I’m not the only one who took time off for the winter. Although mine was forced and Shawn Robare of Branded In The 80s got back to work a whole lot sooner. And with him he brought a set of digital trading cards for a toyline that didn’t have them in the 1980s…Robo Force. It was an odd toyline which had circular robots with suction cup bottoms, with of course a hero and villain team. I wonder, if Transformers and GoBots hadn’t come along would this line have earned more staying power?
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I hadn’t thought of Roboforce since the 80s until I read your article today. I remember seeing the advertisement for the toys, but never got into it. Just checked wikipedia, and it said the toy line came out in 1984. That was the same year that Transformers and Gobots were becoming popular. Back then, I focused more on those two robot shows/toys. That’s probably why Roboforce never really caught my attention. Based on what I looked up, the one episode of Roboforce by Ruby Spears is found on the Gobots DVD set. Were you ever into Roboforce?
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I never really got into them because I was one of those into the giant and shapeshifting robots.
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Same here. But that Max Steele name stuck in my head because of all the television commercials promoting that toy line. If Robo Force had an ongoing cartoon series like Transformers and Gobots did, it would have been just as popular as those two…likely. What do you think?
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I don’t know. Show popularity doesn’t always equal toy popularity and vice versa, but it helps.
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Even so, based on your article link, it appears there are still some Robo Force fans out there. Kind of like how there’s still some of us Black Star fans around.
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There’s more than that. There are new toys using an independent building system called Glyos, and one of my comic creating friends, Jerzy Drozd, did the comic for that site.
http://www.toyfinity.com/comicIndex.php
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It’s great to see that fans can keep their interests alive by continuing to make creative products such as comics, toys, etc.
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