Title:
Hot Shot
Description:
Hot Shot (Deluxe Class, 2005)
Takara ID number: GC-02
Takara release date: December 28, 2004
Accessories: Launcher, missile, Speed Planet Cyber Key
Cyber Key Code: d85b
Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), more»
Released in the first wave of Cybertron/Galaxy Force toys, this version of Hot Shot transforms into a heavily modified blue Chrysler ME Four-Twelve sports car with a huge rear engine. Plugging a Cyber Key into the rear of the car deploys a pair of transparent yellow wings from his spoiler, a gimmick also available in robot mode. He also comes with a spring-loaded missile-launching gun that can be carried in robot mode or pegged into the roof of the car mode.
His robot mode has numerous details in homage to Generation 1 Hot Rod, including the triple-pipe-guns on his forearms, the spoiler-wings on his back, and the sculpting of his shins and chest.
The Takara release, "Exillion,” is almost completely identical to the later Hasbro version other than a slight molding difference; two screws on either side of the spoiler are visible in the American release and all subsequent uses of the mold, but the original Japanese use of the mold had these screws buried. And, of course, the Hasbro release has a Cyber Key Code stamped on its back.
Package art depicted Hot Shot’s gun with a black trigger, but it was red plastic on the final toy.
This sculpt was used to make Exillion Red Version (see below), Excellion, Timelines/Shattered Glass Goldbug (with a new head sculpt) and 2007 movie series Breakaway.
Takara ID number: GC-02
Takara release date: December 28, 2004
Accessories: Launcher, missile, Speed Planet Cyber Key
Cyber Key Code: d85b
Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), more»
Released in the first wave of Cybertron/Galaxy Force toys, this version of Hot Shot transforms into a heavily modified blue Chrysler ME Four-Twelve sports car with a huge rear engine. Plugging a Cyber Key into the rear of the car deploys a pair of transparent yellow wings from his spoiler, a gimmick also available in robot mode. He also comes with a spring-loaded missile-launching gun that can be carried in robot mode or pegged into the roof of the car mode.
His robot mode has numerous details in homage to Generation 1 Hot Rod, including the triple-pipe-guns on his forearms, the spoiler-wings on his back, and the sculpting of his shins and chest.
The Takara release, "Exillion,” is almost completely identical to the later Hasbro version other than a slight molding difference; two screws on either side of the spoiler are visible in the American release and all subsequent uses of the mold, but the original Japanese use of the mold had these screws buried. And, of course, the Hasbro release has a Cyber Key Code stamped on its back.
Package art depicted Hot Shot’s gun with a black trigger, but it was red plastic on the final toy.
This sculpt was used to make Exillion Red Version (see below), Excellion, Timelines/Shattered Glass Goldbug (with a new head sculpt) and 2007 movie series Breakaway.
Theme:
Cybertron
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2005
Date Added:
2023-01-18 17:15:27
Date Added:
2023-01-18 17:15:27
