RoGun

The RoGuns are a team of robots that transform into handheld weapons.

They are:

• Pistol
• Shotgun
• Hot Chamber & Scope
• Water Rifle
• Squirt

Honorable mentions:

• Mega Fighter
• Gun Majin

Other non-GoBot figures retaining the RoGun branding include:

• Flashbot
• Cannon

Fiction

Renegade Rhetoric

When Crasher groused that they were always outgunned, Cy-Kill had a brilliant idea: get Dr. Go to make handheld guns that turn into small robots!

The RoGuns quickly tired of being weapons and were freed by Scooter, Major Mo, and A.J., with the former able to understand the RoGuns' annoying bleeps. The three happily joined the Guardians. Professor Von Joy would later create two new RoGuns with extra language skills, Scope and Shotgun, and the clan helped the Secret Riders liberate the Martian clans from the Renegades. The clan then traveled to Quartex, where they helped the heroic Rock Lords defeat their enemies and delved further into the mysteries of that planet.

Notes

• RoGuns, like many ARCO releases, are not well understood.
  • Figures like Cap Rifle were released by Arco under their own brand name in the early '80s, or possibly the late '70s.
  • In 1983, Arco re-released identical figures under the GoBots license, merely swapping the Arco name with GoBots branding.
  • Some of those figures were also issued with Robotech branding with slight variant coloring.
  • In 1992, Arco was absorbed by Mattel, who then put out more figures under the same RoGuns banner, complete with new colors, remolds, and individual character names.