Toy Review - Age of Extinction Grimlock (Voyager)

[Zommael]

This is annoying me now, and since I read Ben Yee's review of this toy this morning I can finally respond to it:

THEY'RE NOT ELF SHOES!!!! They are stylised sabotons, a fairly common piece of medieval knights' armour. There were even loosely-applied rules about how long the sabotons could be in Medieval France, based on social class. Of course, they didn't typically point up the way they do here, but that presentation of this particular piece of armour is fairly common in pop culture, and no doubt has been chosen to add to the knight effect for that reason.

So please stop calling them elf shoes. Please. For the children.

[Omega Metro]

I'm tossing up between getting the Voyager OR Leader Grimlock. Need to do more research before I buy.......and maybe watch the movie.

[MayzaPrime]

I voted no, and the only reason is cause I went for Leader Grimlock rather that Voyager Grimlock.

[liegeprime]

Hopefully when I go OS next month, it's been released there and are priced much less than what they are tagged here. We always get overpriced retail anyways. I'll just take my chances on getting this one over there...

[BigTransformerTrev]

I voted no, and the only reason is cause I went for Leader Grimlock rather that Voyager Grimlock.

Ditto

[Sinnertwin]

So please stop calling them elf shoes. Please. For the children.

You're right, they're not shoes. They're CFM Boots

[Zommael]

You're right, they're not shoes. They're CFM Boots

The Dinobots are sexeh.

[GoktimusPrime]

More pics:

Medium shot of head/torso


Grimlock's gap-tastic dino mode


Transformation

[Mythirax]

Grimlock's gap-tastic dino mode

Unless you did it deliberately, the panel above his robot-mode head is not pushed in all the way in your photo. Making him very gappy.

First photo has how it's meant to be. The second photo I think looks much better, holding Grimlock's arms up higher. To make the body look more solid and rounded.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, I think I hadn't locked those tabs in when I took that photo (I was mucking around w/ this toy in the car while waiting for the wife to finish her shopping ); I locked it in later but was ceebs to take another shot. It still leaves a gap though (as can be seen in your pics), just not as big. But that panel certainly doesn't sit flush. And while I can see the merit in your modified transformation of Grimlock, as you rightfully pointed out, the official transformation has the chest panels swung down which exposes robot kibble from the sides, although your config would reveal more robot kibble from front on.