GoBots' Puzzler vs. Transformers' Menasor: Which Is the Cooler Toy?

[FalTorPan]

When I was a kid, I had G1 Menasor, and only one component of Puzzler, the GoBots' first gestalt toy.

On the basis of the toys alone, which do you prefer -- Puzzler or Menasor?

GoBots got a somewhat deserved bad rep in the '80s for being what Clerks II called "the Kmart version" of Transformers. Many of the GoBots toys simply didn't seem as cool as the Transformers. I suspect GoBots' lack of an ongoing animated cartoon helped to fuel that perception, but who knows?

In any case, while I have a stronger sentimental attachment to Transformers, and by extension, Menasor, I always thought that Menasor was the crappiest of the gestalt characters. His arms were just... cars with fists sticking out of the taillights. His body only looked like a body because it had so many snap-on accessories.

Puzzler won't win any bot beauty contests either, but at least he didn't need snap-on feet, hands, face, chestplate, and codpiece. He didn't need any snap-on parts, which was quite a feat for gestalt robot toys of the '80s.

Although on the whole, I'll probably always prefer Transformers to GoBots, I think I like Menasor and Puzzler about equally.

So what say you? Only on the basis of the toys, which do you prefer, and why?

Photos of Puzzler

Photos of Transformers

 

[USS Triumphant]

Re: GoBots' Puzzler vs. Transformers' Menasor: Which Is the Cooler Toy

Puzzler is pretty neat, but my vote is narrowly for Menasor. Puzzler doesn't have a semi.

 

[captcalhoun]

Re: GoBots' Puzzler vs. Transformers' Menasor: Which Is the Cooler Toy

Menasor has a sword. Menasor wins.

 

[Holdfast]

Re: GoBots' Puzzler vs. Transformers' Menasor: Which Is the Cooler Toy

Puzzler doesn't have a semi.

Wow, I have a really sick mind... now I'm wondering if there's any Go-Bot slash out there. Come to think of it, with hindsight, Crasher always had a dominatrix vibe to her.

Anyway, I had both Puzzler and Menasor, I think. The Stunticons were way cooler individual toys esp. Breakdown, Wildrider & Dead-End but Puzzler was the better gestalt because you didn't need clip-on accessories. Breakdown was the best individual toy of them all (the white Lambo Countach. )

Someone mentioned lack of a cartoon damaging Go-Bots. Go-Bots cartoon wasn't THAT short-lived, was it? I seem to recall it lasting a while, though that may just be distorted kid-time memory.

 

[Aragorn]

Re: GoBots' Puzzler vs. Transformers' Menasor: Which Is the Cooler Toy

I found this on YouTube:

Devastator vs. Bruticus vs. Menasor

Why does it sound like Bruticus needs to eat some more prunes or bananas?

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Re: GoBots' Puzzler vs. Transformers' Menasor: Which Is the Cooler Toy

The Go-Bots cartoon lasted long enough for a theatrical ROCK LORDS movie, which introduced the Rock Lords, of course. Rocks that become robots or vice versa. The bad one was voiced by Telly Salavas.

It sucked, the Go-Bot cartoon sucked. Scooter was annoying as shit.

I had one part of the other Go-Bots combiner, the enemy monster one. Maybe the last Go-Bot I ever got. The toys weren't so bad. That one monster was goofy...you hit a red spot on his chest to make him stop rampaging. What that had to do with transforming robots...I dunno.