Grindcore (Movie)
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- Grindcore is an Autobot from the live-action movie continuity family.
Grindcore loves noise. Back home on Cybertron, he loved the noise of everyone's alt modes and the Shock Pop he enjoyed so much in his home city of Vos. Here on Earth, heavy metal seems to be his favorite. When he works on various construction projects, it is impossible to not hear him, as his alt modes motor runs loud.
Rock on, buddy. Rock on.
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[edit] Fiction
[edit] IDW Transformers (2007) comics continuity
 Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details for The Reign of Starscream Issue Number Four follow. |
Grindcore, along with Warpath, Signal Flare, and Elita-One, was captured during a raid and put to work by Stockade to construct Starscream's All Spark replica at Simfur. While constructing it, Grindcore collapsed from exhaustion and was unsuccessfully defended from a pair of Payload drones by Warpath. Upon the All Spark's completion, he was strapped to it, with the intention of draining his life-force to power the cube. The Reign of Starscream #4
Despite some last minute pleading from Elita-One, Starscream activated the new cube, killing Grindcore and the others, but the replica All Spark failed to work as planned. The Reign of Starscream #5
[edit] Toys
[edit] Transformers (2007)
- Grindcore (Deluxe Class, 2008)
- Accessories: Launcher, missile, Autobot Cybertron-type Cyber Planet Key
- A Wal-Mart exclusive, Grindcore is a redeco of Cybertron Landmine, transforming into a green wheeled front loader with a rear-mounted pile driver. His bucket shovel can be raised up and down, while his gimmick is unusual in that the Cyber Planet Key slot is in his rear wheels. To configure him into attack mode, one flips up the rear wheels (there are smaller wheels to support the rear end of the vehicle to compensate), inserts the Cyber Key into the wheel-hub slots and twists, deploying blades around the circumference of each tire.
- This mold was also used to make BotCon 2006's Dawn of Future's Past Rhinox.
[edit] Trivia
- According to Hasbro designer Joe Kyde's design notes on Hasbro's Transformers website, Japanese Micromaster Crush-Bull was the inspiration for Grindcore.
