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Just a friendly reminder – the auction for unreleased G2 Gobots – many of which eventually became Spychangers in 2001’s Robots In Disguise line – is set to end today in a couple hours. Prior to this listing, they were not seen in this complete a state, and 2 have still never been mass-produced. If you like that super rare hard to find goodness – this is it.
Check out the auction from 2005 Boards member starwarsprotos and get your bid in if you’re game! UNRELEASED Transformers Generation 2 GoBots SET OF 6 pre-production MINT IN BAG
SpinalCord
NormanB
Last time someone did that to me, I was selling some Simpsons WoS sets. I reupped my auction with new photo urls, and uploaded new photos of dudes blowing each other under the names of the photos he had hotlinked to. It stayed up for three days before he took it down. This was back in the days of local hosting for ebay photos, not direct uploads. He got a lot of pageviews, because my friends passed the link all over creation. And that's saying a lot, because there was no social media except message boards at the time.
seanlockyer
Anyone got a pic of the Jeep (Hound) in robot mode ?
SpinalCord
It would be amazing if you pulled out a Halloween Horrorcon Blackarachnia, but I wouldn't have the money for it even if you did
starwarsprotos
I have more… I was just at a place where I was inventorying the collection. I have an idea what is in the last boxes… mostly crap (from a TF collectors standpoint)
It was a collection of 130ish boxes. Down to the Final boxes.. I should be able to finish it off today. Then list some more stuff tomorrow.
Of the 130 bodes, around 35-40 were TF. Some is just basic 90's stuff… lot of Beast Wars.
Swoop Dogg
Starwarsprotos –
Is this the end to your Transformers items? Or is there (hopefully) more?
Diablotron
No, thanks. I'd rather spend money on Masterpieces or third party TFs on the rate which this auction is going.
Dragonclaw
Starscream's name would have still been secure since he was part of the ATB Megatron set.
Autovolt 127
You sure showed him.
edgs2099
That is fantastic.
Edit: He's lucky you kept it classy.
starwarsprotos
Hello everyone… a little light hearted moment… of watching a thief get Pwned
Some scammer made the mistake to link to my images on my server in his scam auction, read his item description:
Unreleased Transformers Generation 2 Megatron ATB Advanced Tactical Bomber | eBay
starwarsprotos
Moron is linking to my images.. which I will now change. I will link to the Auction with NEW photographs soon.
Ikkstakk
Naming the black Viper Sideswipe wouldn't make a lot of sense, as they had just named the blue Lamborghini Diablo in the previous wave Sideswipe. I wonder how far Tomarts can be taken as gospel.
The more I think about it, the more I think Hasbro was planning to use the Go-Bots to maintain and strengthen existing trademarks, just name-slapping their heavy hitters onto these cheap, easy-to-produce cars, whether they made sense or not. Therefore, I agree the police car was almost certainly intended to be Prowl. But Blurr as the GTP racer… I could accept it, but it seems more likely that Starscream would have been given a slot in the group, and the GTP racer seems to fit him best.
As for the purple Mercedes, I'm edging toward Shockwave. He'd gotten an Action Master in 1990 like several of the other Go-Bots, so the trademark might not yet have expired. And they didn't have many purple Autobots back then.
The black Viper is the hardest, but in the end I lean toward Jazz. He's clearly a trademark Hasbro was invested in maintaining, and other Go-Bots had multiple figures elsewhere in G2, so I don't think it's that unlikely. If not him, then Wheeljack.
CrotchKnockerX
sure makes you want to bid just to be apart of tf history!
Dragonclaw
I don't know that I ever saw a name for the purple Mercedes but when they were shown originally in an old issue of Tomarts they did use names:
Blurr – blue white & purple racer
Rumble – red & white camaro
Prowl – police car
Sideswipe – Viper
jasonw
I GUARANTEE that I could have more fun for 2 grand than those Go-bots will ever be.
I had G2 Bumblebee and the car robots ones. They were crap then and they're crap now, no matter the paint job.
I get your point about owning a piece of history, and if it was like a prototype 86 movie Unicron – I'd be with you all the way, but G2 gobot repaints, I just don't see it the same way…
Autovolt 127
Currently at $6.99. What a steal….
DoubleClouder
starwarsproto:
I think this person just ripped off your auction
Unreleased Transformers Generation 2 Megatron ATB Advanced Tactical Bomber | eBay
transmuseum
I love how these auctions are going. Cheers to more unreleased!
starwarsprotos
That was my point in my posting. If someone can uncover what their name where suppose to be, that is cool. If not the Transformer collecting community should decide and those names should be officially adopted by all the TF resource sites and the name situation on them be settled.
The Jeep has "Hound" on it… so that is easy.
the Vinny / Jerry one has "Rumble" on the front bumper… so again easy.
then maybe just:
"GTP Racer"
"911 Police Car"
"Black Viper"
This is the pain:
“Purple Mercedes Benz SL500 sport coupé”
Maybe just "Purple Mercedes"?