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The Gobots. The inferior Transformers. At least when I was a kid growing up. Leader-1 was a cool F-15 fighter jet, but was a wuss compared to Optimus who was a cool semi tractor trailer big rig! And Cy-Kill was just a funky motorcycle whereas Megatron was a rad gun! And then there were the sound effects for each franchise where I would bet more people in my generation would recognize the Transformers transformation sound effect versus the Gobots changing. And Zod compared to the Dinobots? Come on! It's interesting how hard marketing worked to sell both franchises, but what may have been a selling point to a salesman was a weakness in the mind of a kid. Or the complete opposite. Anyways, the Gobots did have something the Transformers took a while to catch up with. Female protagonists and antagonists! Where Transformers finally got a regular fembot in 1986 with Arcee the Gobots started out immediately with Crasher. And when 1985 rolled around the Transformers had one episode featuring fembots and another with young Elita-1. That's it until the movie and then season 3 in 1986. Japanese continuity is a different matter. Meanwhile the Gobots pushed out Smallfoot, Pathfinder, Snoop, Vamp, Sparky and depending on the fiction Spay-C and Spoiler. This leads us to my posting today.

Here is Small Foot. In the cartoon she comes across similar to Bumblebee from the Transformers in that she may not be the toughest physically but her determination helps her get the job done. There is also a line stating she is young for a Guardian. In the same episode she is shown to use her grappling line twice. Once in truck mode from her bed and later, in her robot mode, from her midsection. I figured it made more sense for it to come from her back in all instances since that is where the pulley would be. I changed up here simplistic design to give her more articulation. To find out more about my design decisions check out my design sheet I have posted in my Watcher's Only gallery. I went ahead and used the Gobot toys' backer card image as my design inspiration for the background here. Similar to my Transformers run I have done. The next several submissions for the female Gobots will all be digitally colored since my traditional coloring doesn't look good enough for non-organics IMO.

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The Gobots. The inferior Transformers. At least when I was a kid growing up. Leader-1 was a cool F-15 fighter jet, but was a wuss compared to Optimus who was a cool semi tractor trailer big rig! And Cy-Kill was just a funky motorcycle whereas Megatron was a rad gun! And then there were the sound effects for each franchise where I would bet more people in my generation would recognize the Transformers transformation sound effect versus the Gobots changing. And Zod compared to the Dinobots? Come on! It's interesting how hard marketing worked to sell both franchises, but what may have been a selling point to a salesman was a weakness in the mind of a kid. Or the complete opposite. Anyways, the Gobots did have something the Transformers took a while to catch up with. Female protagonists and antagonists! Where Transformers finally got a regular fembot in 1986 with Arcee the Gobots started out immediately with Crasher. And when 1985 rolled around the Transformers had one episode featuring fembots and another with young Elita-1. That's it until the movie and then season 3 in 1986. Japanese continuity is a different matter. Meanwhile the Gobots pushed out Smallfoot, Pathfinder, Snoop, Vamp, Sparky and depending on the fiction Spay-C and Spoiler. This leads us to my posting today.

Here is Small Foot. In the cartoon she comes across similar to Bumblebee from the Transformers in that she may not be the toughest physically but her determination helps her get the job done. There is also a line stating she is young for a Guardian. In the same episode she is shown to use her grappling line twice. Once in truck mode from her bed and later, in her robot mode, from her midsection. I figured it made more sense for it to come from her back in all instances since that is where the pulley would be. I changed up here simplistic design to give her more articulation. To find out more about my design decisions check out my design sheet I have posted in my Watcher's Only gallery. I went ahead and used the Gobot toys' backer card image as my design inspiration for the background here. Similar to my Transformers run I have done. The next several submissions for the female Gobots will all be digitally colored since my traditional coloring doesn't look good enough for non-organics IMO.