Review: War Within Grimlock Figure

WW Grimlock has a nice robot mode that is weaked by the stumpy arms. The alt-mode, to me, is just dull. I wish there wasn't a mindset that requires Grimlock to be a tank when he is not a T-rex. Couldn't he be some sort of alien robot counterpart of a T-rex?

:schin

~Matt Booker

:win :thumb

:wtf

WW Grimlock has a nice robot mode that is weaked by the stumpy arms. The alt-mode, to me, is just dull. I wish there wasn't a mindset that requires Grimlock to be a tank when he is not a T-rex. Couldn't he be some sort of alien robot counterpart of a T-rex?

:schin

~Matt Booker

WW Grimlock has a nice robot mode that is weaked by the stumpy arms. The alt-mode, to me, is just dull. I wish there wasn't a mindset that requires Grimlock to be a tank when he is not a T-rex. Couldn't he be some sort of alien robot counterpart of a T-rex?

THat's what I didn't like about the series: too many tanks and ground vehicles. It seemed like only the Seekers and Jetfire were anything other.

Um, isn't that the case in general? If anything good came out of WWI it was the cool Cybertronian alt modes (except Megatron's and Grimlock's. Those blew).

To bad the Ti line sucks in general. Some WWI designs done by Hasbro's TF design team could have been really cool.

I too was a little disappointed with your score on Grimlock's alternate mode because it is indeed very accurate to his actual War Within appearance.

Nope.

http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Image:S...ironhidetww.jpg

And he *is* more of a tank. Pretty much everyone in War Within was.

That shot is foreshortened, and is more from the front than the side so everything looks shorter than it really is. The legs do still stick out the back in that design. If you have the TPB ofWar Within, it shows the legs being just as far back in Don's actual "blueprint" design drawing of him. Other shots in the book also show that the legs stick completely out the back. IT's particularly evident in the last panel on the same page that shows Vibes and Broadside. The toy did get the leg position right in the vehicle mode. Also, those "smoke stacks" are actually cannons. He uses them to blast two of the Constructicons.

Or, and I'm just throwing something out there, maybe Grimlock's WWI alt mode sucks balls, and even a dead on toy representation would have been :fail ?

I too was a little disappointed with your score on Grimlock's alternate mode because it is indeed very accurate to his actual War Within appearance.

Nope.

http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Image:S...ironhidetww.jpg

And he *is* more of a tank. Pretty much everyone in War Within was.

That shot is foreshortened, and is more from the front than the side so everything looks shorter than it really is. The legs do still stick out the back in that design. If you have the TPB ofWar Within, it shows the legs being just as far back in Don's actual "blueprint" design drawing of him. Other shots in the book also show that the legs stick completely out the back. IT's particularly evident in the last panel on the same page that shows Vibes and Broadside. The toy did get the leg position right in the vehicle mode. Also, those "smoke stacks" are actually cannons. He uses them to blast two of the Constructicons.

I too was a little disappointed with your score on Grimlock's alternate mode because it is indeed very accurate to his actual War Within appearance.

Nope.

http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Image:S...ironhidetww.jpg

And he *is* more of a tank. Pretty much everyone in War Within was.

There's an argument for being a tank. However, most tanks have a front barrel or a turret. Grimlock has neither. The pic validates my complaint about the rear end being too long. He's much tauter in that pic

I too was a little disappointed with your score on Grimlock's alternate mode because it is indeed very accurate to his actual War Within appearance.

Nope.

http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/Image:S...ironhidetww.jpg

Thank you. I thought it looked too long, but I hadn't looked it up.

And I've long since stopped trying to like Titaniums. My days of "but it looks kind of cool" and "maybe it's not so bad in hand" stopped long before the death throes of this line.

~Matt Booker

THat's what I didn't like about the series: too many tanks and ground vehicles. It seemed like only the Seekers and Jetfire were anything other. But WWI Grimlock does look dead-on to his comic counterparts..