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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
* ''Robotix'' was a [[Hasbro]] | * ''Robotix'' was a relatively short-lived [[Hasbro]] property of the 1980s, 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 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. The shorts were later collected into ''Robotix: The Movie''. | ||
* Robotix's comic was run as a [[Back-up strips|back-up strip]] in Marvel UK's ''Transformers'' from #51-4. [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|read]] it too, disliking only the organic element of the story. | * Robotix's comic was run as a [[Back-up strips|back-up strip]] in Marvel UK's ''Transformers'' from #51-4. [[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]]. Cullen plays the villain leader Nemesis who sounds... oddly ''Optimus''-like. Now the Robotix have been retconned into being Transformers, that [[Nemesis Prime|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 have been retconned into being Transformers, that [[Nemesis Prime|becomes a bit sinister]]... | ||
* The Robotix rock monsters predate ''GoBots''<nowiki>'</nowiki> infamous Rock Lords by a year. Thanks to retcons and [[Rock Lord|homages]], there are now ''three'' Transformers universes known to have transforming rock creatures in them. See what happens when you let fans run the asylum? | * The Robotix rock monsters predate ''GoBots''<nowiki>'</nowiki> infamous Rock Lords by a year. Thanks to retcons and [[Rock Lord|homages]], there are now ''three'' Transformers universes known to have transforming rock creatures in them. See what happens when you let fans run the asylum? | ||
* The name [[Protectobot (Animated)|Protecton]] was pinched from ''Robotix'' for ''Transformers Animated''. | * The name [[Protectobot (Animated)|Protecton]] was pinched from ''Robotix'' for ''Transformers Animated''. | ||
Revision as of 03:04, 27 November 2011
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 stream!
No, seriously.[1]
Their homeworld also includes a race of rock monsters that can transform to and from immobile rocks. Hey, that's also familiar!
Fiction
Two Xobitor dimensions have been recorded, and the Compu-Core of the planet Skalorr is known to be a Vector Sigma node. Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II
Notes
- Robotix was a relatively short-lived Hasbro property of the 1980s, 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. 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 #51-4. 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 have been retconned into being Transformers, 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 universes known to have transforming rock creatures in them. See what happens when you let fans run the asylum?
- The name Protecton was pinched from Robotix for Transformers Animated.
References
- ↑ Chapter 5 of Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II
