There is something strangely admirable about the way these cartoons perfected the art of aggresively lore-dumping the entire premise of their show directly into a child's brain in under a minute.
All any discussion of war needs is a sick beat and some funny voices saying a clunky half-baked slogan and it’s got my interest. Probably how a certain funny voiced warlord got so many people to go to his massive parades/dance parties.
It took me 5 years to find this... I've had this on vhs and I had no idea what to search for. I serched like this: "80s cartoon two ships crashing frozen planet good vs evil robots transform with human pilots". I found noting untill today, my smile is from ear to ear
hmn sound like transformer to me - no wonder you can't find it , but i think robotix - description of there robot is more realistic than transformer robot men -- since ... look inrealistic term , so everyone here anyone realized that in transformer they just walking metal escaping from cybertron to here , no explanation - and this movies explain about that , nice.
@@nicholashylton6857The propaganda was not lost on me. I watched as many of them as I could! However, some cable companies didn’t provide certain channels. For instance, my small town didn’t have the channel that showed “HeMan and the Masters of the Universe”. I could only see it when I went to visit my cousin in Dallas.
Just so people know, Robotix was a construction kit line by Milton Bradley (subsidiary of Hasbro) in the same sort of toy as Meccano construction kits or Erector Sets and K'Nex. A short lived comic and cartoon were made to try and promote these sets. The comic was published by Marvel while Sunbow AND Marvel Productions produced the cartoon for the Super Saturday/Super Sunday/Super Week show, to promote this line with Jem, Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines and Inhumanoids, That's why they were able to recycle music pieces from G.I. Joe/Transformers and Inhumanoids as they were ALL by the same composers; Johnny Douglas and Robert Walsh and use the same Los Angeles based talent pool of actors for the characters. And YES four bars of the theme do sound like the song 'Ghostbusters' by Ray Parker Jr. It was a coincidence. The toys, cartoon and mini comic only lasted a year. The characters sadly did not appear like the construction kits, with the exception of Argus and there was no good vs. evil conflict. Just build the biggest motion toy that you can through multiple parts.
Josh Darnell OK then, but you see my point is that the majority of the characters didn't look like their cartoon counterparts. Venjurax for example was a space station kit or something like that.
chinito77 Some production companies were able to re-use tracks by the same composer, another fine example is Shuki Levy who's music gets re-used a few times in Saban and DiC productions. You're welcome. :)
I remember the toys, even played with them.....no clue it was a cartoon too! First time ever hearing of this. All voices and sound effects are really familiar.
@@BlueMaxxW tfwiki.net/wiki/Robotix The Robotix are a race of warring, shape-changing robots: one side of peaceful heroes, the other of sinister villains! They used to all be organic creatures, a mammalian race and a reptilian race, but a cataclysm sent most of their population into stasis and four agents each of the heroic Protectons and evil Terrakors were turned into robots to rebuild their world of Skalorr... but the Terrakor leader wants galactic conquest! Their war is without end, but the arrival of humans into the conflict may save the day! Parts of this may sound familiar, and it should, for the Robotix are actually the Transformers in the Xobitor universal cluster! Their homeworld also includes a race called the Rock Lords that can transform to and from immobile rocks. Hey, that's also familiar!
Man, this takes me back!! Back in the 80`s during Transformers, GI Joe, GoBots, He-Man, Thundercats, Silverhawks, C.O.P.S, even the InHumanoids! This was a Golden Age of Cartoons.
Seems like we couldn't go a week without some sort of alien invasion back then. The younger generations owe us for taking up arms so they could live this peaceful lifestyle.
I had this toy set about a year before this cartoon was made. The early Robotix toys I had didn't have a storyline as a kid I just made stuff up. Sometimes they helped Autobots and sometimes they helped He-Man but they always used them to help out the good guys.
I love how epic the mythologies and storylines were. Glad that the writers (and pretty much everyone else involved) took the creating of these cartoon seriously and didn't settle for just making 30 minute toy commercials.
i see this as the pilot for another robot show/toy line that could make a cross over with transformers both shows have the same narrator and deal with humans so its not a stretch but tossing that aside i do miss this level of cartoon entertainment and its done right short and sweet with some wiggle room for more
Except they did and that the people that whined about advertising ironically advertised their own whining to the world, as Fascist hypocrites tend to do in their lives.
Actually, this is a lot like Rebirth / Headmasters in Transformers. And somehow Tyrannix sounds like Galvatron and Starscream combined. And the chubby guy is pretty much what I imagine Ironhide looking like as a human.
I just saw this today. I have been a fan of transformers, voltron, and the lot for years, but never heard of this show. I was hooked within the first 5 minutes, and have been quite entertained. Imagine what they could have done with more time. I would have loved to see this flushed out, but it is pretty good even as it is. Even the names of the characters sound alien enough to be believable.
This is like (The Real) Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters, the latter which was done by Filmation and confused a lot of kids of my generation, making us think they were some sort of farm team to the much more movie like Ghostbusters cartoon.
I see potential in this idea. Hollywood should grow a backbone, give kids BACK their action media, and make this into a full-fledged show like transformers
This is art. I know some might point out anime but this takes the cake. The imagery, the colors, the designs, the architecture, the shadowing, the motion, etc. it’s like 😮
Robotix i love that animated series one a my favorite cartoon series i was ten yrs old started watching it brings back a lot a memories retro my generation was on ch 32, Sunday mornings yrs ago transformers gi joe voltron the go bots he man she ra the thundercats mask teenage mutant ninja turtles a pup named scooby doo those are my favorite cartoons each and every one a them they all classics.
Does this remind anybody else of......'something' ? I don't know it just seems that there's, "more than meets the eye" here ! I just can't put my finger on it . lmao
The setting in this one is a-ma-zing! The post-apocalyptic world of Skalorr was both off-putting and eerily beatiful. This kicked the crap out of the other robot shows like Gobots or Transformers in my opinion.
I honestly wondered, where there any Terrorkors who, Similar to Drift, Jetfire, or Knockout who defected to the Autobots in transformers, like some Terrakors decided to join the Protectons, if the show went on longer, this concept would possibly been done here
I was 14 years old when this cartoon came out this is really classic watch it after all these years it would be great to do some kind of remake using CG animation
It is definitely interesting how so many 80s and cartoons had some of the same voice actors. This one, Transformers, GI Joe, Voltron, and even a few Disney cartoons Duck Tales, Winnie the Pooh, Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers and Darkwing Duck. This is one of those rare occasions I remember Peter Cullen voice a bad guy. The other few times when he voiced Venger in Dungeons and Dragons and when he voiced Shawn Berger in Transformers' second season and the Decepticon Slugslinger in the final three episodes of the original series.
Wow this is a great find. I don't think I've even seen the series but when I remember a VHS movie of Robotix I used to rent from time to time when I was a kid. This is even better than I remember!
I had the two big good guy robotic figures. They tended to break at the joints, but they were easy to fix. The wires were strong, the motors good and durable. The ratchet pieces sucked though.
If only they had a crossover with Jace and the Wheeled Warriors. Also we never found out who was chasing the humans in that Star cruiser at the beginning. Probably Decepticons. This also seems like a prototype of the 4th season of the Transformers with the Headmasters storyline merging organic humanoids with alien robots.
I don't recall ever seeing the cartoon but I had one of the Robotix toys ("Argus"). They were *not* transforming toys, but were rather a kind of motorized Lincoln Log type things that you could make move with a control pad with buttons. The motors were sadly weak but I thought it was a pretty fun toy!
Oh yeah. Him and Frank Welker. Non Robotix related(but related to Transformers), but I believe that Transformers was also one of the first cartoons to feature Rob "Raphael/Yakko Warner/Pinky" Paulsen as well.
People forget that the guy that brought us Ironhide and Prime brought us the Targetmaster Nightstick, Nemesis in this series, Vengar in Dungeons and Dragons, and was the original voice of KARR in the first Knight Rider, as well as a reprisal in the remake.
I was given a robotix sticker when I was about 5, and was always intrigued by it but never knew where it came from. Mystery solved and most impressed, thanks for uploading!
This was a great toy, good memories of it. Wish they made it today, with modern battery technologies and wireless comms it would be even better than it was originally.
I watched the re-runs probably, but yeah I could still remember glimpse of this. The reason why I love robots and love to take them apart, breaking many of my toys when I was but a toddler.
wow its really bringing me back. i cant remember if ive ever seen this before but there are so many of the same sound effects, background music, voice actors, and even backdrops as transformers
Sunbow/Marvel produced this show originally for their Super Saturday/Super Sunday line up, that also included Inhumanoids, Jem and Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines in 1985 and yes the purpose was to help sell more Hasbro toys.
Micheal Bell has done a immense amount of stuff. I don't know if you play games, but he does VOs for them too. Famously known for Raziel from Soul Reaver.
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There is something strangely admirable about the way these cartoons perfected the art of aggresively lore-dumping the entire premise of their show directly into a child's brain in under a minute.
Yeah, I remember how _Defenders of the Earth_ managed to explain the concept of "hallucinating" to my childhood self in one sentence.
WIERD
All any discussion of war needs is a sick beat and some funny voices saying a clunky half-baked slogan and it’s got my interest.
Probably how a certain funny voiced warlord got so many people to go to his massive parades/dance parties.
Haha, so true
ROBOTIX!!!!!!!
Who's watching 2024 😊. I watch it when I was a little kid... Thank you for this great show
It took me 5 years to find this... I've had this on vhs and I had no idea what to search for. I serched like this: "80s cartoon two ships crashing frozen planet good vs evil robots transform with human pilots". I found noting untill today, my smile is from ear to ear
hmn sound like transformer to me - no wonder you can't find it , but i think robotix - description of there robot is more realistic than transformer robot men -- since ... look inrealistic term , so everyone here anyone realized that in transformer they just walking metal escaping from cybertron to here , no explanation - and this movies explain about that , nice.
Same for me! I :)
argus and nemisis are two of the worst cartoon leaders of all time
tryanus is another starscream
I watched this as a child and did not care it was a transformers knock off
Transformer’s music. Transformer’s sound effects. Transformer’s voice actors. It’s weird hearing Cullen as the bad guy.
It definitely confused my son who i raise on transformers. If I had the money and resources I'd reanimate EVERY episode of G1 like this.
Even though I remember these toys, I had NO idea that there was a cartoon to accompany the property. Glad I'm discovering it now!
me too!
Ditto!
AND ME TOO!
Really? These Saturday morning 'toons were thinly veiled toy commercials and Hasbro & Mattel thoroughly had my pre-teen mind within their grasp.
@@nicholashylton6857The propaganda was not lost on me. I watched as many of them as I could! However, some cable companies didn’t provide certain channels. For instance, my small town didn’t have the channel that showed “HeMan and the Masters of the Universe”. I could only see it when I went to visit my cousin in Dallas.
Just so people know, Robotix was a construction kit line by Milton Bradley (subsidiary of Hasbro) in the same sort of toy as Meccano construction kits or Erector Sets and K'Nex. A short lived comic and cartoon were made to try and promote these sets. The comic was published by Marvel while Sunbow AND Marvel Productions produced the cartoon for the Super Saturday/Super Sunday/Super Week show, to promote this line with Jem, Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines and Inhumanoids, That's why they were able to recycle music pieces from G.I. Joe/Transformers and Inhumanoids as they were ALL by the same composers; Johnny Douglas and Robert Walsh and use the same Los Angeles based talent pool of actors for the characters. And YES four bars of the theme do sound like the song 'Ghostbusters' by Ray Parker Jr. It was a coincidence. The toys, cartoon and mini comic only lasted a year. The characters sadly did not appear like the construction kits, with the exception of Argus and there was no good vs. evil conflict. Just build the biggest motion toy that you can through multiple parts.
I have Bront and his construction kit version looks pretty close to the cartoon version minus the pincer arms.
Josh Darnell OK then, but you see my point is that the majority of the characters didn't look like their cartoon counterparts. Venjurax for example was a space station kit or something like that.
+David315842 The borrowed music amongst these shows always intrigued me as a child. Thanks for the great info!
chinito77 Some production companies were able to re-use tracks by the same composer, another fine example is Shuki Levy who's music gets re-used a few times in Saban and DiC productions. You're welcome. :)
Nothing like the Marvel Sunbow cartoons in the 80's. They were all so awesome.
When cartoons where made by people with real imaginations.
This was produced by the same company as did G.I. Joe and The Transformers. No wonder the vibe feels so similar.
Funny: the leader of the bad guys is the voice actor as Optimus Prime, and the leader of the good guys is the same voice actor as Destro.
You are so right.
Isn’t juxtaposition wonderful? I admit it was a while before I realized the Protectons and the nemesi were actually A.I. mechanoids!
That because they did it for a paycheck.
wow thanks Captain Obvious. One never would have thought voice actors can get paid.... smh @@TheKrensada
And the show intro narrator is same narrator from Transformers.
When Terrax says "Time for a new leader!", that sounds EXACTLY like a Starscream line.
Sounds familiar.
@@luisquinones5159 automATICALLY BECAME my favorite charaxter
similar voice too
@@benvered6560 Pretty sure that was Chris Latta, the late, great voice of G1 Starscream.
Turns out I was wrong. Tyrannix was actually voiced by Frank Welker. Latta wasn't in this.
I found this at a flea market as a kid and watched it obsessively. Thank you for bringing back lots of childhood memories ❤️
Not the food!!!!
ROBOTIX!!!!!!
I remember the toys, even played with them.....no clue it was a cartoon too! First time ever hearing of this. All voices and sound effects are really familiar.
I guess by now it would be safe to assume there won't be a season two.
Impossibly Black LOL
robotix got canonized into the Transformers universe
@@aaronbuffalo7769 Is that so? Can you elaborate on that? I have been out of the loop for a while, but I am interested.
@@BlueMaxxW tfwiki.net/wiki/Robotix
The Robotix are a race of warring, shape-changing robots: one side of peaceful heroes, the other of sinister villains! They used to all be organic creatures, a mammalian race and a reptilian race, but a cataclysm sent most of their population into stasis and four agents each of the heroic Protectons and evil Terrakors were turned into robots to rebuild their world of Skalorr... but the Terrakor leader wants galactic conquest! Their war is without end, but the arrival of humans into the conflict may save the day!
Parts of this may sound familiar, and it should, for the Robotix are actually the Transformers in the Xobitor universal cluster!
Their homeworld also includes a race called the Rock Lords that can transform to and from immobile rocks. Hey, that's also familiar!
Back when American cartoons were good and entertaining. Damn I miss the 80s and 90s!
What was some of the other ones that copied Transformers? Wasn't there a Robotech? And few others?
Go-bots
Had this on video, my little brother used to watch it over and over, drove me crazy!!!
Rewatching after 30+ years
Wtf is going on 😅😅🥰😅😅
Omg, I've been searching for this legend for a hundred years! Thank you so much for sharing this!
Your really old
@SkyNet General A little bit. Sorry it's Jem.
I felt the same way when I found it a few years ago
Yes me to
I don’t think it’s been out that long
These voiceover actors stayed working. I hear ironhide, gung ho, Destro, Shipwreck, Major Blood and a few others
Pamiętam jak oglądałem to na kasetach jako dzieciak. Łezka się w oku kręci...
To samo u mnie. Dobre czasy.
Yup:) Klimat, muzyka, głosy postaci, zwłaszcza Nemesis i Tyranix, so Epic nawet po latch.XD
Man, this takes me back!! Back in the 80`s during Transformers, GI Joe, GoBots, He-Man, Thundercats, Silverhawks, C.O.P.S, even the InHumanoids! This was a Golden Age of Cartoons.
Fighting crime! In a future time!
Definetly a Golden age, the diction of the voice of each character is so cool and well done.
Yell cooking good
No lgbt's, what's not to love
@@Antilluminati
Orco was pretty gay though
these animated documentaries from the 80s were superb!
This isn’t a documentary though ??
Yep. This is exactly how I remember the 80s too. Turbulent times
Yeah. I learned everything I needed to know in these training videos. When my time came to serve, I was so glad I knew what to do.
Seems like we couldn't go a week without some sort of alien invasion back then. The younger generations owe us for taking up arms so they could live this peaceful lifestyle.
Or is it? (cackles sininsterly)
I remember I watched this on the TV up in NH while on vacation had to be 86 or so and I was no older than 5 or 6.
Wow I remember watching this when I was a kid. I almost forgot about this.
I had this toy set about a year before this cartoon was made. The early Robotix toys I had didn't have a storyline as a kid I just made stuff up. Sometimes they helped Autobots and sometimes they helped He-Man but they always used them to help out the good guys.
0:26 you can hear some the Ghostbusters theme used in this being used, also there's alot the same voice actors as The Transformers had.
We watched this on a VHS in elementary school back in mid 80s - what a great movie!
Same voices as Transformers! I recognize the voices!
+Dany Rockwell Also some voices from Inhumanoids & GI-JOE
+Dany Rockwell First thing that camed to my mind lol.
+Dany Rockwell same artists too
Yes the narrator is the same guy from Transformer.
+Dany Rockwell Same background music at some scenes too 3m57
Awesome that the cast of Transformers can do the same thing at so many jobs
"So in this show...."
-"I'm a giant robot?"
"How'd you guess?"
I love how epic the mythologies and storylines were. Glad that the writers (and pretty much everyone else involved) took the creating of these cartoon seriously and didn't settle for just making 30 minute toy commercials.
i see this as the pilot for another robot show/toy line that could make a cross over with transformers both shows have the same narrator and deal with humans so its not a stretch but tossing that aside i do miss this level of cartoon entertainment and its done right short and sweet with some wiggle room for more
Lore, not mythologies.
Except they did and that the people that whined about advertising ironically advertised their own whining to the world, as Fascist hypocrites tend to do in their lives.
Narratives don’t make reality… animation is atrocious, storyline no better, and the toy line was garbage quality
@@kingmuffinman1 This is literally a long toy commercial lol
I got the huge set of these toys for xmas, never knew there was a cartoon. Some of the best toys I ever owned.
Actually, this is a lot like Rebirth / Headmasters in Transformers. And somehow Tyrannix sounds like Galvatron and Starscream combined. And the chubby guy is pretty much what I imagine Ironhide looking like as a human.
I just saw this today. I have been a fan of transformers, voltron, and the lot for years, but never heard of this show. I was hooked within the first 5 minutes, and have been quite entertained. Imagine what they could have done with more time. I would have loved to see this flushed out, but it is pretty good even as it is. Even the names of the characters sound alien enough to be believable.
A truly 80´s gem ! Happy to see it again in all it glory !!
He's very calm while talking about preparing for severe impact, I'll smoke whatever he smoking.
I loved this show as a kid and still do to this day. It was a shame it was cancelled so early. Such a great show.
They wanted to focus on transformers and GIJoe.
I had so many sets of these toys when I was a kid. One of my favorites.
ROBOTIX!!!!!!!
I watched Transformers and Go-Bots, and this is the "3rd one" I had very vague memories about and couldn't remember the title to.
This is like (The Real) Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters, the latter which was done by Filmation and confused a lot of kids of my generation, making us think they were some sort of farm team to the much more movie like Ghostbusters cartoon.
Wow man... memories.. talk about fast pacing and true English
What I find interesting is much this short lived series analogues the plot and elements of both Transformers and M.A.S.K.
@32:33
"Silence! You insignificant portable virus!"
Woah!!
That was great!
never noticed how similar the theme song is to Ghostbusters........ lol
tbh it was almost like a mishmash of lots of other shows, it used lots of soundbites,voice actors from transformers for instance
i see :)
I am so quick to comment without even reading first, gotta cut down on the opiates lol!!
I remember watching this on sunday mornings
Hasbro dropped the ball when they didn’t keep this going.
The toys were garbage.
I see potential in this idea. Hollywood should grow a backbone, give kids BACK their action media, and make this into a full-fledged show like transformers
This is art. I know some might point out anime but this takes the cake. The imagery, the colors, the designs, the architecture, the shadowing, the motion, etc. it’s like 😮
The dark atmosphere of this cartoon just draws you in. You just can't beat 80s cartoons.
Pretty sure these were made by an anime studio. I think Marvel only handled the storyboards.
had a bunch of Robotix as a kid
didn't know there was a tv show though
I had these toys as a kid! I had no idea they made an animated show!!
Saw this when it aired. Also had the Marvel comic.
In our area, it broadcast like at 11am Saturdays, but in pieces.
Better than anything today by 10000 miles.
There are 10000s of better anime than this American crap
Robotix i love that animated series one a my favorite cartoon series i was ten yrs old started watching it brings back a lot a memories retro my generation was on ch 32, Sunday mornings yrs ago transformers gi joe voltron the go bots he man she ra the thundercats mask teenage mutant ninja turtles a pup named scooby doo those are my favorite cartoons each and every one a them they all classics.
The animation is increíble for it's time this was a great robot 80s cartoon and a classic!!!!
vaguely remember watching this back then . ahh the 80s full of campy goodness
Does this remind anybody else of......'something' ? I don't know it just seems that there's, "more than meets the eye" here ! I just can't put my finger on it . lmao
And Zoids
I know eh?
Spit it out, we all know what you're thinking... MASK? Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, right?
+CRocketSlim 'Fail' .
Transformers.
Voice talents from G.I.Joe and The Transformers 80s cartoons...
i always liked this show....cool robots and aliens, whats not to like.
The setting in this one is a-ma-zing! The post-apocalyptic world of Skalorr was both off-putting and eerily beatiful. This kicked the crap out of the other robot shows like Gobots or Transformers in my opinion.
These robots look homeless
I was 12 at this time. It was indeed glorious!
Protectons and Terrorcors are such awesome names.
Also
"Not while I live!"
"I find your terms agreeable..."
Always loved that line.
Protectons, Protectobots , Terrocors, Terracons....sounds familiar to me lol
I honestly wondered, where there any Terrorkors who, Similar to Drift, Jetfire, or Knockout who defected to the Autobots in transformers, like some Terrakors decided to join the Protectons, if the show went on longer, this concept would possibly been done here
I used to have a Tyranix, and Argus robotix figures. I loved this old cartoon.
I was 14 years old when this cartoon came out this is really classic watch it after all these years it would be great to do some kind of remake using CG animation
This old beat up cartoon isn’t worth reviving
This animation style looks better than modern
This is up their with Inhumanoids for ahead of its time.
😂 I totally forgot about this! I always wanted the toys but could never convince mum to buy them.
Sunday mornings before my parents got cable on WCTI Channel 12
Lol
I still have my Robotix construction set from when I was a kid!
It is definitely interesting how so many 80s and cartoons had some of the same voice actors. This one, Transformers, GI Joe, Voltron, and even a few Disney cartoons Duck Tales, Winnie the Pooh, Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers and Darkwing Duck. This is one of those rare occasions I remember Peter Cullen voice a bad guy. The other few times when he voiced Venger in Dungeons and Dragons and when he voiced Shawn Berger in Transformers' second season and the Decepticon Slugslinger in the final three episodes of the original series.
Don't forget Neil Ross and Pat Fraley who voiced The Centurions.
@@Magpieboy1 Also Karr from the 2008 knight rider.
Yeah in the 80's there was only like 10 guys doing voices.
Slugslinger is an underrated character.
I appreciate whoever posted this.
Wow this is a great find. I don't think I've even seen the series but when I remember a VHS movie of Robotix I used to rent from time to time when I was a kid. This is even better than I remember!
+PrimeProductionsULTD THOES RECYCLED SOUNDS AND ACTORS FROM G1 xd
80s cartoons are so fucking sweet. A lot of them are like something out of Heavy Metal Magazine, just without the big bear juggs and blood
WOW!!!! Transformers and G.I. Joe voice actors for this series.
Amazing 🤘👏😳
It feels like the Transformers movie.
@@wesman6445 When i saw the bad humans go into the robots, a part of me wanted to say, "...REMOVE- YOUR HEADS!" lol
Mask
Pole position
To name a few
They even had the Transformers announcer..
Strange hearing Peter Cullen as the voice of the leader of the robot bad guys as he was voicing Optimus Prime at the time!
Just remembered I had these as toys!!! New 80s member berry unlocked.
Protectons and Terrorcors... They don't make 'em like this no more.
This show was great.
The toys were cool. They had motors in the box and you could build stuff and the motors would make them move
Broom broom
I had the two big good guy robotic figures. They tended to break at the joints, but they were easy to fix. The wires were strong, the motors good and durable. The ratchet pieces sucked though.
If only they had a crossover with Jace and the Wheeled Warriors.
Also we never found out who was chasing the humans in that Star cruiser at the beginning. Probably Decepticons.
This also seems like a prototype of the 4th season of the Transformers with the Headmasters storyline merging organic humanoids with alien robots.
Wheeled Warriors was the sh*t!!!!
It was a really nice experience to re-watch it after almost 30 years :). I used to love this series!
I don't recall ever seeing the cartoon but I had one of the Robotix toys ("Argus"). They were *not* transforming toys, but were rather a kind of motorized Lincoln Log type things that you could make move with a control pad with buttons. The motors were sadly weak but I thought it was a pretty fun toy!
The creators of transformers, gobots, GI Joe and this are legends I miss the 80s!!!
Oh yeah. Him and Frank Welker. Non Robotix related(but related to Transformers), but I believe that Transformers was also one of the first cartoons to feature Rob "Raphael/Yakko Warner/Pinky" Paulsen as well.
Man I love it. Where's the Cylons and Starbuck!
I can hear part of the melody from Ghostbusters in the intro :D
Found this thanks to Toy Galaxy! They said it's name along with a picture. Been looking for this series for almost 20 years.
1985-1986 was a good era for kids. I was 5 or 6 around that time.
This is GREAT nostalgia 😍
People forget that the guy that brought us Ironhide and Prime brought us the Targetmaster Nightstick, Nemesis in this series, Vengar in Dungeons and Dragons, and was the original voice of KARR in the first Knight Rider, as well as a reprisal in the remake.
He was also the very first person to voice Mario.
The opening narration automatically reminded me of the Transformers.
Same narrator and the factions even sound similar
I didn't realize as a kid that the voiceovers we're the same a Transformer characters!
If I was blind I would swear this was Transformers vs G.I.Joe
Funny how I forget about so much from childhood. An introduction song brings it back.
I never watched this as a kid growing up, but now for some reason, I can't turn away. I missed out on nostalgia.
You’d never find ME inside a ROBOTIX shell, good or evil!
I was given a robotix sticker when I was about 5, and was always intrigued by it but never knew where it came from. Mystery solved and most impressed, thanks for uploading!
Damn i loved it back then when my dad got it on vhs for me :D
Interesting recycling of the classic Battlestar Galactica/Buck Rogers In the 25th Century sound FX.
ALOT of the show and story and fx and VA are recycled, but it is now part of transformers canon
Loved this one back when I was a kid!
I recognize a lot of the background tracks being used in the Sunbow GI Joe series too. Man, this brought back some memories.
This was a great toy, good memories of it. Wish they made it today, with modern battery technologies and wireless comms it would be even better than it was originally.
I watched the re-runs probably, but yeah I could still remember glimpse of this. The reason why I love robots and love to take them apart, breaking many of my toys when I was but a toddler.
I remember the commercial but didn't knew there was a animated series....
wow its really bringing me back. i cant remember if ive ever seen this before but there are so many of the same sound effects, background music, voice actors, and even backdrops as transformers
Sunbow/Marvel produced this show originally for their Super Saturday/Super Sunday line up, that also included Inhumanoids, Jem and Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines in 1985 and yes the purpose was to help sell more Hasbro toys.
David315842 This was also noted as part of Super Saturday, and for a short time, Super Week before Jem got her own show
mrmoore1970 You didn't read my comment. I'm perfectly all ready aware of how the show was aired originally. But thank you.
That was pretty cool. A nice blast from the past.
Awesome! And Cory Burton, Neil Ross, Michael Bell, Frank Welker and Peter Cullen are all Transformers actors too!
Micheal Bell has done a immense amount of stuff. I don't know if you play games, but he does VOs for them too. Famously known for Raziel from Soul Reaver.