Tell me if this setup sounds familiar: an alien race of shape-changing robots -- the heroic Protectons and evil Terrakors -- locked in a battle for power. Hasbro's at the helm, Sunbow's doing the production, and Peter Cullen & Frank Welker are among the voice leads.
If you're thinking Transformers, you should. The artwork and script are giveaways; heck, half the music and 90% of the voices were lifted straight out of TF/GI Joe universe. To be sure, these elements are high-quality stuff, so Robotix does have quite a bit going for it. What it needed was a more compelling reason to exist. Every element on display feels like hand-me-downs from those series, whether we're talking the characters, the action, the dialogue, or the plot.
Still, it's perfectly watchable (not to mention nostalgic), and worth the time if you're an old-time Transformers/GI Joe fan and curious about the more obscure series in the Hasbro-Sunbow canon.
If you're thinking Transformers, you should. The artwork and script are giveaways; heck, half the music and 90% of the voices were lifted straight out of TF/GI Joe universe. To be sure, these elements are high-quality stuff, so Robotix does have quite a bit going for it. What it needed was a more compelling reason to exist. Every element on display feels like hand-me-downs from those series, whether we're talking the characters, the action, the dialogue, or the plot.
Still, it's perfectly watchable (not to mention nostalgic), and worth the time if you're an old-time Transformers/GI Joe fan and curious about the more obscure series in the Hasbro-Sunbow canon.