GoBots movie.

[phee]

Okay not really... but made you look....

But then again... someone in Hollywood has to be thinking about it.

[wormsinwombs]

oh you got me

[phee]

*holds head in shame*

[Troy Spiral (13)]

I was just talking to someone about GoBots and how they were pretty popular but then got upstaged by the more "polished" TransFormers.

One distinction between the two that I remember noticing was that GoBots were actually partly biological unlike the transformers which are all robot.

Another interesting change is that both are "translations" (and mixtures / recombination of several) of japanize products , rather than just a straight port from one language to another. Some of which, originally more like Mecha, that is , human piloted machines rather than sentient beings.

Always wondered why the "mecha" idea (ala Robotech / Gundam ect) never really caught on.

Interesting comparison of the go-bots toys vs transformers toys

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/06/the_25_gobots_that_could_most_easily_pass_as_trans.php

[Troy Spiral (13)]

oh you got me