Transformers Toys Generations War for Cybertron: Earthrise Voyager WFC-E10 Autobot Grapple Action Figure – Children Aged 8 and Up, 17.5-cm

The new Earthrise Line Transformers look fantastic, especially Autobot Architect Grapple who artistic techniques were used in Transformers second wave in 1985. Grapple (along with his friend the optimistic and jovial mechanic ‘Hoist’) came out in Transformers G1 cartoon second season with a power English accent (in which I hope they incorporate in the Second Season of Transformers War For Cybertron: Earthrise). Grapple was an artist and architect, and designed a lot of the Autobot defensive systems within the Autobot HQ “The Ark”. As with a lot of artists and architects, he suffers from depression when things get destroyed by the Decepticons. But Hoist was always there to cheer Grapple up. I never had Grapple, but getting this as a collectible is a complete joy for me. So please get the Siege, Earthrise and Kingdom’s G1 Autobots Warpath, Huffer and Inferno as they look 100% times better than other lines and generations, and if you are worried about the breakage issues simply do not transform him and keep him robot mode (I prefer Grapple in that mode).I would like Amazon UK to start distributing all 1980s G1 Transformers Masterpieces as they did with MP17+ Prowl in which Amazon’s sub-company ‘The Online Marketplace U.K’ started to do, and I thought that this distributor was going to expand into other 1980s G1 Transformers Masterpieces after I got him, such as starting to distribute both official Takara Tomy\Hasbro and third party Transformers Masterpieces especially FansToys, XTransbots, Transform Element, Magic Squares and Mastermind Creations/Ocular-Max along with Autobot and Decepticon factions Toyhex Repro labels included within the boxes of all the Third Party Transformers Masterpieces. I would love to see all British 1980s G1 Transformers fans to do a Facebook, Twitter and Instagram campaign for Amazon UK to expand their Transformers Masterpiece range both official and Third Party. I am absolutely glad that Takara Tomy/Hasbro are redesigning the Decepticon Seekers starting with the legendary, evil and back stabbing 2nd in command ‘Airspace Commander’ MP52 Starscream, along with MP52+ Thundercracker, and I am keeping my fingers crossed for MP52+ Skywarp.I hope Amazon one day starts getting third party Transformers in, this will broaden the market for fans who can’t get either Jazz, Mirage, Trailbreaker, Hoist, and many more of the Transformers that both Hasbro\Takara Tomy are unable to get through various vehicle licensing laws. As I mentioned in previous Amazon Transformers reviews, I would love to both the third party Transformers companies such as FansToys, Transform Element, Magic Squares, Mastermind Creations/Ocural-Max and Xtransbots go into partnership with Hasbro/Takara Tony one day to bring out either version of Jazz, Mirage, Trailbreaker, Hoist, Astrotrain (my favourite triple changer), and my favourite Autobot subgroup “The Dinobots” (Grimlock (either the FansToys, the Hasbro or Takara Tomy versions), FansToys masterpiece versions of Slug (original called ‘Slag’ in 1985, but it had to change his name due to PC issues), Sludge, Snarl and Swoop) many more with the third companies keeping the design specs and Takara Tony/Hasbro adding the Autobot and Decepticon insignia on every character.I love it if Amazon start selling third party G1 Masterpiece Transformers starting with my favourite 1986 Special Team Combiner - ‘The Stunticons’ (my favourite Decepticon Subgroup) - The annoying victory obsessed narcissist ‘Drag Strip’, The pessimistic doom merchant ‘Dead End’, the Paranoid and Anxiety ridden ‘Breakdown’ , the insane and out of control wildcard ‘Wildrider’ and their leader, the cold hearted, bullying tyrant and failed and humiliated “KING OF THE ROAD!!!!” ‘Motormaster’ and their combined giant robot form of schizophrenic and slow minded “Menasor” by both Xtransbots and FansToys versions of their Transformers ‘Stunticons’ Masterpieces (along with Decepticon’s insignia retro labels with the their Transformers third party names along with their actual Hasbro\Takara Tomy trademark names as well) as it’s the 35 anniversary of Transformers: The Movie, and also this ‘Special Team’ combiner coming out. I hope Amazon does this one day and bring out these wonderful masterpieces (either Hasbro, Takara Tomy and Third Party) for all 1980s G1 Transformers Fans for all adult collectors.

This is a good figure of Grapple from the Transformers 1984 cartoon. U get the silver arm cannon arm attachment & the crane grip claw as well as he gun. The port halls on his feet are super tight & the peg broke off on the back of his head in crane mode. I have super glued the peg on So be careful of the feet peg holes. Some sanding them down before hand would help. Your figures maybe OK thou. Other then that a really good figure of Grapple.

If you want a G1 accurate Grapple that isn't the super expensive masterpiece version this is amazing.Looks great in both forms. Great robot mode and brilliant articulation, nice accesories as well.Vehicle mode is also nice, and really captures that G1 feels, just as the robot does.So now the bad, it broke in less than a day due to one if the pegs being too tight in the hole. As I tried to ease it out gently you could see the stress marks appearing. Try as I might to be as gentle as possible the peg snapped off; leaving it in the hole.Unfortunately it's not the first transformer with QA issues, Siege Starscream is starting to develop nasty stress marks on its nosecose area as the pegs are again just too tight.If it wasn't for the fact it broke due to poor QA this would have easily been a 5 star. As it is it loses out for the stated reason. However if you get one without such issues (it may or may not affect other Grapples) its a great toy/collectable.

This is just immense, the detail, the looks, the quality. This figure is the best Grapple so far. (As the masterpiece had the wrong head colour. Grapple should always be complete orange. Never the black head.) Transformation was easy. Also got it a day early, so HEY HEY! Awesome.

Item is great, better value than new but in perfect condition like new.

A real blast from the past and very similar to the one I had for Christmas back in the 80s. Transformers have come a long way since then and feature much better articulation and details. Cool packaging and a cool you 😁

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My son loves this transformer range, the detail and intricacy of the transformation is great. Although quite complicated. However this one, Grapple has in my opinion a design flaw. The plastic pegs that hold the crane in place once transformed to vehicle are both stiff to pull apart and fragile, bad combo! which leads to them snapping off in frustrated little hands. Ive tried gluing to repair but it doesn't hold. Once broken the toy wont stay rigid once transformed so not fun to play with. Optimus Prime though expensive is a better choice, it seems more robust build wise. I cant give it one star as conceptually this range is great but they suffer from fragility which isnt suitable when they need constant twisting, pushing and pulling to transform.