Wingblade

Wingblade is a fictional character from the various Transformers universes.

Transformers

Wingblade is an Autobot who turns into an A-10 jet. According to Hasbro toy designers his colors are inspired by the A-10 jets which appeared in the beginning of the film.^[1]

IDW Publishing

Wingblade appears in Transformers: Defiance by IDW Publishing. In issue #2 Wingblade sides with Optimus Prime against Megatron's orders to counter-attack their invaders.

Wingblade is among the Autobot forces who witness the launching of the Decepticon ship Nemesis.^[2]

In Transformers: The Reign of Starscream #4 Arcee returns to Cybertron from Mars by hiding in the landing gear of Starscream's ship. Once on the planet she is discovered by Dreadwing and Payload drones, who she deactivates. Returning to an Autobot training facility she discovers Clocker, who takes her to Crosshairs. Crosshairs is planning an attack to free the Autobots at Simfur. They make their attempt aid of Wingblade, Skyblast, Breakaway and Strongarm. Wingblade appears among the Autobots opposing the forces Starscream on issue #5.^[3]

Note - The appearance of Wingblade is modified in the IDW Publishing stories so that his head more resembles movie style's alien-bug-thingie style than the movie toy and he has a Cybertronian jet alternate mode.

Toys

• Transformers Ultra Wingblade (2008)

He is a redeco of Cybertron Wing Saber. He is a Toys-R-Us store exclusive.^[4][5]

Because he is a redeco of Cybertron Wing Saber he can combine with Cybertron Leader-class Optimus Prime's toy and its redecos. His green color scheme unintentionally makes him into a Springer homage.

A real A10 has a wing span of 1753 centimeters, while this toy has a wingspan of 25.5 centimeters, making this toy have a scale of about 1/69. With the toy robot mode standing 22.5 centimeters tall, the actual robot mode of this character would stand about 1547 centmeters (50 feet 9 inches) tall.

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