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Transformers Vol. 9 - Grimlock the Hero [VHS]

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This is a great volume! The first episode (Madman's Paradise) is about Daniel who is upset because he is lonely. Grimlock follows him and manages to get the two of them flying through an old tunnel inside Cybertron. they find themselves in an old room that has old Quintesson markings and pictures on the wall that seemed to have been carved out. Daniel sees one of the pictures and makes a comment about the dragon in it and Grimlock defends it by saying "It handsome like me, Grimlock" but accidently hits the picture with his tail and the floor opens up like a red disc and the fall through. Meanwhile, Daniel's mother is looking for him so Blaster sends out Steeljaw to find him. Blaster, Steeljaw, Rewind, Ultra Magnus, Perceptor, and Ramhorn find the room and Blaster ejects Eject to decifer what the inscriptions mean. He figures out that the room was made to send away Quintesson criminals before the Autobots were created. All of the Transformers and Daniel's mother go through the portal except for Perceptor, who stays behind to help them get back, and search for Daniel and Grimlock. Meanwhile Daniel and Grimlock find themselves in a strange land and are soon attacked. I'm not going to give anything away so I'll stop there, but to find out what happens buy the volume but it is a fairly good Transformers episode. For the next episode (Grimlock's New Brain)it starts out with Ultra Magnus giving a speech to a group of Autobots about a new power platform that they are starting up. Grimlock, who is supposed to do the honors of activating the power platform, forgets which switch to pull and sets off an alarm. Rodimus and Perceptor race up to help him and Perceptor makes a remark on how he wishes for the Dinobots to have more sophisticated brains. However, two fleshings hired by Galvatron put anti-electrons into it to make the Autobots' circuits glitch so badly that they will have to leave Cybettron forever. So Rodimus, Kup, Ultra Magnus, and Grimlock leave with Perceptor's electro-map to shut it down but they have to go down to the ancient tunnels of Cybertron to do it. After Grimlock breaks the electro-map, Grimlock have a tantrum because Rodimus upset him because of a comment he made and Kup follows him to make sure he doesn't trip an automatic alarm in the tunnels and Magnus and Rodimus go in a seperate direction. Kup and Grimlock find it and because Kup is affected by the anti-electrons, Grimlock must turn off he machine and of course he does it by hitting and kicking the controls but when he bites a wire his mind becomes overloaded with energy and his knowledge expands rapidly (he probably remembered everything he ever knew because of it). So, he and Kup go to find Magnus and Rodimus and save them from a security drone in a tunnel. Grimlock figurs out the problem was becuase of anti-electrons and deduces that the anti-electrons were from Unicorn's body before he exploded and hat the Decepticons have figured out that there are more in Unicron's brain (which is true because the fleshings that were hired told Galvatron where he could find more). When the Autobots get there they find Galvaton has an anti-electron gun the hard way and crash land in Unicron's head, where a battle persues between the Autobots and the Terrorcons. Grimlock races from the battle further into Unicron's head and starts to create Nosecone, the first of the Technobots, who then drills a pasage into Unicron's cerebral cortex and he creates the rest of the Technobots there. I also don't wan tto give away the ending of this awesome TF episode so to find out what happens buy it! They are definately awesome episodes with the third season openers and closers and the little sequences after each episode that tell a little about the Transformers. A must have for any Transfan!

Watching The Transformers as a little girl, I was always struckwith how innocent Grimlock was. Since my father was a Geologist at the time, he was my second favirote after Optimus Prime. Imagine my suprise when I learn Amazon is offering videos of my faviorte toys.

Some of the best one-liners come from the mouth of Grimlock the great, and it is a shame they don't have the Transformers on television anymore (no, the shoddy new ones are no comparison)because they were so cool.

I can not help but recommend this video.

"Madman's Paradise" has Grimlock and Daniel emerge in a fantasy world, where magic reigns supreme. The deep storyline, in that the Autobots must decide who is the good guys and who isn't, adds a depth seldom seen in American cartoons.


"Grimlock's New Brain" features the origin of the Technobots. (They were actually first seen in "Money is Everything"). In this episode, Grimlock gains enough intellect to become the smartest of Trnsformers. However, this adds contention between him and the other Dinobots.

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The first episode, "madman's paradise", is supposed to show Grimlock being a hero? As usual the big Dinobot stumbles around creating chaos in a worthless episode, though it did do a tiny bit of character developement for Daniel. It would have been better to have "Call of the Primitives" instead.

"Grimlock's new Brain", atleast Grimlock is a hero in this episode. Basically the only reason to watch this episode and buy the tape is to see the Technobots for the first time. I can only recommend this episode is if you want to complete your Kid Rhino collection or if you can only get "The Return of Optimus Prime" in a three set.