Courtesy of Alfes2010 on Twitter, we’ve received in-hand images of TAV-30 Battle Grimlock, the very screen accurate version of Grimlock from Robots In Disguise / Transformers Adventure. This mold is a re-tool of the Fall Of Cybertron Grimlock mold, which translates extremely well for scale accuracy among the RID Autobot crew.
It looks like this one is getting set for wide release. Enjoy the in-hand images after the jump!
OriginalFire
Any word on if this guy will be getting a re release or at least a North American release.
nstanosheck
dCon
Can you explain what u mean? I just started using HLJ in 2015 & I actually kike them but would love to hear about Any shortcomings they might have had in the past. Thanks
Oh.thanks for the heads up but fortunately I nabbed myself one and I'm OH SO HAPPY with my.purchase! I love his opening mouth ten times more then the switch activated FOC version. I like the idea I can control his mouths position & its a tight joint too so that rocks
I definitely did NOT know this. But I.welcome it I.hope kmart still had a sand sting as that's cool! (Kmart is the only.store in my.area with these things. Stores have been pretty bare bones this year. Hopefully the next movie doesn't wipe transformers off the map completely!
Lok at what AOE did …. yikes! (& I AM a fan of the movie. They just had a boring line no one wanted after 5 months except walmart & the like bought WAAAY too much.
Quite cool man that's awesome
nstanosheck
It does not look too bad here:
Rageclicker
Yes the minicon compatibility is noted in a few reviews and we know that the battle Grimlock can equip the (Fracture's) decepticon minicons. Personally I'm interested to see a picture of Grimlock with the wave 2 Sandsting in the chest cavity of the T-Rex mode. I already have Divebomb and Dragonus but the colors don't match Grimlock that well.
Bluemarvin
Sorry if this is known but looks like this remold was made to work with the Divebomb minicon. Maybe a Supermode Battle Grimlock future release? It perfectly fills the gap in the chest.
Digilaut
Yes, I'm in Japan right now on holiday.
By the way, I've made a feedback thread for this figure, for anyone interested:
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans…a-tav30-battle-grimlock-rid.html#post13056968
Autovolt 127
>picked up at a TRU.
This is a Japanese figure…unless are you in Japan at the moment?
Digilaut
Picked this one up at a TRU yesterday. Great figure!
Perfect? No, unfortunately…he keeps most of the flaws of the FOC mold (obviously), but he's damn gorgeous!
I loved the fire breath as well, but yes, it's not in this figure. He does have a mouth you can open and close, however.
scrapmetaru
Yeah sure let's pull a 3P FoC and make a million pointless G1 because G1 kits for something that is not in any way supposed to be G1. Sure. And while we're at it, let's put a white prime in what is obviously MTMTE Magnus, or a G1 toy-accurate Motormaster on CW Menasor, or a G1 gun for FoC Grimlock, who in the not-G1 game he's from, couldn't even use any kind of gun. Sure.
dCon
One thing i probably know the answer to. s we all know the FOC/AOE have electronics in them (LED) and I'm.guessing this one was gutted. Can anyone confirm or deny this?.
I actually liked the light up "fire breath" on the first toy (the light bleeding through the thin plastic not withstanding) and I wonder if it willhave parts/space built in to put a LED of our own in
dCon
Yea I'm guessing he will pop up in our piles, un announced like, Tuesday or so.
I'm sure a 3rd party will fill.in the gaps and change the Dino arms and Dino feet/robot legs and have a G1 accurate head sculpt put in there too (like the member on last page noted)
cyberslam
That would have been awesome.
Paladin
Hoping to hear about this from BBTS sometime this week…
Robogeek28
Really?
Still no word from HLJ.
wearelegion69
amiami is currently shipping him out.
Robogeek28
Not yet, and I got my order in within minutes of the preorder going up.
I'm guessing he is indeed not getting released until next week.
FigureGunplaFan
>very show accurate
Not even close. Battle Grimlock still had FOC Grimlock's two-toed T-Rex legs, T-rex arms, and robot mode feet.
iacon45
It still amazes me how just a simple remolding made a HUGE difference with this figure. I'm glad I still have my pre-order. I have been arguing with myself whether to keep this release or not since I sold all my NuRID figures but it looks like he would actually fit right in with my PRIME figures. Can't wait for BBTS to get him in.
The only thing that would have really made this an even more awesome release was a remolded shoulder with a rotating panel with either a Con or Bot app decal.
Starscream Gaga
Has anyone gotten their payment requests/payment confirmations from HLJ for this guy?
My "HLJ has fucked me over again" senses are tingling…