Agent Knight

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Agent Knight is an Autobot from [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Knight Rider|{{#if:||Knight Rider}}]] (via Collaborative).
Autohoff.

Agent Knight is a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.


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Toys

Collaborative

CATEGORY: Men that don't exist.
  • Agent Knight (2024)
  • TakaraTomy release date: March 29, 2025
  • Accessories: Pistol, machinegun, comm link
  • Known designers: {{{1}}}{{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}
Collaborative Agent Knight transforms from a Voyager-sized robot to a licensed General Motors custom Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with flip-up headlights, representing [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}KITT|{{#if:||KITT}}]] from the television series [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Knight Rider|{{#if:||Knight Rider}}]]. The car mode slightly differs from KITT's onscreen appearances: it has the Pontiac logo on the hubcaps, the tail lights are red instead of black, and the rear license plate is not one of those used in the series but instead is the Knight Industries chess piece logo.
In robot mode, Agent Knight has design elements to resemble [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}David Hasselhoff|{{#if:||David Hasselhoff}}]]'s portrayal of [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Michael Knight (Knight Rider)|{{#if:Michael Knight|Michael Knight|Michael Knight (Knight Rider)}}]], including the face sculpt, the visor resembling large sunglasses, "blue jeans" on the legs, and Michael's wristwatch communicator for speaking with KITT (a separate accessory that attaches to his left forearm). His forehead also features KITT's car-dashboard speech indicator light (the red rectangle from the first season, not the rising-volume indicator from later seasons).
Agent Knight comes with a pistol and machinegun (which, while still being sci-fi blasters, have real 1980's real-guns vibes to their designs) which can be stored in car mode by tabbing into rectangular holes on the robot mode's shins on the underside of the car. The weapons can also tab into similar slots on the backs of his door-wings for robot-mode storage.
The first Collaborative toy with electronics, Agent Knight includes both sound clips and an animated scrolling light on the front sensor. Unfortunately, the space needed for the electronics means there's a bit of low-hanging chonk under the front bumper region not present on the actual car. Also unfortunately, he does not come with the three 1.5 volt watch batteries needed to power the electronics. And extra-sadly, the voice is not that of actual KITT voice actor [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}William Daniels|{{#if:||William Daniels}}]]. Of course, he was 96 at the time of the toy's development, and licensing sound clips from the show would only make the toy even more expensive.
The first audio sample when you hit the button is the sound of KITT activating: a series of beeps indicating his various systems coming online, the engine starting, then his scanning noise. From there, pressing the button activates a series of phrases and sounds in a loop:
  • "I am the voice of Knight Industry Two Thousand's micro-processor, 'K-I-T-T'. 'KITT' if you prefer."
  • Scanning noise "Hold on, this could be a bit bumpy." Turbo boost noise
  • Scanning noise run three times
  • Turbo boost noise
  • "Are you sure this is the right way?" Turbo boost noise "Very well."
  • Scanning noise "Thank you, sir."
Pressing the button down for two seconds at this point turns on the scrolling light with no sound effects, until either the button is pressed again, triggering the next sound in the sequence, or until about two minutes or so have elapsed, at which point the light will turn off. After thirty seconds of inactivity, the toy says "KITT signing off", deactivating all of the electronics.
This figure was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, with preorders going up the following week.

Notes

  • Interestingly, this isn't Knight Rider's first or even second foray into transforming robot toys:
    • KITT was previously immortalized in plastic as part of Ertl's Pow-R-Trons line (derived from the Asahi Corporation's Attack Change Machine Powertron but actually releasing before it), using a Nissan Fairlady 300ZX Z31 mold that'd eventually become Turbo in Estrela's Brazilian Transformers toyline.
    • And speaking of Brazil, Estrela competitor Glasslite - the country's official licensee for Knight Rider toys, localized as "Super Máquina" (Super Machine) - also released a black copy of the GoBots / Machine Robo Turbo mold under the name of "Zardos" with Knight Rider branding in the mid 1980s. It is still debatable whether or not Glasslite's Machine Robo-derived toyline - dubbed Mutante - was a legitimate Bandai or Tonka-licensed toyline, but regardless, this particular Glasslite toy is indeed an Universal Studios-copyrighted product!
  • Peter Cullen voiced the villainous K.A.R.R. on both the original Knight Rider series in 1982, and the 2008 revival.


Foreign names

  • Japanese: Agent Knight (エージェントナイト Ējento Naito)

References

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