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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.

I finally got Sparky done. I had a lot of variations in mind when trying to modify her to a more modern look. Her toy and cartoon model were both just a square with arms and legs. The head design was so uninspiring. The funny thing is her transformation is every so slightly more intuitive than most other Gobots. This may be due to her being a later creation specifically for Tonka by Bandai. Hence her Machine Robo name being MRT-43 with the T added in. As for her design I had no choice but to squish her midsection together. What has become typical for me with these, I expanded the thighs and forearms. Now for the head I retained the bald spherical head, but removed the locked bars at each side of her head. While watching the cartoon it was cringey seeing her turn her head left or right with those things attached. So I disconnected them. Her waist is nonexistent on the toy. She is pure legs all the way up. Ahem. The cartoon gave her a cylinder for a waist. So, while paying attention to her transformation, I decided on ball joints. Which conveniently gave her a booty. I have seen someone confuse this for Turbo. I get it. They are both red, are a car, and I gave Sparky high shoulders like Turbo. I think she looks more like the original red Tracks from Diaclone myself.

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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.

I finally got Sparky done. I had a lot of variations in mind when trying to modify her to a more modern look. Her toy and cartoon model were both just a square with arms and legs. The head design was so uninspiring. The funny thing is her transformation is every so slightly more intuitive than most other Gobots. This may be due to her being a later creation specifically for Tonka by Bandai. Hence her Machine Robo name being MRT-43 with the T added in. As for her design I had no choice but to squish her midsection together. What has become typical for me with these, I expanded the thighs and forearms. Now for the head I retained the bald spherical head, but removed the locked bars at each side of her head. While watching the cartoon it was cringey seeing her turn her head left or right with those things attached. So I disconnected them. Her waist is nonexistent on the toy. She is pure legs all the way up. Ahem. The cartoon gave her a cylinder for a waist. So, while paying attention to her transformation, I decided on ball joints. Which conveniently gave her a booty. I have seen someone confuse this for Turbo. I get it. They are both red, are a car, and I gave Sparky high shoulders like Turbo. I think she looks more like the original red Tracks from Diaclone myself.