Quadwal 1215.15 Epsilon

An example of a Fun Publications-exclusive GoBots prose story published in this reality.

Quadwal 1215.15 Epsilon is a universe in the Quadwal universal cluster. In this world, Tonka's GoBots triumphed over Transformers in the robot toyline sales war of the 1980s and enjoyed many decades of curiously familiar sequels and spin-offs.

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

Whereas in the universe we know, Challenge of the GoBots only ran for one season and a movie, in this universe, it received a second season of 65 episodes, and a comic book published by DC Comics. A well-organised fandom runs G-Con, founded by the 3G company and now run by Fun Publications (who also run M.A.S.K. Con). The Transformers get a few nods from GoBots, starting with the Rock Lords: Generation 2 feldspar Trans Former in 1993 and continuing into convention-exclusive fiction. In "Brain Problem Situation", dimension-jumping Transformers even showed up!

Mainstream spin-offs produced in later years include:

• Movies: Michael Bay's GoBots film franchise.
  • GoBots: Deep Space—The third film.

• Television:
  • GoBots: Creature Wars—Released in 1996, well received by the fans.
  • Creature Cyborgs—A sequel to Creature Wars, Vector Prime considers it an "underrated gem".
  • GoBots: Mighty Robots, Mighty Vehicles—A dub of a Machine Robo anime.
  • GoBots: Trans-Formers— A toyline aimed at preschoolers.
  • The Zod Trilogy
    • Swarm
    • Astro-Beam
    • Gobotron
  • GoBots: Animated—A fan favorite.
  • GoBots: Leader-1—A movie-inspired series wherein Lou Richards reprised the role of Leader-1.
    • GoBots: Rescue 'Borgs—A spin-off of Leader-1 pitched to a younger audience.
    • GoBots: Mighty Robots, Mighty Vehicles—A confusingly-named sequel to Leader-1.

• Comics:
  • A Dreamwave Productions "grim and gritty" series that had its own continuity
  • 20th Anniversary GoBots Summer Special—Notable for "The Long Game", filling in the gaps between the two original GoBots cartoon miniseries
  • Rock Lords: Generation 2—An ill-received title from Dreamwave.
  • Cy-Kill: Origins—A title by IDW Publishing featuring a scene of Cy-Kill gratuitously slaying a Megatron look-alike.
  • Last Stand of the RoGuns—A collaboration by James Roberts and Nick Roche, perhaps the most popular GoBots comic of all time.
  • Realities Collide—A Simon Furman tale featuring the slain bodies of Megatron and Soundwave as a background element.
  • Reign of Zero—A movie tie-in by Chris Mowry.
  • UNECOM—A movie tie-in by John Barber.
  • Sins of the RoGuns—A follow-up to Last Stand of the RoGuns.

Each of these titles is totally unique and bears absolutely no resemblance to any known Transformers book or series we of the wiki can think of.

Vector Prime noted that in this universe, a "popular" running gag involved various versions of Cy-Kill killing Megatron, because those Transformer guys were totally lame, am I right? Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/21

Notes

• The designation for this universal stream comes from the date of the post on Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric in which Vector Prime revealed the stories recounted by Cy-Kill described a virtual "second season" of Challenge of the GoBots.