Editing Springer (ROTF)

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{{disambig3|Springer}}
:''Springer is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen franchise]] in the [[Live-action film series|live-action film]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ROTFtoy-SpringerLegends.jpg|right|thumb|300px|I've got better things to do tonight than appear in the actual movie!]]

In a fight '''Springer''' has formidable brute force he can rely on, which is good, since he is not one of the more skillful bots. Even so, he is smart, but has only rose to be a middle of the Autobot ranks.

==Toys==
===Revenge of the Fallen===
====Legends Class Toys====
*'''Autobot Springer''' (Legends Class, 2009)

:Springer is an olive drab and dark gray V-22 Osprey. He has 5PR1N63R printed on the tops of his wings. His twin engines do not pivot upward like a real Osprey, but the propellers themselves can be rotated to approximate VTOL. He has one degree of freedom each at the wrist, elbow, shoulder, and ankle, but his hips are ball-jointed. In a surprising bit of attention to detail, the port and starboard rotors have opposite "handedness", just like a real aircraft.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/Springer/springer.htm More information on Springer at TFU.info]''
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==Merchandise==
===Robot Heroes===
[[Image:Robotheroesspringerstarscream.jpg|right|thumb|300px|I'm in the first wave!  I must be important!]]
*'''Autobot Springer and Starscream''' (2009)
: Springer is part of the first wave of ''[[Revenge of the Fallen]]'' ''[[Robot Heroes]]'' figures and is packaged versus [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]].  He has articulation at both shoulders.
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==Notes==
* According to [[Hasbro]]'s Saturday panel at [[BotCon 2009]], Springer was to be an on-screen character in ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', but was later dropped. [[Ben Procter]] designed his robot mode<ref name="procter">[http://conceptartworld.com/?p=2772 Ben Procter's concept designs for ROTF]</ref>, which also strongly influenced [[Alex Milne]]'s design for [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]] (another Osprey Transformer) in [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''[[Alliance (comic)|Alliance]]'' comic.
* Springer is the ''third'' Osprey Transformer in the movieverse, the other two being [[Incinerator (Movie)|Incinerator]] and [[Ruination (ROTF)|Ruination]]. (Only three Osprey helicopters were part of the [[United States Air Force]] inventory at the time of the first film's release, two of them appearing in the film itself. As of May 2009, there's four of 'em...but the [[United States Marine Corps|Marines]] have, like, 150 of 'em.)
* Given that the real Osprey is 60ft long, Springer (like most aircraft Transformers) would be rather large if [[scale]] was attended to. He's actually in pretty good scale with the Legends version of [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]]. Yet his only toys are in the smallest size classes.

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