No I haven’t lost my mind or suffered a blow to the head. I was just looking over Something Awful’s Holiday Shopping Guide when I found this:
You see, old Go-Bots don’t die, they just get sent to China to be given a paint job based on every pair of Umbros shorts I ever had.
At least I think this is a Go-Bot. He looks really familiar. Can anyone put a name on him for me?
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That is the best thing I’ve seen all day, and it’s only 9 am.
I becames so happy when I saw this. Great post!
Kind of looks like Zemon or one of the GoBots that resembled him.
http://www.tfu.info/Gobots/Guardians/Zeemon/zeemon.htm
Looks nothing like Knight Rider/KITT, though. :)
I want one! He’s based on this:
http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/SuperGobots/Zeemon.html
@ShadowWing Tronix – But he does look like a total Robert
If you want to get technical, it’s not a gobots ripoff/bootleg, it’s a machine robo one.
Scale Robo DX – MR-DX02 – Fairlady 280 Z
Aside from lacking actual heads, and having limbs that were uber-scrawny compared to their bulky bodies, thesuper gobots were pretty decent. (Although not the ones which were just overgrown versions of normal gobots, like the cy-kill and leader-1 ones, they were nothing more than duplo-esque versions of normal gobots. They didn’t even bother to give them enhanced details or anything.)
There’s a typo! The package should read: Knight Rider becomes R.O.B.E.R.T. (Robot Operative Based Entirely on Reused Toys).
Maybe it’s the secret Robert the Bruce GoBots toy?
Dammit…I want one…and the “KARR BECAMES KEVIN”.
I wonder if he’s friends with Robert Cop 2?
Hey, is this a spoiler for the series’ finale?