In-hand Images of Movie Advanced AD-20 Black Knight Grimlock
Saturday, July 19th, 2014 11:40PM CDT
Category: Toy NewsPosted by: LOST Cybertronian Views: 27,836
Topic Options: View Discussion · Sign in or Join to reply
News Search
Got Transformers News? Let us know here!
Most Popular Transformers News
Most Recent Transformers News
Posted by Xephon0930 on July 20th, 2014 @ 7:52am CDT
Posted by Evil Eye on July 20th, 2014 @ 7:53am CDT
Posted by xyl360 on July 20th, 2014 @ 11:14am CDT
Xephon0930 wrote:Yeah. He isn't that more screen accurate as Takara claimed. I am starting to think that Takara's remold of AoE Leader Prime isn't going to fare much better.
Where did Takara claim that? I thought this was just supposed to be one of those oddball exclusives they tend to do (like Dark Guard Optimus Prime was in the Transformers: Prime line etc.). Usually when they put out a more show accurate deco of a figure from a main line, it gets released in the main line, not as an exclusive. At least if my recollection is correct, that's generally how they do it. The exclusives are usually just oddball repaints or homages to more obscure stuff/different continuities etc. like with the G1 colored Dinobots they're releasing.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on July 20th, 2014 @ 12:08pm CDT
xyl360 wrote:Xephon0930 wrote:Yeah. He isn't that more screen accurate as Takara claimed. I am starting to think that Takara's remold of AoE Leader Prime isn't going to fare much better.
Where did Takara claim that? I thought this was just supposed to be one of those oddball exclusives they tend to do (like Dark Guard Optimus Prime was in the Transformers: Prime line etc.). Usually when they put out a more show accurate deco of a figure from a main line, it gets released in the main line, not as an exclusive. At least if my recollection is correct, that's generally how they do it. The exclusives are usually just oddball repaints or homages to more obscure stuff/different continuities etc. like with the G1 colored Dinobots they're releasing.
Black Knight Leader Grimlock is a main line release, numbered AD20. He's not an exclusive like Black Knight Scorn and Slug are.
He looks interesting, but the Platinum Leader Grimlock looks just a tad better:
Posted by BumbleDouche on July 20th, 2014 @ 12:26pm CDT
Posted by Siger on July 20th, 2014 @ 1:00pm CDT
Delta Magnus wrote:Wow, that dino mode actually looks good with that deco. And the robot mode is sublime.
Don't know what pictures you are looking at buddy but whatever floats your boat.
Posted by MGrotusque on July 20th, 2014 @ 1:54pm CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
This colour scheme makes no sense to me. It also doesn't make the figure look any better either.
Posted by dabattousai on July 20th, 2014 @ 3:11pm CDT
MGrotusque wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
This colour scheme makes no sense to me. It also doesn't make the figure look any better either.
Actually if you noticed in the movie, Grimlock does have a greenish tint coming off his back in dino mode. I am assuming that is what this is trying to interpret. I think I will stick to the chromed one. If anything, I can buy some paint and do it a bit up if I really want to. I'm quite happy with him though.
Posted by Evil Eye on July 20th, 2014 @ 3:48pm CDT
Posted by SlyTF1 on July 20th, 2014 @ 10:10pm CDT
MegaDump wrote:"He has proven difficult to capture and nearly impossible to defeat. When an enemy does get the best of him, it's never for long." Hmmm... Unless you think about how he was imprisoned by Lockdown. Clearly he was defeated, and with a Dinosaur beast mode he'd presumably scanned and reformed into at least 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs were around. "Never for long," unless you count this 65 million year imprisonment. Then there's the "nearly impossible to defeat," although Optimus Prime manages it with one knockdown?
Grimlock didn't scan a dinosaur. He probably doesn't even have anything to do with Earth's dinosaurs.
Posted by BumbleDouche on July 21st, 2014 @ 5:38am CDT
SlyTF1 wrote:MegaDump wrote:"He has proven difficult to capture and nearly impossible to defeat. When an enemy does get the best of him, it's never for long." Hmmm... Unless you think about how he was imprisoned by Lockdown. Clearly he was defeated, and with a Dinosaur beast mode he'd presumably scanned and reformed into at least 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs were around. "Never for long," unless you count this 65 million year imprisonment. Then there's the "nearly impossible to defeat," although Optimus Prime manages it with one knockdown?
Grimlock didn't scan a dinosaur. He probably doesn't even have anything to do with Earth's dinosaurs.
Then all those beast modes are either huge coincidences in their resemblance to Earth dinosaurs, or evidence of convergent evolution on another world? I don't buy it. Either way, it's another gap "left open to interpretation" by Bay... What use is the story-driven narrative of a movie when you have to invent the story & make sense of it yourself?
Posted by Va'al on July 21st, 2014 @ 10:39am CDT
Posted by Peridot on July 21st, 2014 @ 11:54am CDT
Posted by griftimus prime on July 21st, 2014 @ 12:22pm CDT
Posted by shajaki on July 21st, 2014 @ 12:24pm CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on July 21st, 2014 @ 12:30pm CDT
griftimus prime wrote:is the tall optimus the first edition? what is the name of the optimus with the backpack?
From left to right: First Edition, LA01 Battle Command, Leader.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 21st, 2014 @ 12:31pm CDT
Left to right:griftimus prime wrote:is the tall optimus the first edition? what is the name of the optimus with the backpack?
Premiere Edition Optimus Prime, Lost Age Series LA01 Battle Command Optimus Prime, Movie Advanced Series AD01 Optimus Prime
They are the Japanese counterparts to First Edition Optimus Prime, nothing (there is no Hasbro version of Battle Command OP), and Age of Extinction Generations Leader class Optimus Prime.
Posted by Siger on July 21st, 2014 @ 1:13pm CDT
Metro Prime wrote:That Optimus is looking better and better. It's actually in-scale, as opposed to the giant Leader Class, and it's more movie-accurate than anything Hasbro's putting out. I just really hope that backpack can fold up...
Why fold up? Judging by the dimensions, it'll go over Optimus' head if it can be folded up. Either way you are going to be stuck with one of the biggest backpack ever, so why not leave it down and hide the ugliness?
Posted by Peridot on July 21st, 2014 @ 1:15pm CDT
shajaki wrote:wow... i think ill be getting that grimlock and lockdown for sure. and how can i not get a transformer voiced by john goodman? i just saw TF4 last night and almost fell off my chair when bumblebee quoted big lebowski "calmer'n you are".
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5VT-ofxdh4[/youtube]
Posted by Peridot on July 21st, 2014 @ 1:20pm CDT
Siger wrote:Metro Prime wrote:That Optimus is looking better and better. It's actually in-scale, as opposed to the giant Leader Class, and it's more movie-accurate than anything Hasbro's putting out. I just really hope that backpack can fold up...
Why fold up? Judging by the dimensions, it'll go over Optimus' head if it can be folded up. Either way you are going to be stuck with one of the biggest backpack ever, so why not leave it down and hide the ugliness?
I'd rather have a large, somewhat-integrated backpack than a giant chunk of truck kibble that just hangs loosely from his waist. Plus, it can't be any worse than the First Edition's backpack of doom.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 21st, 2014 @ 1:38pm CDT
Posted by Evil Eye on July 21st, 2014 @ 2:35pm CDT
It also shows where the Hasbro version went wrong. If they'd done the whole dino body in chrome it might have worked. Just having the back and skull (and hence inner legs of robot mode) chromed made it look daft. A shame as I did like the chromed dino-noggin.
But yeah. That Takara Grimlock is SOLD.
Also, any word on the upgraded Takara leader Prime (with the supposed retooling and completely chromed finish)?
Posted by Samsonator on July 21st, 2014 @ 3:14pm CDT
Posted by Evil Eye on July 21st, 2014 @ 3:42pm CDT
Samsonator wrote:Once again, Takara Tomy steps in to make a garbage toy look less garbage. That Galvatron almost looks buyable.
Believe it or not, it's not the backpack that puts me off buying it. It's the V-crotch arrangement with the hip ratchets.
Posted by Fires_Of_Inferno on July 21st, 2014 @ 6:27pm CDT
I've been trying to figure out what it is about Galvatron that looks familiar in a way. I just put my finger on it! He looks like a minotaur! He's got feet that look like cloven hooves, and his helmet looks a lot like a set of horns from the front.
Posted by Siger on July 21st, 2014 @ 8:41pm CDT
Metro Prime wrote:Siger wrote:Metro Prime wrote:That Optimus is looking better and better. It's actually in-scale, as opposed to the giant Leader Class, and it's more movie-accurate than anything Hasbro's putting out. I just really hope that backpack can fold up...
Why fold up? Judging by the dimensions, it'll go over Optimus' head if it can be folded up. Either way you are going to be stuck with one of the biggest backpack ever, so why not leave it down and hide the ugliness?
I'd rather have a large, somewhat-integrated backpack than a giant chunk of truck kibble that just hangs loosely from his waist. Plus, it can't be any worse than the First Edition's backpack of doom.
No, it's the ass-pack of doom. Proportionally speaking it's just a tad worse than the first edition for me.
Sabrblade's video cracked me up so much. What the hell was I watching?
Posted by Sabrblade on July 21st, 2014 @ 10:58pm CDT
Just another typical TakaraTomy Transformers ad for the collector-based Japanese market.Siger wrote:Sabrblade's video cracked me up so much. What the hell was I watching?
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:50am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Just another typical TakaraTomy Transformers ad for the collector-based Japanese market.Siger wrote:Sabrblade's video cracked me up so much. What the hell was I watching?
That was the greatest video I've ever seen. Better than Bohemian Rhapsody
Posted by Sabrblade on July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:53am CDT
And I'll post it again for those who missed it.chuckdawg1999 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Just another typical TakaraTomy Transformers ad for the collector-based Japanese market.Siger wrote:Sabrblade's video cracked me up so much. What the hell was I watching?
That was the greatest video I've ever seen. Better than Bohemian Rhapsody
Posted by noctorro on July 22nd, 2014 @ 5:31am CDT
He has the best scale of all 3 Modern Primes.
That commercial... people get murdered in the movie. They should play that as background music during the killing.
hopefully Hasbro will also make a voyager modern Prime. Evasion is amazing!
Posted by Evil Eye on July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:45pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:And I'll post it again for those who missed it.chuckdawg1999 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Just another typical TakaraTomy Transformers ad for the collector-based Japanese market.Siger wrote:Sabrblade's video cracked me up so much. What the hell was I watching?
That was the greatest video I've ever seen. Better than Bohemian Rhapsody
This is the best thing in the history of the franchise. Period.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:47pm CDT
Posted by Evil Eye on July 22nd, 2014 @ 12:51pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:We should all have a sing-along next Seibertron meetup.
I really hope I have the opportunity to be there if that goes ahead. It's just...so...happy.
I almost want to buy the one-step changers now. Almost.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 22nd, 2014 @ 1:00pm CDT
It's even about as happy as the Song of BeCool:Delta Magnus wrote:Sabrblade wrote:We should all have a sing-along next Seibertron meetup.
I really hope I have the opportunity to be there if that goes ahead. It's just...so...happy.
Posted by Evil Eye on July 22nd, 2014 @ 1:08pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:It's even about as happy as the Song of BeCool:Delta Magnus wrote:Sabrblade wrote:We should all have a sing-along next Seibertron meetup.
I really hope I have the opportunity to be there if that goes ahead. It's just...so...happy.
Are you trying to kill me with cuteness?
Takara truly has the best commercials ever. I actually want to buy Bot Shots now. Other marketers could learn a lot from them.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 22nd, 2014 @ 1:10pm CDT
This whole brand could use a heavy dose of it.Delta Magnus wrote:Are you trying to kill me with cuteness?
Posted by Evil Eye on July 22nd, 2014 @ 1:18pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:This whole brand could use a heavy dose of it.Delta Magnus wrote:Are you trying to kill me with cuteness?
Indeed. I think I'm going to buy AoE Optimus Prime and stick some googly eyes on his windscreen now.
But yeah, I do think we could do with a slightly sillier take on the Transformers. I haven't watched past the first ep of Prime, but from what I'm aware it was quite grim and serious as Transfoers shows go, much like the latter bits of Beast Wars (and like BW it was also pretty awesome) and AoE was pretty bloody depressing. The last "silly" show we had was Animated (which I really need to watch). Maybe the next Transformers cartoon should be done by the Japanese? We haven't had a "main" Transformers anime series since Cybertron (Go! doesn't count as it wasn't released here). RID from what I'm aware (never watched it...) was a little bit too silly, but did have some very funny moments (such as any time Sky-Byte was on the screen). I'd like to see something similar to RID done again- a 2D Transformers anime with an overall humourous tone- perhaps affectionately mocking the sillier bits of the franchise (the absurd scale issues, blatant toy-pushing, some of the crappier series like Energon and, umm, Kiss Players)...
Posted by Sabrblade on July 22nd, 2014 @ 1:21pm CDT
Posted by Evil Eye on July 22nd, 2014 @ 1:24pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Rescue Bots, nudge nudge, wink wink.
Oh yeah. I completely forgot about those guys.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 22nd, 2014 @ 1:27pm CDT
Part 1 of the season 2 finale airs this Saturday, btw.[/shamelessplug]Delta Magnus wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Rescue Bots, nudge nudge, wink wink.
Oh yeah. I completely forgot about those guys.
Posted by Peridot on July 23rd, 2014 @ 6:34pm CDT
Posted by Peridot on July 23rd, 2014 @ 6:34pm CDT
Posted by Va'al on July 29th, 2014 @ 6:56am CDT
chuckdawg1999 wrote:This particular mold has seen quite a bit of use, anyone who frequents dollar stores has probably seen this figure on the shelves once or twice. Done in a smokey clear red and black Takara has decided to re-release Prime once again as a store exclusive for the movie line. If you like the mold you probably already have it.
Posted by BERSEKAEL on July 29th, 2014 @ 5:15pm CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on July 29th, 2014 @ 5:26pm CDT
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on July 29th, 2014 @ 5:27pm CDT
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on July 29th, 2014 @ 5:28pm CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:That magnet is for interaction with Chomp & Stomp Grimlock and Battle Command Optimus Prime, as mentioned several times before.
Battle Command too? This is the first I'm hearing of that.
Posted by Va'al on August 2nd, 2014 @ 8:44am CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on August 2nd, 2014 @ 8:49am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on August 2nd, 2014 @ 9:08am CDT