Ken Christiansen has shared some concept work he did for what would become the Bot Shots line on his Facebook. He explains that the vehicle designs were “just some fast vehicles” to fill out a Hasbro presentation. He did not work on robot modes for these.
What might be of interest is that Ken also did concept work for two more Bot Shot vehicles, Dino and Dark of the Moon Soundwave, neither of whom made the final cut.
HeroicC300
I wish all his concept designs for the ROTF game got toys; that's about two or three waves of product!
Plus, his Ironhide and Optimus cab concepts are so dead-on it's astounding.
Superquad7
Ken C. is a cool guy
RedAlert Rescue
Interesting that the Botshots Shockwave is more Movie like design – the final toy has an Earth Mode for him (One I'd still quite like to see as a Classics/Generations Voyager class toy).
moreprimeland
Love Ken's work, Nice ones!!
Autovolt 127
It would be a smart idea to make these as AOE tie ins.
Sideways77
I hope they make it out SOMEHOW. I've wanted a DOTM-based Soundwave.
HeroicC300
While I'm not sure how Soundwave would've worked, he said Mirage is a chibi-Ferrari.
So I'm assuming that the back of the Ferrari sticks up for support, and the curved front gives it a shit-eating grin.
Dinobot Nuva
These three at least saw release, just not under the DOTM banner. The Megs just ended up being a retool of the Optimus Prime mold though, but Be Cool did have a Red Mirage… Probably unrelated. The real notable one is Soundwave, as even his more G1-ish Bot Shot remains unreleased.
HeroicC300
It's Truck Megatron, Shockwave, and Leadfoot. They are adorable. Not shown but also confirmed from him are Dino and Mercedeswave.
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HeroicC300, parroting his stuff because I can.