Hotrider

This article is about the unreleased Japanese Autobot. For the European Autobot "Hotrider", see Turbofire.

Hotrider was to have been an Autobot from the Block Town portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

I like traffic lights. I like traffic lights. I like traffic lights. That is what I said. I like traffic lights. I like traffic lights. I like traffic lights. But not when they are red.

Hotrider (ホットライダー Hottoraidā) is an Autobot who operates traffic lights...and that is all we know.

Toys

Block Town

• Signal/Traffic Lights Set (Block Town, 1996)
  • ID number: TFBT-6
  • Accessories: Engine block/gun, signal light brick set

The European-original Turbofire mold was one of several intended to be used byTakara in the post-G-2 Block Town line, as an Autobot. To be redecoed in blue with black robot parts, Hotrider was to come with the "Signal/Traffic Lights Set", a building-block traffic signal that could be rebuilt into a battle station of some form. Hotrider would have been gang-molded with Rapid Engine as Turbofire and Rapido were. However, this set ultimately never came to release.

In 2005, a supposed Takara "release" schedule listed the Block Town sets among several other future items coming out. Only the Galaxy Force items on that list saw release, however (and some only as store exclusives to boot).

Given that Turbofire's Japanese name was revealed on a BotCon Japan-exclusive poster to be "Hotrider"—a poster that also showed Windbreaker's Japanese name as being "Carzap", which was what the Block Town Windbreaker redeco showed up as in the Transformers Generations guidebook—it's likely that the Block Town Turbofire was going to be named "Hotrider" as well. The whole "Autobot" thing makes the issue somewhat hazy, though.

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.