Battle of the Bots

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"Lets have a battle! Battle of the- bands..?"
"Battle of the Bots"
Production code	119
Season	1
No. in season	19
Production company	Allspark Animation
Airdate	March 16, 2019
Writer	Marc Seal
Director	Ray Quigley
Animation studio	Boulder Media Studio
Watch this episode on YouTube

When Wedge rashly challenges Hot Shot to a one-on-one challenge, he worries that he doesn't have the skills to win.

Synopsis

Wedge shows off his Heroes of Cybertron trading cards. As he's warning the others that some of the cards are delicate, Hot Shot flies in and accidentally scatters the pile of cards with his jet mode. The recruits dream of getting their own cards, and when Hot Shot says he'll try anything, even construction, to do so, Wedge ends up challenging him to a contest with one construction and one Cube challenge. Hoist volunteers Hot Shot's Cube trophy as the prize, and Hot Shot agrees, confident he'll win. Wedge is soon similarly agreeing to putting up his Heroes of Cybertron card collection as a prize.

They set up for the first construction challenge, with Whirl and Medix providing commentary and Hoist acting as referee. Whirl and Medix don't fancy Hot Shot's chances. Indeed, Wedge easily wins round one, swiftly constructing a wall, however Hot Shot manages to tie the score by using his water blasters to dig the required hole for round two. As they start the last task, knocking the wall down to fill in the hole, Wedge has a strong start until Hot Shot uses his afterburners to completely demolish his wall. Hot Shot is declared winner of the construction challenge and Wedge is demoralized. Though he believes he has no chance of winning the Cube round, Hot Shot talks him into persevering.

As they start the Cube challenge, Whirl goes over the rules. Hot Shot scores the first point, and though Wedge obviously can't jump around, he manages to score using his power drivers. They both score another point apiece, but it still looks like the more agile Hot Shot is going to win, until Wedge transforms and catches the cube in his scoop. Hot Shot points out that if Wedge hadn't tried, he'd never have known he could win. They agree to leave the competition at a tie. Hot Shot returns Wedge's card collection, and Hoist reveals he's made custom trading cards of the two competitors.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots
Wedge (1) Whirl (2) Hoist (3) Medix (4) Hot Shot (5)

Quotes

"And the winner gets a golden trash can!"
"Uh, that's actually my trophy for being last year's King of Cube, but hey, why not?"

—Hoist and Hot Shot work out prizes.

Notes

Continuity notes

• Wedge's Heroes of Cybertron cards include Optimus Prime, Side Burn, Metroplex, Searchlight, Powerglide, and Bumblebee.
• Hot Shot's sonic blasters once again change ammo type, this time in the same chain of rings in their debut.

Transformers references

• Searchlight's ten thousand watt lights and Metroplex's seventy thousand ton lift ability are callbacks to their original Generation 1 packaging bios.

Real-world references

• TBA

Animation and technical errors

• TBA

Trivia

• Just in case you were wondering, the Cybertronian text on Hot Shot's King of Cube trophy unsurprisingly reads "King of Cube".

Foreign localization

French

• Title: "La bataille des robots" ("Battle of the robots")
• Original airdate: ?