MP-8 Grimlock Design Art Magazine Scan

The flamethrower is probably just going to end up being a small bit of detailing in the jaw like the G1 figure. I doubt it'll fire a projectile or anything.

i disagree with you here. the big bellied godzilla bot has arguably more bulk where it counts as regards forming robo parts. A more realistic T rex would have quite skinny legs and be rather slim laterally and have a larger head (edit, hey, maybe he could have the large head Tf to become feet, oops....)

Maybe this guy can be posed in the more modern horizontal t rex position anyway.

The original gets pretty close, you just have to balance it right.

Let me just preface what I'm going to say by saying that I'll be buying this bad boy as fast as I possibly can.

I've been thinking a little bit more about the issue of initial disapointment from some (myself included) that Grimlock's T-Rex mode isn't an anamatomicaly correct T-Rex. (And it isn't. The skull and jaw assembly alone look nothing like a real T-Rex head.) I think MP-03 Starscream is to blame. After all, MP-01 was all about a huge G1 Prime who looked exactly like his animation model, even down to giving him two truck grills to achieve that effect. MP-05 Megs was about as close to his animation model as you could get him and still have something that transformed. So why the hell did anyone expect MP-08 to be any different?

Because of Captain Hip-Kibble, MP-03. The initial prototypes of Screamer showed, yet again, a toy built to look as close to his animation model as possible. Yet this was changed by the guest designer and thus Screamer (and Warpie and ThunderCracker) became a Masterpiece seeker who SIGNIFICANTLY differed from his original animation model and transformation scheme. The purpose apparently being to make his F15 mode as realistic as possible. I think that introduced the idea, in my head at least, that maybe some of the other masterpeices would be major re-designs, not just upscaled versions of their G1 animation designs.

I'd still have quite liked a "realistic" T-Rex design, because I think I would look more "bad-ass" than the G1 animation T-Rex, who strikes me as a bit dumpy and lumbering. But what they're giving us IS A G1 Masterpiece Grimlock in it's purest form. Which is pretty much was the line was set up to do.

In conclusion: Blame StarScream. And buy Grimlock

true, hes kinda half godzilla/half t rex.

I cant wait to see this guy in his production colours.

Grimmy simply looks The flamethrower is neat. Should be interesting to see what it does if anything.

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i still wish the megs gun had been beefed up a bit to increase the lateral dimensions (id happily compromise the absolute scale) to have given a chunkier bot.

I'm more interested in what his hands are going to be like. I get the impression that, if there is some sort of light up gimmick, that they won't open and articulate like other MP figures have. I also am really curious as to how articulated he'll really be in both modes, dino especially.

I think Coolhand is quite correct about Starscream. While I'm still very impressed by the figure, I also prefered his prototype, because not only did it match the animation model, but it also made his legs larger, and more capable of supporting and stabilizing the figure.

I too have also always seen the Masterpiece line as supposed to make the toys that look exactly as they did in the cartoon. Not to mention, nearly every dinosaur Transformer I have seen uses the new correct style for T-Rex and raptor figures. I'm pretty happy to see a stompy version of Grimlock. Not to mention that he'll be in scale with Optimus and Megatron.

Now though, I'm still wondering how the color changing eyes will be done. Will they change color using a plastic gimmick, or with lights? Also, how large will this figure be, to fit a flamethrower and eye-gimmick into the dinosaur head?

I can't wait to see more photos!

This is going to be a great toy. I'm absolutely thrilled that they didn't use an 'accurate' or 'anatomically correct' T-Rex because if they had it just wouldn't look like Grimlock. And why does a robotic alien dinosaur have to look like a real T-Rex anyway? Is the design going to comprise his disgusie or something? Accurate or not a dinosaur is not a good disguise.

"Oh hey, look Jim, there's a T-Rex over there. That's pretty cool."
"That's no T-Rex, Bob, notice how it's walking upright and potbellied?"
"Oh my god, you're right! It's an alien! RUUUUNNNN!!!!"