Excellent stuff there. Cannot wait for a fully painted bot mode pic. Also can't wait until I can hold him in my mitts. Hope he makes it out with the second wave in August (UGH AUGUST!!?!)....

 

Grimlock is probaly 3rd wave along with Lugnut, I'm just basing this in terms of what we see on ebay and what's also on there at the same time.

I.e. all of the wave 1 stuff had been on there for months then Voyager prime, BA and Ratchet all show up within a short time span so they're wave two.
Now we're just starting to see Lugnut, Grimlock and pretty soon Soundwave and probably Snarl so they'll all be wave 3.

As for when it's out, Oct would be my estimate.

 

Absolutely Fan-Tas-Tic! Makes me wish there was a T.A.R.D.I.S. that I could hop in to and buy him he he

 

SOLD. I want him.

 

ZOMG GRIMLOCK.
Yeah he looks HOT (pun partially intended). Love the sword, and Grim looks ready to pounce there.

 

That is a wonderful pic...I see myself spending more money that I wanted to for Animated...with every toy pic that comes out

 

Wow, that looks like he popped right outta the TV. That's a really good alt. mode, and the sword is wicked, though I wonder if it can be stored anywhere when he's in t-rex mode.

 

G1 Transformation FTW!

 

Me, Grimlock want this! Me, Grimlock want this NOW!!!

On a side note, I really hope Grimlock will be available this summer with the rest of Animated. If I have to wait until the Fall, I will be upset.

 

WANT WANT WANT!!!!

Please.

 

My03Tundra's suggestion that the sword fits in the dino-mode mouth (to suggest fire breath) is carved from solid win.

Poysonally, I'm not in to non-vehicle (or 'Cybertron' mode) Transformer toys but BA and this Grimlock could finally see me crack.

Hmmm, does that jaw look strong enough to have Classics Skywarp hanging caught in it?

 

Can't wait to see this pop up on ebay in the coming weeks...for $200+

I realize the movie toys sold well so stores demanded more stock of them, but c'mon, Hasbro...use some common sense here! This is either ignorance on their part or a brilliant marketing strategy to drive up demand for Animated figures. Regardless, I could see some of these figures being hard to get.

 

a light gimmick would be awesome its possible an led could be in the sword but I doubt it, that would be very cool though. it probably relies on its own 'light piping' as such.

 

Lol, I'd be happy if you could just fit Bulkhead's wrecking ball in there.

 

  WOW. That is DAMN nice.

 

The tab is only translucent because the whole sword is made of that plastic, this way hasbro only have to paint the grip, hilt and rocky bits.

You could however maybe rig something up with a fibre optic cable channeled through the arms with the light source and batteries stored in the torso. Assuming there's not already something in the torso, like his hips for instance.

 

notice in the proto sword there are separate pieces of 'flame' protuding at the edges, these arent seen on the coloured sword but the gaps where they emerge from are there, some type of gimmick going on there perhaps??

i also hope that the orange parts are actually going to be finalised in the gold, the claws for eg just HAVE to be gold, the gold trim is present on the legs, he would look way better with the orange sections in the metallic paint. you can see the bot chest which is also orange, again, judging by the toon, thats a gold finish too.

 

I got to admit he does look good! The colour scheme somehow adds to the appeal of the toy! Let's how the final version looks as good as that!

 

looks nice!