The natural thing for the writer to do would be to trim the US scripts down - eliminate G.I.Joe or simply turn them into generic army troopers and simplify the thread about the destruction of th e Ark while reintroducing Megatron in his old body. However the UK branch was by then hurtling towards destruction after overreaching themselves trying to convince people to like a stable of poor titles like Death's Head II and Motormouth & Killpower and had no time for the thing.Ī more compelling case for Furman not being the author is that they make a hugely complicated job of bringing things up to speed. Since then they'd slung out a few low profile specials, right up until 1994.
The local branch of Marvel had handled it in the eighties until cancellation in 1992 after 332 issues, largely due to running out of material to run when the American book was axed. The cartoon was effectively lost in the British television system of the time (little space on the four terrestrial channels and satellite having a tiny penetration) so it was down to the comic. However once it became clear their American cohorts were putting money into relaunching the line with media support in the former of a new comic and obnoxiously edited episodes of the eighties they decided to switch to the new branding. All information suggests this toy never made it past the hand-made, hand-painted state.It meant when G2 did roll around Hasbro's British wing was at a bit of a loss as to what to do with it, the first batch of figures initially coming out as simply the latest wave of the original line. The remaining two molds appear to have been separated from the sprues during the original development cycle, and it is likely they may never see release.Īn early prototype of a Go-Bot "Racing Rig" has surfaced, with a proposed redeco of Gearhead as Greasepit. These same four molds would later finally see retail release in the Robots in Disguise line, then later as Generation One characters for the Universe line. One of them appears to be a new form for the Generation One Decepticon Rumble, as the toy had a tampograph with "Rumble" on its side. Though four of these toys had been given complete paint jobs and were apparently ready to be released, the Generation 2 line was ended before they could be released. These molds were later re-used as the Spy Changers for Robots in Disguise.įor BotCon 1995, an exclusive redeco of High Beam was released as Nightracer.Ī second set of six new molds were developed for late Generation 2. Firecracker and Blowout were replaced by Optimus Prime and Megatron in this set.Īs was the case for most of late Generation 2, the complete set of six were completely redecoed and made into new versions of returning Generation One characters. The second set was largely the same, replacing all of the transparent plastics with opaques of the same colors.
In fact, Go-Bots were developed to be used with tracks and playsets from those brands, sharing the same smooth-rolling axle/wheel construction that lets the toys be quickly zipped along smooth surfaces.ĭuring Generation 2, three different sets of Go-Bots were released. Released in 1995, the Generation 2 Go-Bots are small 1:64-scale Transformers cars, the same size as "Matchbox" and "Hot Wheels" brand cars. For a list of other meanings, see GoBots (disambiguation). The name or term GoBots refers to more than one character or idea.
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