Swordbot

The Swordbots (ソードボット Sōdobotto) are Autobot martial artists who are sometimes also able to combine with one another to form powerful three-component super robots. They have been tasked with the elimination of Predacons from Earth.

The known Swordbots are the members of the Samurai and Shinobi Teams, as well as their teacher Go Prime.

Fiction

Go! cartoon

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Toys

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• Kenzan
• Jinbu
• Ganoh
• Gekisoumaru
• Hishoumaru
• Sensuimaru
• Go Prime

The Swordbots consist of the Swordbot Samurai Team with vehicle alternate modes, and the Swordbot Shinobi Team with robotic animal alternate modes... and then Go Prime. Despite the two Teams being the main hero characters of the cartoon, they compose a rather small amount of the toyline's roster, with the Shinobi Team being spread across one release per wave after the entire Samurai Team made up the bulk of Wave 2 to (along with a wave consisting of some Becool redecos to represent the Samurai Team sandwiched between the last Shinobi release and the wave with Go Prime) pad out the subgroup's presence on toy shelves. Both Teams consist of roughly Voyager-sized toys to go along with Go Prime being a regular Voyager.

The primary gimmick of the Samurai and Shinobi Teams is combining; each member of the trio can transform into either the top, middle, or bottom of a larger robot, and merge together with the other two members of their Team to form a full robot toy. Each combination is finished by adding a kabuto helmet, which alongside being worn by the combined trio's head, plugs into Kenzan or Gekisomaru to interact with their electronics. The added kabuto will change the voice lines pressing Kenzan or Gekisomaru's button will play, now using dialogue delivered by the appropriate voice actor of the top third of the combination and making the LED color match the kabuto's owner. The gimmick doesn't quite offer the mix-and-matching one might expect, as the connections used by the Samurai and Shinobi Teams differ from each other, and each kabuto is designed to plug into Kenzan or Gekisomaru expecting them to compose a certain part of the larger toy, meaning the two Teams only have three combined forms. The chosen Samurai or Shinobi combination is armed with a weapon made up of the weapons of all three members, and the two unused kabutos slapped together as a single armament.

The Swordbots barring Go Prime have varying degrees of featuring actual torsos, with many of them consisting of gestalt-mode hip parts with other parts hanging in front to try to pretend there isn't an enormous gap.

Kenzan and Gekisomaru have added functionality with Optimus Exprime, who can turn into the middle part of a larger robot to combine with the two and comes with his own kabuto helmets, one for either of the two combinations offered that interacts with his electronics in a similar manner to the two Swordbot leaders.