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Cybertron Jolt,
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Jolt

Cybertron Jolt is the second Minicon to bear that name the first being the Partner to Armada Hotshot. Like Armada Jolt he's a helicopter, but this time he has landing skis and a bubble cockpit. The majority of the toy is cast in grey (robot legs), black (tail, rotors, landing skis, robot upper legs), clear (cockpit) or green plastic but all the green is painted red (body and feet) !

He has one Minicon port on of his skids enabling him to be attached as a spinning blade weapon.

TF: rotate the bubble round so the window looks down. Fold the skis to the sides to become the arms. Fold the legs back from on top of the helicopter so they're along the tail. Fold the feet out and fold the tail up.

Robot at the end has a great bubble helmet - like a diver or Spike's Exo suit from Transformers the Movie. The bubble turns, the arms are on ball joints at the shoulder and the legs bend at the hip and knee.

Lovely little Minicon this

From the original Micron Team review: "Helicopter micron is also a work of genius ! Don't think there's been a minicon helicopter before. This one looks great - clear cockpit with seat detail inside, and a socket on one skid. The TF is clever - turbines beside the rotors fold back as legs, and the skids fold forward to form the arms. The cockpit bubble should then turn round to reveal a face under the helmet but I had trouble turning the head on mine :-( Looks nice in robot mode - have used the socket on the arm to mount a RM gun on. Sadly he wasn't too stable then. Is very reminiscent of Spike's Exo Suit from the movie."

Jolt was available with Six-Speed & Reverb in the Cybertron Recon team. Their Japanese counterparts were the GC-07 Micron Team where they were named Hop, Blit & Bumper.

Change Micron Hop

All three of the Galaxy Force Micron Team - together with Roots from Vector Prime - were packaged in a Galaxy Force Change Micron set. Change Micron Hop is significant as it's obviously had it's mould changed - the green plastic is moulded red and the face - previously looking like Wheeljack - now has a mouth and nose.

Bit

Bit appears in Micron Booster V3.

Bit's colour scheme is now vaguely emergency service themes - orange lower cockpit, white body and grey landing gear and tail look a very viable colour scheme for a helicopter. Robot mode still looks nice with the "Spike's exo suit"/Robot in a diving suit theme. Good stuff.

Factor

Factor is a Platinum Micron exclusive to TRU Japan. Black becomes orangey gold, green/red becomes a pearly clear colour, grey becomes clear yellow and the clear remains the same.

The Platinum Microns were released to tie in with Leo Breaker coming out and have colours reminiscent of him.

Shadow Recon Jolt

The Shadow Recon team is a rare and possibly first application of Repaint Rule 8 outside of Japan - see My Repaint Article" - they're clear repaints ! The only other clear toys I can remember are the Minicon Sabre toys and some GoBot/Spychanger redecos. Obviously with clear toys there's very little actual paint involved, these are all cast in a different colour of plastic.

There's a mistake on the packaging - Jolt is labelled Reverb and vice versa. The Bio note is nice, insinuating that these 3 have adopted a post Cybertron series stealth guise to explore the universe. They come with the Giant Planet Map - Hallelujah, got it at last ! - and have Giant Planet Markings on the card.

Jolt looks more solid than the other 3 - a clear electric blue plastic chest/helicopter body, and the same smoked grey for the legs and the feet. The rotors, arms and upper legs are black, and the cockpit/dome is still clear. He looks rather nice.

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