Title:
Hot Shot
Description:
Hot Shot (Combat Class, 2004)
Takara ID number: SC-02
Accessories: Launcher, missile, "radar” panel attachment
In Energon, Hot Shot was updated as a modified yellow Aston Martin Vanquish. He can carry a transparent red spring-loaded missile-launching weapon in either mode, and features a small Autobot spark crystal on his chest on which Energon chips can be mounted. Like nearly all other Autobots in the Energon line, he can powerlinx with like-designed toys to form the top or bottom of a super robot. Hot Shot’s articulation is relatively limited compared to other deluxes of the time, having peculiar balljointed shoulders, as well as lacking knees and a neck.
Takara released "Hotshot” in similar colors, changing the slate blue plastic to a dark, nearly-black blue, dropping the black paint on his car roof, and adding metallic blue paint to his chest. His head is also an almost-identical-but-refined sculpt, most noticeably the proportions and sculpt sharpness of the mouth and chin, along with less bulbous eyes.
Similar to the contemporary Strongarm and Energon Optimus Prime, the Hasbro figure had a running change during its second wave of production. While the first wave Hot Shot figures had gray faces, later releases had silver painted faces using the Takara head sculpt, with a transitional silver-faced Hasbro headed version in between. Hot Shot’s head sculpt appears to have changed very late in the design process from having a visor to having exposed eyes like his Armada version; The Hasbro head is pictured on Hot Shot’s control art, as in a photo of a prototype headsculpt is literally pasted over the original line art, so the Hasbro head use may have been a consequence of tight deadlines, with Takara cleaning up the sculpt later.
This mold was later redecoed to make the "Energon” powered-up version of the character. It was also retooled to make the Timelines incarnation of Nightbeat and Shattered Glass Nightbeat.
Takara ID number: SC-02
Accessories: Launcher, missile, "radar” panel attachment
In Energon, Hot Shot was updated as a modified yellow Aston Martin Vanquish. He can carry a transparent red spring-loaded missile-launching weapon in either mode, and features a small Autobot spark crystal on his chest on which Energon chips can be mounted. Like nearly all other Autobots in the Energon line, he can powerlinx with like-designed toys to form the top or bottom of a super robot. Hot Shot’s articulation is relatively limited compared to other deluxes of the time, having peculiar balljointed shoulders, as well as lacking knees and a neck.
Takara released "Hotshot” in similar colors, changing the slate blue plastic to a dark, nearly-black blue, dropping the black paint on his car roof, and adding metallic blue paint to his chest. His head is also an almost-identical-but-refined sculpt, most noticeably the proportions and sculpt sharpness of the mouth and chin, along with less bulbous eyes.
Similar to the contemporary Strongarm and Energon Optimus Prime, the Hasbro figure had a running change during its second wave of production. While the first wave Hot Shot figures had gray faces, later releases had silver painted faces using the Takara head sculpt, with a transitional silver-faced Hasbro headed version in between. Hot Shot’s head sculpt appears to have changed very late in the design process from having a visor to having exposed eyes like his Armada version; The Hasbro head is pictured on Hot Shot’s control art, as in a photo of a prototype headsculpt is literally pasted over the original line art, so the Hasbro head use may have been a consequence of tight deadlines, with Takara cleaning up the sculpt later.
This mold was later redecoed to make the "Energon” powered-up version of the character. It was also retooled to make the Timelines incarnation of Nightbeat and Shattered Glass Nightbeat.
Theme:
Energon
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2004
Country:
United States
Series:
Energon
Asst. Number:
ENG11
Date Added:
2022-10-15 18:21:37
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-02-19
Date Added:
2022-10-15 18:21:37
