Toy review - Grimlock (Studio Series 86)

[Tha_Phantom]

The toy also has 5mm peg holes all over the body (shoulders, forearms, legs, feet, back), just like the Siege/Earthrise toys. So it's possible this was originally intended to be a WFC toy.

I suspect this as well. Unlike Hot Rod, Scourge, Kup, Blurr and Jazz, this toy has so many non-toon details added to it. Very much MP-8 inspired as you said and some early promotional shots of it showed a clear dino neck.
Having said that, I'm not fussed personally as it looks like a sick Grimlock and I'm looking forward to getting mine, but it does stand out among the SS86 guys if the idea is meant to be that they jumped off the screen.

[Kyle]

I'm not fussed personally as it looks like a sick Grimlock

I'm also not fussed at all

This is a very, very nice toy.



Two new observations which I think are worth noting:

1) The front chest is one big piece of gold plastic, but thankfully not the swirly kind, so hopefully it won't suffer from gold plastic syndrome in the long run... (fingers crossed)

2) The tiny peg underneath Wheelie's thigh which plugs into Grimlock's robot mode shoulder, has created a minor stress whitening of the tiny hole on Grimlock's shoulder. However, the hole is not positioned on any joint, and serves no other purpose than for Wheelie to sit on, so I don't think it will break (maybe potential loosening...)

Wheelie sitting on Grimlock's shoulder somehow reminds me of Master Blaster from Mad Max, as well as Gilius and Goah from Golden Axe...