NOT a Transformer OR a GoBot? What is it?!

[@larryzeno7133]

My Mirage broke too before it burnt with my whole collection in the 2018 Ca. Fires…great video man. Great taste too, I liked and had all the same figz!

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

Aw, man! Sorry to hear how you lost the figures. But thanks for the comment and watching the vid! Cheers!

[@Gentleman_Jester]

Interesting fact about soundwaves tapes. While they were meant to represent the full size cassette tapes used by everyone. They were in actuallity the same size as mini cassettes used in personal dictation devices for business men. Spies also used them as they were small enough to conceal in a pocket and record conversations.

[@TimTim-lv2ol]

It was used in one of the cartoon g1 episode when Soundwave transformed into a mini cassette to spy also!

[@humperdidoo]

The tapes were never meant to represent full-sized cassettes. They originally came from the Microchange line of toys where real-world scaled devices turned into robots. They were always meant to represent “microcassettes”. The CassetteMan toy (later used as the basis for Soundwave) even had the regular 3.5mm non-functional headphone jack.

[@jonathanward8967]

My parents first answering machine used the same tiny sized tapes

[@sweetchristmas101]

@@humperdidoo Microchange did also include a couple of full-sized cassettes - though these transformed into vehicles for Microman to operate.

[@fontanag.darling737]

Zybots and Roadbots were awesome!

[@JuanGarcia-vh7zo]

If you grew up in the 80s and were a Transformers fan, you also had Go-bots. Some may deny it, but the truth is, we all had them. And we loved them. There's no running from the truth.

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

100%! There was NO difference for me as a kid! OR now!

[@transformerstuff7029]

had all sorts of robots, my parents didn't get it and I love them for it lol

[@larryzeno7133]

Loco is like Tank! Easy and sick!

[@jeremydoud4885]

I remember ZyBots! I had a few of them given to me by classmates and friends at my Birthday parties as a kid…I had a few GoBots as well. But, my brother’s and I were lucky to own every transformer with the exception of Fortress Maximus. I only came across Fort Max once. It was on a trip to Disneyland. He was at a Toys R Us on Beach Ball Blvd. I remember the street name because I thought it was a funny name for a street. Anyway, nice video. Was cool to see another child of the ‘80’s talk fondly about transforming robots 🤖!

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

I really appreciate the comment because I also love hearing about other folks' experiences! You must have had a great collection! I had friends in my neighborhood who had more than I did, and there was that ONE kid who had the GI Joe U.S.S. Flagg. He was the coolest kid on the block!

[@Gametester110-qf8vs]

Interesting video. Life-long G1 fan here. I dig the KO figures/off-brand TFers also.

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

Thanks! Me too!

[@jackflores4703]

I remember one Christmas I gotten remco zybot gift set witch had all the bots from robot chicken episode plus a few that didn't get shown ahhh the good old days

[@TalkingLoon]

Man I was so sure one of those were gonna turn out to be just a PEZ dispenser

[@josephzeh8600]

just found both on ebay.for motorcycle for 12.99 plus s/h, and blue car 10.99 and it looks just like yours'.

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

I imagine you could pick up all the Zybots pretty cheaply these days. Which I might try to do! 😂

[@josephzeh8600]

@@Flashback_Funhouse well a ten pack in box was $450. i do remember having the dozer myself.

[@jacobfoster9185]

​@@Flashback_Funhouse 😂 yeah....I'm surprised by the little tug of the heart for the price tags from Kmart, toysrus and kaybey toys 😂❤ in MANY ways modern kids toys and experience are vastly better than what we had but I don't think that kids today can really understand the stores filled with nothing but toys and many of the stores were HUGE ! 😍

[@jacobfoster9185]

​@@Flashback_Funhouse children's palace ? Huhh never heard of this place....sounds...haha like an online pedo trap😂😢

[@heroicnonsense]

Zybots do have names! They're on the cardback, in the lower right corner below their catalog number. The blue car is named Torque, the yellow motorcycle's name is RPM2.

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

I did EVENTUALLY find that towards the end of the video! But yeah, for the longest time I just assumed they were "car" and "truck", etc. Thanks for the comment!

[@bttfdmc1984]

It's funny a few years ago I had found Torque in a bag of cars at a goodwill not knowing what it was thinking it was some sort of knock off and when I saw that episode of Robot Chicken I recognized that blue car and found out he was a Zybot. Unfortunately my copy has some issues with the legs so the rear of the car isn't straight and don't want to damage the sticker or risk breaking it trying to fix him. Fully transformed it's not noticeable but in car mode it is.

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

It's crazy! I saw both Torque and RPM2 in that Robot Chicken episode and was like "WAIT! I have those!"

[@hotrodney964]

Strangely a few years back I found a stack of Zybots on card, they looked great! Had a few of the knock off TFs back in the day, it didn’t matter that they weren’t official, great vid sir.

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

I really dig the Zybots packaging. Think I’ll def be on the lookout for more!

[@Spanky8402]

Forget about the Transformers, I had a Nostalgia trip over the blue box. 😅 I think I had a blue, red and maybe green one as a kid. I totally forgot about those, so that hit me hard. Thank you for that experience. 😀

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

I love this comment so much! Ain't it crazy the items that just hit DIFFERENT sometimes when they bring back those memories???

[@CB-ke7eq]

I had that pencil box in yellow and I kept my Micro Machines in it. 😄 You really took me back with those ZyBots, especially seeing that Children's Palace price sticker. Man. The memories! I also have fond memories of the cheap little knock-off toys we would get at flea markets or stuff like the "TransMobots" from Zayre's stores.

[@Spanky8402]

​@Flashback_Funhouse I didn't mean forget about the transformers in a bad way. I just wasn't expecting to see something that I forgotten about. 😅

[@Spanky8402]

​@CB-ke7eq I think I kept some type of small cars in 1 of my boxes. It wasn't micro machines or hot wheels. I believe they were a in-between size cars. I they were metal as well because I played with they outside alot and eventually the paint was scratched and rust formed. It probably was mostly the cars in the box and in my backpack that damaged the paint.

[@KhaosPumkinRanger]

I thought sound wave was a micro cassette player but this is an awesome collection the G1 can never be beat

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

He ABSOLUTELY was a micro cassette player! I referred to him as a boombox incorrectly. That would be “Blaster”. Good catch!! And thanks! I don’t have a ton of G1’s but I have most of the ones I want and had as a kid.

[@KhaosPumkinRanger]

Cool

[@rickhunter1984]

Prime battery audio unit?

[@landmind666]

Back in the day i kept asking for the Stunticon gift set for Xmas but got a pack of 6 zybots with parts that let make a combiner bot with a head that looked like a rip off from a 80s rc robot from rad shake

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

I believe right now there is a boxed Zybot combiner on eBay, and they're asking $850!!!

[@darrenbent7601]

Does anyone remember the creature-like Zybots like toys? I know that there were insects, birds and others like these, but the only one that I can remember was the one that turns into a bat.

[@SoelGriffin]

Probably Select's Converters line?

[@cocoblackgonzalez8927]

Son los GALGO ROBOTS de ARGENTINA ❤🙌 los 3 últimos chiquitos de la foto!!!! Es un transbordador espacial y habian otros que eran copias de los gobots y estaba boombshell y otros, una mezcla de varios...

[@cocoblackgonzalez8927]

Rabatiza se transforma en Galgo robot...🥺 la publicacion de esos años me acuerdo un poco... que tiempos ❤

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

@@cocoblackgonzalez8927 Great times indeed!! ☺

[@frankschuler2867]

Great story! I had a similar mystery solved for me a few years ago. I had a little robot toy in the 80’s that looked like a yellow box that turned into a stumpy little ridiculous robot. Unfortunately it didn’t survive my childhood. I didn’t have any pictures of it either…just my memories. I would search the internet every couple of years trying to find it…to no avail. Chris McFeely did a video about “Muffy and the Mysterians” and its connection to G1 Transformers. It’s an interesting tale in and of itself. I watched it just out of curiosity, and I nearly jumped out of my seat when I saw that stupid little yellow box robot. It was made by a company called Marchon under their Mysterians toy line. The name of the robot is “Major Repair”. Needless to say, I was on eBay and had one on the way almost immediately. He’s now standing on a shelf next to a handful of GoBots, coincidentally.

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

I LOVE this story! Isn't it such a great feeling to make that discovery of something so significant from your childhood? I had the same response when I saw them in the RC episode. And now I want to go watch the video you mentioned as well. Thanks so much for responding to my video! I really appreciate it!! And always love talking about 80s toys!!

[@frankschuler2867]

​@@Flashback_FunhouseIt's a great watch. There are tie-ins to defunct toy lines, the underpinnings of the original G1 toys, the G1 comics and some more surprises. It's a neat bit of lore!

[@r.davidhill7639]

Thanks for sharing.

[@redneckranger2144]

I have the Gobot version of Megatron. Don't know it's name but it turns into a respectable size rifle and fires those circular pop cap thingies that I don't think you can buy anymore.

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

Ah, man! That sounds cool! Will have to look him up!

[@redneckranger2144]

Figured while I was here I'd look him up, found it. Apparently his name is Rogun and if you explained Megatron to a parent who didn't know what TF were this is what you'd get for your birthday/xmas 😂

[@unorthdoxcleric6953]

Its so weird how we all have these memorys of these toys and every memory is different

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

It really is! So many different associations tied to THINGS! Some great, some not so great. Crazy!

[@rickhunter1984]

Leader 1

[@rickhunter1984]

Gobots

[@reymed1670]

Zybots back in the 80s lots unbranded Kos

[@Corleone1891]

I loved this video.

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

Thank you!

[@200865mark]

Diaclones

[@Flashback_Funhouse]

The OGs!