Hubcap is anAutobot from theAnimatedcontinuity family.

I only got two pair. I got a pair of aces... andanother pair of aces.

Hubcap isn't someone you want to get in a card game with. Unless youlike losing your shirt. Seriously. Nice guy and all, but if the subject of three-card monte comes up, just politely decline and walk away, alright? You'll be glad you did.

Fiction

Animated cartoon

During theGreat War, Hubcap was stationed as a communications officer. He reported toUltra Magnus on theDecepticons' attack on theHydrax Plateau.Bots of Science

Check out my head!

Many years later, Hubcap was part of the crowd cheering forOptimus Prime and his crew when they returned to Cybertron victorious, withMegatron and the rest of the Decepticons captured.Endgame, Part II

WhenDepth Charge chewed outCheetor for his recklessness,Stungun was speaking withJackpot and Hubcap in the next room.Moving Violations

Hubcap attended aStunt Convoy show that turned out to be the cover of a Decepticon operation to break intoTrypticon Prison.The Stunti-Con Job

Notes

• Hubcap was revealed along withRosanna on the cover ofHasbro Transformers Collectors' Club#26.
• His name, which had been conjecture when he was first revealed, was finally confirmed inTransformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II.
• Hubcap is a good pal ofJackpot, just like hisGeneration 1 counterpart is withGeneration 1 Jackpot in theFun Publications stories!
• Hubcap wears the popular65356-9292-346body-type.
• A proposedFun PublicationsBotConexclusive was a redeco ofAnimated Soundwave into aAnimated Hubcap (the increase in size possibly being inspired by theMachine Wars incarnation of Hubcap).^[1]
• Hubcap's appearence in "Endgame, Part II" marks the first appearance of any incarnation of the character in aTransformers cartoon, being the only one of the 1986 mini-vehicles to not appear in the1984 cartoon.

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