#Go-Bots

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

Go-bots Cy-kill

[pocoslip]

Which New Bumblebee Figures should be Repainted/Rettooled into Bug Bite??

(I still think they should retool WFC SS Bumblebee in Bug Bite because of their Similar Headsculpts)

[ryanmoody]

Transformers/Go-Bot fusion by GuidoGuidi

[digibash]

In the infinite possibilities of the multiverse, there exists universes where "rescue" is not a word. In those universes, DESTROY ROY only knows destruction. He finds his purpose in teaching children how to start fires, hate, and be evil. 

[the-good-ol-art-corner]

★✧I get Messages from the Stars✧★

★✧You must be from another Galaxy✧★

So um. My brain thought up the most out-there (pun intended) ship between Autobot Cosmos and GoBot Spay-C,,, I don't know why all I know is it's cute and I like it shh-

Reblogs > Likes, thank you! <3

[holy-shit-comics]

[siphersaysstuff]

New for G2!

Know what I haven't done in a hot minute? A Patreon-backed @tfwiki pic thread about toys from before the turn of the century! Ha haa god I'm old.

Anyway, let's look at some of the new toys made for GENERATION 2, easily one of my all-time favorite eras of TF. I was the exact target demographic for the original TF line, but it was just one of many toylines I liked. I never had a lot. But G2 came when I started having disposable income, and at the dawning of internet fandom, and the innovations it made turned me into a TF FAN and long-time collector.

And before we start, everyone give thanks to Takara designer Takio Ejima (江島 多規男). He designed SO MANY TFs from this era to today, and is responsible for creating the light-piping and balljoint articulation that first appeared in these years.

The "Autobot Cars" became instant favorites (especially Rapido). The European releases were called AXELERATORS (a far cooler name) and had gorgeous hot-pink translucent parts instead of the US versions' smoky black. (Skram, Windbreaker, Rapido (old pic), Turbofire (old pic))

Of course, the "Decepticon Jet" counterparts, aka SKYSCORCHERS, were also adored. Weapons stored in vehicle mode were still rare, and thankfully the US versions kept that lovely bright-green translucent plastic. (Windrazor, Terradive, Afterburner (old pic), Eagle Eye (old pic))

The LASER RODS didn't just have light-up parts, they were the first super-articulated TFs! They used the G.I.Joe O-ring and steel hips construction, which was very awkward and made standing them tricky. (Electro, Volt, Sizzle, Jolt)

Following up are the LASER CYCLES, which use the Cyberjet ball-joint tech for much more stable advanced articulation. Road Pig and Road Rocket (old pic) also keep their lights permanently plugged into their weapons, where the Rods had you move the light from engine to hand.

On the other end of the articulation are the GO-BOTS, small and simple toys designed to work with Matchbox/Hot Wheels-scale playsets. Gearhead here was first released with clear parts, then again in the second wave with opaques… the first of many, MANY redecoes for this lot.

(No really, the six Go-Bots were released in like TEN different decos each all told over the course of eight years. It's amazing the steel molds weren't cheese by the end of it.)

The last toys released in G2 (in the US at least), the AUTO-ROLLERS (Dirtbag & Roadblock) are absolute units. Their back/lower halves have involved gearing that, when you flip a switch, makes them auto-transform to robot when rolled forward, or to vehicle when rolled back.

There's loads more delightful toys in this line, but I've already done pics of most of them, like the water-shooters (sadly my US versions are pretty rough), Rotor Force, Heroes, and the Australia/New Zealand exclusive Power Masters. Try 'em, you'll like 'em.

And if you enjoy these looks back on TF toy history and want to see even more pics per month, please consider joining my Patreon. Every little bit helps out. You can find it at

www dot patreon dot com slash gregstfwikipics

[askvectorprime]

If the Renegade Zero is the GoBot equivalent of Decepticon Starscream, who is Decepticon Thundercracker’s GoBot equivalent?

Dear Equivalence Engineer,

I would always be hesitant at trying to look for equivalents in interdimensional archetypes. Certainly, Zero does have some similarities to various incarnations of Starscream; but if that was what mattered, you would be doing a disservice to all those Starscreams who have managed to overcome the tendencies of those who bear the name.

I do recall one Go-Bot Thundercracker, however. He was part of Jhiaxus' early cloning work, who took the form of a Mercedes-Benz sports coupé. The influence from his forebearer left him with a massive inferiority complex, which made him ill-suited for Jhiaxus' plans, and he was left doing menial tasks on Qre. He was still there when Jhiaxus launched his Machine Wars, his self loathing over the new, improved Thundercracker clone leading him to fall into despair… until the stray spectral form of Starscream happened upon Qre, and recruited Thundercracker to his cause, plying him with stories about how much of an improvement he was over the original Thundercracker—something Starscream truly believed, as this clone had little of the attitude or conscience of the original.

Utilizing his new toady, Starscream was able to clone himself a new body, and the pair embarked upon their own invasion of Cybertron.

[kasperl-ruprecht]

[maddyaddy]

Her: Babe, please stop saying dumbass things, you're not even making sense! Me: ROCK LORDS ROCKS THAT COME ALIVE ROCK LORDS FIGHTING TO SURVIVE LIVING ROCKS WITH STRENGTH AND MIGHT RISING UP TO CRUSH AND FIGHT! ROCK LORDS! POWERFUL LIVING ROCKS!

[golyadkin]

Sons Of The Labyrinth or The Things Our Fathers Do To Us

[slightly-foolish]

Fuck I think I pissed off a go-bot

[metamatronic]

memories :) continued here

why is michael in sb!ruin??? i have no clue!!! maybe he’s salvaging animatronic pieces to fix his robot family members and found cassie.

[hamletthedane]

Americans: If anybody is telling you not to vote or to not vote Democrat on tumblr in the next few weeks, just assume they’re bots trying to throw the election.

register to vote

[tramblr]

The energon sea contains many dangers.

[siphersaysstuff]

MATCHBOTS!

So for August's Patreon-backed @tfwiki picture update, I thought I'd follow up on the Generation 2 vibe from last month (and with the release of the G2-heavy Toxitron Collection) and (almost) complete the run of Go-Bot mold toys! Introduced in 1995, these little 1:64-scale bots were made to be compatible with Matchbox and Hot Wheels tracks and playsets, and this mold-set would be redecoed a LOT over the following decade. Motormouth above, for example, first caem with transparent robot bits, but the second-wave release was entirely opaque.

Fellow second-waver OPTIMUS PRIME is mostly just an opaque version of wave 1's clear-red Firecracker, but with some extra blue paint on the helmet to make him Optimussier.

Wave 3 was all classic G1 bots in strange new decos. Say hi to BUMBLEBEE, FRENZY, IRONHIDE and MIRAGE (the decos were probably picked before the names were).

Wave 3 SOUNDWAVE is infamous for his bright deco. But what's with that Takara version, with Wave-2 opaque Gearhead's robot parts? Well, that's because the Takara release was gang-molded with...

...the Takara-release MEGATRON and OPTIMUS PRIME, the only three Go-Bots released in Japan. Basically, all 6 Go-Bots are cast from the same set of molds, so if you change one plastic color on any of the 6, you're changing the color for several others in the set. As demonstrated here...

See the pattern? Bear in mind that the rightmost bots have green and gold paint on their car panels, the underlying plastic is black.

These molds would be re-used as the "Spychangers" for 2000's Takara series Car Robots, which got imported as Robots in Disguise in 2001, and I'm not going into all of THOSE here. But there's a lot (the top row on the above pic is just the start!), and I'm focusing on the new pics, so moving on...

Late in the 2003 Universe line, a new batch of G1 characters in Spychanger form were released as KB Toys exclusives, using a set of molds originally planned for G2 but ultimately not released until RiD, like SILVERSTREAK on the left, and new molds made specifically for RiD, like OPTIMUS PRIME here.

The very last release of a Go-Bot/Spychanger style mold came in late 2007, when Takara offered a free "OPTIMUS PRIME FIGURE" with the preorder of the 2007 Transformers movie on DVD/HD-DVD through Paramount Pictures Japan. This little sucker is extensively painted, let me tell you.

And with this, I've taken wiki pics of 76 out of the 88 "finished" Go-Bots/Spychanger toys! Only 12 rare/unreleased items left! Whoadang! ALSO… I've now made over 2500 toy pics for the wiki, many of which are multi-toy pics! Jambalaya, that's a lotta bots!

If you like what I do here and want to get me to a total of 3000 pics faster, I do have a Patreon! You can help get more and more pics out every month, and even pick a theme!

Check it out at patreon dot com slash gregstfwikipics!