It seems Hasbro love of repaints has made its way to the movies as the mystery of the Blackout appearance in the ShoWest Montage is explained. Based on the Fast Action Battler pictures from TF08.net, the actual name is Grindor whose alt mode is MH-53 Sikorsky Pave Low, the same alt mode as Blackout. The FAB line doesn't have enough detail to know if the character (and other toy classes) will have more differences then just the paint job. Thanks to Phil for the link.
FAB Bumblebee Bio
With the battle raging in the desert, Bumblebee knows he needs to be ready. He upgrades with the latest in deep desert weaponry and prepares to charge into battle across the dunes. The Decepticons will never know what hit them when they get a taste of his sand blast.FAB Grindor
Grindor is always ready for a fight. He plans everything out in detail, so that he knows exactly how a battle is going to go before it even begins. He is always at the center of the action so that he can use his heavy firepower to ensure his plans succeed.
WOW I'm surprised they're recycling decepticon ideas, for example bonecrusher's head on rampage.
ReplyDeleteBonecrusher's head little resembles heads of Constructicons, but nobody has 100 % similar, fool.
ReplyDeleteI doubt this to be true, the toy is called Grindor, but I have seen so many recolored molds with a name for any shade of color to doubt the movie Decepticon to be anyone but Blackout himself...
ReplyDelete"WOW I'm surprised they're recycling decepticon ideas, for example bonecrusher's head on rampage."
ReplyDeleteWow, how can they! That's... that's... ARGH! Hcould they do this! :P
Why did they change Blackouts name?
ReplyDeleteI would be okay with Grindor if he was slightly different but no they just chose to use the same mold. Hopefully he will still be known as Blackout in the film. With all the good expectations for this film i wouldnt be suprised if it fails to entertain fans with all the new and reborn charecters.
Ok. If he is in the movie and he turns out to be named Grindor even though he looks exactly like Blackout, I'll be seriously annoyed.
ReplyDeleteITS NOT GRINDOR! Just wait until the movie comes out. Michael Bay wouldnt be that cheap.
ReplyDeleteremember Whirl? same thing.
ReplyDeleteLIES!!!
ReplyDeleteFILTHY HOMOEROTIC LIES!!!!!!
ps.BLACKOUT FTW!!!
Wait, so this means that Bay is still introducing characters to be featured in ROTF!
ReplyDeleteThis could mean that in the very last scene, Ultra Magnus could show up for 30 seconds to receive the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. Also a shadow or the back of Unicron could be shown looming towards Earth after the body of the Fallen is shown dead in Egypt.
^^^^and that would leave a cliffhanger ending perfect for TF3^^^^
ReplyDeletewell, if you watch the shoWest footage the blades are on the Right hand. As for the pictures of this toy the blades are on the Left hand... black outs were also on the left hand. I do believe that there could potentially be 2 decp helicopters. But the likely hood of that is minimal. And that these pics have no relation the character that is in the shoWest footage.
ReplyDeleteGod Bless photo shop!
ReplyDeleteok first off, blackouts spinning rotor was in his right hand as he approached the optimus/megatron fight in the first movie to have a new character thats an exact clone of blackout is rediculous, i agree that it is blackout...secondly regarding the fallen, its not the fallen from the comics, so no connection to unicron, so no unicron in the movie universe...and im quite happy with that. in fact if u people actually read his profile he sounds like unicron, getting "proxies" to serve him...
ReplyDeleteBoth of them are brothers I believe (blackout and grinder) one is more heavily armored maybe?
DeleteAnyone see the Dinobot in this picture on the right handside? Look like Grimlock.
ReplyDeletehttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_G96gxvrHqrE/Sff4oNoHCrI/AAAAAAAAF5M/hj6yQaltpZ0/s1600-h/TF2GrindorShoWest.jpg
It HAS to be blackout. Why else would he say "remember me?" to Sam.
ReplyDeletebay said bonecrusher is his favorite transformers yet he only appears in the movie for like a minute. he is an unexpected man. who knows if barricade comes back on the 3rd movie?
ReplyDeleteon wikipedia said that blackout is a clon made by the fallen
ReplyDeleteso grindor is blackout or grindor is the twin of blackout it's so hard to know the reponse beacause some people said that grindor is blackout and others said it is brother(twin)
ReplyDeleteGrinder and blackout are brothers
Deleteplease comment at my question beacause blackout is my favorit but i iven dont know ho is grindor so please if you know beacause in the movie(1)is dead but in the revenge of the fallen is the same robot but is name is changed so thats the wierd thing about blackout and grindor
ReplyDeletecant you tell my guys if in the revenge of the fallen grindor is blackoutor grindor it's juste unother character please comment beacause i want to know ho is grindor beacause blackout its my favorite so i want to know if blackout is grindor
ReplyDeletehey guys i have a question grindor is blackout???beacause blackout its my favorite and i dont know if in revenge of the fallen blackout is grindorso please comment beacause i want to know ho is grindor and i want to know if blackout is grindor so please comment
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