The life and premature death of this Saturday-morning animated series about robots who also were more than met the eye.
by Rich Watson
To a Generation X kid growing up in the eighties, cartoons about transforming robots were the coolest thing since light sabers. They usually were made in Japan, and we were learning that Japanese animation looked way better and had more action than what we were used to seeing.
In a year, 1984, in which transforming robots were hot, ABC released one series less remembered today than the others, called Mighty Orbots.
