Bluebolt

The name or term "Bluebolt" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Bluebolt (disambiguation).

Bluebolt is a Maximal from the Generation 1 cartoon continuity.

Blue Bird of Happiness

With an unfailing faith in the great Maximal leaders of yore, the "Universal Weaponizer" Bluebolt (ブルーボルト Burūboruto) tries to find hope in the midst of a dying universe.

Fiction

End of G1 Universe

With the universe drained of most energy and soon coming to an end, Bluebolt, on orders from Vector Sigma, went on a long journey to bring the dead body of Leo Prime to Earth where he could be revived with Unicron's remnant energy in the planet's crust. Dark Amber Leo Prime bio The resurrection ritual was interrupted by Untite, who summoned an undead Seeker to restrain Bluebolt while Untite approached the corpse to eat it. However, the magic circle was already complete and activated, unifying Leo Prime with Unicron's energy to create Dark Amber Leo Prime. Bluebolt believed this black warrior to be Leo Prime resurrected, but the new being mocked this belief, only being convinced to save the Maximal by the Energon Matrix within him. After Untite weakened Dark Amber in battle, Bluebolt was willing to be consumed by him and become energy for the next round of the battle, only to be rejected. Dark Amber instead elected to eat part of the planet, recovering and taking down the Seeker. Dark Amber Leo Prime (First) Bluebolt watched on as the "hero" also took care of Untite, but corroborated the hyena's revelation that Earth was soon to explode with them on it. After the stubborn Dark Amber used Unicron's power to restore the planet to a verdant, living one, Bluebolt joined him and the rebuilt Untite in travelling throughout the universe to fix other planets. Dark Amber Leo Prime (Second)

Notes

Bluebolt's scrapped gun mode.
Unconvincing until you see the original.

• Bluebolt is a virtual redeco of Kingdom Maximal Skywarp, which was in turn a head retool of Deluxe Class Airazor.
• Bluebolt's gender is left unclear over the course of the character's sole appearance.
• End of G1 Universe author Hayato Sakamoto dropped an extensive thread on the comic's development in commemoration of the HasLab Omega Prime campaign's success that included quite a bit of information on Bluebolt:
  • Bluebolt's name, given to Sakamoto by TakaraTomy along with the "blue Kingdom Airazor" directive, is a play on Silverbolt, the original mold use of Skywarp's original toy, so as to make an elaborate riff on the old Bluestreak/Silverstreak conundrum. The very earliest concepts for the character would have seen Bluebolt literally be Skywarp in disguise.
  • Noting the seemingly coincidental shared name with the signature weapon of Car Robots star God Magnus, Sakamoto pitched an elaborate origin for the character where the idiosyncratic wad of guns and hinges was retrofitted into an exploratory drone before ultimately being rebuilt into a full-fledged Transformer.
  • This scene was cut, but Sakamoto left himself a backdoor to pick up the plotline in future stories by giving Bluebolt the otherwise inexplicable title of "Universal Weaponizer" (万能ウエポナイザー) in Dark Amber Leo Prime's Masterpiece bio, a play on the Blue Bolts cannon's title of "universal weapon" (万能火器) in God Magnus's original toy bio.
  • He was gobsmacked to see the weapon re-imagined into an independent robot way ahead of his pack-in deeplore plans in a blockbuster HasLab campaign, with noticeable shared design cues no less, which spurred the thread.
• It bears remarking that HasLab Omega Prime designer Hisashi Yuki is usually Sakamoto's boss as TakaraTomy's "head of localization" for domestic collector product, leaving open the distinct possibility he played Sakamoto like a damn fiddle through this whole affair.

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