[MOC] LEGO Transformers Springer (triple changer) v1.5 with instructio

[alanyuppie]

Back in 2009 , I made LEGO Springer* (v1.00) and kept it displayed on my shelf till now. Recently I took some of my best LEGO Transformers creations to be exhibited in a local LEGO event, and cloned them to show all their modes .

*Springer is a character from Transformers G1 cartoon series with the ability to convert into 2 alternate modes.

I hastily spent 2 days to retool my LEGO Springer to be more stable (scaring minor tremors made from excited kids on the display table might topple my exhibits).

I end up redesigning 50% of him from the waist down, making use of the stronger balljoint parts LEGO offered from recent years. I took the chance to improve his land vehicle mode to be sleeker too.

So LEGO Springer v1.5 is finally born! The exhibition ended more than 3 weeks ago. Only recently I managed to sit down and find time to snap photos of him to be published online.

Like most of my LEGO TF creations, Springer transforms between modes without the need to remove parts, and he is bestowed with fair amount of articulations too.

For more photos, visit my blog entry below:

Alanyuppie's LEGO Transformers: LEGO Springer v1.5 (updated with building instructions!)

While I'm at it... I am in the mood to share the building instructions with you guys (link below)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m4ud2vzq9irl9pp/springer-instructions.pdf?dl=0

ps: I noticed the current upper body of this guy looks kinda dated . I might revisit this creation again and improve his upper body if time permits in the future (as a filler project coz 2015 will be my "year of the Transformers Combiner (MOC)" )

[Delta62]

Nice job on Springer, does it transform?

[alanyuppie]

Nice job on Springer, does it transform?

If you meant transform without parts removal, yep. Thats the fun in building bots like these... and one MOC like this took me sometimes over a month to complete.

[Krikkit]

Awesome, I am a massive TF fan and this is brilliant. Have you nabbed any ideas from the Kreo builds in other stuff?

[alanyuppie]

Awesome, I am a massive TF fan and this is brilliant. Have you nabbed any ideas from the Kreo builds in other stuff?

Kreo's aren't particularly inspiring to me since each alternate modes require disasembly of parts. I would love to make use of their premoulded robot heads though, but I couldn't get over the lego purist in me. It's still pretty fun to build my own robot head using a dozen parts or so :)

Edited December 29, 2014 by alanyuppie

[Krikkit]

One of the prime heads was really good, actually better than one on a classics model... But the head sculpts are great.

[wallacechow2005]

Cool and Awesome. Thanks for your instruction!