Grimlock (RID 2001)
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| The name or term "Grimlock" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Grimlock (disambiguation). |
- Grimlock is an Autobot originally from the Robots in Disguise continuity family.
Grimlock (aka Build Hurricane) is the second-in-command of the Build Team, and a seasoned warrior. Though harsh-looking, he is rather calm and upbeat, and is actually the team's best tactician. And he isn't a dinosaur!
| “ | Respect builds great warriors. | ” |
| —Grimlock's motto | ||
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Fiction
Cartoon continuity
2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon
- Voice actor: Tom Wyner (English), Hiroki Takahashi (Japanese), Mikhail Tihonov (Russian), Rafael Pacheco (Latin-American Spanish)
When the Autobot Brothers encountered the Build Team in an unfinished tunnel, Grimlock was slightly chagrined at his teammates' enthusiastic endorsement of team leader Wedge. When Wedge secured the team a chance for combat, Grimlock similarly warned Hightower not to get Wedge's hopes up before the young bot had even gotten into battle. On arriving at the site where the Predacons were trying to steal diamonds, he and Heavy Load helpfully began transporting the goods. After the Predacons captured Wedge, Grimlock warned Heavy Load that turning the disk containing the space bridge map over would be treason and subsequently ended up chasing a penguin that had snatched the disk — fortunately, the disk turned out to be a decoy. The Build Team was triumphant! Wedge's Short Fuse
After the completion of the Arctic link, Wedge was spoiling to do some more combat practice, and sent the more-diligent Grimlock to program the data into the main space bridge terminal computer. Unfortunately he was tracked by Ro-Tor, who led the rest of the Decepticons to the terminal. Once the space bridge was fixed, he and the rest of the Build Team combined into Landfill in order to chase off Megatron and Scourge from the north energy research facility. Landfill
After Sky-Byte and the Predacons attacked the CGA Tower, Wedge helped to hold it up, but the rest of the Build Team were forced to stay back. They defended the tower against Scourge's attack and formed Landfill in order to dig a new foundation for the tower, allowing the safe release of the hostages. Sky-Byte Saves the Day With all repairs and maintenance finally complete, Heavy Load and the Build Team helped test the space bridge. Lessons of the Past
On discovering that the Commandos had been attacking construction equipment, the Build Team decided to face the Decepticons alone, and Hightower sabotaged the space bridge to keep the other Autobots away. On confronting the Decepticons, Grimlock grappled unsuccessfully with Rollbar. Build Team soon formed Landfill and eventually narrowly defeated Ruination. Afterward they enjoyed a soothing oil bath with Team Bullet Train. A Test of Metal
Sent to dig at a site beneath Metro City where they'd worked before, the Build Team began to experience hallucinations as they had last time. Grimlock tried to reason with Wedge, but soon fell prey to the hallucinations himself. Eventually they broke through to a cavern containing Fortress Maximus and formed Landfill to fight the Decepticons who then arrived. Fortress Maximus Grimlock and the rest of Build Team subsequently hid Fortress Maximus in a huge building in the middle of the city. Koji Gets His Wish
With Doctor Onishi recovered, the Build Team and Autobot Brothers began a race to locate the last five O-Parts. Grimlock successfully dug up the second O-Part. A Friendly Contest
The Build Team accompanied the Autobot Brothers on a mission to find Cerebros beneath an ancient temple. This was fortunate, as the Decepticons caved the temple in on top of them, and the Build Team were able to dig the Autobots out. They subsequently helped to guard Fortress Maximus. To no one's surprise, the Decepticons attacked, and Build Team formed Landfill to help see them off. Maximus Emerges
When Scourge made a second attempt to control Maximus in the Sahara desert, the Build Team and Team Bullet Train picked up a large number of children and took them to the site via the global space bridge. There the children were able to command Maximus to stop. The Human Element
When the Decepticons launched an attack on the Autobot base, the Build Team was called to a predetermined location with the rest of the Autobots to spring a trap on their foe. When the Megastar joined the fight, they formed Landfill, who was promptly blown apart by the battle station's firepower. Surprise Attack!
After the defeat of the Megastar, Landfill was formed again to fight the Decepticons while Omega Prime engaged in combat with Galvatron. Galvatron unleashed his cyber-bats, causing Prime to call a retreat, and the Autobots found themselves trapped in a space bridge tunnel rapidly filling with molten lava. Although they escaped, Galvatron soon had them at his mercy again. Galvatron's Revenge
As Galvatron attempted to attack Optimus Prime, Landfill and the other Autobots blocked his attack and were paralysed by Galvatron's power. They remained in this state until Omega Prime was able to defeat Galvatron in the Earth's core. Afterward, just for fun, the Build Team did some more work on the space bridge. The Final Battle
Legends comic
The Dimensional Patrol was brought to the Legends World by Skids and Sky-Byte to defend it against the attack of Majin Zarak and the Zamojin. Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One
Universe comic
In Viron 903.0 Beta, Grimlock and his teammates joined the Dimensional Patrol. Ask Vector Prime, 13 September 2015
Landfill was abducted by Unicron to become one of the latest combatants inside the Cauldron. Before his inter-dimensional trek could be completed, however, Rhinox from the Children of Primus attempted to intercept the dimensional transition before Unicron claimed his latest victims. Pulled in two directions, Landfill and his comrades Side Burn and Prowl were instead deposited on a frozen planetoid in space. A rescue team of Children of Primus deployed to the planetoid, but so did a team of Minions of Unicron. Landfill worked together with the rescue team, a group of Autobots accidentally pulled in from the past by Rhinox's device, and his fellow victims to successfully defeat the Minions. Afterwards, the temporally-displaced Autobots were sent back to their proper spacetime Voice Actor Drama while Landfill, Prowl, and Side Burn were sent back to their home reality without ever participating in the Universe War. Ask Vector Prime, 13 September 2015
Shell Game continuity
In Viron 704.31 Epsilon, Build Hurricane was robo-smashed by Megazarak into Scavenger. Ask Vector Prime, 30 July 2015
2005 IDW continuity
The Functionist Universe
"Grimlock" and his three teammates stood in a crowd as Twelve-of-Twelve led a procession of captured AVL activists. Anomie
Toys
Robots in Disguise (2001)
- Build Hurricane (2000) / Grimlock (Deluxe Class, 2001)
- Takara release date: August ?? 2000
- Takara ID number: C-019
- Accessories: Bucket-claw
- Known designers: Hisashi Yuki (TakaraTomy), Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)
- Part of the "Build Team", Grimlock transforms into an excavator which, in contrast to his teammates, has relatively realistic proportions. His shovel arm is articulated at the connection joint to the body and the bucket itself, while his upper section can be rotated. The shovel arm has a hidden spring-loaded claw-blade, and the entire assembly turns into a hand-held weapon... for other characters, as Grimlock's claw-hands are incapable of holding it, thus the assembly ends up mounted on his back shoulder.
- He can also form either leg or both arms to the team's combined Landfill mode; the three limb-bots of the team are designed to be able to swap between which limb they form without detaching from the combined mode. However, his nominal placement is as both arms, with the crane-shovel mounted on the giant's back. (Also, he's really awkward as a leg, not really having any kind of "foot" in that mode, unlike the other two.)
- He was first released in the sixth wave of Takara's Car Robots toyline, alongside his fellow Build Team members, as "Build Hurricane". The later Hasbro Robots in Disguise "Grimlock", released in the third wave of Deluxe-class figures, adds numerous paint applications to him, the most obvious being an Autobot sigil, and various bits of gold striping.
- Build King (Multi-pack, 2000)
- Takara ID number: C-022
- Takara release date: August ?? 2000
- Accessories: Bucket-claw
- In Japan, the entire Build Team was also released as a complete box set, in the same wave as the individual releases of the four toys: Build Boy, Build Cyclone, Build Hurricane, and Build Typhoon.
- While each toy in the set is identical to their individual (Takara) releases, the set only comes with a bio card for Build King, omitting his components' cards.
- Sonokong also released this gift set in Korean markets with no differences other than the packaging.
- Landfill (Multi-pack, 2003)
- Release date: November 25, 2003
- Accessories: Bucket-claw
- A redeco of the entire Build Team was released as a Walmart exclusive in November of 2003, as a multi-pack released on "Black Friday", the day after Thankgiving, the most hellishly overcrowded shopping day of the year. All four toys were cast in "construction" yellow and black, and had silver "damage" splotches and "dirt-spray" deco on their vehicle-mode lower halves.
- This set's packaging was based on the then-running Armada toyline packaging design, rather than the red-and-black Robots in Disguise packaging. This set also cost considerably less than four individual Deluxes.
Notes
Foreign names
- Japanese: Build Hurricane (ビルドハリケーン Birudo Harikēn)
- Korean: Build Cane (빌드케인 Bildeu Kein)
