In "Doppelganger" episode #23 Cy-Kill, Cop-Tur, Crasher and Snoop attacked Leader-1, Turbo, Scooter and Small Foot. Although the Guardians win the battle, an accidental backfire from Baron Von Joy's weapon allows the Renegades to escape. In "It's the Thought that Counts" Cy-Kill, Cop-Tur, Crasher, Geeper-Creeper, Pincher, and Snoop attack a lab, but it is defended by Leader-1, Baron Von Joy, Blaster, Dozer, Dumper, Road Ranger, Scooter, Scratch and Turbo. He also developed something of a rivalry with the Guardian Flip Top. Due to the nature of his vehicle mode, he would often be pitched into aerial combat with Guardian commander Leader-1, invariably coming off second best. Cop-Tur was, along with Crasher, Cy-Kill's regular muscle on the Renegades' frequent forays to Earth, beginning with the Renegades' first attempt to conquer the planet. The sound effect used for Cop-Tur's blades when flying were later used for the Autobot Sandstorm's blades in the Transformers series.Ĭrasher and Cop-Tur aided Cy-Kill when he stole the astrobeam and escaped Gobotron to Earth. In vehicle mode used a tractor beam which he uses to haul cargo as large as himself while flying. Cop-Tur can use his rotor blades in either mode to create localised hurricanes, or (in robot mode) a sword or spinning hand-held blade weapon. He can fire energy blasts from his hands or eyes. He has something of a sick sense of humor, and often lets off a vicious chuckle when he comes across a weaker foe. Like most of the Renegades, Cop-Tur isn't especially smart. The European line would see a brief rebirth in 1993 as Robo Machines (note the plural) with some slightly modified re-releases and a small segment of Machine Robo's Change and Glow lineup.Challenge of the Gobots, Machine Robo and Robo Machine character Despite subsisting into 1987 on a few remnant designs, Robo Machine could not stand on its own as Transformers had an ever-increasing presence in Europe. Like GoBots, the series expanded with a collection of other figures, as always borrowing both from Bandai Japanese-exclusive designs like the Combinators and Tonka domestic designs like Zod and the Command Center.īy 1986, Hasbro's Transformers had asserted its dominance globally, spelling the end of GoBots in the US and forcing Machine Robo to undergo a rebrand as an anime toyline corresponding to the Revenge of Cronos series. The DX Robo Machines, initially using the Japanese decoes, evolved into Super GoBots, picking up mostly US offerings, but with an increasing number of unique variants. The figures themselves looked like a hybrid of the US and Japanese lines, incorporating the additional user-applied stickers of Machine Robo, sometimes overtop of Tonka-exclusive decoes. Earlier toys were re-released in 1985 now bearing their GoBots names. Robo Machine was slow to follow, but eventually followed by rebranding itself as Robo Machine: GoBots.Īfter the rebranding, Robo Machine switched to using the Tonka character names, but still occasionally provided its own unique name for figures. By this point, the US had already switched to Tonka's GoBots, with new character names and flashy art. Once Deluxe Machine Robo and Scalerobo figures became available, Robo Machine incorporated them as DX Robo Machines, again using the vehicle form name with the word "Robot". The figures were sold on blister cards and given ID numbers beginning with "RM-", often paralleling the corresponding Japanese "MR-" nubmers. Like its parent series Machine Robo and the ill-fated US Machine Men series, Robo Machine initially designated each figure by its alternate mode. Paralleling the release of Machine Men in the US and Australia, Bandai sought to be on the leading edge of the coming transformable robot toy wave. Robo Machine began in 1983 as Bandai's port of Machine Robo to the UK and Europe. Movie - Revenge of the Fallen (ROTF) (136).
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