>>11658145The cartoon was (apparently, I've only seen clips) really, really good. Instead of being dubbed anime or a Western cartoon with the animation done in Japan, it was an actual honest-to-god collab between Western and Japanese creators, with one half being Osamu Dezaki (who was an absolute legend in terms of animation direction, bless his soul). As you might expect, the animation in particular was fucking gorgeous.
There were GOING to be toys but it got shut down by a lawsuit by Tonka of all companies, who tried to sue them for infringing on the idea of a transforming robot toy that they claimed they owned because of Gobots. I forget how it ended exactly but the toy got cancelled and the planned Season 2 never was. Of course, Tonka would get their just desserts when Transformers absolutely steamrollered Gobots (which is in some ways a shame as the actual Gobots toys were pretty good, but then again the Gobots cartoon was DIRE).
