Bolts

Bolts is an Autobot Mini-Cassette from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Bolts is one of Blaster's Autobot Mini-Cassettes. He transforms into a humanoid robot, and is the wrangler of the other three Recordabots: Stinger, Cubbie, and Stripes.

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

Realities in which Bolts was among Blaster's cassettes often included Anibots as well. Beachcomber thought it cruel to keep them in a roboto-zoo but Vector Prime saw little alternative. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/24

Notes

• In an early draft for The Transformers: The Movie, Bolts would have been released out of Blaster's chest to combat the Decepticon Mini-Cassettes during the Battle of Autobot City, the only humanoid robot to do so.^[1][2] Between the original draft and actual product, Bolts's role was split in two. Bolts was supposed to fight Ravage, which Rewind ended up doing in the movie (Blaster dealt the described kick though). Bolts' attitude and tussle with Frenzy went to Eject.
• "Bolts" was originally intended to make his television debut ahead of the Movie. A model sheet for an unnamed Robot Cassette was drawn up for the episode Auto-Bop, though the robot does not actually appear in the episode script. At the start of Blaster's duel with Soundwave, the latter ejects Rumble, Ravage and Laserbeak. Prompting Blaster to remark "Two can play that jive game!" and eject a lion, tiger and scorpion. Writer David Wise stating "(Note: These characters, without names, are Transformers products)". The six cassettes begin fighting all over Dancitron, leaving the two tape decks to begin their battle. ^[3]

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