Surprising Facts Revealed About The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special
If you haven’t seen The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special yet, you need to see it. Now. Drop whatever you’re doing, head to the nearest screen capable of streaming Disney+ and watch this thing. It is glorious. I LOVED IT. I can’t rave enough about it.
But there’s a second reason you should see it and that’s because you can’t read this article without having seen it first, unless you want to be spoiled for a lot of great gags. So watch it and come back and learn a surprising thing or two. James Gunn was on Twitter yesterday answering fan questions about the special, and revealed some things we never thought we’d hear…like Gobots are real. (Hey, I told you to read this afterward! It’s not my fault you didn’t listen to me…)
In one of the early scenes, Mantis and Drax are wandering around Hollywood looking for Kevin Bacon when Drax spots a man near the Chinese Theater dressed like a robot. He immediately goes into a rage and tackles him, and Mantis explains to a bystander that “a rogue Gobot killed his cousin.”
First thing: the man really was dressed as a Gobot (CyKill to be specific). When looking for costumes for Hollywood Boulevard Gunn says “I chose from the ones available to us, either public domain or Disney, or in the case of GoBots, Hasbro being very nice to let us use CyKill.” Why someone would be dressed as a Gobot when Transformers won the popularity contest decades ago is never explained. Also, Hasbro now owns both Transformers and Gobots, so why not Transformers instead?
Perhaps this is why: Gunn was asked directly if this meant Gobots were real and canon in the Marvel Universe. “Canon,” he replied. If it were Transformers, well, Paramount has the movie rights to those, and it would be a lot more complicated.
Finally, someone asked why Gunn didn’t use ROM instead. ROM was a toy that was turned into a Marvel comic book. The toy was unsuccessful but the comic book was a hit, lasting for many years. Now, I could have told you why it wasn’t ROM — Disney has been trying to pry the rights from the toy company for years, with no success. But Gunn had a different reason for skipping him: “GoBots was used because I thought it was funnier!”
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