Bot a Day: Daily Drawings

Finishing off the 2004 e-HOBBY GoBots set with Treds. He's a redeco of Warpath, the M551A1 Sheridan tank from 1985, now as a green Decepticon in tribute to Tonka's Treds the M-1 Abrams tank also from 1985.

In the original GoBots line, Bad Boy (1984)turned into a Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" plane. This corresponds to the classic Transformers figure Powerglide (1985) who did the same. For the 2004 e-HOBBY set of GoBot tribute figures, Powerglide was redeco'ed to become this Decepticon. 

Returning to the e-HOBBY giftset of Go-Bot inspired classic Transformer redecos, we have Bug Bite. He's named after a yellow Volkswagen "Super Go-Bot" from the Tonka line, but is a redeco of Bumblebee, with a visible face rather than his original G1 mask. He's not yellow though, but a pale gray. He was released without a name, like the rest of his 2004 giftset mates.  

The 2004 e-Hobby GoBots set consisted of six toys, three of them Autobots (Guardians?) and the other three Decepticons (Renegades?). Here's the third of the Autobots, Small Foot, who is a redeco of 1984 Gear s. She turns into a truck, just like her original GoBot incarnation did.

Another from the set of 2004 e-HOBBY GoBot-tribute figures is Road Ranger. A redeco of 1984 Huffer , Road Ranger... doesn't particularly look anything like the GoBot he is acknowledging. Not the same color at all. I guess he's a truck, though. That counts. 

Beginning a brief run of what was intended to be GoBots  tribute figures that were available from e-HOBBY in 2004. These are redecos of classic Transformers mini-vehicle but painted or named in such a way to evoke original GoBots toys. Somewhere along the lines, someone had second thoughts and the toys were released without individual names, though preview images with their names got out into the world. So here is Path Finder, a redeco of the classic Cosmos figure . Included in this drawing in pencil is the original Path Finder design for comparison. 

Finishing off this run of Playskool Go-Bots with -- who else? -- another version of Speed-Bot. This unique one turns into a Le Mans-style race car, and like previous "racer" styled cars comes with a pilot robot figure and a Gas-Bot figure. This design was intended to be part of the 2004 line, but it was cancelled in the US before it ever made to market. It did appear in UK retail in 2005, however. 

So many of these Playskool Go-Bot Invisibility Force toys are basic redecos of existing designs that I didn't want to spent too many days on them, so here's a group shot of four reissues with transluscent plastic designs. From left to right is Reptron , the dinosaur; Racer-Bot ALPHA (a redeco of the Speed-Bot muscle car ); Strong-Bot in his ATV version ; and finally another Speed-Bot in his original car mode . 

Strong-Bot is back in an all new design that sees him turn into a cement mixing truck. Because this was released as part of the Invisibility Force line of Go-Bots, he has translucent plastic parts. One of the few all-new designs released in a line that consisted mostly of redecos. 

Blazing through some more Playskool Go-Bots redecos with group shots. Here, Fire-Bot has been recast in translucent plastic, making him part of the Invisibility Force. So has Racer-Bot BETA.  

Preditron is a noteworthy addition late in the Go-Bots line. It's not particularly for his design, which is just a redeco of the Big Adventure Cheetor toy with a remolded head. It's not for his finish, which is done with parts in translucent plastic because he's part of the Invisibility Force line. No, it's because he's the only villain character included in the otherwise friendly Go-Bots line. According to his minimal on-box bio, Preditron is a new incarnation of Beast-Bot turned bad. 

Another Speed-Bot! He just keeps coming back in new shapes and forms. This time, this Playskool Go-Bot turns into a red and black muscle car. This incarnation came out particularly late in the line, in 2005.

These last few waves of Playskool Go-Bots released up till 2005 include many redecos/repaints, re-releasing established characters in molds first introduced as other characters. So in this case, Strong-Bot appears again but now as a pick-up truck first seen as Flash-Bot  and then as Truck-Bot . In the background of this drawing are Cop-Bot, who is now a police motorcycle who was previously Buzzer-Bot. And then there's Gorilla-Bot who, after a stint of being the purple Beast-Bot , has returned to his gorilla form and now is in black and kind of resembles Optimus Primal. 

Another popular character to fill out the Playskool Go-Bot shelves is Strong-Bot, now reformatted to an all-new design.This version of the character turns into an all-terrain jeep-like vehicle. He does not have hands. 

Here's another incarnation of Speed-Bot, this time with an all-new design. Released in 2004, near the tail-end of the Playskool Go-Bots line, this Speed-Bot turns into a different red sports car than previous versions. 

Released near the tail end of the Playskool Go-Bots line is this new incarnation of Buzzer-Bot. He was previously a mechanical wasp , and then later a motorcycle . Now, for 2004, he is a convertible sports car. Sharing this drawing with him is a new incarnation of Beast-Bot, with similar colors he had before but now instead of turning into an ape or big cat , he's a dinosaur. 

 Yesterday's Hauler-Bot was more than just the truck that turns into a robot. He also included a car-carrier trailer (scaled and shaped to fit the Playskool Go-Bots aesthetic) that also transformed. It split into two, with the upper portion of the carrier turning into a pterodactyl, and the lower into a wheeled turtle (or maybe it's an ankylosaur). Neither were named, so the whole assembly is collectively known as Hauler-Bot.  As an additional 'Super Mode,' the Hauler-Bot robot can stand on the turtle base and wear the pterodactyl on his shoulders. I don't think that will warrant a separate drawing, unlike some of the more complicated Super Modes elsewhere in the line. 

The largest of the Playskool Go-Bots toys,  Hauler-Bot is turns into a big, chunky semi truck packed with lights and electronic features. His trailer splits apart into two other components, which will get their own drawing. Hauler-Bot was available in 2003. 

Here's another Speed-Bot, now designated a "Racer," he is a deluxe figure that turns from a sports car into a highly poseable robot. This version of Speed-Bot comes with two unnamed pack-in figures, a new version of a "Kid-Bot" like driver, and a redeco of the existing "Gas-Bot" design.

Now in Ultra-scale, this largest rendition of Speed-Bot has been reformatted to turn into a road-hugging dragster. The large toy has a spring-loaded parachute deployer meant to slow him down in car mode. He was one of four versions of Speed-Bot available in 2003.