Stormfall Sword

Windblade's wind blade.

The distinctive energy blade known as the Stormfall Sword is Windblade's signature weapon.

Whatever the turbine in the hilt does, it's certainly on brand!

Fiction

Generation 1 continuity family

Prime Wars Trilogy cartoons

Windblade often used her Stormfall Sword in battle during the Combiner Wars and Trypticon's rampage. When Megatronus returned to Cybertron, she attempted to throw her sword at him, but it was instantly disintegrated by his aura of flames. All Things Must Pass

2019 IDW continuity

Windblade deployed her sword to investigate Brainstorm's Energon transmission station. The World In Your Eyes Part One

Cyberverse cartoon

Windblade wielded the Stormfall Sword as her preferred weapon. She was capable of deflecting shuttle-grade energy weapons using the blade. Sabotage Slipstream briefly took possession of it during a fight with the Autobot while rhetorically asking about the amount of Decepticon lives the blade had probably taken. Siloed

After Blugdeon had killed Slipstream during peace talks, Parley Windblade turned her sword on the silent Decepticon. Secret Science

When Windblade was attempting to reactivate Iaconus, she summoned a mental construct of the Stormfall Sword to destroy the traps that Maccadam had laid in the Titan's mind. The End Of The Universe II

When the Mercenaries time locked Cybertron to rob everything of value, Nightbird eagerly claimed the Stormfall Sword from Windblade. The Immobilizers

Games

Transformers: Battle Tactics

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Transformers: Forged to Fight

Transformers: Heavy Metal

Toys

Generations

• Windblade (Deluxe Class, 2014)

• Known designers: Lenny Panzica (Hasbro), You (initial concept)

Packaged only with Generations: Thrilling 30 Windblade, the Stormfall Sword is a translucent blade with a turbine at the hilt, which Windblade can hold via its 5 mm post. The sword sheathes into the included scabbard, which can be held or tabbed onto slots on her thighs and back/cockpit sides, as well as be stored underneath her jet mode.

This mold was also used as the basis for Bludgeon's fiction-only sword in the "Cybertron Magna Convoy" comic.

Legends

• Windblade (February 14, 2015)
  • Japanese ID number: LG12

Legends Windblade is a redeco of the above Thrilling 30 Deluxe Class Windblade with various changes in color layout to be more comic-accurate to her intervening appearances in IDW Publishing's comics. This extends to the Stormfall Sword which is now cast in a distinctly redder hue.

• Targetmaster Windblade (February 24, 2018)
  • Japanese ID number: LG62

The second Legends figure of Windblade is a redeco of her Titans Return Deluxe Class figure, once again featuring paint apps and plastic color changes that make her resemble her comic coloration a bit better. Unlike the original Titans Return figure, she features her Stormfall Sword in a redeco of its original Thrilling 30 mold, now cast with an entirely translucent blade.

Robots in Disguise (2015)

(Hasbro Version Pictured)

• Windblade (Warrior Class, 2016)

• TakaraTomy ID Number: TAV55
• TakaraTomy Release Date: September 24, 2016

Part of the seventh wave of Hasbro's Robots in Disguise Warrior Class toys, and the first of the Mini-Con Weaponizers sub-line, Robots in Disguise Warrior Class Windblade includes a version of the Stormfall Sword cast entirely in opaque black plastic. Her sword can be stored in a large scabbard which can hang from her hip by slotting the tabs on the scabbard's sides into the mold-release slots on Windblade's upper thighs.

(TakaraTomy Version Pictured)

Her scabbard can be stowed in vehicle mode by plugging a 5 mm post into a slot in her undercarriage. The end is molded to look like the mouth of a blaster, giving her an undercarriage cannon.

The TakaraTomy version of the figure, released in the nineteenth wave of the Adventure toyline, features several more paint applications, notably including a pink blade for the Stormfall Sword, bringing it in line with the sword's appearance in the Robots in Disguise cartoon.

This mold was also used to make Titan Force Windblade.

• More information on Warrior Class Windblade at TFU.info

• Windblade (Warrior Class, 2017)

Premiering in the tenth wave of Warrior Class toys, during the "Combiner Force" series, this version of Windblade is a redeco of her prior Warrior Class figure above with a generally darker scheme. She includes a Stormfall Sword identical to that of the original Warrior Class figure.

Titans Return

• Titan Force (Multi-pack, July 21, 2016)

Titans Return Titan Force Windblade is a redeco of Robots in Disguise Windblade in a colour scheme reminiscent of Fortress Maximus. She includes a similarly redecoed Stormfall Sword cast in red plastic with a silver blade.

The figure was only available in a gift set together with Titan Force redecoes of Sentinel Prime and Brainstorm.

Legacy

• Cyberverse Universe Windblade (Deluxe Class, 2024)

• Known designers: Mark Maher (Hasbro), Koki Yamada (TakaraTomy)

Released in the first wave of Legacy: United Deluxes, "Cyberverse Universe Windblade" is based on her appearance in the Cyberverse cartoon. She includes a translucent purple version of the Stormfall Sword with a new fiery sculpt intended to allow it to double as an effect part. The fans on her wings can rotate in both modes, with each side painted to allow the choice between show-accurate light grey or the toy's black. The Stormfall Sword is capable of stowing away in her vehicle mode with the blade/flame effect poking out of the back to evoke her after-burning jet thrust. Her hips also come with compatible ports that the sword can be stored on in robot mode in a holstered position.

• Designer commentary on Legacy Windblade from Mark Maher on Instagram

Notes

• According to Windblade's original designer Lenny Panzica, the Stormfall Sword was original conceptualized as "charging up" while in its scabbard before allowing Windblade to unleash some sort of "tornado attack" via the fan in the hilt when unsheathed. While this precise ability has yet to appear in fiction, it may have influenced her frequently-used wind blast attack via her wing fans.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Stormfall Sword (ストームフォールソード Sutōmufōru Sōdo)