She does look powerful but you can see potential for a feminine aspect to her design. At any rate she does have a nice robot mode though it does mean the trunk is just hanging off her head. Imagine her as the silent time, whose only pleasure was smashing things. Granted the show face may match her crazy psycho personality better but that was still their decision. I don’t get it.Īnd the thing of it is I rather like that one huge eye visor more than the face they gave her. Every other detail on the GoBots matched what was coming out of Tonka and onto store shelves except these six faces. It’s like with the Transformer cartoon where the animators changed a whole lot of details because they didn’t care about the figures. This is stranger when you realize that every other GoBot face in the series was an exact match to the toy and didn’t quite fit the aesthetic of the characters there every episode. For reasons I still don’t understand the faces on the main six characters (Leader-1, Scooter, and Turbo for the Friendly GoBots/Guardians and Cy-Kill, Cop-Tur, and Crasher for the Enemy/Renegades) were changed from the toy though the rest of the figure remained intact. If you know her from the show (or just look at the image above) you already see one huge difference. Due to transformation GoBots don’t have the axles of Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars. The tires are rubber but the wheels themselves don’t really roll very well. She looks speed but able to smash into things like her animated counterpart. The stickers also came already applied unlike many Transformers of the day. Otherwise her stickers remain intact, a fight for many 80s stickers. Time has taken the number 1 off of the sides and Crasher’s name from the front bumper. While not every GoBot has a distinct Earth mode, Crasher gets to resemble a Porsche race car. In 1985 it would be redone in the colors she’s famous for. We’re used to a black-colored Crasher thanks to the show but apparently it was originally white according to the GoBots wiki. Here’s something I either didn’t know or forgot all these years. So give Hanna-Barbera credit for that.Īlso playing with some new photo gear…because apparently I can’t get a properly lit picture of a GoBot. Others would appear in the pilot miniseries like Pathfinder, and would later include more on both sides, but that may not have been the intention for the original Machine Robo figure or what Tonka was thinking, since this was a toyline for boys. Since Crasher wasn’t in the promo booklet there was no assigned gender so she became a she. The cartoon, Challenge Of The GoBots, took the opportunity to add female characters to the heroes, which as a race of former humans made sense whatever your opinion of Transformers having genders are. The backstory of the GoBots is that they are humans turned into robots to save themselves from a major catastrophe or in the original promo booklet just to replace “worn out parts of their body” but I like the cartoon version better. I’ve noticed that there are really long stretches between reviews of my GoBots (while my Transformers get reviewed in batches) and that I haven’t reviewed any of the bad guy GoBots (also I’ve only reviewed two GoBots) so this time I broke out Crasher, one of Cy-Kill’s top agents. We’ll see what happens in the next week or two but for now I said I would review something so review something I shall. For some reason I was tired all week and one night I didn’t sleep well. Well, I didn’t get a chance to pick up what I wanted to.
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