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Abbreviations & Acronyms:
AM - Actionmaster
BM - Beast Machines
BW - Beast Wars
CS - Commemorative Series
G1 - Generation 1
G2 - Generation 2
HM - Headmaster
HoC - Heroes of Cybertron
MW - Machine Wars
PM - Powermaster
RiD - Robots in Disguise

TM - Targetmaster


AUTOBOT CAVALIERS
HOT ROD
with FIREBOLT
(1987: Generation 1: Targetmasters)


NEBULAN FIREBOLT
From the collection of Shawn Keaton

Targetmaster Hot Rod came with
the Nebulan, Firebolt

Hot Rod and Firebolt were Targetmasters, meaning that the gun of the robot was its own transformable robot, a "Nebulan." Do not mistake this figure for the original Hot Rod. Targetmaster Hot Rod has a larger hole on the engine and larger hand holes to accomodate Firebolt:





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For TM Hot Rod, the techs were like the Tailgate variations, incorrect, incorrect w/ sticker correction, and then correct. There are a number of sites that list that there was a corrected version with no sticker, but I have been unable to find a scan of one.

Please keep in mind that when viewing the large tech specs and instructions to allow a reasonable amount of time for your computer to load these very large files. You can right click on the booklet cover and choose "save target as" if you would like to download the instructions.


From the collection of Matt, a.k.a. KMMA1978
incorrect techs from the International Transformers Tech Spec Archive
courtesy of Fort Max


SHARED MOLDS:
G1 Hot Rod (1986)
Rodimus Major (2002)


SHARED NAMES:
G1 Hot Rod (1986)
G2 Illuminator Hotrod (1994)