How we doin', dino dorks?
Get yourself strapped in for another trip to Giga town!
Yeah! Again! Already.
Again.
Yeah.
So, the Gigasaurs have kinda become a staple of the show these last few years
and they've certainly taken us on a heck of a journey through a dense forest of oversized Dinobot style.
From Guttur's snarling statement of intent,
through Grassor's ragin' rampagin'
and Graviter's untethered enormitude
to Gaudenter's extremely recent silky slimpressiveness
and because Gigapower wisely left the most famous one 'til the end,
it certainly feels like it's all been leading up to this!
All rise for Gigapower Gigasaurs HQ-01R Superator!
Yes indeed, Gigapower's ersatz Grimlock comes crashin' into the club
like a conquerin' connoisseur,
quakin' with colossal kingly clout
and a name that doesn't begin with a G.
See what they did there?
Now... what to say about this?
I mean, having already reviewed the other four Gigasaurs
AND Masterpiece Grimlock,
I must have surely burnt through every possible dinosaur gag
and fun Dinobot descriptor I could ever think of.
Like...
he sure is the Grimlock one of this.
But what we do have this time is a baseline for direct comparison!
'Cos none of the other Dino bros ever got an official Masterpiece
and I never bothered with the FansToys versions or whatever.
Why would I?
And Superator is unavoidably a VERY similar animal to Masterpiece Grimlock
but it's by no meas the same toy.
The transformation's actually pretty different,
all the details and styling ain't quite the same,
it's kinda got its own beat.
Not to mention it's blatantly a bunch bigger and built to last with hearty heavy-duty heft!
This is LUXURY Grimlock.
The keyword here is "eclipsed".
It's so quaint to think how much this thing blew my mind in a world before Gigapower.
I miss 2014 Thew,
the sweet simpleton.
So yes, I guess we'll lead with the giant bronze boulder bod!
Check it out with its tangy cidery tones slathered in micro mechanisms!
This clear cover even comes as a separate part
so you've got chance to slam an Autobadge in there before you seal it up.
Shoulders are lookin' serious, with like five stages of complex collarbones
and this miniature meadow of mirror shine!
Plenty goin' on 'round the rear end with the classic Tyranno backpack
lookin' alarmingly awesome in its magnified mega-huge magnificence!
Plus there's a cheeky switch on his lower back there to unlock this earth-shakin' ab crunch!
Arms are a bodaciously beefy pair of
mechanical T-Rex legs with hands on.
But WHAT hands!
Can we get a victory lap for the Gigapower hands real quick?
Superb design, ultra posable, tough as tungsten -
just the best hands in the business!
Give 'em a big-
Clap! Clap like mad.
And by the way, WHAT ratcheting!
Like, these shoulders are NUTS, packin' a 90-degree upward curve
with the kind of click you can feel in your teeth!
Legs are certainly some trim Tyranno-trousers!
Love the ruby-red robo briefs
and check out his sprawling brawn boots
with these glass-effect Giga gumdrops
and weird angled toes that cant him outwards?
Okay...
But anyway, as I'm sure you've spotted,
the detail on this dinobrute is just
off the charts!
It's absolutely friggin' everywhere, from the internal bicep heat rings
to the inner-wing sizzlin' circuitry
as well as a few weird extra curveball ones,
like this impressively intricate slab of cyber stuff
just behind his head for no reason.
Is that from something?
But why not, eh? Are we doin' luxury Grimlock or what?
Conversely though, the accessories are noticably fewer this time,
so no flames or flight stands or whatever,
he just keeps it real goddamn simple with a mere four things!
Feels good, though. Feels streamlined.
'Cos like, much as I enjoyed Guttur's flame skates and Grassor's uvulimmolation,
I only really enjoyed 'em for about a minute each.
I mean, how often are you really gonna put 'em on?
I can't even remember where I keep 'em!
Less is more, baby.
Never thought I'd say that about a Gigapower toy!
So Superator's sword is ballsy and broad
and it's the biggest of all the Gigaweapons and don't you forget it!
It does seem to do the light--up thing as well, but
nowhere around here sells the batteries it takes.
He's also strapped up with this twin-barrelled Grimglock
which looks distractingly like he's carrying a self-contained astro craft.
Aside from that it's just the majestic crown oozing in righteous regality
with a hell of an overhang
along with the obligatory swap-out alterna-bonce with oceanic blue-visored cartoon styles!
Check this out though - because Grimlock's bemouthplated face
can't really do expressions in the traditional sense
they've instead imbued the red one with a dab of bonus latterday toothcheeks!
I'm kinda surprised how well that works
'cos I didn't like it in the comics, I thought it looked hokey.
But on Superator it somehow looks pretty neat!
Like, it's there, but it's subtle? It just adds a bit of visual interest without overpowering the look.
The Grimlook.
But, man, I don't know if I can really describe the kind of presence and impact that Superator has!
Like, can't you just feel it? Even via the internet?
It's such a perfect boss dog robot design in triple XL and heavy as hell!
Just a magnificent meat machine who perfectly forms the fifth and final point of the Gigapower pentagon!
And as a standalone Masterpiece upgrade, he's bigger than before and so much more.
Consider me conquered!
[CRUSHING GROOVE METAL RIFF]
Transformation's classic Gigapower stuff!
It's all enormous chunks, leg-twistin', body stretchin', and those signature tiny leg clips
plus a hilarious interim tyrannocentaur totem pole mode.
Now - about this dino mode,
'cos the robot mode's pretty great, right?
It's pretty good.
But this is the coolest thing I've ever seen!
[inane idiotic chuckle]
I don't know how to explain why this is good.
I could just point.
I mean, it's hard not to be impressed when they roll out all the hits like this!
'Cos Grimlock's dino mode is one of those legendary '80s things,
basically on the same level as like Ecto-1, or an Ewok,
and when it's as perfectly executed and good-lookin' as this -
not to mention the size of a small cat -
it's just powerful.
It's a crowd pleaser. It's a free kick.
It's a huge, gorgeous Grimlock with a classically cohesive look,
the excellent Rex head, the towerin' torso with the techno neck and the giant bronze diaper,
the gobby thighs and stompy toes,
the sharp silver tail and the ass end
that looks like he's kickin' himself up the bum with his own feet,
it's the Don't Stop Believin' of Transformers.
Lighters in the air, standin' ovation, five stars in the Telegraph.
It just IS good!
So, Super Ator here is definitely draped in all the right robo details!
Rivets, panel channels, giant golden screwheads,
this huge cylindrical thing that I don't know what it is
but it gets your imagination going!
That's the mark of quality robo design!
Posability's about as good as you can get wi' Grimlock.
I mean, physically, at its most base elements,
it's essentially a giant metal-effect banana with some dinosaur bits danglin' off it.
I don't know how much posin' you realistically want it to do
and it can only really hold a couple of stances before it crumples under its own weight.
But it's got hips and knees, a neck swivel and a nod and a crazy bite
all with scandalous voluminous clickage!
Head's obviously a highlight, gnashin' those gnarly jaws
with some seriously serrated teeth
and this bizarre tongue tool thing?
I assume that's compatible with something somewhere.
But the face is oddly expressive, like he knows something I don't.
I don't know quite what it is that makes me think that, but it just reads aloof to me, and I like it!
It's got that adorable arrogance that Grimlock gets away with, 'cos he's Grimlock!
[Bad Grimlock voice] Me Superator legally distinct!
Neck's a bit of a weird one -
like, they seem to have included the old Diaclone clear shields thing here,
but, like, done it backwards,
so instead of puttin' them on by default, you instead take them off
and leave him with this weird, scabby-lookin' emaciated Rex neck.
Which - it's pretty weird, but it's a feature, I guess.
Arms are unreasonably great-lookin'!
Just wonderfully clean articulated cylinders fresh off the lathe
with shiny ball joints, like a pinball lizard!
Hands twist off pretty easy, which isn't the end of the world
but neither is it ideal.
And honestly, that third digit gets right up my nose!
Like, I get it, it's from the show, it's fine,
but the T-Rex famously just had the two fingers!
Didn't you ever do that thing as a kid?
What? I'm being a dinosaur!
Anyway, there's yet more extravagant sculpting on his back there,
between his two enormous rocket booster hinges.
This entire square area here -
none of that detail NEEDS to be there.
But why not? What else you gonna do with all that space?
It's free real estate.
Plus you can slot the gun in just there for that assault mode Dino Rider flavour.
So, I can sit here and pretend I'm cool and above it all -
Oh, what? Third party Dinobots? Pfff! Another one?
But like, when I got the Masterpiece back in 2014 it had a pretty profound effect on me.
Like, in owning a big lovely Grimlock of that scope, it felt like a tiny piece of me was finally complete.
This is it, man. This is the dream.
And I know how tragic that sounds, but that is how it felt!
And Superator just feels like the logical five-years-on upgrade
of both the figure and the feels.
'Cos this is S-grade Grimlock!
Just a calamitous cretaceous creature!
Truly,
I've definitely used that before.
One of those.
And with that, we can officially close the Gigapower chapter of the Thew Review channel
and I feel a bit sad that it's over, honestly
but I hope it's been as enriching an experience for you as it has for me!
So to you, the lovely viewer, I say: thanks for joining me and party on!
To Superator and the rest of the Gigasaurs, I say:
where AM I gonna keep you?
And finally, of course, to the Gigapower toys team:
what else ya got?
Okay! Well, that took a little while, didn't it?
Hope to see you all at TFNation, I'm probably there right now!
And big thanks this time to Greg Duncan for supportin' the show!
Much love to you, buddy. Check ya later!
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