| Go-Bots |
| Toyline |
| Cartoon |
The Go-Bots cartoon series serves as a companion to the Go-Bots toyline.
This mini-series centers on the adventures of Aero-Bot, Beast-Bot, Buzzer-Bot, Speed-Bot, and Strong-Bot, a group of robotic protectors sent to Earth from their home city of Botropolis. These Go-Bots can transform from their robot mode to a variety of alt-modes, each representing one of the toys released under their name (For example, Beast-Bot can turn into both a gorilla and a cheetah.
Being intended for very young children, the series is quite formulaic. In each episode, a young and reckless Go-Bot arrives on Earth and begins to inadvertently cause trouble by exploring the world and their own abilities. Then the protector Go-Bots jump into action, trying to reason with the new arrival and trying to undo the harm he is causing. Eventually the careless youngster ends up endangering himself and is rescued by the other Go-Bots, at which point he realizes his mistakes, apologizes, and returns to Botropolis, promising to train so that he can one day become a planet's protector just like his new friends.
The show was neither referred nor compared to in any way with Transformers. There were only four episodes produced, each of which is just over 10 minutes long. The first 2 episodes came packed with a Speed-Bot toy in 2003. The last two episodes actually aired on television, but only twice, and only in the New York and Chicago areas. The episodes are:
- Typhoon Twister
Visiting character(s): Silver-Bot - Arctic Oil Spill
Visiting character(s): Mototron - Reptron's Rampage
Visiting character(s): Reptron - Racer-Bot Road Rally
Visiting character(s): The Racer-Bots, ALPHA & BETA
Notes[]
Beast-Bot is the only leading Go-Bot in this series in which he is not present for an episode - he is away during "Racer-Bot Road Rally" for a month-long assignment from the Council - to this end, Hauler-Bot, with his talents, stands in for Beast-Bot, especially when the tools and abilities he has can match the situation that started on Botropolis and is next set to cause chaos on Earth.
Errors[]
In "Racer-Bot Road Rally", Silver-Bot is the only visiting Go-Bot from Botropolis in this mini-series who is acting with a sense of assisting the greater good episodes after he has caused trouble - he contacts Earth's Go-Bots about what has happened on Botropolis that is transferring to Earth for more trouble - this idea of having Silver-Bot notify the Earth-stationed leading protagonist Go-Bots from Botropolis of trouble on Earth after he has caused trouble himself feels like it should not be as as normally training of a Go-Bot takes time and it has been three episodes ago since he started his training after "Typhoon Twister" which means there is no way he could have accomplished his training that quickly.