ไม่สามารถเล่นวิดีโอนี้
ขออภัยในความไม่สะดวก

TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on GOBOTS

แชร์
ฝัง
  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 มี.ค. 2018
  • April Fool!
    Buy "Challenge of the GoBots" on DVD: www.wbshop.com...
    "Escape to Planet Earth" images courtesy of www.the-liberat... (watermarks preserved)
    Bike Robo DX Cy-Kill face pic courtesy of Chris "Vangelus" Ho: / vange1us
    Support the show on Patreon: www.patreon.co...
    Buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/184X...
    Follow me on Twitter: / chrismcfeely
    Follow me on Tumblr: / chrismcfeely
    Logo by Liam Shalloo: / liamshalloo
    Music: Aitech Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
    creativecommons...

ความคิดเห็น • 1K

  • @omechron
    @omechron 4 ปีที่แล้ว +822

    I feel like even if the Go-Bots did come back, most of them would just wind up getting killed by a cosmic-empowered Copter

    • @pattonproductions856
      @pattonproductions856 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Yeah that's totally true

    • @cuppajj
      @cuppajj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      I almost spat my drink out 😆

    • @anonymousc6884
      @anonymousc6884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You mean by a cosmicly powered zero

    • @oliveragag8576
      @oliveragag8576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Or kilked of in the movie

    • @DanielA-no9xv
      @DanielA-no9xv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thats true

  • @SylviaMoonbeam1127
    @SylviaMoonbeam1127 6 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    I loved how Armada used Leader-1. It established that Leader-1 was the peaceful commander of all Mini-Cons (just like the Go-Bot version before Cy-Kill went all rogue), but Megatron enslaved him for his nefarious purposes (just like how Transformers bought Go-Bots to use for their own products). It’s kinda hilarious if you think about it

    • @Its_Charlie_Young
      @Its_Charlie_Young 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I also love how Armada Cy-Kill (an easter egg in one of the Armada comics) looks just like the original Cy-Kill, while Armada Leader-1, just like most Armada characters, looks nothing like his original namesake.

    • @Its_Charlie_Young
      @Its_Charlie_Young 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Shield Liger Yes, it was.

    • @Its_Charlie_Young
      @Its_Charlie_Young 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Shield Liger Yeah, it was just one of those 'Ha, GoBots were shite, let's kill them because its funny!' easter eggs.

    • @joseangel1686
      @joseangel1686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I always thought that perceptor was the leader of the minicons at least in the show

    • @load-bearingcoconut5586
      @load-bearingcoconut5586 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@joseangel1686 he served as a sort of Minicon/Autobot ambassador.

  • @tracytron7162
    @tracytron7162 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1021

    I love how this is an April fools joke but at the same time is actually still a really good quality, informed and researched video and not just some shitty YTP like most people do! Nice work!

    • @zuttoaragi8349
      @zuttoaragi8349 6 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Tracytron 54321 that's why he's called Chris McFeely and not Chris McLazy. ... I'll see myself out.

    • @mcart4762
      @mcart4762 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Yes, for a joke this was actually a very good video, up to his usual high standards! Surprised no mention of that classic "Unicron devours GoBotron" video though :D

    • @stephencastro4723
      @stephencastro4723 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @TET - COM this is an April fools in a sense that Chris McFeely is supposedly abandoning Transformers to shift to Go-Bots. Nobody said Go-Bots is a joke.

    • @irwinaditiawan6418
      @irwinaditiawan6418 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No

    • @In_The_80s
      @In_The_80s 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zuttoaragi8349 Ba Dumm Chsshh! Bazinga!

  • @ShinoSarna
    @ShinoSarna 6 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    6:55 - Transforming ROCKS? That was their big gambit on which they gambled future of Gobots franchise? Freaking ROCKS?

    • @richieosborn2639
      @richieosborn2639 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      shinobody they got the idea from the Great Pumpkin. No wonder the GoBots were absorbed by Primus! Charlie Brown sued Tonka!

    • @Its_Charlie_Young
      @Its_Charlie_Young 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@richieosborn2639 There's even a GoBot named Block Head, an insult Charlie Brown's friends use on him.

    • @gridlo
      @gridlo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      To quote Tom Hanks in BIG: What's fun about that?

    • @electrohead8225
      @electrohead8225 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@gridlo In their rock form they could be thrown at a kid you didn't like, and when they burst into tears and ran off to tell your mum, you could transform it back into a robot and claim they were a liar.

    • @ryanbrown938
      @ryanbrown938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@gridlo "Nobody wants to play with a building!!!(rocks)

  • @legionbeast
    @legionbeast 4 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    Honestly, I had that Rock Lords movie on a vhs somewhere and actually had one of the rock lords figures. You may initially think it's "stupid" to have a figure who turns into a rock, except when you realize it was meant to be a method of stealth, and nothing is more easily overlooked than a rock.

    • @astorojeda6935
      @astorojeda6935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Excepto en una habitacion

    • @arempy5836
      @arempy5836 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@astorojeda6935 ah, but what if you're a geologist or a simple mineral enthusiast?

    • @Yesitsmyrealname
      @Yesitsmyrealname ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@arempy5836 Very Niche

    • @dank_smirk2ndchannel200
      @dank_smirk2ndchannel200 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That'd also be a great Alt mode for alien invaders. Just think about it:
      1. They transform into small rocks
      2. Launch themselves at a planet
      3. The inhabitants think that they’re just meteors
      4. The invaders are just small enough where a meteor of similar size would either burn up in the atmosphere or be destroyed upon impact
      5. The invaders then go into hiding until there's enough of them on the planet to do a proper invasion
      6. Even if the inhabitants investigate the impact area, there's nothing suspicious (see 4.)
      7. The invaders all come out of hiding and catch the planet's inhabitants off guard, easily taking over the planet
      It kind of reminds me of what Hive Fleet Jormungandr does (though they take up residence inside meteors rather than transforming into them).

    • @user-sy3nd8yz9j
      @user-sy3nd8yz9j 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think that is where I began to loose interest in Go-Bots and started focusing more on Transformers. I couldn't stand the rock lords toys. I do understand your point about stealth though.

  • @DragonTail49
    @DragonTail49 6 ปีที่แล้ว +424

    What I appreciate most about this is that you didn't just tell a joke, you gave us a brilliantly informative episode that left no stone unturned. Bravo!

    • @theolast9727
      @theolast9727 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      DragonTail49 *rock lord unturned

    • @tylerdurden788
      @tylerdurden788 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was an Andy Kaufman style joke. The whole time you are wondering if its legit. Look up his feud with Jerry Lawler

  • @lastlife0726
    @lastlife0726 5 ปีที่แล้ว +415

    Mom: "We have Transformers at home!"
    Transformers at home:

  • @acicon
    @acicon 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    I love how this is still a proper episode of The Basics.

  • @jayglenn837
    @jayglenn837 6 ปีที่แล้ว +459

    So cool :) Even your April Fool's videos are interesting and informative.

    • @Z0nor
      @Z0nor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I like transformers more then go bots but I do want some Rock lord toys.

    • @eaglehood224
      @eaglehood224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @TET - COM Yes. We know it's real.

    • @epicprops5217
      @epicprops5217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @TET - COM Not gonna lie, the Go-Bots made me cry because my mom gave one to me instead of the Mirage figure

    • @mrquake7789
      @mrquake7789 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hasbro: The General Motors of the toy business.

  • @fenrirsrage4609
    @fenrirsrage4609 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I still can't fucking believe that the GoBots are now canon in the MCU.
    Both as presumably a show but also an actual freakin' species.

  • @Hey_McG
    @Hey_McG 6 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    I love that for an April Fools gag I feel as informed about the Gobots as with any other video you've put out 😃

  • @crossover1015
    @crossover1015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    The GoBots story actually sounds pretty interesting to me. I think GoBots should be given a second chance with Transformers. They showed good potential! I have some good ideas.

    • @ryanhawe8234
      @ryanhawe8234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Arguably the only reason that it hasn't happened outside of Fun Publications is the confused tangle of rights that Challenge of the Gobots continuity exists in (the Gobots IP is Hasbro's, but the original toy modes belong to Bandai and the cartoon itself was swallowed up by AOL/Time-Warner).
      That didn't stop Jim Sorenson from giving us synopses of a virtual Season 2, or having universe-hopping refugees from Gobotron show up in Beast Wars: Uprising, but a more prominent crossover would either need a lot of collaboration and signoffs, or involve a similar-but-distinct Gobots universe.
      Until then, we still have our homages such as Fracture....

    • @J.R8765
      @J.R8765 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well since Bug Bite, we night just get a chance

    • @meganvincent5381
      @meganvincent5381 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You could always write fanfiction 👀

    • @SoulforSale
      @SoulforSale 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't see how any of these got a foothold over M.A.S.K.

    • @Crasher1982
      @Crasher1982 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@meganvincent5381 or make YT channels about our favorite gobot 😁

  • @erikbjelke4411
    @erikbjelke4411 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Imagine the Go-Bots as an alternate universe of Transformers. Now imagine Optimus Prime and Leader-1 teaming up to kick ass.
    The world needs this.

    • @deepstrike9750
      @deepstrike9750 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh YEA
      imagine an grimlovk that turned into zod

    • @kinglycrimson
      @kinglycrimson 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This is semi canon, they're alternate universe versions

  • @brainstorm9560
    @brainstorm9560 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I think the Michael Bay movies (or at least the tie-in comics) took some inspiration from the old Gobot cartoon. The relationship between Optimus & Megatron is pretty similar to that of Leader-1 & Cy-Kill in that they used to be friends until one of them got jellous cause their master favored one over the other. Also, The Fallen is rather similar to a Gobot character called The Evil One.
    I would like if the Gobots were used more in modern Transformers media. Gobotron could be a colony world for Cybertron

  • @gushers114
    @gushers114 6 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I forgot that today is April Fool's Day, so when I read the description my heart felt like it had skipped a beat. I got 'got.

  • @scottduncan5525
    @scottduncan5525 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Gobots has just made their big comeback, in the Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special, and Gobots are officially alive in the MCU, not only do we see a guy dressed like Cykill next to Jack Sparrow, but Drax even mentions his cousin was killed a Gobot

    • @bryannkam
      @bryannkam ปีที่แล้ว +3

      “DIE CY-KILL!!”😠
      - Drax the Destroyer

  • @justinpayne4734
    @justinpayne4734 6 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    The Gobots may have been rivals to the Transformers, but they have a rich history too. And I'm a fan as well. Go Gobots! 👍👍🤖

    • @fabianrocha9924
      @fabianrocha9924 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Mighty Robots! Mighty Vehicles!

    • @Lemuel928
      @Lemuel928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And now..They turned into Transformers:Gobots.

  • @rorylumley4727
    @rorylumley4727 6 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    This viedo was very well made i honestly wouldn't mind some gobots basics every once and a while

  • @whitelioconvoy4146
    @whitelioconvoy4146 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Transformering...Rocks?
    I've never seen any of them before, strangely it still works.

  • @ComodinCam
    @ComodinCam 6 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    *THE GOOOOBOTS! THE GOOOOBOTS!*

    • @volk3094
      @volk3094 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Comodin Cam didn't expect you to be here

    • @Nindroidgamer110
      @Nindroidgamer110 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +BlueStorm same, I didn't know he liked GoBots

    • @alexaliota961
      @alexaliota961 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I watch your vids man!

    • @Admirinia
      @Admirinia 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Comodin Cam c

    • @abearah9255
      @abearah9255 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Comodian Cam please don't change to go bots

  • @cyanrex1074
    @cyanrex1074 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I like to think of them as a like a spin-off species of the transformers

    • @gundamfan2020
      @gundamfan2020 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      seeing as they came before the transformers... sure

    • @cyanrex1074
      @cyanrex1074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      gundam fan I know but if you would have to make them into tf series.

    • @j.vonhavre1741
      @j.vonhavre1741 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cyanrex1074 Me and my friends called them gaybots.

    • @ghaniKSW2
      @ghaniKSW2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Spinoff Cybertronians?

    • @itsmant3
      @itsmant3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Idw made it

  • @bluejay22
    @bluejay22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Seems like ever since the release of the first gobots dvd, along with the other two dvd releases and the new gobots (machine robo) toys, a lot of people are giving gobots a second chance. That’s awesome. Lately, I see more love for the gobots and less “gobots are the k-mart transformers” kind of stuff. Being that gobots was one of my favorite shows and toys back then, it makes me happy to see the change of heart people are having for the gobots.

    • @jackrose6996
      @jackrose6996 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was one of the kids who loved the show, and had a bunch of the toys... and they were still "the K-Mart Transformers" lol.

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The issue with the GoBots is that new viewers to the animation will not be able to identify who's the good guys from the bad guys.

    • @izzyandthesubterraneans370
      @izzyandthesubterraneans370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And there's also the fact that they all have the most uncreative names of all time

    • @adamshafeeq8685
      @adamshafeeq8685 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@izzyandthesubterraneans370 "Hey Wrong Way, you're going the wrong way!"

  • @chriss1757
    @chriss1757 6 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Great video! The Go-Bots don't get the love they really deserve. In most households in the 80's, for every one large diaclone sourced Transformer, most of us had 3-5 Go-Bots. While they didn't compete with the diaclone toys in style, they were much better than the mini autobots with their die cast parts. Hannah Barbara cartoon troupes honestly hurt the line as much as anything. While Transformers focused heavily on serious characters like Optimus Prime, Go-Bots loaded up the Scooter stupidity and had Masters of the Universe level incompetent villains. Megatron seemed a conceivable threat, Cy-Kill did not. Still, the toys were, despite their simplicity, well conceived, fun to play with, and very durable.

    • @BrotherApexx
      @BrotherApexx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Nailed it.

    • @shinygatorguy6070
      @shinygatorguy6070 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The gobots are pretty underrated and shouldn’t get the hate they deserve. I agree I’m pretty sure that crappy Hannah Barbara cartoon is what drove the gobots down the gutter.

    • @TheCastellan
      @TheCastellan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I did like the Gobot pilot more than the TF G1 pilot, though.

    • @joeygamer5387
      @joeygamer5387 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This was to be their downfall considering what they did to Mighty Orbots, I wish that show had the light of more episodes than having been shot down mid season

    • @weiyuanhsuan
      @weiyuanhsuan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I actually went to search on eBay and got some of them to my collection
      It’s soooo nostalgic

  • @flameconvoy7424
    @flameconvoy7424 6 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    For an April foes joke this was pretty informational

  • @MadTheDJ
    @MadTheDJ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I didn't mind GoBots back in the day. They transformed, looked decent and were no worse than the mini-Autobots, for the most part. And they were cheap, so you could fill out your Transformer ranks pretty easily to have large scale battles. Most kids I know did the same thing. In 'The Toys That Made Us' TF episode, one guy says he got a GoBot from his dad and he tossed it into the fire. That guy was an idiot if that's true. First, never through away a toy. I shouldn't have to explain why. Second, if you really don't like the toy or character, make him fodder for your better toys during play. Even broken toys that looked robotic could serve as dead bodies to litter the battlefield of your living room or bedroom. After all, maybe they weren't quite dead, but were crawling across the carpet, torso broken and missing an arm, toward your unsuspecting heroes.

  • @MESIASrocketo
    @MESIASrocketo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I know this is an April's Fool (a very good one, by the way), but I hope we can see more of these videos on Go-Bots in the future.

  • @AnimeJason2011
    @AnimeJason2011 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I know it's an April Fools Joke, but your retrospective on GoBots was quite informative.

  • @syntheticpacifist
    @syntheticpacifist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Even though it was an April Fools video, I appreciate how you gave us some good info on the GoBots, Chris! Never stop being you.

  • @williammiller4768
    @williammiller4768 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Excellent work.
    People give the Go Bots a lot of crap, but they had a lot cross potential. Transformed, you could use them with any Matchbox set.
    Combiner? They did it first.
    Beast machines? Same.
    Even had their own AT-AT base.
    And Puzzler was metal. Always had the canon that they were a lost Cybertronian group that developed their own society with no knowledge at all about Cyberton.
    Recently discovered your channel. Excellence.

    • @SuperEmin
      @SuperEmin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Really wouldn't of been too hard either back in the day with doing a crossover as Hasbro bought out the Gobot franchise in the early 90's, they even used the name Leader 1 in the Transformers Armada with one of the mini cons.
      Personally loved both franchise growing up, even had a load of the toys and some of the Rock Lords too :D

  • @justinpayne4734
    @justinpayne4734 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What a blast from the past! I love the Gobots as much as love the Transformers. Well done! 🤖🤖🤖🤖

  • @Vangelus
    @Vangelus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    • @karda009
      @karda009 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Vangelus I kinda wanna get into GoBots cuz of those CyKill pics you took on twitter. I like how dumb they look but I get no emotional twinge from them. Guess I should watch them cartoon stories.

    • @thevisionary2007
      @thevisionary2007 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You mean it was better than "Hoist Goes Hollywood" or the one where Seaspray falls into a wussy kind of love with a mermaid? It must be good!

  • @Traph
    @Traph 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love how this is an April fools day video yet seems like a real proper video great job!

  • @MonsieurToys
    @MonsieurToys 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is the most complete Gobots history video that i saw. Amazing work! Thx

  • @cjm-te4ee
    @cjm-te4ee 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    11:09 metroplex be hanging out with go-bots. TRAITOR!

  • @The_Cold_Slither
    @The_Cold_Slither 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You really committed yourself to this joke. I will say this though. I do think that if the robot designs in the cartoon weren't so literal, we would be having a way different discussion about GoBots. Imagine if Megatron looked exactly like the toy in the cartoon. How different are the Ironhide and Ratchet toys from some of the deluxe GoBots figures. I got made fun of hard in elementary school when I brought in my Ironhide. Everyone said it was a GoBot.

    • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
      @TheSmart-CasualGamer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Did ANY of these people read the catalogues? Other kids said the same about my Ratchet.
      Then I bought Devastator and that shut them up.

  • @TheVacuuminator
    @TheVacuuminator 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Finally, some good, wholesome, april fools day content.

  • @jayvbspdx
    @jayvbspdx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I was looking forward to Scooter!!! I’m glad you’d taken the time to really dive into the Gobots and their lore, too. A real ... a real episode! 👌🏽

  • @stephencastro4723
    @stephencastro4723 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I am always thinking that it would be cool if Gobots and Transformers will run on the same universe with of course the bad guys and good guys teaming up.

    • @mattn4182
      @mattn4182 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Stephen Castro they do exist in the same multiverse but I doubt the decepticons would put up with the renegades and especially with them being organics. In some versions of transformers lore, the decepticons conquest began with a hatred of organic life. O doubt the renegades would survive too long.

  • @drewlovelyhell4892
    @drewlovelyhell4892 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:36 When I was very young my Dad bought 'TrainMan' it blew the minds of kids and adults alike.
    We take transforming toys so much for granted now!
    Of course, MachineMen were all but forgotten shortly after when the Transmogrifiers came out.

  • @bensaret
    @bensaret 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Those bloody Super-GoBots! Made of die-cast metal with hard edges and spring-loaded bodies, the friggin things almost chopped off my fingers when they transformed!

    • @J.R8765
      @J.R8765 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Christ

  • @Nindroidgamer110
    @Nindroidgamer110 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    best april fools prank ever
    Edit: Happy Easter

  • @crossover1015
    @crossover1015 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think this episode is a great idea. You’re coloring outside the lines and going beyond just the one franchise. You’re branching out. Good job. Happy Easter!

  • @owenwildish331
    @owenwildish331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wouldn't be rather cool if one day they make a proper and faithful animated crossover movie with the G1 Go-Bots & G1 Transformers meeting for the 'first time' with perhaps a merging of the two universes while keeping the previous continuity semi-separate (i.e. the Go-Bots don't become Transformers and are a separate race altogether, retaining their cartoon origins and homeworld, becoming sort of allies/ rivals to the Autobots/Decepticons depending on their alignments)

  • @USER-pd8wk
    @USER-pd8wk 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    HELL YEAH!! (I actually freaking wanted this!)

  • @hawks4305
    @hawks4305 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very entertaining! Your series has brought back some great memories from childhood! Thank u!

  • @fanb1536
    @fanb1536 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    While potentially even more off-beat than this, I'd love a similar April Fools video dedicated to BIONICLE. Growing up in the 2000s, it was difficult not to compare the two, with both having very similar appeals - being toylines about robot action figures that you could transform (or build) into other kinds of toys. With the fact that Transformers was experiencing a big revival with Armada and later Bayformers and Animated, and Bionicle (besides being the new kid on the block) itself being unfathomably huge, quickly establishing itself as arguably one of the most important toylines from the 21st century, it was extremely common to see other kids besides myself treat the two franchises as sort of rivals - or, at the very least be interested in both franchises, lol.

  • @DiegoDiaz-rs4ej
    @DiegoDiaz-rs4ej 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Believe it or not, my introduction to the GoBots actually came from a videocassette I owned in my childhood. That video contained two GoBots episodes: Trident's Triple Threat, and Doubleganger. And apparently, those two episodes entertained me just fine. Once I got older and started getting an interest in animation, I decided to watch the Gobots show itself; all 65 episodes of it. My main reason for watching the show was to observe how overshadowed it was by Transformers, but apparently, I still enjoyed the show as actual entertainment. I even ended up getting two favorite characters of the show; Scooter, who I found absolutely cute and decided was one of my favorite Frank Welker voices, and Small Foot, who I will have to complain was severely underused. I wish the show had more episodes that starred Small Foot. There were still enough that I cannot keep count of how many, but somehow, I am wishing there were more. But you know what? I actually like the GoBots show on its own. Even though I do think Transformers is the better robots story, I honestly would not mind watching multiple GoBots episodes. I don't know how other people feel about how Hasbro is treating the GoBots now, but I am just happy they allowed all 65 episodes (and the Rock Lords movie) to be watchable on DVD. That would be just fine with me, as long as it means anyone who likes the GoBots can watch as many episodes as they want.

  • @ironclaw3000user
    @ironclaw3000user 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Yeeeees.
    (Little dinosaur fingers tapping each other)

  • @yunoyuluvit
    @yunoyuluvit 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love the Go-Bot/Machine Robo toys. April Fool's aside, this was a good video.

  • @dyl_pickle16-mta48
    @dyl_pickle16-mta48 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    6:10 Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos is my favorite mecha anime ever! I also have exciting news about it, Discotek Media announced that the entire series is coming to Blu-ray next month! All 47 episodes will be released in 1080p picture quality with remastered audio.

    • @KoThetNaingShein
      @KoThetNaingShein ปีที่แล้ว

      Mine is transformers robots in disguise ( 2001 )

  • @Renkencen
    @Renkencen ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ah if only you knew 4 years later when this got posted! Crasher get a new mold althought she's a retold of Earthrise Mirage and Cy Kill make a cameo in Guardian of the Galaxy Holiday special!

  • @iBeamer
    @iBeamer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Next time on the Basics: Go-Bots Scooter!
    Best April fools I've heard in a long time! Thanks and keep them comIng!

  • @tonygriego6382
    @tonygriego6382 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You know..I'm just gonna say it, I liked them both. As a kid I immediately picked up any and all transforming robots, they were my thing, and still are.

    • @atilanoiiiamores4742
      @atilanoiiiamores4742 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      me too...anything that transforms, be a legit product or its rip-off or any other obscure toyline without a tie-in cartoon, I'd buy one in a heartbeat

  • @DiegoDiaz-rs4ej
    @DiegoDiaz-rs4ej 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Full Voice Actor List
    Lou Richards: Leader 1 - Bernard Erhard: Cy-Kill - Arthur Burghdart: Turbo - Bob Holt (Died when show ended): Cop-Tur - Frank Welker: Scooter, Zeemon, Screwhead, Blaster, Geeper-Creeper, Rest-Q, Multiple Zod Monsters, Multiple Males - Marylin Lightstone: Crasher, Pathfinder, Multiple Females - BJ Ward: Small Foot, Multiple Females - Kelly Ward: Fitor - Morgan Paul: Matt Hunter - Leslie Speights: AJ Foster - Sparky Marcus: Nick Burns - Peter Cullen: Pincher, Spoiler, Tank, Multiple Males - Alan Oppenheimer: Loco - Ken Campbell: Vanguard - Kirby Ward: Heat Seeker - Brock Peters: General Newcastle - Bever-Leigh Banefield: Anya Turgenova -Rene Auberjonois: Doctor Braxis - Paul Eiding: Scorp - Phillip Lewis Clarke: Dr. Go, Tork - Dick Gautier: Bugsie, Claws, Multiple Males - Phil Hartman: Baron Von Lovejoy - Peter Reneday: Master Renegade - Kenneth Mars: Multiple Males - Tress MacNeille: Multiple Females - Keone Young: Multiple Males - Rob Paulsen: Multiple Males - Gail Matthius: Multiple Females - Chris Latta: Multiple Males - Scott Menville: Multiple Children - Dan Gilvezan: Multiple Males - Mary Jo Catlett: Multiple Females - Andre Stojka: Multiple Males

  • @AdamFaulknerVideos
    @AdamFaulknerVideos 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I know this was an April Fool's day joke, but this was actually really interesting. I think I still have one of the 2003 Transformers: Go-Bots line, the one that the clip you used actually shows transforming, lying around in a box in my attic...

  • @MrLFJ7
    @MrLFJ7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Its not coptor its GYRO ROBO!!!
    Thanks Robot Chicken.

    • @J.R8765
      @J.R8765 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, look up Zybots, just do it

  • @andrewkeyes5927
    @andrewkeyes5927 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The basics on cykill please

  • @pyrerock
    @pyrerock 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I could tell right away based on the narraration that this was an April Fools joke. As a long time GoBots fan, that's disappointing but I'm glad to see that it still turned out to be a quite informative and well done video. The downside of that though is that it leaves me wanting more.

  • @diegos7337
    @diegos7337 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man, that brings back old memories!!! Thankyou again!!! I normaly know everything you say about transformers, but it is intresting to watch your videos. Now, gobots, I only knew a few things. The cartoon I watched, the toys I owned, and how they fit into the Transformers Omniverse.
    With this I learned SO MUCH!!! Thankyou Chris!!!

  • @IAmSamThatIAM
    @IAmSamThatIAM 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow! I didn't know that. This video is so informative. I am into Transformers and the toy collections.

  • @weiyuanhsuan
    @weiyuanhsuan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow, my childhood toys
    I didn’t know it’s called Gobots in US
    It’s awesome and nostalgic

  • @tiddles4x4
    @tiddles4x4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    From what I remember at school in the 80' the better of family's had Transformers where as the less well off family's had GoBots. It was defiantly a class divide in the UK.I had Transformers, my first being Optimus Prime purchased by my Grandma. I wanted the TYCO Transformers train set but it was very expensive so I settled for Prime. At that age I had no concept of the reality of money. But I led to a life long love of Transformers and a massive collection, some gifts and some purchased with my own one money when I was a little older. I sold them all to get more model trains. As a middle aged man I recently purchased the Transformers train set :)

  • @DadMusashi
    @DadMusashi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing, this was actually quite interesting and helped fill in a lot of the gaps I had about the shared history of Transformers and GoBots.

  • @KrytenMark
    @KrytenMark 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I actually am interested in checking out the Challenge of the GoBots cartoon one day, if I ever can. :)

  • @Darkdjinn79
    @Darkdjinn79 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    As a kid I knew Go-Bots were dead when they released a movie about rocks.

  • @josebravo3533
    @josebravo3533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I read the 2018 Gobots comic from IDW a time ago, basically it reinvented 90% of the cartoon lore, mixed it up with a 60s movie and the ending it´s a mindblower

  • @lonesquiff6551
    @lonesquiff6551 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I still have fond memories of the Go Bots despite having both toy lines I always preferred their show. I even saw the Rock Lord movie in theaters but have never seen Transformers The Movie. When I played with them Leader-1 was a co-leader/2nd in command to Optimus Prime. They stand side by side on my shelf to this day.

  • @Cyclownus
    @Cyclownus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    12:17 Yeesssssssssssssssssssss

  • @OtakuUnitedStudio
    @OtakuUnitedStudio 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What, no mention of Cy-Kill getting slagged every time he shows up in a Transformers comic?

  • @ZstackZip
    @ZstackZip 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:47 I saw that RoGun thing at a local vintage toy store (that store is my heaven)

  • @ultra_marcus
    @ultra_marcus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    whenever I buy a job lot of broken bots off e-bay, there's always a Gobot.. bit like how there's always a spoon left when you've done the dishes.

  • @Maswartz226
    @Maswartz226 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When I saw this I was afraid it would just be some half-assed joke but no it's actually good and informative!

  • @myang12003
    @myang12003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If gobots were still arround, we would even have bay bots!

  • @random_gamer_guy82
    @random_gamer_guy82 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember as a young kid ,maybe 6/7 years old maybe there was always kids running round school claiming to have seen a transformers vs gobots film.

  • @sadpacman3290
    @sadpacman3290 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for making this more than just a gag. I didn't realize that the cheap transforming robots with friction-motors that I'd get as a kid were actually Go-Bot-related.

  • @hotroddidnothingwrong3220
    @hotroddidnothingwrong3220 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I died laughing when i realized that this was an april fools joke.

    • @tartatovsky
      @tartatovsky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      RIP big man. Gone but not forgotten.

  • @shadowdarter
    @shadowdarter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Gobots are part of the transformers universe but a good Aprils first joke :D

    • @shadowdarter
      @shadowdarter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Machine Men were the first transformers, without them the Transformers brand would be less than nothing outside of US. only a fool would try to downgrade them honestly. Both IP's are part and parcel of the same multiverse. Why piss off part of the fan base to promote a very biased opinion.

    • @tracytron7162
      @tracytron7162 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh yeah I remember reading somewhere on TFWiki that IDW officially added Gobots to the Transformers Multiverse or something didn’t they lol?

    • @shadowdarter
      @shadowdarter 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Actually Hasbro bought out the IP rights themselves and made it part of the multiverse. Even though its a pretty much a dead IP, Hasbro in its own way is keeping it alive as a part of its multiverse.

    • @tracytron7162
      @tracytron7162 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      ShadowDarter huh. Cool.

    • @tracytron7162
      @tracytron7162 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ShadowDarter definitely wouldn’t have expected that from HASBRO of all people/company’s/whatever’s.

  • @Nostroman_Praetor
    @Nostroman_Praetor ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8:41 Cy-Kill being murdered is such a good panel lol

    • @Henrex2000
      @Henrex2000 ปีที่แล้ว

      That gobots fan on twitter is really pissed off now

  • @Spike-Prime
    @Spike-Prime 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Damn! This is one of those times I REALLY wish a Chris McFeely video had been held off for just a tiiiiiny bit longer. For those interested in a small expansion, IDW would publish a Go-Bots comic mere months after this, where they were built by humans, created a gigantic world literally built around ours, revolted, flew off into space and then decided to seed the multiverse with cybertronic life forms modelled after themselves. "Optimised versions," they said.
    YES TRANSFORMERS THROUGHOUT THE MULTIVERSE ARE ACTUALLY THE DESCENDANTS OF GO-BOTS!!

  • @michaellombardi1620
    @michaellombardi1620 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    quite the april fools

  • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
    @TheSmart-CasualGamer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Do The Basics: Leader One or Rotor!
    And hell, for all we complain about them, it's mainly because of the terrible cartoon and the godawful names. The TOYS however, could be decent, and often acted as Autobot or Decepticon reinforcements, as everyone picked up a couple thrift stores for loads less than a Transformer on the shelf at Toys R Us or something.

  • @jazzepat
    @jazzepat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'd like to see a series where Cy-kill and Starscream team up for some slapstick comedy

  • @VAULT-TEC_INC.
    @VAULT-TEC_INC. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I want a masterpiece collection of Rock Lord figures and I’ll display them all in their alt modes. It will be my Rock Garden.

  • @Noisy_Snax
    @Noisy_Snax 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I WISH THIS WASN'T A JOKE

  • @LadyLunarSatine
    @LadyLunarSatine 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Maybe you'll cover Bots Master next year?

    • @Getwright-
      @Getwright- 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lord Sathien it's lazer time!

  • @mr.vidjagamez9896
    @mr.vidjagamez9896 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was actually more into Go-Bots then I was Transformers as a kid, probably because my parents just so happened to buy me more of that merchandise without thinking about it. I have my VHS copy of the first couple episodes standing next to Transformers the Movie.

  • @tfstopmotions5672
    @tfstopmotions5672 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One year anniversary of this video

  • @bernadetemachdo7999
    @bernadetemachdo7999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The go bots are the poor transformers

  • @kristof2997
    @kristof2997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My dad has a Gobot. It looks like hound from transformers g1, so i played with him and i call it hound. For now i know that's not him. But i know his real name now. Its Geeper Creeper.

    • @Lemuel928
      @Lemuel928 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He’s Creep Creep now.

  • @Gaming4871
    @Gaming4871 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My version of a new backstory:
    Before the war,Cy-kill was a senator,trying to find his way up the ranks of the Gobotronian Parliament when one day he found a dark truth that the Government had been experimenting in them by literally killing volunteers and implanting their hearth and almost dying brain into a small robotical case.
    This made Cy-Kill go mad and swore to reveal this secret on the local Gobotrian media.
    But his plan failed as he was found an killed from a paramilitary force which took his "lifeless" body in a military base to become the first techno organic being.
    When he was reawakened he saw himself into a mirror and went rogue. Killing everyone there before leaving the facility destroyed.
    Mad,he went out to a killing spree until a young soldier named Mathus came face to face with the robotica maniac.
    The battle went on for days with more support coming to destroy Cy-kill. Sadly for Mathus he was badly injured. So his brain and hearth were transferred into an experimental body that could change to a Gobotronian jet.
    And so Mathus became known as Leader-1. And so the battle for Gobotron began. Going on for ages.

    • @gandalflotr2898
      @gandalflotr2898 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nice I hope there's gonna be a renegade decepticon Alliance and autobots guardians Alliance

  • @mcart4762
    @mcart4762 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ugh finally someone said it. I'm glad the patreon crowd got to you and convinced you to make the change. After a year on the deep, vast history on the GoBots, I mean you could do several segments on Puzzler alone his story is so rich and intriguing, maybe then do MASK ?
    Changing focus completely is the best way to keep a fan base happy.

  • @Pokey_Puni_
    @Pokey_Puni_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was kinda hoping this was gonna be a new series, despite being an April Fools joke, I did learn some new stuff about the go-bots from this.

  • @HayabusaTaichou
    @HayabusaTaichou 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Okay, but when are you planning to cover the Brave series? That's definitely gonna be the next big thing.

    • @MidoriNatsume
      @MidoriNatsume 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I want Transformer's style knock-off rename for the Mechanoids and the Symmetrical Docking from GGG.

  • @Wimmle
    @Wimmle 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watching this again I'm impressed with how smooth the animation was in gobots

  • @rorylumley4727
    @rorylumley4727 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    While an april fool's joke it is still as high quality and informative as your other viedos. I wouldn't mind seeing viedos on other gobots viedos.

  • @theomegareviewer3766
    @theomegareviewer3766 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love your voice

  • @WriterisCooper
    @WriterisCooper 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    YESS!

  • @somarriba333
    @somarriba333 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved Gobots as a kid. Small Hot Wheels sized robots that fit in your pockets.

  • @drxshock6957
    @drxshock6957 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Gobots are transforming Cybermen with emotions.