Grimwing is a Predacon from the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family.

Where are my glasses?

Grimwing is not like other Predacons. Despite being powerful enough to go toe-to-toe with Predaking, his inherent sense of honor and chivalry separate him from the other vicious, ambitious members of his kind. He finds it disgraceful that his brothers and sisters use their abilities to dominate the weak, and he will go to any length to stop his fellows from conquering the world.

Accompanying him on this quest is Blackbeak, an odd, rageful, and impatient creature who was somehow generated in the same experiment that birthed Grimwing himself. Shockwave knows better than to trust either of them, for if there were any Predacons that might find a more natural home among the Autobots, this powerful pair would be the ones.

Fiction

Tales of the Beast Hunters

As Grimwing and Blackbeak made their escape from Shockwave's abandoned cloning facility, they sighted a mysterious robot far below them. Despite Blackbeak's entreaties, Grimwing chose to approach the figure in search of information... Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 15

...only to be greeted by Ultra Magnus taking the offensive himself, swatting the Predacons out of the sky with the Forge of Solus Prime. The results were, for Magnus, unsatisfactory on many levels, as Grimwing and Blackbeak made short work of the Autobot, decrying all modern Cybertronians as savages and setting out to defeat the remaining Predacons on their own. Tales of the Beast Hunters Chapter 16

Games

Hunt the Beasts online game

Grimwing was one of several Predacons who broke free of Shockwave's lab, causing the Decepticon scientist to flee. He tried unsuccessfully to break down the door to the room you were in. Information on him could be found via the lab's numerous data terminals. Hunt the Beasts

Transformers Prime: Beast Creator

When Shockwave left his technology unattended, you could use it to custom-create your own monstrous Predacon! Grimwing's CNA was accessible through the cloning machine, resulting in Predacons that shared component parts with him. Beast Creator

Toys

Prime

And now we want him redecoed in purple.

• Grimwing (Voyager Class, 2013)
  • Series/Number: 2 / 004
  • Accessories: Blackbeak Grapple Launcher, 2 shoulder weapons

• Known designers: Lenny Panzica (Hasbro)

Part of the third wave of Prime: Beast Hunters Voyager Class toys, Grimwing transforms into a dark gray and green ursagryph covered with an assortment of Cyberglyphics. He comes with the "Blackbeak Grapple Launcher", a strange birdlike creature who can fire the claw missile in his mouth via pressure-launch, with the missile being tied to the launcher with a length of string. Both Blackbeak and his missile can mount/be held by Grimwing via 5 mm post, with Grimwing featuring ports on his hands, forearms, and back.

As an undocumented feature, the U-shaped parts on his shoulders are separate pieces that can be pulled out to be used as weapons held via their 5mm handles.

His packaging stock photography depicts his legs as not having been properly extended for robot mode. His instructions include the fifteenth chapter of the Tales of the Beast Hunters series. This mold was redecoed into Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising Darksteel and retooled into Go! Budora.

• More information on Grimwing at TFU.info

Kre-O

• Dragon Assault (2013,
  • Set number: A2234
  • Pieces: 42
  • Kreons: Trailcutter
  • Accessories: Brick-built missile

Available only in the "Dragon Assault" set, Grimwing is a brick-built figure of a green dragon-y thing with an opening jaw. His tail contains a pressure-fired missile launcher.

This set also comes with the Kreon Micro Changer Trailcutter.

• More information on Grimwing at TFU.info

Notes

• According to Hasbro's Beast Hunters marketing book, Grimwing was Predacon experiment #SW39978.
• A mock-up of a "Metals Silverbolt" toy in the form of a Beast Hunters Grimwing redeco was shown in Transformers Generations 2014 Volume 1 as one of ten potential exclusives for Vol. 2. In the poll held to determine which of the ten would be produced, Silverbolt came in third place with 14.8% of the votes, losing out to Goshooter.^[1]

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