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In the last quarter of the 20th Century, the planet Earth became involved in the conflict between Leader-1's Guardians and Cy-Kill's Renegades.
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The Last Engineer placed himself into suspended animation beneath the surface of GoBotron, while above, the war continued to rage between the Guardians and the Renegades, now all encased in GoBot shells. His work done, the Last Engineer intended to retreat to a pre-prepared workshop elsewhere in the galaxy, but the Master Renegade stole his ship and escaped in his stead. The GoBot forms possessed an additional ability after being run through the device named the Modifier, the GoBots' bodies were able to transform into other vehicles. However, the genius who became known as the "Last Engineer" saved his people, taking his experiments to replace parts of his own body with mechanical substitutes to the ultimate extent and transferring the GoBings brains into large robot bodies known as "GoBots". When a Renegade sabotage operation inadvertently resulted in a gigantic asteroid colliding with GoBotron, the natural disasters that resulted from the asteroid's impact pushed the GoBings to the verge of extinction. Civil war erupted on the planet when the power-hungry terrorist group known as the Renegades arose, led by a madman dubbed the "Master Renegade", who waged war against the peaceful Guardians. In the series' backstory, set thousands of years ago on the planet GoBotron, there lived a race of human-like beings known as GoBings. Clips from the show were used in Errol Morris's Fast, Cheap and Out of Control. The only 'theme' to a side was that anything that turned into a 'monstrous'-looking robot or vehicle was a Renegade. Likewise, there was no commonality of design within each faction. The characters (as well as the toys) had no identifying insignias or markings to indicate their allegiance, although it was clearly indicated on the packaging.
GoBots had no clear divide between the two factions. Cy-Kill, Fitor, Cop-Tur and Crasher), who were virtually ever-present, with other characters seeming to rotate in "guest-star" roles.
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#Challenge of the gobot series#
The series generally focused on a small number of robots from each faction (Leader-1, Turbo, Small Foot and Scooter vs. The GoBots' origin as organic beings accounted for the presence of genders among the robots. The female robots on the series, such as Crasher, were built like the males, but with some distinguishing female features. The characters rarely had guns, instead shooting energy blasts out of their fists. The Guardians were led by Leader-1 while the Renegades were led by Cy-Kill. GoBots dealt with two opposing forces of transforming robots from the planet GoBotron: the heroic Guardians and the evil Renegades. The series was later rerun on the USA Cartoon Express. A regular series titled The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera followed the next year, premiering on Septemas part of the weekday and weekend morning programming block. The show originally debuted in animated form as a five-part miniseries, which aired in Syndication from October 29 - November 2, 1984. Challenge of the GoBots (or GoBots: Mighty Robots, Mighty Vehicles), is an American animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera, based on the Gobots toy-line released from Tonka.