Jackpot (Animated)
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- Jackpot is an Autobot from the Animated continuity family.
Jackpot is an apparent troublemaker. He's buddies with Hubcap.[1]
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Fiction
Animated cartoon continuity
When Depth Charge chewed out Cheetor for his recklessness, Stungun was speaking with Jackpot and Hubcap in the next room. Moving Violations Not too much later, Sideswipe had pulled up Jackpot's mugshot while looking into potential suspects in the theft of weapons from Ironfist's lab. The Stunti-Con Job
Courtesy of Rattletrap's smuggling, Jackpot gained a new buddy, Sights. He also won the schematics for Jazz's Earth mode by cheating in a game of Triad. The Complete AllSpark Almanac
TransTech
In his home Malgus universal stream, Jackpot spent his time being chased by angry Decepticons. He would sunsequently wind up in the multiversal hub known as Axiom Nexus, where he found himself caught up in the kind of activities that would get him chased again, this time by the TransTech police force. TFSS Jackpot bio card He was playing cards with a number of other bots when deputies Hero Prime and Beast Prime turned up, looking not for Jackpot but for one of the other players, Depth Charge. Invasion: Epilogue
Games
Transformers: Battle Tactics
Jackpot participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of him! He was a Rare character who could be recruited by collecting 160 units of Cybermetal, and 95 units of Transmetal. Transformers: Battle Tactics
Toys
Timelines
- Jackpot (Deluxe, 2013)
- TFSS1 number: 5
- Accessories: 2 side-pipe "photon emitters"
- A retooling of Animated Deluxe Class Jazz with a new head, Timelines Jackpot transforms into a souped-up approximation of a Porsche 911. The toy's exhaust pipes can be removed from its forearms, and are connected by a short length of string to serve as nunchaku-style weapons. They can also be assembled into claw-like weapons.
- Jackpot was one of the first six Transformers Collectors' Club exclusive figures to be offered via the Transformers Figure Subscription Service in 2013, though the concept had initially been proposed for BotCon 2011.[2]
- He was later handed out for free to BotCon 2014 attendees below the age of 13.
- This mold (with the original Jazz head) was also used to make Dead End.
Notes
- As it turns out, Jackpot shares a body type with Jazz, giving us our first glimpse at what the body type looked like before Jazz adopted an Earth mode.[3]
- Speaking of which, his Cybertronian body type's robot mode is designed to look as though it transforms into Jazz's G1 counterpart's Cybertronian alt mode. This is not the only Animated character to do this.
