https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/themightyorbots/mighty-orbots-deluxe-combining-12-figure-1985-edition/40 years later, Mighty Orbots gets its toy (maybe).
>>11656109>overpriced 5poa maybefund shitbarf
>>11656109this looks like shit.
>>11656109>God Mars at homeNo thanks.
Weird. Isn't the trend towards show-accuracy?
>>11656181You can’t either Athena
>>11656198It's supposed to be a recreation of the 80's toy that never made it to market
>>11656109That's a pretty cool idea. I should watch Orbots, it looks fun. Also ridiculously well animated (that's Osamu Dezaki for you!).
>>11656254we are scraping the bottom of the barrel for this trend if this is what we're left with
>>11656109Would be better if they just remastered the series
>>11656753I'm just glad it got a DVD release.
There have been SOME Orbots toys, though rare.Here's a Korean one, with vac-metalized heads like Microman/Micronauts.
>>11658132
^^^ (Actually, I think that might have been Taiwan, not Korea).Here's the one from Toy Fair 1988 (unreleased).
"Obot". lol.
>>11658138
Back before the days of 3D printing, a fan sculpted/released this as a resin figure at some convention.
>>11658136I can see why these toys didnt really take off. They look boring and cheap individually while Voltron had a bit more appeal as lions or vehicles . But im not familiar with Orbots so im probably missing something that fans enjoy.
>>11658145The cartoon was (apparently, I've only seen clips) really, really good. Instead of being dubbed anime or a Western cartoon with the animation done in Japan, it was an actual honest-to-god collab between Western and Japanese creators, with one half being Osamu Dezaki (who was an absolute legend in terms of animation direction, bless his soul). As you might expect, the animation in particular was fucking gorgeous.There were GOING to be toys but it got shut down by a lawsuit by Tonka of all companies, who tried to sue them for infringing on the idea of a transforming robot toy that they claimed they owned because of Gobots. I forget how it ended exactly but the toy got cancelled and the planned Season 2 never was. Of course, Tonka would get their just desserts when Transformers absolutely steamrollered Gobots (which is in some ways a shame as the actual Gobots toys were pretty good, but then again the Gobots cartoon was DIRE).
>>11658173Cartoon was great (I was 7 or 8 then). My favorite one in the morning and had to get up at the asscrack of dawn to see it. Then one day it just disappeared. Didn't learn the story for 20 years or so.
>>11658173>>11658238Orbots is the rarest thing of all: a cartoon where the episode animation can cash the check the theme song promised. And it's extra funny since the mecha that inspired its design, God Mars, is infamously the most stiffly animated cut corners show around.
I'd be interested in modern toys where they can nail the proportions more accurately.
One thing that made Mighty Orbots so cool as a kid, was I had MAD respect for them ACTUALLY bothering to have a "finale" episode. It wasn't one of the millions of cartoons that just "ended" and never came back. They went in all kamikaze, kicked ass, lived happily.
>>11658246Same. Would be nice to see if modern toy engineering could give us a combining toy with the sexy fembots rather than the bricks like in >>11658136
>>11658246>>11658387If you remove the blockiness of the individual robots the combination will look wrong. There's no way to make both accurare, the show cheats way too much turning cartoony robots into the original God Mars boxy designs when they combine.
>>11656181I don't know, it seems like they make you seethe every day.
>>11658449And not just "the shapes morph" like transformers do, but "the actual combination sequence specifically changes their shapes" so the characters effectively have two different designs.
>>11658506Yeah I won't lie, I'd probably prefer non-transforming figures of the individuals and the combined mode. It's like Getter Robo, fully transforming accurate versions just ain't happening.
>>11658132>>11658134Can you really count that? It's a straight up repaint if the original God Mars toy with no remolding to make it look like the Mighty Orbots, probably unlicensed.
This design is shit why does anyone care.
>>11658173I catch challenge of the go bots every now and then, it airs at 2:30 am cst on MeToons, and its not great. Its the quality of animation i know i disliked as a kid. It was hard to watch american animation after seeing stuff like voltron or other early dubbed cartoons i would stumble across flipping channels.
>>11658729I saw a post that summed it up well. GI Joe, Transformers, stuff like that, we may laugh at them now for the error filled rushed animation, but those shows were DYNAMIC and full of ACTION compared to everything else in TV cartoons at the time.
>>11658449I would be fine if they cheated. Use a frame method like on Menasor
>>11659002It needs way more cheating than that if you want accurate looks in every mode, to the point that having a complete untransformable combined robot and the individual ones as separate figures is way more effective.At most you could have the combined robot with spaces to store the smaller individual robots and completely hide them inside.
I am actually very fond of the cartoon so I think it's cool to see any merch of it.But I really wish they just went with a more modern, cartoon accurate toy. I understand the sentimental value of bringing the unreleased toy to life but it feels weird to put all bets on nostalgia for a toy that... never came out.Instead of something that represents the cartoon, which people are actually nostalgic for.
>>11656109What is this unc slop
>>11659000Shows like Inspector Gadget or The Real Ghostbusters or even the Alf cartoons really affected my young cartoon addicted brain. You just cant go back to the quantity over quality mind set studios like Hanna-Barbera or Ruby Spears were putting out then. Yeah, they made enjoyable cartoons but they werent great
>>11658449>>11659011I don't mind them being blocky, because I remember they do indeed transform into blockier forms right before they combine. But I still wish it has proportions more like the show, and it had articulation more similar to a modern Godmars toy (which are still blocky, but can actually do more than a couple poses).
>>11659018honestly it'll be great when this campaign fails and I never have to see threads for it ever again
>>11659023Fuck you. I've wanted this toy since learning about the prototype and the impossible-to-find Godmars knockoff (probably on /toy/ like 20 years ago). I would have taken the Godmars knockoff but this is much better and probably cheaper.
>>11659023This is the first thread I see about it. I don't care about the thing and would rather buy a God Mars, but I don't get why it bothers you so much. If this toy existing is enough to ruin your day I'm sure you have worse things to worry about.
>>11659023It looks like it's doing pretty good actually.
>>11659093its really funny reading this thread and all the hypotheticals people come up with yet we all know it'll never happen and the campaign won't fund because no one cares about this boomer redundant garbage when all anyone wants isa bootleg of the modern god mars design with toys that look like the characters. go ahead keep writing those paragraphs then in a years time make another thread about this failed campaign and how they should have listen to your ideas you emailed them>>1165910217 days and not even half way funded, its dead
>>11659106How many days did it start with?
>>11659110you really think its gonna fund with Trump fucking everyone over and everyone penny pinching because wages are no longer worth anything?
>>11659115Sure.
I know it's on the original prototype but it seems like such an odd decision to make the arms look uglier with the extra tabs just so you can swap the arms that aren't very different from each other.
>>11658243Yeah the actual episodes looking pretty comparable to the opening animation was incredibly rare at the time.
>>11659115every thread
>>11656722
>>11659115::spends 2k on action figures last month, downs it with good food and another $500 in investments::
>>11656190I'd like that Godmarz in the dark purple "Tobor" colors from the kickstarter, as I've never been a fan of asymmetrical color schemes on figures.
I'm honestly surprised they got this much backing for how niche this is (a nostalgia release for a toy no one had growing up), and how complete the design is (most designing and engineering is done).They really shouldn't have set the goal quite so high, this would have gone through.
>>11661490I'm honestly surprised anyone thinks this boomer unc crap would ever fund given how shit it looks
>>11661583As a boomer who always wanted Orbots as a toy and am pleased to see SOMEONE offer this... I have to agree. It's just... late. Too late. Modern toy technology is SO far beyond, so far more satisfyingly impressive than to offer the oldest mold. I'm guessing this was "easy" for them, as the old prototypes DID already exist, or at least give them the groundwork more or less finished to reconstruct it. Just me, personally... ...they should've gone for "better". Also, Ohno's face looks like ass.
>>11659303nice one anon
>>11661490I mean it's doing better than that Tron Hasbro Pulse.
>>11661680I'm in the opposite boat, you can't substitute for the real thing.Yes, modern toys may be objectively better, but they're still only stand-ins. Masterpiece Optimus Prime is not the one you played with as a child. They do not evoke the same emotional response vintage toys do.Reissues and knockoffs aren't the real thing either, but at least they're close enough.
>>11663155Real glad this is gonna fail
>>11663167For me it's the pricetag.The fact that you could just get the Soul of Chogokin Godmars for what they're asking for this is ridiculous.
>check the kickstarter>there's an update>"oh neat I wonder what neat thing they're going to say-">guy who had the idea of seeing the toy made all these years later died of cancer
Secret Galaxy discussed this with the producers (except the main guy who passed away) in a livestream yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/live/BBdW7Gu2xVI
>>11656722Yeah. The two girls eat up every frame of animation they are in
>>11658246>I'd be interested in modern toys where they can nail the proportions more accuratelyI dont know how they could do the two girls without massive parts forming if they did that
The only way to really do a 'complete' version would be to have two sets of robots - action figures for the human-sized 'civilian-mode' Orbots, and blockier combining versions (which do appear in the animation, but very sparingly outside of stock footage).Kickstarter's up to 76K now. Anyone think it'll reach goal?
>>11668518>Kickstarter's up to 76K now. Anyone think it'll reach goal?Maybe. If its on the radar of bbts. They sometimes put in a big order to push a preorder over the line. They've done it with the ghostbusters haslabs. Then slap it on their website with a $100 slapped on top. What is it, $300 for the actual combiner? How many more do they need to go over?
>>11668555Looking at it, they need to sell 78 more. Yeah, that seems possible.
Chucked a few bucks in for the Ohno + Beam Car tier. I wish I were more into retro toys because I'd totally go in on the whole thing.
>>11659023Don't look now, anon.
Wish the individual figure of Ohno looked a little nicer.
>>11670962GO! MIGHTY ORBOTS!
They did it
>>11668518>action figures for the human-sized 'civilian-mode' OrbotsThose would have been interesting. The combiner bot is weak even by 1984 standards. Looks like it funded, so congrats for those that wanted it, and I hope it turns out well.
>>11671235Just buy it, you poorfag.
>>11670962Something about this feels kind of susI checked the kickstarter before it closed and it was only up to around 80k, you mean to tell me there was that much of a rush in what can't have been more than 12 hours?
>>11672160What'choo talkin' about? It ain't closed yet, and has a little over 2 days to go as I'm posting - and 111K out of 95.
Just guessing here, but I think the Dan Larson vid (and Albert dying) caused a surge in funding, and the more it started looking like it was actually happening, more people caught FOMO and wanted in.
>>11672454Oh I thought it closed already
