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2 | [[caption-width-right:250: GO GO GO-BOTS!]] |
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4 | ->''"Since the dawn of time, the city of Botropolis has been home to a race of highly adaptable robots. Each year, the Council selects a team of Go-Bots to protect and serve the planet which needs the most. This time, that planet is Earth. They chose... |
5 | * the very best in '''Aero-Bot'''... |
6 | * the fastest in '''Speed-bot'''... |
7 | * the strongest in '''Strong-Bot'''... |
8 | * the wildest in '''Beast-Bot'''... |
9 | * ...and the cleverest in '''Buzzer-Bot'''!"'' |
10 | --> -- '''OpeningNarration Pre-opening-sequence narration''' |
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12 | ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: Go-Bots'' was a series active between 2002 and 2005 as part of Hasbro's overall franchise. Aimed at preschool-aged children, it focused upon a team of robots from the city of Botropolis. These transforming robots whose home territory is a city that rests on a comet were sent to Earth as small teams to protect it from danger. |
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14 | Unlike most parts of the franchise, this series didn't have a full-length cartoon. Instead, a four-episode (each being 10 minutes) mini-series was produced by Creator/{{Hasbro}} and Taiwanese animation studio Creator/WangFilmProductions[[note]]with their Chinese sub-studio Hong Guang[[/note]] akin to the third ''WesternAnimation/{{My Little Pony|G3}}'' series. Two of them aired in New York and Chicago only, which makes the cartoon extremely hard to find [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes unless you go on]] Website/YouTube. |
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16 | The toyline itself was distributed through Hasbro's Playskool subsidiary, consisting of chunky-looking robots that had (at first) rather quick transformation schemes. As such, they were marketed like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBmvKjRvUbU so]]. |
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18 | Despite the name, it should not be confused with Tonka's [[WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots adaptation]] of ''Toys/MachineRobo''. |
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20 | !! This direct-to-video mini-series exhibits the following: |
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22 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Buzzer-Bot is a less-than-subtle {{Expy}} of [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Waspinator]], despite being one of the main heroes. |
23 | * CatchPhrase: "Go Go Go-Bots!" Don't forget "Go Go Go-Brillium!" |
24 | * CombiningMecha: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjt1bbhIUYI A Hauler-Bot is what you see but can change it into three!]] |
25 | * CoolCar: Speed-Bot, Mototron and the Racer-Bot Twins, Racer-Bots ALPHA and BETA. |
26 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: The Racer-Bot Twins and Mototron. |
27 | * FourFingeredHands: Aero-Bot (on [[OffModel occasions]]), Silver-Bot, Speed-Bot, and Kid-Bot. |
28 | * [[MidSeasonUpgrade Last Episode Upgrade]]: Go-Brillium. |
29 | * MerchandiseDriven: It is ''Transformers'', after all. |
30 | * NeverSayDie: Surprisingly averted in "Racer-Bot Road Rally", where the word "death" ''is'' said at one point in reference to Aero-Bot saving a racer from falling off a cliff. |
31 | * NoAntagonist: The problem usually stems from one or more reckless, though still good, Go-Bots unaware that they're causing mayhem. They do promise to get better, though. |
32 | * OddballInTheSeries: Outside of the fact the robots are called “Go-Bots” and not “Transformers”. This series features an entirely original cast of characters rather than the traditional Autobots and the Go-Bots hail from the city on a comet known as Botropolis rather then the metallic world of Cybertron. It’s also the only ''Transformers'' series without a proper BigBad. |
33 | * OpeningNarration: Done by the ''Armada'' narrator. |
34 | * ShoutOut: There's a character named [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Cheetor]] in the toyline, and Beast-Bot's gorilla form resembles that of Optimus Primal in ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines''. |
35 | * SpiritualSuccessor: ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' is looking to be this. It also serves as this to ''WesternAnimation/RescueHeroes'', as both have similar themes and art styles. |
36 | * ThreeShorts: Sort of - The episodes ''were'' separate, but only 10 minutes long. This made it shorter than the average ''Transformers'' episode, which usually (if not always) lasted around 22 minutes. |
37 | * UnskilledButStrong: Reptron, considering the damage he makes in his episode, "Reptron's Rampage". |
38 | * VerbalTic: Buzzer-Bot has electronic sound effects peppered into his speech. |
39 | * TheVoiceless[=/=]TheUnintelligible: Kid-Bot and Gas-Bot, voiced only with vocal effects. |
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