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News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 12:59 am

Look at all those TEETH on the combiner head! :shock:

AWESOME!
Looks like his jaw is hinged too.

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 5:56 am

I have just sold my Planet X Caelus/Swoop in favour of picking up the Toyworld Dinobots. Had to be done!

Its all for the love of Dinosaurs!

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:28 pm

That combined mode is awesome. And terrifying. A real shame about the partsforming, that looks so badass...

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 7:05 pm

The hands look BAD-ASS.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 8:12 pm

Those hands ARE cool.
So look, now the combiner head is sporting a face mask.
Face mask, teeth, cool hands, cool feet. Dino mode is good, Robot mode is good.
This set is shaping up nicely.
I am a little concerned about the combiner port at the knees, It is just a small single peg. But he is standing fine in those pics.

robotmel - I think you'll be happy with your decision.

by **MightyGrimlock** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 3:49 am

This just keeps looking better and better. Those hand are looking really awesome. I'm keen see how sold those knees are though.

guarayakha wrote:The local toystore I PO from had estimated around June/July, so soonish, i guess?

Thanks for that. I think my question was also answered by the fact the my grimshell was shipped yesterday.

by **guarayakha** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 4:40 am

Please post some kickass pics when you do have him in hand, just to make our wait that much (un)bearable, haha

by **Rated X** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:16 am

Not feeling it at all. The robot mode looks kind of off. And that combiner head is ugly. I wonder if it has no neck articulation like Throttler ? I was so shocked by that, I have yet to build Throttler. Anyways, Im glad I went Fansproject on the Dinobots. No huge Grimlocks, no little Swoops.

by **guarayakha** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:12 am

Rated X wrote:Not feeling it at all. The robot mode looks kind of off. And that combiner head is ugly. I wonder if it has no neck articulation like Throttler ? I was so shocked by that, I have yet to build Throttler. Anyways, Im glad I went Fansproject on the Dinobots. No huge Grimlocks, no little Swoops.

There are pics of him with his head turned, so there a neck joint. But seriously though, Throttler has no articulation for his neck? Really? You sure it wasn't just a tight joint?

by **Rated X** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:27 am

guarayakha wrote:
Rated X wrote:Not feeling it at all. The robot mode looks kind of off. And that combiner head is ugly. I wonder if it has no neck articulation like Throttler ? I was so shocked by that, I have yet to build Throttler. Anyways, Im glad I went Fansproject on the Dinobots. No huge Grimlocks, no little Swoops.

There are pics of him with his head turned, so there a neck joint. But seriously though, Throttler has no articulation for his neck? Really? You sure it wasn't just a tight joint?

Mine is either no articulation or super scary tight. Ill try using a little more pressure. I might have to e-mail BBTS.

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:39 am

I only really like the combined mode on these.

I'm not about to drop $$ for another complete set of d-bots just for the combined mode.

News Credits: 1 · by **mbd88prime** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:17 pm

throttler's head turns 360 on mine. it is very tight but since i like goldbug on the front i had to turn head and it does so just fine. also looks up and down and has incredible light piping effect.

News Credits: 1 · by **mbd88prime** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:19 pm

autobot combiner team will now be more equal to decepticon's with throttler and extinction as i will call both toyworld and shuraking(forget co. name) dino combiners

by **Rated X** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 3:40 pm

mbd88prime wrote:throttler's head turns 360 on mine. it is very tight but since i like goldbug on the front i had to turn head and it does so just fine. also looks up and down and has incredible light piping effect.

Cool thanks. I got throttlers head turning. I thought it was on a ball joint, but apparently the joint is only for foward and backwards and the bottom of the neck is what rotates. I didnt realize that and expected the typical ball joint.

News Credits: 23 · by **ZenPrime** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:51 pm

TW-D03 Grimshell in stock @ BBTS for $139.99

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TOW10017&mode=retail

by **MightyGrimlock** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 2:29 am

I got grimshell a couple of days ago, and he does not fail to impress. I'll put some pics up tomorrow hopefully.

For those ordering him, beware the dino hands. One of mine were broken straight out of the box. My supplier has apparently contacted toyworld, and a new arm if on the way. The tolerances on the chrome and are really tight on mine, and his wrist is really small.

But, still an awesome figure. I haven't combined him yet, but he has a really solid torso mode.

A lot more intricate transformation compared to the first two.Seems to use some square peg for the arm connectors. The hand are awesome, and seem to have some groves that might take a weapon, but I just can't see a combined weapon coming out of this.

Combined feet toes are articulated, and have a folding peg in the bottom for some reason that I haven't figured out yet.

On the leg there is a little tab that the instructions don't mention, but it's an important tabin order to keep the legs together in not torso mode.

by **guarayakha** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 2:25 am

Peaugh's review is up!

Peaugh mentioned about the dino head not being able to rotate, but I'm guessing that it's just the usual ToyWorld's joint clearance issue that they failed to consider after applying those chrome paint, because the last few pics they teased us with does show a slightly turned head.

Everything else is awesome; bummer about the partsforming antennas though.

by **MightyGrimlock** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 7:22 am

A couple of comparison shots. Agreed they don't scale with MP, but they still look good.

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:46 pm

BBTS: http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TOW10018&mode=retail

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 7:21 pm

oooooooooooooo. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. :APPLAUSE:

Thanks mel! That's the one I've been waiting for. Not disappointed at all.

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:25 pm

Those horns are huge! Badass!

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:39 am

Something looks...off aout the dino head. The horns are cool, but the skull looks a tad weird, like they tried to blend the beak of the actual dinosaur and the boxy head of the cartoon model.

That said, it's still pretty cool.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 7:44 pm

shajaki wrote:Those horns are huge! Badass!

Indeed....those are some pretty long horns there.....compensating?

Yeah, they are just too long, unless it's the camera angle. Cripes, he could gore T-rex and his two friends, Utahraptor and Dromiceiomimus, behind him in one fell charge....

by **jamarmiller** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 10:26 pm

liking what I see, one question, will Swoop be available in Red AND Blue ?

I really would like both but if I had to pick BLUE would be the one Id want, I realize it would mess up the color scheme probably and all but still would like cartoon Swoop