were mostly small, similar in size to Transformers' Mini Vehicles, although they were generally more complex than similarly-sized Transformers. They're not even robots, but cyborgs: Guardians and Renegades from the shattered planet Gobotron. Yet these seemingly mechanical beings are not Autobots or Decepticons. After untold years of battle that war has spilled over onto Earth, where the combatants alter their bodies to take on disguises of land and air vehicles and continue their conflict among us!
In a dimension beyond the records of even the Transcendent Technomorphs two factions of metallic beings, one friendly and one evil, fight an ancient war on a ravaged technological world. “ Since the dawn of time, the city of Botropolis has been home to a race of highly adaptable… robots!Įach year, the Council selects a team of Go-Bots to protect and serve the planet which needs the most… These Go-Bots can transform from their robot mode to a variety of altmodes, each representing one of the toys released under their name (For example, Beast-Bot can turn into both a gorilla and a cheetah). It centers on the adventures of Aero-Bot, Beast-Bot, Buzzer-Bot, Speed-Bot, and Strong-Bot, a group of robotic protectors sent to Earth from their home city of Botropolis, which is located on a comet. The Go-Bots cartoon series serves as a companion to the Go-Bots toyline.
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