(NOTE: Because this is a repaint, this is not a full-blown review. This mainly covers any changes made to the mold and the color scheme, and merely compares it to the original AoE 1-Step Changer Grimlock toy. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the original AoE 1-Step Changer Grimlock toy here.)

    Grimlock gets a redeco for the TLK line more in line with his other TLK toys, which are generally more accurate to his on-screen color scheme (although lacking some of the more subtle "earthy" tints here and there on him). For Grimlock, that means he's pretty much all gray. Thankfully, this toy doesn't suffer from that awful light milky gray plastic that's found on lots of movie TF toys-- instead the main color of plastic used for him is a duller, brownish gray. It's still not exactly an exciting color, but it looks better than the light milky gray. This color of plastic is used for the base of nearly every piece of Grimlock. The only pieces that aren't this shade of gray plastic are some charcoal black pieces used for some small bits on his chest, around the neck, and the upper legs of his robot mode. It's a decent contrasting color, but what really brings this color scheme up in my estimation is all the silver-- the toy's basically half-coated in it. There's silver paint on the robot face, faux t-rex teeth on the chest, and most notably the entire neck, back, and tail of the beast mode, minus some small parts on the upper head and the inside of the pieces that make up his lower robot legs. It looks quite nice, though I wish it had a color to pop off more interesting than the brownish-gray-- well-painted or not, he's still pretty much all one color. (His eyes in both modes are painted red, though.) Although Grimlock certainly isn't a vehicle, he still has the same "Cyberfire" UV paint gimmick that the other mass-release TLK 1-step changers do. This can be activated by either shining a UV flashlight-- or, alternately, Mega 1-Step Dragonfire's "fire bulb" inside his mouth-- on Grimlock. This shows a fiery paint app on his right beast hip (after all, he doesn't have a hood), surrounding an Autobot symbol. Nifty, though kinda forced compared to the vehicle 1-steps.
    No mold changes have been made to this version of Grimlock.
    I appreciate all the silver paint added to TLK 1-step Grimlock (especially in beast mode), but ultimately, his color scheme's still pretty boring overall, with only a little black in robot mode to contrast against all that gray. Add in the weakness of the mold in both modes, and I'd definitely recommend pretty much any other TLK Grimlock toy over this one.
 

Review by Beastbot

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