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Mostly talking about the tv show. I wish this had taken off more than it did. The art style of the anime is so rad. No one can convince me to hate on Medabots. Anyone else into this growing up?

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[โ€“] Speaker@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Into it enough that I'm going to use my adult superpowers to pirate all of it and treat my inner child. ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ๐Ÿค–

[โ€“] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It actually all already on tankietube, we just finished our watch of the show last week but all the episodes are still there

[โ€“] Jackilope@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Thats the spirit!

[โ€“] Lemmyglad@hexbear.net 11 points 4 days ago

The Gameboy Advance game was fun as hell too.

[โ€“] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My pfp is salty from medabots lol. They should've given Samantha/Kikuhime her own show. Also, we don't talk about Medabots spirits.

[โ€“] Jackilope@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

That pfp owns lol fuck yeah

[โ€“] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

The reason medabots never caught on is that fighting robot tech is still today not advanced enough to have good fighting robot toys to play with.

[โ€“] Jackilope@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

We did severely miss out on a good Medabots figure game to play like Beyblade had

[โ€“] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Same reason why the rockem sockem anime didn't take off

[โ€“] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

See. I know they kept trying to make increasingly complicated fighting action figures. It seems like the tech could have been there you know. Maybe it wasn't scaleable

[โ€“] purpleworm@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Why would that be the case when Pokemon did so well? I know it's not robots, but I assume the salient part is "fighting" rather than "robots" or else it'd be very obvious to point to Transformers (which can be sold on the basis that at least they transform). Then again, there's Bionicles too, which are basically robots and don't transform (mostly?)

[โ€“] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I saw the first episode as a kid and didn't really get the urge to watch the rest

Yu-Gi-Oh was my preferred poison

[โ€“] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I wanted to like the game as well but I never manage to finish the story. Also kids playing with robots that fight with swords, machine guns and even rockets is hilarious in hindsight.