Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, ask them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gripper.
Gripper is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, ask them to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gripper.
Leader of the Motorvator assault force, Gripper is a mighty robot characterized by courage and pure strength. He has a penchant for off-roading, as his mega-grip tires and super reinforced vehicular armor are well suited to rough terrain. His dual function Energon figure supplies him with wide-sweep radar and a sonic scanner. He wields a crack calibre laser-blazer broadsword. Which sounds totally awesome.
Gripper was front and center among the Transformers who defended Cybertron from Shockwave's attacking Ammonitearmy. Black Planet He later gave a testimony on the D.J.D. during Megatron's trial, having lost a number of close friends within the Decepticons to them. Words Hang in the Air
Last Bot Standing[]
Gripper was an Autobot soldier during the Great War, serving alongside Rodimus and Strongarm, only for the ever expanding conflict to drain the universe of energon and the other resources that the Cybertronians required to repair themselves. Last Bot Standing #2 Some time after the end of the Great War, the three thought themselves as the last three Cybertronians left in the universe, Last Bot Standing #3 only to be ambushed by a pair of Decepticon warships, the fighting taking them down to the surface of the planet Donnokt. Last Bot Standing #1 While the Autobot trio managed to eliminate all of their pursuers, they also discovered that Donnokt was rich in energon-sympathetic materials. Despite Gripper and Strongarm's doubts, Rodimus insisted that they do nothing with this discovery. Last Bot Standing #4
Thinking the planet was uninhabited, the Autobots were initially content to wait until they burnt through their own energon reserves before they discovered that life was evolving on the planet. Fearing that the yet to catalyze energon would drag another world into their war, the three Autobots entrusted a lineage of locals with energon keys that could awaken them should any invaders come to the planet. Last Bot Standing #3
To officiate the planet as their new home, Gripper eagerly suggested that they go for a drive in the mountains, Last Bot Standing #2 an indulgence that ultimately claimed his life when an accident sent him into a fatal fall. Without sufficient energon or medical knowledge, Gripper slowly died before his helpless comrades. Last Bot Standing #3
Released in the seventh year of the European-market Transformers toyline, Motorvator Gripper is a redeco of the BrainmasterBlacker, transforming into a Baja buggy. His incredibly simplistic transformation for his size is due to the gimmick in his torso: placing his smaller "Energon figure" into the open chest cavity then closing the plate pushes the inner core of the small robot up, forming the larger robot's face. The Energon figure can also "pilot" Gripper in vehicle mode.
Like the other Motorvators, Gripper lacks the Combiner kibble used by Blacker to form Road Ceasar (in Gripper's case, the shield/chestplate and blaster/robot face), but can still be combined with the other two to form an incomplete Motorvator combiner.
Gripper was released in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and was also released in Japan in lightly-modified European packaging (mainly just stickers with legal information in Japanese) during 1992's Operation Combination.
