In the mid-80s, there was a battle in the toy aisles and mindshare of impressionable youngsters waging between Hasbro and Tonka as to who had the preeminent converting-robot toy line: Transformers or Go-Bots. It's not as heated now, and tastes vary, but in the marketplace at least, Transformers won, eclipsing its competitor and living life beyond it. In 1991, this argument became all the more old history when Hasbro bought Tonka for $500 million, including the trademarks associated with its defunct Go-Bots line. As a final victory lap for Transformers, Hasbro include a character name Gobots as part of their Generation Two assortment, keeping the trademark in play but as part of the Transformers line.
This is Gobots, Autobot rear guard. He's part of the color changing contingent, whose paint job changes when exposed to water, and has a water-shooting weapon. He turns into a some sort of generic stock car.
