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* ''Robotix'' was a relatively short-lived [[Hasbro]] property of the 1980s (albeit under the [[Milton Bradley]] name), a building toy with the gimmick of being able to construct your own "working," motorized robots. Of course, being a Hasbro toyline in the 1980s, ''Robotix'' got its own [[Sunbow Productions|Sunbow]] cartoon and [[Marvel Comics|Marvel comic]]. Unlike some of the other franchises with this arrangement, the comic was just one issue and the cartoon was just fifteen six-minute shorts without a series as part of the ''[[ | * ''Robotix'' was a relatively short-lived [[Hasbro]] property of the 1980s (albeit under the [[Milton Bradley]] name), a building toy with the gimmick of being able to construct your own "working," motorized robots. Of course, being a Hasbro toyline in the 1980s, ''Robotix'' got its own [[Sunbow Productions|Sunbow]] cartoon and [[Marvel Comics|Marvel comic]]. Unlike some of the other franchises with this arrangement, the comic was just one issue and the cartoon was just fifteen six-minute shorts without a series as part of the ''Super Sunday'' anthology series, which also included segements featuring ''[[Inhumanoids]]'', ''Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines'' and ''[[Jem]]''. The shorts were later collected into ''Robotix: The Movie''. | ||
* ''Robotix''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s comic was run as a [[Back-up strips|back-up strip]] in Marvel UK's ''Transformers'' from [[Shooting Star!|#51]] through [[Rock and Roll-Out!|#54]]. [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|read]] it too, disliking only the organic element of the story. | * ''Robotix''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s comic was run as a [[Back-up strips|back-up strip]] in Marvel UK's ''Transformers'' from [[Shooting Star!|#51]] through [[Rock and Roll-Out!|#54]]. [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|read]] it too, disliking only the organic element of the story. | ||
* The cartoon shares several voice actors with ''Transformers'', such as [[Corey Burton]], [[Peter Cullen]], and [[Frank Welker]]. [[Victor Caroli]] even served as series narrator. Cullen plays the villain leader Nemesis who sounds... oddly ''Optimus''-like. Now that the ''Robotix'' has been retconned into being part of the ''Transformers'' multiverse, that [[Nemesis Prime (disambiguation)|becomes a bit sinister]]... | * The cartoon shares several voice actors with ''Transformers'', such as [[Corey Burton]], [[Peter Cullen]], and [[Frank Welker]]. [[Victor Caroli]] even served as series narrator. Cullen plays the villain leader Nemesis who sounds... oddly ''Optimus''-like. Now that the ''Robotix'' has been retconned into being part of the ''Transformers'' multiverse, that [[Nemesis Prime (disambiguation)|becomes a bit sinister]]... | ||
Revision as of 12:52, 24 September 2017
The Robotix are a race of warring, shape-changing robots: one side of peaceful heroes, the other of sinister villains! They used to all be organic creatures, a mammalian race and a reptilian race, but a cataclysm sent most of their population into stasis and four agents each of the heroic Protectons and evil Terrakors were turned into robots to rebuild their world of Skalorr... but the Terrakor leader wants galactic conquest! Their war is without end, but the arrival of humans into the conflict may save the day!
Parts of this may sound familiar, and it should, for the Robotix are actually the Transformers in the Xobitor universal cluster!
Their homeworld also includes a race called the Rock Lords that can transform to and from immobile rocks. Hey, that's also familiar!
Fiction
Marvel The Transformers comics
Soundwave read the Robotix comic and backed the Terrakors. He didn't think much of the concept of robots that need humans to be more powerful though. #61's Soundwaves
The AllSpark Almanac
Two Xobitor dimensions have been recorded, and the Compu-Core of the planet Skalorr is known to be a Vector Sigma node. The AllSpark Almanac II
Ask Vector Prime
Those rock monsters from that one episode are definitely Rock Lords! Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/02
Spacewarp's Log
After falling through a black hole, Spacewarp wound up on Skalorr and encountered the Terrakors and Protectons. Although she originally threw her lot in with the Terrakors, feeling a kinship with these Decepticon-esque fellows, she was doublecrossed and wound up on the dissection table. The Protectons rescued her but before she could peace out of Skalorr, she witnessed the Compu-Core breaking down. Unable to just let two races go extinct, Spacewarp and her Mini-Cons joined the quest to repair the Compu-Core Spacewarp's Log (2), 2016/01/23 and in the process, she turned the tide of war in favour of the Protectons. She offered to take the stranded humans of the Daniel Boone back to Earth but they decided to stick around. Not her though, bye guys!
Spacewarp noted that the Robotix seemed very primitive by Cybertronian standards, considering them analogous to apes on the human evolutionary tree. She admitted, though, that they were very adaptable, and could morph into a wide variety of useful shapes. Spacewarp's Log (2), 2016/01/24
Spacewarp dates the human involvement in Scalorr's war to the early 22nd century, based on the specifications of the Daniel Boone. Spacewarp's Log (2), 2016/01/23
Notes
- Robotix was a relatively short-lived Hasbro property of the 1980s (albeit under the Milton Bradley name), a building toy with the gimmick of being able to construct your own "working," motorized robots. Of course, being a Hasbro toyline in the 1980s, Robotix got its own Sunbow cartoon and Marvel comic. Unlike some of the other franchises with this arrangement, the comic was just one issue and the cartoon was just fifteen six-minute shorts without a series as part of the Super Sunday anthology series, which also included segements featuring Inhumanoids, Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines and Jem. The shorts were later collected into Robotix: The Movie.
- Robotix's comic was run as a back-up strip in Marvel UK's Transformers from #51 through #54. Soundwave read it too, disliking only the organic element of the story.
- The cartoon shares several voice actors with Transformers, such as Corey Burton, Peter Cullen, and Frank Welker. Victor Caroli even served as series narrator. Cullen plays the villain leader Nemesis who sounds... oddly Optimus-like. Now that the Robotix has been retconned into being part of the Transformers multiverse, that becomes a bit sinister...
- The Robotix rock monsters predate GoBots' infamous Rock Lords by a year. Thanks to retcons and homages, there are now three Transformers continuities known to have transforming rock creatures in them. All of them have since been called the Rock Lords too! See what happens when you let fans run the asylum?
- The name Protecton was pinched from Robotix for Transformers Animated.
- Although the Robotix name and system became the property of Robotics and Things in 2001, Hasbro still retained the copyright to the series at least as recently as the 2007 DVD release, which gives sole copyright to Hasbro and makes no mention of Robotics and Things.