{"id":2082,"date":"2012-11-29T12:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2012-11-29T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T19:04:21","slug":"episode-105-gobots-battle-of-the-rock-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=2082","title":{"rendered":"Episode 105: GoBots: Battle Of The Rock Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4494\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2082-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep105.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep105.mp3\">https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep105.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep105.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2082-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep105.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ep105.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_2083\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rocklords.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2083\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rocklords-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Battle Of The Rock Lords\" title=\"Battle Of The Rock Lords\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rocklords-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rocklords.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Powerful Living Rocks<\/p><\/div>The Kittyhawk returns for another SHITTY MOVIE NIGHT!  This time, it&#8217;s Gobots: Battle Of The Rock Lords.  Guess what.  We hated it.  But you benefit, dear listener, because you get to listen to us riff on it for an hour.<\/p>\n<p>In 1986, another transforming toy robot movie was released to theaters.  Yes, I know.  Transformers, Robotech, and Gobots all in one year.  What were these companies thinking?<\/p>\n<p>Battle Of The Rock Lords was meant to kick off a Gobots spin-off, the Rock Lords, powerful living rocks!  This film is the only recorded attempt to kick off a series which never actually took place.  Not only did the Rock Lords grind to a halt, but so did the Gobots.  The Gobots were dead and buried months before the Transformers movie followed its lead in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>This film features the talents of Telly Savalas, Margot Kidder, Roddy MacDowall, Michael Nouri, Frank Welker, and Peter Cullen.<\/p>\n<p><b>Topics<\/b><br \/>\nWalking and talking<br \/>\nSticker faces<br \/>\nToy-accurate designs<br \/>\nRiding on a lava boat<br \/>\nHanna-Barbara&#8217;s B-Team<br \/>\nLeader-1 is Jimmy Carter<br \/>\nTurbo is the Gacy clown<br \/>\nScooter saves the day<br \/>\nTelly Savalas neither knows nor cares who Cy-Kill is<br \/>\nMargot Kidder passed up Superman III for this<br \/>\nThe Rock Lords theme is utter butt rock<br \/>\nGobotron vs Unicron<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2084\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bluejet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2084\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bluejet.jpg\" alt=\"Fitor\" title=\"Fitor\" width=\"590\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bluejet.jpg 590w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bluejet-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not actually from the movie.  Look how much cooler Fitor looks in Japan!<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_2085\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sureshock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2085\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sureshock.jpg\" alt=\"Sureshock\" title=\"Sureshock\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2085\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The true evolution of Scooter.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zD-A6RtDpag\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sPVdfM5avwQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vpaNhFPyu2E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kittyhawk returns for another SHITTY MOVIE NIGHT! This time, it&#8217;s Gobots: Battle Of The Rock Lords. Guess what. We hated it. But you benefit, dear listener, because you get to listen to us riff on it for an hour. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=2082\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[30,41,6,49],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-80s-animation","tag-bad-acting","tag-bad-animation","tag-hanna-barbara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}