Gobots finally making a return?

[griffin]

But the design looks like Hasbro/Tonka's cartoon appearance, not the Machine Robo toy. Anyway I'm no expert on Gobots, I've only seen screen caps and pictures of the toys.

The Gobots have never appeared in the Transformers cartoon or Hasbro's toyline. As others have mentioned, this is actually a return of Bandai's Machine Robo rather than Gobots... so calling them Gobots is kiiinda misleading (akin referring to Macross or Diaclone as 'Transformers').

DeltaPrime was actually correct, as he said "Tonka's cartoon", not Transformers cartoon or Toyline - and it was the cartoon that he thinks they look more like than the physical Gobots/Machine Robo toys (similar to how most of the Transformers Masterpiece toys look more like they do on the cartoon/comic than their original 1980s toy).

(and Tonka is now part of Hasbro... so retroactively, it's Hasbro's cartoon now, but can't do much with it because of Bandai's ownership of the toy designs)

[5FDP]

I had a few Machine Men including Pathfinder , a scorpion, and a helicopter (looked like Airwolf) when I was a child and used to hunt down the free comics at Myers. This is great news!

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

After digging around, I discovered I had a fair few more Machine men than I thought I did. Holy. Meeeeemmmories, like the corners of my mind.....

[Bartrim]

These look awesome I'll be saving up for these.

[The_Damned]

These look awesome I'll be saving up for these.

brother!!!!!

[Robzy]

More pics here of this awesome looking Machine Robo line (10 pics in total). The colours look damn fine.

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

More pics here of this awesome looking Machine Robo line (10 pics in total). The colours look damn fine.

Good to see some fresh news about them! Hopefully they go into production in the near future!

Ahhh... memories!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArAsVfsZ028

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAcIffhbqwM

[jazzcomp]

It's gobots in my country. Never heard of machine men on TV. But I don't remember the songs of these intros. Must be getting old or it's totally different for me.

[Robzy]

It's gobots in my country. Never heard of machine men on TV.

It's a long story, but there's a reason why it was called GoBots in the US and Machine Men here in Australia (actually the line was originally Machine Men in the US too, before Tonka got invloved).

But none of these new designs are based on characters from GoBots... they're from Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos, which is completely different. Blue Jet (aka Fitor) and Rod Drill (aka Screwhead) are two of the main characters

[Sam]

Hey those look pretty cool.

Will they have more creative names this time around, instead of stuff like Cop-Tur?