Why do people dislike Go-Bots/Machine Men?

[Eruntalon]

On the subject of Gobots, I have a few (about 3 or 4) of the smaller variety for sale if anyone is interested?

[Robzy]

I think people pick on them for a few reasons...

1) They lost the "battle" against Transformers... mainly because they were called something different in each country (GoBots, Machine Men, etc..) unlike the universal "branding" of Transformers.

2) The US cartoon wasn't very good - admittedly it was better than some other 80s cartoons. Transformers was more "gritty" and "realistic" at the time. Ironic when you consider that people have mocked GoBots for being too cartoony, yet totally embraced Transformers Animated when it came out!

3) I think, generally, some TF fans can be quite mean! We're a fickle bunch, and some of us tend to grab hold of something and run with it no matter how rude or insulting we may be!

Personally, I love GoBots/Machine Men... not so much because of the cartoon (having said that, the 5-part Battle for GoBotron, 5-part Gobotron Saga, and Rocklords movie were actually pretty good!), but because the toys, although small, are so damn cool. They really are! Way more interesting than the G1 Minibots (well, most of them anyway).

[Lord_Zed]

I blame an ugly undercurent of racisism toward Gobots.

But yeah mainly I think its because the core Gobot cartoon (In the west anyway) was even sillier than the Transformers cartoon which is saying a lot.

I got no problem with the toys though, a lot of them as has been said are more interesting than the similar sized TF minibots, and they often had more intersting Alt-modes, including some wierd ones. These days I even like the Rocklords while yeah there rocks, the sculpts had personality. But back when I was a kid Transformers had the better mythology and the better backing so they won the war.