Dud Bolt

"And back again is the mighty Dud Bolt with that incredible machine - the Vulptereen 327!"

- Fode

Dud Bolt was a Podracer pilot who was known to participate in the Boonta Eve Classic. During a Boonta race that took place sometime before the Battle of Naboo, Bolt raced against a young Human boy named Anakin Skywalker, who would eventually win the Boonta and earn a life free from slavery. However, with Skywalker's victory came Bolt's inability to win the race, even after being praised early on for his fine-tuned Podracer, a Vulptereen 327. Bolt continued to Podrace with his vehicle up until the start of the Clone Wars.

Behind the scenes
Dud Bolt was created for the 1999 film, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Bolt appeared during the film's Podracing scenes, both as a puppet for close ups in his cockpit and as a low resolution digital model for distance shots. Unlike most of the Podracer pilots, Bolt did not appear in the film's novelization by Terry Brooks, making the film Bolt's first appearance in both Canon and Star Wars Legends timelines. He later briefly appeared in Phantom's sequel, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.

Bolt has appeared as an action figure twice. His first plastic appearance was in 2006 as a part of Hasbro's The Saga Collection. Bolt was packaged with another Podracer pilot, Mars Guo, and both pilots came with a blaster accessory and removable headgear. During the 2012 Movie Heroes line, Bolt and Guo, along with Podracer pilots Clegg Holdfast, Teemto Pagalies, and Gasgano, were released as part of a large multipack. Bolt used the same toy model from earlier, but now with a darker paint job, a new flag accessory, a new base on which to stand on, plus a trading card.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones