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Armada Jolt,
and
Micron Legend Jolt & Sparjolt
Review

Jolt

Jolt's a helicopter with a four bladed rotor. There's holes on the underside of the helicopter so that he can carry Hotshot's engine block accessory as a gun in copter mode. Jolt is all red - the same colour as Hotshot's chest and Minicons ports. As we'll see Jolt's blades are on a different parts tree to the rest of toy being moulded with Hotshot's elbows and upper legs.

His Minicon port is under the helicopter - the best use for an add-on in this mode is to attach him as a spinning blade weapon to a larger toy's forearm or shoulder. When pegged onto the back of Hotshot he can be bent over the back of the car providing Hotshot with a rotor blade behind him !

TF: Fold the cab forward to become the lower legs. Fold the tail under the helicopter to become the chest. The cylinders to the side of the helicopter swing down to become the arms.

In robot mode he's pretty much a Micromaster style TF, although he earns points for the separating legs which are jointed independently at the hip & knee and rotor blades that form the helipack that can be raised above his head. His arms also move but only at the shoulders.

In Japan Jolt retained his name and was available with Hotrod (Hot Shot) as MC-03 or both also appeared in MS-01 with the Air Defence Team.

Powerlinx Jolt

Powerlinx Jolt changes to match Hot Shot - his red becomes yellow. The blades change as well becoming black which enables us to say with some certainty which Hotshot parts they are moulded with.

In Japan Powerlinx Jolt is called Sparklift and is available with Hotrod supermode in MC-13

Unproduced Battle in a Box Jolt

Jolt was planned as a pack in with a Hot Shot recolour called Smokescreen fighting against a Wheeljack recolour called Drench that came with a recoloured Windsheer. Most of Jolt remains red - his windows do become a nice blue - but his rotor changes to white.

This set looks really nice, I'd have liked one.

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