![]() ![]() Takara release date: September ?, 2003.Powerlinx Hot Shot with Powerlinx Jolt (Super-Con Class, 2003).My hand still glows, but they retooled away my deployable sunglasses! More information on Hot Shot at TFU.info. ![]() That retool was scheduled to be redecoed for Universe " Battle in a Box" Smokescreen, but that set was canceled. This mold was redecoed and retooled for the "Powerlinx" Hot Shot version of the character (see below). A retool (or vice versa) of Hasbro's Hot Shot, his right arm houses a light-up LED (for accommodating the translucent Star Saber sword) that glows when his side-view mirror is pressed, a feature that was dropped from the American version due to price-point concerns. Additionally, more of the belt straps on his chest were painted silver, his pelvis was painted a darker red, and there was clearer paint on his Autobot symbol. "Hot Rod," Takara's Legends of the Microns version of Hot Shot, was released in altered colors, with a more saturated yellow and some dark gray paint in places instead of navy blue. Although the show featured Hot Rod wielding it himself in robot mode as a double-barreled blaster pistol, the lack of a single dedicated peg or handle left the toy unable to do so. Jolt's gun also has its own Mini-Con socket, allowing it to activate any Mini-Con activated features. Hot Shot's visor can also flip down over his face, and Jolt's gun can attach to his chest as armor. ![]() When Hot Shot is in robot mode, attaching Jolt or any Mini-Con to the port on his butt flips his rear axle up over his head pushing up on the port then rotates the axle to face forward, automatically launching a spring-loaded missile, a gimmick fans have dubbed the "Axlezooka". Jolt's massive gun plugs into Hot Shot's hood, releasing a pair of "driving claws" from his front bumper these function as his feet in robot mode, so activating these is a necessary step in transforming him. He is packaged with the Mini-Con helicopter Jolt, who can peg onto the trunk of Hot Shot's vehicle mode to act as a rear-mounted "speed boosting" propeller. Part of the first wave of Armada "Super-Cons" (aka Deluxes), Hot Shot transforms into a modified yellow Audi TT.
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