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

• The Guardians’ Earth Friends

Brief profiles of Matt, Nick, A.J, Anya and Braxis.

• "The Rescue of Road Ranger"

Text Story.

• Friendly Firepower

Article on the planes Leader-1 and Royal-T are based on.

• "The Rumbling Jungle"

Text Story.

• The Animal File: Design Data

Scooter investigates the armadillo, hummingbird and octopus.

• "Meltdown in the Museum"

Text Story.

• Scooter's Computer

Jokes with GoBot names inserted at random.

• "The Aliens Steal a Scientist"

Text Story.

• The Animal File: Design Data II

Scooter investigates the electric ray, chameleon and kiwi.

• "By Astrobeam to GoBotron"

Text Story.

• "A Message for Matt"

Board game.

• "Battle of the Beams"

Text Story.

• The Animal File: Design Data III

Scooter investigates the elephant, flea and whale.

• "The Exploding Toads of Primus"

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.

• "Scooter Strides Out"

Text Story.

Notes

• 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

Robo Machine featuring the Challenge of the GoBots Annual 1986 scans