Sparkdash

The Sparkdash are a subgroup from the Super-God Masterforce portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

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The Sparkdash (スパークダッシュ Supākudasshu) are a Transformer subgroup with flame abilities.

The Autobot Sparkdash are...

• Hardspark the tank.
• Hotspark the funny car.
• Wildspark the Baja buggy.

The Decepticon Sparkdash are...

• Guzzle the dino-creature.
• Javil the insect-creature.
• Sizzle the bird-creature.

Fiction

Super-God Masterforce cartoon

As Ginrai and Road King fought BlackZarak in China, the powerful Decepticon summoned one of each of the three Sparkdash Decepticons to aid him. Although the Autobots were briefly taken aback by the arrival of the new enemies, the Sparkdash quickly proved to be as fragile as the Seacons—when Ginrai scored a single hit on the Guzzle, it promptly exploded, and Road King quickly took out the remaining drones. God Ginrai - Save Cancer!?

A Sparkdash legion backed up the Decepticons when they staged an attack on North America from within the Grand Canyon. Shūta Gō, Cab, Minerva and Cancer were badly outnumbered by the huge robot swarm, but help soon arrived in the form of Wilder and Bullhorn, who added enough extra firepower to wipe out the Decepticon drones. Battle to the Death!! God Ginrai VS Darkwings Reborn

Super-God Masterforce comic

When BlackZarak attacked a city where Cancer went to, he brought one of each Sparkdash drone to join him in the destruction he wrought. As the Sparkdash set the city aflame, the Autobot Godmasters arrive to thwart their fiery felony. Charging through a huge jet of combined flame from the Sparkdash, the Godmasters tackled and defeated the drones. The Great Turnabout of the Autobots

Toys

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Guzzle, not that Guzzle.

• Sparkdash (1988)
  • Hardspark
  • Hotspark
  • Wildspark
  • Guzzle
  • Javil
  • Sizzle

• Known designers: Takashi Kunihiro (TakaraTomy)

Released towards the back end of Takara's Masterforce toyline, the six individually-sold Sparkdash share their molds with the Sparkabots and Firecons released around the same time in Hasbro's markets. They are small, very simple toys built around a "sparking gimmick": each toy features a friction-motor that causes "cold" sparks to shoot from their alternate modes. The Autobots fire them from the rear of their vehicle modes, while the Decepticons shoot them from their animal-mode mouths.

Four of the six (Hardspark, Hotspark, Guzzle and Javil) are significantly redecoed from the Hasbro versions. Wildspark has only a minor paint color difference (his face), while Sizzle has no differences whatsoever from the Hasbro Flamefeather.

Notes

• The Sparkdash are a bit of an oddity in regards to the Masterforce fiction. The Autobot Sparkdash never made any appearances in either the cartoon or comic. The Decepticon Sparkdash appeared in both as unliving drones, but were colored in the cartoon as their Hasbro counterparts, the Firecons, rather than the colors Takara had given their toys. (The manga was printed in black and white with limited use of gray, so it's impossible to tell what they were "colored" like there.) Even the Masterforce toy catalog follows this pattern, showing toy photographs of the Hasbro versions of the toys for both the Autobot and Decepticon Sparkdash.