Universe Springer or Blades?

[Doubledealer]

I was dead keen on picking up the Ratbat/Springer 2 pack a while ago but when I held the box in my hands and looked at the absolutely dismal paint jobs on both figures I prompty put the box back on the shelf and left the store. I've only seen Blades in it's alt mode in-box but surely it's robot mode can't be as incredibly dull as the new Springer release. For added...coolness (?) you could even pretend it's a Westpac emergency chopper.

[Wheel-J]

I once have an original springer way way before and I've been used to know that he is a triple-changer. Eventhough he was a crappy toy, there's still a tiny small voice within me which dictates my sensory taste buds that if there would be any new springer today, he's oughta be a triple-changer.

So, I'd go for blades if I have to pick between the two and hold him on a G1-ish display like what the Grasshopper have linked.

If evac was placed between blades and springer in the photo, it would resemble the colours of a traffic light ().....

[Defcon]

As someone else mentioned blades is good to display with other rescue/emergency bots like ratchet, inferno etc. Also if you watch the movie Iam Legend, there is a red helicopter in it that looks very similar to blades. The color scheme on blades is based more on it's real life counterpart instead of the classic G1 look. Good luck in finding blades or springer as they are quite rare to find on a retail shelf. Best bet to look on ebay.

I have both, but I recommend blades. If a proper triple changer Springer is ever released, my universe springer will be far less appealing.

[TheDirtyDigger]

Also if you watch the movie Iam Legend, there is a red helicopter in it that looks very similar to blades.

That is exactly what I thought as soon as I saw it. Not just 'very similar' but almost exactly the same.

G1 Blades was a rescue 'copter, Springer was...futuristic.

Unlike Springer Blades wasn't a triple changer

Blades would look really good in a display next to Inferno, Prowl, Ratchet and Red Alert, a sort of quasi-Protectobots.

All excellent points.

[Paulbot]

In my classics-verse, Cybertron Evac has been "repurposed" as an upgrade to Seaspray. Just reposition those rear blades in robot mode. He's still protecting the oceans just in helicopter form as part of an Autobot "seeker" type line up.


I go with Springer. Blades I find a bit dull (too much red) while Springer's colours are more classic.

Oh and Blades's was a 6-changer (he could turn from a robot to a helicopter, a left arm, a right arm, a left leg or a right leg!)

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Oh and Blades's was a 6-changer (he could turn from a robot to a helicopter, a left arm, a right arm, a left leg or a right leg!)

I can't wait to see some over-optimistic eBay seller advertise him as "Autobot 6-Changer!"
Ironically he also has about the same level of articulation as Sixshot.

[Paulbot]

I can't wait to see some over-optimistic eBay seller advertise him as "Autobot 6-Changer!"
Ironically he also has about the same level of articulation as Sixshot.

If you were OVERLY over-optimistic, you could say that Blades was a 30-changer since he could be Defensor's right leg, or Superion's left arm, or Computron's right arm or Menasor's left leg and so on and so on and so on!

[Krayt]

Don't forget attaching to Metroplex and Metrotitan too....

[Sky Shadow]

Good luck in finding blades or springer as they are quite rare to find on a retail shelf.

Blades isn't that hard to find - I saw a few yesterday and I wasn't even really looking.

[jaydisc]

Yeah, I got a Blades Thursday at Target for $20