Robo Machine featuring the GoBots Annual 1986

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Robo Machine featuring the
Challenge of the GoBots
Annual 1986
Publisher World International Publishing Limited
First published Autumn 1985
Cover date 1986
ISBN 0-7235-6764-6
Price £3.25
Printed in Italy

The Robo Machine featuring the GoBots Annual 1986 was published in the United Kingdom by World International Publishing Limited in autumn 1985. It featured a mix of illustrated text stories and tenuous 'fact' or activity pages - if any of these sound fun from the descriptions you can be assured they are not. The art was heavily sourced from promotional material for Challenge of the GoBots and the stories broadly followed the cartoon's continuity. Like much of the tie media for GoBots, the stories were based on the Battle for GoBotron miniseries, meaning that the human allies work with NASA as opposed to UNECOM while Anya Turgenova and Zebediah Braxis are feature prominently as opposed to their scarcer appearances in the show proper. None of the creators involved were credited for their work, as was typical for the publisher.

Contents[edit | edit source]

  • The Guardians’ Earth Friends
Brief profiles of Matt, Nick, A.J, Anya and Braxis.
Text Story.
  • Friendly Firepower
Article on the planes Leader-1 and Royal-T are based on.
Text Story.
  • The Animal File: Design Data
Scooter investigates the armadillo, hummingbird and octopus.
Text Story.
  • Scooter's Computer
Jokes with GoBot names inserted at random.
Text Story.
  • The Animal File: Design Data II
Scooter investigates the electric ray, chameleon and kiwi.
Text Story.
Board game.
Text Story.
  • The Animal File: Design Data III
Scooter investigates the elephant, flea and whale.
Text Story.
  • The Man Who Built the Beetle
The history of Ferdinand Porsche and his creation the Volkswagen Beetle. This may be the only piece of GoBots media to mention Adolf Hitler.
Text Story.

Notes[edit | edit source]

  • Despite being mentioned in every story and having a key role in several of them not a single picture of Turbo appears in the book, while Crasher only appears in her white colour scheme.

External Links[edit | edit source]

Robo Machine featuring the Challenge of the GoBots Annual 1986 scans