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They also had some cool vehicles and bases. Give Transformers all the credit they deserve, but Hasbro never gave kids an Optimus Prime that could walk around their homes and serve drinks. For many of us, these toys usually became the less famous, nameless denizens of Cybertron.

Although they had no comic book or cartoon to depict their battles, there were over 30 Convertors toys released and they sported some nifty designs that often had a crazier aesthetic than the Transformers. The Convertors licensed some designs from Bandai just like was done for Transformers, meaning some of the toys looked eerily like the Deluxe Autobots, Deluxe Insecticons and Jetfire. Convertors even had knock-offs made of them! While somewhat GoBot-like, they had unique designs and features, like a fire truck that had a different robot on its front and back when transformed, and a very odd Zybot combiner.

But battle began among the robots when the Destructors revolted due to fear of being deactivated upon the return of humans. The toys were very cool, with parts that could be exchanged between robots and motorized features which makes sense, since they were an offshoot of Zoids. Like Transformers, some of the toys were available in different color schemes as different characters. Also like Transformers, they had an awesome Marvel comic book.

But the Starriors did not meet the same success, and this extremely cool and offbeat toyline was left in the dust of the deserts in which its robot warriors fought. While being motorized was a nice feature, you had to take the robots totally apart to transform them into construction vehicles. Each toy was also sold in many different color schemes.

But Marchon was awesome for either their total audacity or utter cluelessness in naming one of the figures Hookorr , as seen above. Talk about more than meets the eye! Buddy L tried really hard to f orge their way in the robot-to-car genre, but ended up with what looked like GoBots that came from gumball machines. They even ripped off a few GoBots designs along the way and released some oddly familiar Dinosaur robots.

They also featured pull-back action and both good and evil versions of many of the toys repaints. Marchon wins the prize for the most oddball transforming robots. They had cool-as-heck accessories, like a fix-it robot with a bunch of tools in his chest and a navigator robot with a hot pink viewscreen and maps stored in his innards.

These robots came and went in a flash, their story as mysterious as their name in the minds of the few kids who had them. It features horrific insects in combat with rocks that transform into horrific monsters, each trying to eat as many hapless, Gremlin-like Mordles as they can fit into their jaws. Where "Hornet" deviates from "Bumblebee" is its storyline and approach. Here, the faux-Former is a science project created by a gaggle of college students.

Its invention times out perfectly with an invasion by aliens who turn citizens into zombies. It's worth noting that the film's heroes handle much of the interaction with the zombies and aliens.

Hornet more or less looms over the action unless the chips are really down, which prompts some low-wattage firepower. Directors the Kondelik Brothers — veterans of low-budget and mockbuster titles like the astonishing " Snake Outta Compton " — choose to frame Hornet's adventures as a found footage movie.

It does nothing to improve the film's pacing or suspense, but does offer a degree of novelty to the proceedings. The perennial bridesmaid in the robot toy universe, the GoBots have earned a reputation as a cheap knock-off of Hasbro's Transformers. In truth, the GoBots preceded the Transformers: a joint production between Tonka and a now-shuttered division of Bandai called Popy of Japan, the GoBots originally named Machine Robo arrived in stores in -— one year before the Transformers.

Once Hasbro issued the Transformers, however, the GoBots didn't stand a chance. Popy's simplistic design couldn't hold a candle to the Transformers' complex array of moving parts. Adding insult to injury: the first generation of GoBots stood just two to three inches tall -— about half the height of the average Transformers. By the time Tonka got around to issuing the larger Super GoBots, it was all over but the shouting.

Tonka's last-ditch attempt to bring some degree of respectability to the GoBots was a cartoon, but again, they found themselves outdone at every turn. The feature film "GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords," which introduced the spin-off Rock Lords, didn't help the toy line's downward spiral. Hasbro delivered the coup de grace for GoBots by purchasing Tonka and the characters' names and backstories in , though Bandai retained ownership of the toy molds.

The success of the "Transformers" animated series spurred a number of other companies to try their hand at a show featuring robots, transforming vehicles, or a combination of the two. Mobile Armored Strike Command and V. Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem , for which there could never be enough adjectives, it seems.

While the warring sides on "M. Joe," the "mobile armored" part of the equation drew from "Transformers. K" ran for a single season on TV, but has retained a loyal following. Hasbro, which purchased Kenner in , revived "M. K," along with many of its other media franchises, for "Unit: E, " a one-shot comic created for the New York Comic-Con. IDW later issued a "M. Takashi Yamazaki's feature " Returner " borrows from so many popular American sci-fi franchises — in addition to "Transformers," the Japanese film lifts liberally from "The Matrix," "The Terminator," "E.

T," and a half-dozen yakuza and anime titles — that one critic likened it to watching a "chirpy tribute band. That doesn't mean that the onslaught of sci-fi tropes doesn't turn ridiculous at times. Star Takeshi Kaneshiro overdoes the brooding hitman routine, and the intersection of references can, at times, produce a dizzying sensation. Case in point: the film's nod to "Transformers," when a jet airliner dramatically morphs into an alien spacecraft and gracefully disgorges its crew.

It's well executed, but piled atop a cinematic plate already full of bullet time FX, time travel and blazing gun battles, it breaches the gap between excessive and absurd. Calling " Robocar Poli " a "Transformers" rip-off may seem a bit like kicking a puppy — the South Korean series is, after all, a brightly-colored and lively animated program for pre-schoolers — but facts are facts: the mechanical residents of the show's small town setting Brooms Town are vehicles that can transform into squat, smiling robots in order to rescue the steady stream of children, cars, trains, and other modes of transportation that fall afoul of trouble with alarming regularity.

Virtually anything with wheels gets its own Robocar iteration on the show, including old-school Lincolns, tuk-tuks , and a dump truck with the unfortunate name of Dumpoo. The series also has its own take on the Decepticons —- Truck-X and Poacher the jeep —- though even Megatron would pause before indulging in their particular brand of villainy: Truck-X kidnaps other vehicles! Thankfully, the series' lead, genial cop car Robocar Poli, and his pals brought them both to justice.

Hong Kong multi-hyphenate Jeffrey Lau has one of the most unique resumes of any filmmaker, Chinese or otherwise: he's produced crowd-pleasing comedies like "Kung Fu Hustle," arthouse pictures like Wong Kar-Wai's "Ashes of Time," and gonzo genre hybrids like "Haunted Cop Shop.

K-1's supercool exterior and array of abilities — which range from flight and incredible speed to transforming into a motorcycle — aggravate Jun, especially when K-1 catches the eye of his secret crush, fellow officer Sun Li.

Like K-1, the bad android has transformative powers, and the pair engage in some frantic morph-and-fight sequences. But this is just the tip of the "Transformers" iceberg: Hu Jun is killed in the fracas and transformed into an android using spare parts from the defeated Wu Jung.

The souped-up Jun joins forces with K-1 in an even more frenzied battle with government forces that includes, at various times, a giant robot made from junk that resembles the jiangshi Chinese hopping vampire and generates mechanical spiders that transform into coffins — all the better to defeat an army of AI gangsters produced by Wu Jung.

You read all of that correctly. Gordon sets the tone for the picture in its early scenes when a fight between American and Soviet robots goes awry and hundreds of spectators are crushed in gory fashion. Gordon initially conceived the film with noted science fiction author Joe Haldeman, who viewed the story as dark, serious science fiction.

To Haldeman's chagrin, Gordon rewrote much of the final script to lighten the tone and shift the focus to the robot fights. Haldeman shouldn't have worried: despite plentiful action, stop-motion effects by David W.