In case you're wondering about the Blue machine at the top of the blog and the grey Antares machine farther down the page, the difference is the year model. Machines manufactured in 2005 or later have the blue graphics panels on them. Antares machines from 1995 to 2004 have the grey & black graphics as shown in the lower picture.
Along with the color change, these 2005+ blue machines do have a different configuration on the soda machine for the size items they can vend. The grey combos had 4 lanes for 12 oz. cans in the top half of the machine and 3 lanes for either 12 oz. cans or 10 oz. juice bottles in the bottom half of the soda vending machine. The newer blue ones have 6 lanes for vending 12 oz. cans (3 on top and 3 on bottom) as well as 1 lane (runs from top to bottom) that can vend larger items such as gatorade bottles.
Before 1995 Antares / Orion machines also had blue graphics that were gridlike and looked completely different from the new models. There aren't too many pre 1995 machines around these days :-)
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