When you were a kid did you have or know anyone who had Go-Bots

[the_antsy_honda]

If so, how many macaroni and cheese dinners did you eat a week?

 

[the_antsy_honda]

I most definitely did not have Go Bots

 

[the_antsy_honda]

okay maybe a few

 

[Dr. Charisma]

On one hand we probably were the poverty demo you're looking for here, but this would have been a pretty good while before my time

My mother also made sure I had tight name brand toys no matter how bad things were.

 

[the_antsy_honda]

On one hand we probably were the poverty demo you're looking for here, but this would have been a pretty good while before my time

They made them in the mid-late 80s

Aren't a huge chunk of us here 80s kids?

 

[Dr. Charisma]

They made them in the mid-late 80s

Aren't a huge chunk of us here 80s kids?

93

 

[mdaniel]

They made them in the mid-late 80s

Aren't a huge chunk of us here 80s kids?

Early 80's kid here so I must have just missed them.

 

[the_antsy_honda]

Early 80's kid here so I must have just missed them.

According to internets they were 83-87

 

[Trungtastic]

yeah but we also had transformers

 

[the_antsy_honda]

I had this one

I think

 

[Mighty]

I had the jet thing, but I also had a bunch of Transformers.

 

[Twinsen]

What's a go-bot?

 

[Cicada]

O

 

[the_antsy_honda]

What's a go-bot?

They are considered generic Transformers, but fact: they came out first and they were competitors. Gobots just sucked.

 

[the_antsy_honda]

 

[mdaniel]

My favorite cartoon in the 80's was some kind of transformer-y one where there were like 5 planes that came together for the final battle each episode. It was definitely Japanese though I didn''t know that at the time. I don't think it was ever that popular in the US because I haven't seen it since I was a kid.

 

[wildflower]

I'm old enough that we had coon skin hats and tin copies of the Alamo, complete with plastic soldiers, plastic cannons, and plastic mexican soldiers carrying ladders.

 

[Faikius]

A few, but quickly moved on to Transformers. Vaguely remember the bad guy being a motorcycle, and the good guy being an F-15. Had some sort of jet shaped base as well I think.

 

[ashzero]

 

[tommylightning]

My dad got an entire set of them because he represented the company that supplied those decal sheets to Tonka. I was asking him about them maybe 10 years ago and he said he threw them out. They were never opened

 

[mdaniel]

I'm old enough that we had coon skin hats and tin copies of the Alamo, complete with plastic soldiers, plastic cannons, and plastic mexican soldiers carrying ladders.

I got a lot of cool leftover toys from the neighbors who had kids slightly older than me. I had some kind of western fort set with walls and soldiers and shit. They also gave me a bolt action rifle that we'd been told was disabled somehow but who knows. I also had a Battlestar Galactica Viper that shot little red plastic "missiles" out of the front.

 

[ERock]

I had Go Bots and Transformers.

 

[Normie]

I had Go Bots and Transformers.

And mother fucking Voltron

 

[ERock]

And mother fucking Voltron

Yes! This also.

And MASK

 

[horus]

my boy had go bots and voltron

my transformers collection stunted on his tho