Blurr (Cybertron)
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- Armada
- Cybertron
- Blurr is an Autobot (or several) from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.
Blurr is either a high-strung Autobot scout, a cranky Velocitronian race coach, Armada Blurr, or one of several Cybertron-born Autobot civilians in hiding on Earth, depending on who one asks.
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Fiction
Cybertron cartoon
Blurr of Cybertron
- Voice actor: Kirby Morrow (English, "Search"), ? (Japanese)
Blurr (or a reasonable facsimile) was one of countless Autobot civilians relocated to Earth after the black hole began to threaten Cybertron's orbit. He and several other Autobots scanned a sleek-looking racing car as a disguise for blending in with Earth's society. They were learning to parallel park in a mall parking lot with the Autobots' human friend Coby when their impressive car modes started to draw too much attention. Coby's tall tale about remote-controlled, voice-activated break-dancing cars didn't discourage the attention much, either. Still, they started to learn the rules of the road from Lori and the others back at the Autobots' secret base. Hidden Optimus Prime checked in with Blurr and one of the other sleek racers while searching for Hot Shot. Landmine
Blurr participated in the search for the Omega Lock when the civilian Autobots volunteered their optics for Prime's cause. Search When an enraged Megatron came to Earth searching for the traitor Starscream, Blurr and the other civilian Autobots helped evacuate the area of humans to avoid discovery and keep them out of danger. Revelation After Mudflap turned away from the Decepticon cause to rejoin the Autobots, Blurr and his group of identical friends welcomed him back to the civilian Autobots. Family
Crosswise and Mudflap coordinated rescue efforts with Blurr and many other civilian Autobots during the final hours of the black hole's threat to Earth. Homecoming
Blurr of Velocitron
Blurr (or a reasonable facsimile) was one of countless nearly identical racers seen negotiating the raceways of Velocitron. Space
As the threat of the giant black hole grew, Velocitron's ramps began to fall apart, and many Blurr lookalikes fell through the crumbling roadways. Override returned to unite her people as Autobots, joined under Optimus Prime's command on Cybertron to fight back against Galvatron and the black hole. Homecoming
Timelines
Blurr, a veteran racing champion from Velocitron, had turned into an instructor for younger 'bots in his later years. He heard about the threat of the Unicron Singularity, and made contact with the Autobots to join their search for the Cyber Planet Keys. This was shortly after the discovery of Jungle Planet. He was assigned to the scout ship Spanner by Ultra Magnus, working under the captain Longrack alongside Armorhide and Checkpoint. Their mission began in Delta Draconis, checking out spatial anomalies. They found a distant world, covered in Cybertronian corpses after what appeared to be an endless series of conflicts.
Longrack sent Blurr out on recon patrol, and the Velocitronian quickly came under heavy fire from one of the few surviving residents. Switching to robot mode, he summoned his Cyber Key Power to dramatically boost his foot speed. Blurr ran rings around the attacking helicopter, and managed to trap it in a whirlwind until a small shrapnel charge upset his footing, sending him flying and ultimately into stasis lock.
By the time Blurr revived, Longrack had made peace with their Combatron attacker, Whirl. Unfortunately, they were back out into battle before he had much time to rest, as a contingent of Decepticons had also found this "Apocalypse Planet", and its vault filled with doomsday arsenals. As Whirl and the Spanner's crew confronted the Decepticons, they had to fight their way through pilfered Mini-Cons, Decepticlones, and nucleon shock gauntlets, among other surprises. Blurr got into a race with the Decepticon driver known as Runamuck, but his dwindling power levels finally failed completely, and the racing champion went down.
The Autobots were taken prisoner but, luckily, the Decepticon squad leader Brushguard had studied under Megatron in the art of endless gloating, and he held then alive and captive long enough to rant about his greater glory. Armorhide, the last Autobot free, managed to return to the Spanner and pilot it straight into the Decepticon-held bunker. Blurr and the others broke free and stole Brushguard's ship, the Upstart, leaving the Decepticons behind on the Apocalypse Planet and continuing on for their rendezvous with Ultra Magnus and the Iron Hope. Force of Habit
Following the war with Galvatron, Blurr joined Override on board the Star Arrow. During a space mission when they were transporting a valuable Force Chip, the Star Arrow was shot down above the planet Sandokan. While searching for the means of repairing their ship, Blurr and the Autobots were attacked by Synthos, the deranged creature who had brought their ship down. They managed to retreat to a cave where they set up camp to repair their injuries and signal for rescue. Unfortunately, things were never that simple. The Decepticon mercenary known as Astrotrain arrived on Synthos, searching for their Force Chip and the Dark Heart that powered Synthos. Blurr was ambushed outside the cave by Astrotrain, and knocked off-line during the battle. Astrotrain's Mini-Con partners managed to steal the Force Chip from the Autobots, and fled the scene.
The Autobots raced after Astrotrain, and caught up with the Decepticon during a skirmish between him and Synthos. Astrotrain attempted to overpower the creature by using the Force Chip, but was fighting a losing battle. Synthos got possession of the Force Chip and nearly became unstoppable as he tried to add its power to his own Dark Heart. Luckily, Excellion and Blurr managed to fend off the creature and reclaim the Force Chip before any of their enemies could. In an ironic twist, the Autobots were then saved by the arrival of the space pirate Cannonball, Astrotrain's employer. As the Decepticons occupied themselves with the threat of Synthos, Blurr and the Autobots snuck aboard Cannonball's shuttle and assumed control of the vessel. With the Force Chip safely tucked away, they began their journey back to Cybertron. The Dark Heart of Sandokan
Toys
Cybertron
- Buzzsaw vs Blurr (Multi-pack, 2005)
- ID number: GS-01
- Release date: February 24, 2005
- Accessories: Left & right launchers, 2 missiles, Speed Planet Cyber Key
- A redeco and extensive retooling of Armada Blurr, Galaxy Force Blurr transforms into a sleek Veloctronian race car with transparent tires. His entire vehicle-mode back end has been altered to replace the original toy's Mini-Con activation gimmick with a Cyber Key activation gimmick: plugging a Key into the space under Blurr's spoiler causes the rear side panels of Blurr's car mode to flip down into a "flight mode". This mode also makes his twin spring-loaded missile launchers available, which become hand-held weapons in robot mode. These launchers are entirely new tooling, which replaces the Mini-Con Powerlinx gimmick with traditional firing tabs, as well as replace the 5 mm post connectors in favor of thin tabs that actually slot into his open hands. Blurr also features a new head, based heavily upon Generation 1 Blurr.
- In Japan, he was only available in a "vs set" with Buzzsaw, released in the fourth wave of Galaxy Force product.
- This mold was later retooled further to make the BotCon 2008-exclusive Shattered Glass Blurr.
- Blurr (Deluxe Class, 2005)
- Accessories: Left & right launchers, 2 missiles, Speed Planet Cyber Key
- Cyber Key Code: d0y2
- For his later Hasbro Cybertron release, Blurr was available as an individual Deluxe in a short-run "wave 3.5". The toy proper is unchanged from the Japanese release, but his Cyber Key has had a new Cyber Key Code stamped on its back.
- Later releases of this toy came with a pack-in DVD of the Cybertron cartoon episode "Hidden".
Universe (2008)
- Battle for the Cyber Planet Keys (Multi-pack, 2008)
- Series: Cybertron Series
- Accessories: Left & right launchers, 2 missiles, Speed Planet Cyber Key
- Cyber Key Code: d0y2
- Blurr was re-released without changes (from the Hasbro version) in the 2008 Universe toyline in a Sam's Club-exclusive box set.
- This pack also includes unchanged-from-the-Hasbro-releases versions of Runamuck, Buzzsaw, and Longrack, plus a new redeco of Armada Deluxe class Optimus Prime.
Who is Blurr?
In the Japanese Galaxy Force line, Blurr is described as being a high-strung, super-fast scout from Cybertron, effectively an alternate-universe incarnation of Generation 1 Blurr and distinct from the characterization of "Silverbolt", known outside Japan as Armada Blurr. He was sent as an advance scout to the Speed Planet. This, of course, was never part of the show's events; in fact, this depiction of Blurr only appeared on his Japanese bio card and nowhere else.
But in the Hasbro Cybertron line, Blurr has two separate profiles, both of which also contradict his appearance on the show. The first one was published on his packaging and appears on his Hasbro product page. It can easily be interpreted as calling him a native Velocitronian, describing him as a retired race champion and extremely demanding, seemingly short-tempered coach (with a spark of gold, of course) for new racers.[1]
The second bio, which appeared online after the toy had been released stateside, explicitly characterized him as the character from Armada, staying on Cybertron during the Unicron Singularity crisis to keep the Decepticons remaining there from making things even worse.[2]
The later text story "The Dark Heart of Sandokan" follows the lead of the Hasbro packaging bio, explicitly stating that Blurr is an elder Velocitronian, giving him a somewhat Lou-Gosset-Jr.-y temperament with his newest student, Excellion.
Finally, Blurr's vehicle mode model is used as several different colored generic Transformers from both Cybertron and Velocitron. Given that the model sample sheet for his Japanese toy pack-in counterpart, Buzzsaw, explicitly names him after the Decepticon toy despite hailing from Velocitron, it is very likely that the animators and showrunners would've considered these generics to all be Blurr.
As such... exactly who the Cybertron Blurr toy represents is pretty damn up in the air. Take your pick, you have a lot of canon choices.
Notes
- The gang-molded Mini-Con partner for Blurr's mold was omitted from both the Takara and Hasbro releases of the toy. In Japan, it saw release in the fourth Micron Booster assortment as Wrench. Hasbro, however, never released any version of the Mini-Con whatsoever.
Foreign names
- Japanese: Blurr (ブラー Burā)
