We’re not really sure how a construction crane vehicle can be “solar storm” powered, but we all love and collect cars that turn in to robots, so yay, and enjoy these images of the upcoming Generations / Reveal the Shield / Autobot Alliance / Insert Random Promotional Name Here release of Solar Storm Grappel, who just happens to be both a repaint and a retooling of Universe 2.0 Inferno.
Maybe he hangs out with Sunstorm or something.
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Grappel” … are you freaking kidding me?!
Beastbot X
It's not that I'm MAD or anything over the name, I'm just confused over it. Not mention it just looks bad, like Hasbro can't even proofread their own copyrights.
RedAlert Rescue
French for Grapple seems to be Grappin so it's not that.
WhiteMocha
Boom! There it is. Brilliant! I nominate it for canon.
megatroptimus
They even remolded the forearms. Nice touch!
toxinom
To be honest, for a split second when I saw the yellow I thought "ZOMG! GENERATIONS ERECTOR! LOLLOLLOLLOLLOLLOL", Then I remembered a few of the other crane G1 Characters
Mudslide
And suddenly the Solar Storm prefix makes sense! The sun gives him an extra boost of energy.
SMOG
Mais oui! Sacre bleu!!
zmog
Rodimus Major
He's from Krypton!
WTF2005
Has that G2 vibe to me. Despite the Grappel wtf, this figure pleases me very much, yes.
Paxtin
After this thread, I actually want to refer to him as "Grapp-El" from now on.
jorod74
i was hoping that this would be a construction orange, but heck, gimmee!
i like this remold more than Inferno.
(but Inferno still is a rockin' bot!)
Bring it, baby!
Jarodimus
Considering that everything else in that listing is in French, that's a fairly safe bet.
It could certainly be the French word for "grapple". I'm not fluent enough to know that word. But then, neither is Babelfish.
Au moins, maintenant il y a quelqu'un qui peut parler avec Cybertron Mudflap.
x BlackMagnus x
Wow. Duh. Double dumbass on me.
Toxicon
Well, a remold, but yes, Grappel is the same size as Inferno.
TheLastPrime
I know this is a really Stupid Question but is he the same size as Classic Inferno? it's just a repaint right?
fabexmax
Late to this party I guess
fabexmax
This could be a stretch, but could they have called him Solar Storm Grapple because of the G1 episode where he made that sun device?
Upon learning of the Autobot Grapple's solar power tower design, Scrapper and the Constructicons pretended to have defected from the Decepticons in order to help him and Hoist construct it. But upon its completion, they turned it and the two Autobots over to Megatron. In a demonstration of Scrapper's motto, Grapple and Hoist were imprisoned in the very structure of their tower.
The Master Builders – Teletraan I: the Transformers Wiki – War for Cybertron, Transformers 3, Toys
$5HotRod
I don't care what they call him, he will be mine.
GreenScream
TFW members buggin' out over the name? Why am I not surprise…
juise
Thread over!