Blaze

Blaze is an Autobot Sparkabot from the Generation 2 portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Blaze is an oddity in the Autobot ranks; a hit man. He's a perfectionist who is always out to better his last job. An engineer back on Cybertron, he's found a new lease on life by targeting and blowing up Decepticon installations.

He loves this job.

Fiction

Fleetway Generation 2 comics

Nice Laser Rod. Pity if something happened to it.

At some undetermined point in time, Blaze fought Jolt. Fleetway comic issue 1 gatefold poster

Grandreams Generation 2 Annual

So how many contradictory designs am I going to have?

Blaze served with his "brother Sparkabot" Sizzle as an engineer millions of years ago on planet Cybertron. Whether Blaze helped build the Ark like Sizzle is unknown. Official Transformers Generation 2 Annual bio

Blaze accompanied Jazz and Optimus Prime to the Brazilian rain forest to investigate a Transformer energy signature. The source of the readings turned out to be two terrifying robot dinosaurs! The Decepticons took advantage of the Autobots' surprise, leaving Blaze the last Autobot standing; he tried to take Megatron down himself, but was swatted aside. Fortunately, the creatures revealed themselves to be the Autobots Grimlock and Snarl, awakened for the first time since the age of the dinosaurs. The two Dinobots quickly drove off the attacking Decepticons, saving Blaze and his helpless friends. When Grimlock decided that he and Snarl would stay behind and search for their fellow Dinobots, Blaze chastised him for not joining the fight against the Decepticons. Optimus Prime advised Blaze to relax, as felt sure that the Autobots and Dinobots would be brothers-in-arms once Grimlock found his remaining companions. The Dinobots!

The preceding story is basically impossible to reconcile with any previously established fiction, even the Fleetway comics the Annual was coming out in support of. It thus appears to represent its own micro-continuity, as the events were never followed up on.

Toys

Generation 2

One of these days, someone will draw me like this.

• Blaze (Sparkabot, 1993)

A European/Australasian-market-only redeco of the Sparkabot Fizzle, Blaze transforms into an offroad Baja buggy. By pushing him forward in car mode, "cold" sparks shoot from his back end thanks to a friction-motor that also propels him forward.

Blaze's card art shows his Sparkabot partner Sizzle, while Sizzle's card depicts Blaze. It is therefore arguable which Generation 2 Sparkabot is which, though it can be reasonably assumed that the redeco of the original Sizzle is still Sizzle. The switch led to all sorts of trouble, as the Generation 2 Sparkabots have never appeared in fiction in their proper colours.

This mold was also used to make Wildspark.

• More information on Blaze at TFU.info

Notes

• The confusion between Blaze and Sizzle carries on a tradition started in Generation 1 by Sizzle and his team-mate Fizzle. Sizzle and Fizzle used each others' colour schemes in the UK comics, but only in robot mode. Oy.
• On the Fleetway gatefold poster featuring Blaze, Blaze's colors are based on his fellow Generation 2 Sparkabot Sizzle. In The Dinobots!, Blaze has not only Sizzle's coloration but his entire robot mode. His vehicle mode is still his own, albeit in Sizzle's colors. Double oy!