As a child of the 1980s, I have long had a great, hidden shame: I preferred the Go-Bots to the Transformers…
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…That sound you heard was all the other Gen-Xers gasping in shock and backing away from me on the Group W bench. Because of the price-point and the more portable figure size, 12-year-old me was all about Leader-1 and the Tonka team, widely considered inferior knockoffs of the Autobots and Decepticons. Their cartoon was gawdawful, but to be honest, Transformers ain’t exactly Shakespeare, either. I wouldn’t necessarily agree with tweenage me on this point, but it does bring us to today’s second-place query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) never liked that Scooter, though, that ‘bot had issues, asking: Which (allegedly) inferior knockoffs do you find as or more compelling than the characters they’re duplicating?
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Its pretty hard to come up with anything, except I tend to like shonen fighty-fighty anime/manga parodies more than actual ones. I’d take One Punch Man over Dragon Ball any day.