The original first release of Hot Rod or Hot Rodimus as he was called in Japan, is a difficult find. Due to the reissue, most may not find it very significant as the box is nearly identical to the reissue, but on the whole it is a challenging piece to find. This is also the first piece to feature the new trading card design that would run through the rest of the Transformers series until they hit the "white boxes" of 1988.

This piece was obtained from the collection of a collector in the US

Collection of: Curt Fignar