The Energon Pub

[Cyber Bishop]

Springer and Blitzwing... Yes plz... where and when...

[Thadicon]

Loving the Blitzwing but wont be using the head gimmick not my thing. and I think i will be looking for a suitable replacement for his gun it looks way to small and it could have been molded in purple but he they did a pretty decent job with the figure itself.

And Springer looks really good even his car mode has a sort of batman look to it..... if it came in black that is

[Manterax Prime]

Springer's come prepared for collectors. 1 sword for fighting Blitzwing, and a dual missile launcher for blasting G1 Springer and FP Defender off the shelf.

[Shelf Space]

Drool... want. so. hard.

[Rated X]

Springer is cooler than expected, but a little too big. He cant replace Defender, but I have no problem keeping my pre-order. Blitzwing is bad ass. I wish they would have stayed away from the 3 head gimmick, but still great. I would have preferred both of these guys to be deluxe class though. The Takara version will be mine as well. I have a feeling the Springer mold will work better for Sandstorm providing they can remold him to somewhat mimmick his "hood" minus the propeller.

[Henry921]

Springer's come prepared for collectors. 1 sword for fighting Blitzwing, and a dual missile launcher for blasting G1 Springer and FP Defender off the shelf.

Well now I feel silly owning the three other Springers, from Botcon 2007, Universe, and GDO. Seems he's missing a few bullets for them.

Ah, well. They'll be disappearing from the shelf in due time.

[craggy]

Once I get these in hand, GDO Springer is getting renamed Sprung, and is joining the pre-Earth bots as a younger version of this awesome triple-changing badass.

Getting Blitzwing just means I'll have to hunt down Classics (or Henkei) Astrotrain for sure now though.

[Henry921]

Getting Blitzwing just means I'll have to hunt down Classics (or Henkei) Astrotrain for sure now though.

Yeah, and a set of Seekers, plus a Runabout and Runamuck for a full IDW Earth Infiltration Cell!

[Manterax Prime]

Springer's come prepared for collectors. 1 sword for fighting Blitzwing, and a dual missile launcher for blasting G1 Springer and FP Defender off the shelf.

Well now I feel silly owning the three other Springers, from Botcon 2007, Universe, and GDO. Seems he's missing a few bullets for them.

Ah, well. They'll be disappearing from the shelf in due time.

Nah, he can cut them down too.

[Blurrz]

I'll probably get all 4; the two voyagers are stunners, and I love me some targetmasters/minicons

[Doubledealer93]

i would kill for some size comparison pics. i wanna know how well blitzwing stacks up with RTS lugnut

[Stormrider]

Love Springer. Not crazy for the hollowness to the back of the tank mode. They couldn't find a way to make that a little less obvious?

[Alexander85]

release date!!!!

[Deathsanras]

Springer's robot mode has really nice proportions. He looks tall and lean, without being skinny, but powerful at the same time. Like a Cybertronian swimmer's body.

[mtma]

So... Any preditcion on when these will hit TFsource and BBTS?

[Bowspearer]

Blitzwing is an easy pass for me- half a tank mode makes for a worse figure than the G1 release.

Springer is nice, but doesn't wow me enough to make him an instant buy.

Those legends class targetmaters on the other hand - amazing. They've crammed decent articulation into Legends class figs and triple changing partners using engineering that looks like a massive step up from Armada.

Those two are totally bought and bought and will go perfectly with Metroplex.

[SKYWARPED_128]

Not quite sold on Blitzwing, and it's not so much the face gimmick itself. Actually, it's the G1 face that bothers me; it looks bloated, with a double chin. I don't know, maybe painting up the side borders will fix the problem.

Or maybe it's the lighting and the camera angles?

Springer: bought on sight. Gorgeous proportions and nice face sculpt, and the car mode actually has a solid back portion, unlike a few of the recent car bots in the Generations line (yeah, I'm looking at you, FOC Jazz)! The helicopter mode is surprisingly good as well.

[Shadowstream]

To say that Springer is overall better than Warbot Defender is kind of pushing the envelope just a bit for me. I am pretty much all in if I ever see him on the shelves, but for scale purposes I think Defender will stay where he is. I'm also not big on the legs, I mean they do look great... when you look at them from any angle but the front.

While it is rather disappointing that Blitzwing(rather typically of a triple-changer) falls rather flat on the alt modes, it still looks pretty damn good. Personally I'm rather glad they incorporated elements of the Animated character as to me that was a rather endearing trait that gives him better individuality as a character... or characters... Plus I don't see many alternatives for a new version of the character to put on a classics shelf, so he's as good as bought!

The legends... well I'll never see them on a shelf around here, so they're negligible irregardles of how crap they look anyway.

[chuckdawg1999]

Any idea when BBTS gets these in? All of them look awesome. Judging by the writing on the packaging it looks like the mini-cons with Prime and Bumblebee have some sort of automorph into gun mode. I do hope Roller is miss-transformed because it looks like Prime won't be able to hold it up. I'm really pleased that both Springer and Blitzwing will have weapon storage.

[Eagleblaster]

Springer looks real good. He caught my eye the first time I seen his photos. He looks possible+, they got him doing the one legged standing pose+ it look like he has a waist swivel+ his colors look alrit+

He looks like he can take on a couple Decepticon all by his self+ He is a triple changer that has a great robot mode and two other serviceable modes+ when someone asked what can this toy do? You got a lot to show them+ And he looks like its fun transforming that guy+

I cant think of any other transformers like this one+ And he has colored car rims++++ Im a get him a.s.a.p.+++++

Springer

[Mkall]

Any idea when BBTS gets these in? All of them look awesome. Judging by the writing on the packaging it looks like the mini-cons with Prime and Bumblebee have some sort of automorph into gun mode. I do hope Roller is miss-transformed because it looks like Prime won't be able to hold it up. I'm really pleased that both Springer and Blitzwing will have weapon storage.

I believe RobotKingdom just got them in stock, so I would suspect BBTS will get it in a couple weeks.

[chuckdawg1999]

Any idea when BBTS gets these in? All of them look awesome. Judging by the writing on the packaging it looks like the mini-cons with Prime and Bumblebee have some sort of automorph into gun mode. I do hope Roller is miss-transformed because it looks like Prime won't be able to hold it up. I'm really pleased that both Springer and Blitzwing will have weapon storage.

I believe RobotKingdom just got them in stock, so I would suspect BBTS will get it in a couple weeks.

Thanks for the info. Theoretically speaking, if I were to get them from Robot Kingdom would I get them sooner than if I wait for BBTS to get them in stock and ship them out?

[Handels-Messerschmitt]

I wasn't very interested in Springer because I don't feel anything either way for the character and I don't like autobot cars very much but I'm pretty impressed with the mold itself. The colours have grown on me too and I kind of like them now.

Mostly, though, I now really badly want a Battletrap repaint of this guy. It'd be so good. Blue Bacchus would be my second choice. If I knew we'd never get those though I'd pick this up anyway.

[Flakmaster]

Though it's not all that necessary in the first place, I'm glad to see that the face-changing gimmick looks a bit sturdier than the one on Animated Blitzwing, with his bothersome rubbery helmet.

[joevill]

I am happy to see Blitzwing has three faces!