This week at Flashbak, I
remembered Tonka’s robot combiner who was added to the Gobot toy line in the
mid-1980s: “Monsterous” [sic])
Here’s a snippet and the
url: (http://flashbak.com/before-transformers-there-were-gobots-apart-theyre-awful-together-theyre-monsterous-363361/
)
“Today, everybody loves
Hasbro’s Transformers toy line, but back in the mid-1980s the Autobots had mechanical,
transforming competition…from Tonka’s Gobots (“Mighty Robots/Mighty Vehicles”).
Like the Autobots of
Cybertron, the Gobots had two opposing teams: Guardians (the good guys) and
Renegades (the bad guys).
And for a while, the
Gobots even had their own TV show: Challenge of the Gobots.
One of the weirdest and
most wonderful toys from the 1980s Gobot catalog is the (notably misspelled…)
"Monsterous," a large-scale combiner, consisting of six
Gargoyle-like Gobot villains.
The toy box describes
Monsterous as a “Renegade Robot Giant.” It also notes a bit about his shapes/abilities:
“Six Robots to Six Vehicles to One
Monsterous Giant!”
And where did Monsterous
hail from, at least in terms of Gobot mythology?
The box had an answer
there too. “Out of the depths of the Antares Solar System arises a band of six
renegade monsters.”
The story continued: “Apart, they’re awful. Together, they’re:
Monsterous, a Renegade Robot giant that’s more gruesome than the evilest being
alive. Their mission is destruction...The starting point is Earth!”
The six individual Renegades
that convert into the Monsterous being are: Weird Wing, South Claw, Heart
Attack, Gore Jaw, Fangs, and Fright Face…”
Please continue reading at
Flashbak.
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