Rather than coming with a (nominally) hand-held weapon accessory, Rodimus comes with a spoiler for his back. Now, bear with us on this one; this means that he's got the outdated color scheme used by AKOM in all their episodes of the animated series, his shoulder vents being the same color as the rest of his arms, the dark and light areas of his helmet are inverted, the "windscreen" on his pelvis is white, and his boots are two shades of grey instead of one (because AKOM would literally translate the shadows on the character model into actual colors). Extensions in the figure's hips give Rodimus some slight extra height over Hot Rod, while a spring-loaded pop-out second face, revealed when the figure's helmet is tilted back, gives him his older, lined features; this face is somewhat narrower than Hot Rod's, combining with a slight elevation of the back-mounted spoiler to further create the illusion of a larger figure.

As with his original toy, Rodimus Prime's trailer opens up into the Mobile Defense Bay, now through a spring-loaded transformation activated by pressing a button on the trailer's roof. Due to a design flaw, it can be difficult to get Hot Rod's car roof to firmly latch into the chassis; on some specimens it is simply impossible. Masterpiece Hot Rodimus transforms into his iconic supercar mode, but does not transform into Rodimus Prime like the previous iteration. inch collectible action figures inspired by iconic movie scenes and designed with specs and details to reflect the Transformers movie universe, now including The Transformers: The Movie! In addition to regular weapons, Hot Rod possesses a special weapon that can create temporary temporal bubbles in which time slows to a crawl.The Hasbro version of Rodimus featured retooled elbow joints that, when separated, make it difficult for him to hold a pose with his arms.

In the WWII flashback of The Last Knight, Hot Rod is shown to transform into a Steyr truck, but his robot-mode kibble is from an M8 armored car.

Part of Hasbro's Platinum Edition offerings for 2016 intended to commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Transformers: The Movie, "Autobot Hot Rod" (who finally got his name back) is a redeco of the United Rodimus Prime figure, which is a retool of the Classics Rodimus toy. After things had calmed down a bit, he formally introduced himself to Viviane, though she found understanding his accent very hard.

This packaging variant was released in the same wave as Bumblebee movie Soundwave, and came with different UPC and EAN barcodes than the original version.Upon his original release, Hot Rod had unpainted die-cast metal feet, while later editions of the figure used black plastic. A mod can be done to fully extend the legs exposing these knee details, though, the figure does become rather tall and looks somewhat strange proportionally with them fully extended. Like most Titanium Series Cybertron Heroes, this figure includes a display stand with a removable nameplate.

This figure features minimal partsforming, with the Rodimus Prime fists being formed by attaching the two halves of the front end of the trailer to Hot Rod's knees. On the one hand it does unfortunately make some figures more expensive than they perhaps should be, but on the other it can lead to some pretty interesting releases and help maintain proper scale between figures.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This metallic version featured metallic flake molding and paint for the body and gold paint for the wings on Rodimus's back.