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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 of rock monsters that can transform to and from immobile rocks. Hey, that's also familiar!
Fiction
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
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.
