Sparkabot

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The Sparkabots are an Autobot subgroup from the Generation 1 continuity family.
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The Sparkabots are a sub-group of Autobots, who can each unleash a torrent of flames from their vehicle forms and are the Autobot counterparts to the Firecons. The Sparkabots are...

Fiction

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Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

They are the Sparkler Mini-Bots.



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Toys

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Sizzle
The Sparkabots were sold carded at the $3 price point. Like other such toys, they are small in size, simple to transform, and feature very limited articulation. Each toy features a friction-motor that causes "cold" sparks to shoot from the rear section of their alternate modes as well as propelling the toy forward on smooth surfaces.
This set of molds was used to make the Japanese Autobot Sparkdash members.

Generation 2

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Blaze doesn't just have delicious candy; he is delicious candy.
Four Sparkabots, including two Decepticon characters that were branded as Firecons originally, were released in Generation 2, and only in Europe. Sizzle is a redeco of his original toy; Blaze is a renamed Fizzle. Although both toys feature new individual card artwork, they did not receive proper Tech Specs or bios—only a motto. Later UK comics would fill in the missing character information.

Notes

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  • An early working name for either the Sparkabots or as a super-category for both the Sparkabots and their Decepticon counterparts, the Firecons, was "Sparkler mini-bots" (typically with only the word "Sparkler" capitalized), which appears on early model sheets for the Sparkabots that were offered on eBay in 2016. That name not only appears in toy ads from the Netherlands (where it's only applied to the Firecons)<ref name="ads">"Transformers toy ads from the 1980's – Part 2" at 20th Century Toy Collector.</ref>, but even made it into official publications: A bilingual pack-in catalog included with the 1988 toys available in French/Dutch packaging in Europe used it as a super-category for both Sparkabots and Firecons, whereas it was used consistently in place of the final name both in the comics by Marvel UK and their German translations by Condor Verlag in Transformers Comic-Magazin, as well as Condor's all-new text stories, although the latter also use it as a super-category for both groups once, while another text story features the "Sparkler Minibots" as a separate Decepticon team that exists alongside the Firecons, explicitly opposing the Autobots' Sparkabots. Those same Marvel UK and Condor comics also featured another naming anomaly, "Jawbreaker" instead of Overbite, an early working name that also appears in the same batch of model sheets. At BotCon 2022, Marvel UK writer Simon Furman confirmed that he had been provided with these model sheets, with the non-final names on them, as reference materials. Condor then simply used whichever names Marvel UK was using. The toys themselves were released under the name "Sparkabots" in Europe as well, though. The term's status as a super-category for both the Sparkabots and the Firecons was confirmed by an internal Hasbro spreadsheet from 1988 that was uncovered in 2023.<ref name="lineplan">"1989 European Lineplan Development document recreated" at Transformers at the Moon.</ref>

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