After Boulder's tribe made peace with the Autobots and Guardians they celebated by dancing. In the amalgam reality created by Sideways and Gong, Granite and the Rock Lords filled in for Wreck-Gar and the Junkions during the events of The Transformers: The Movie. The manipulations of the evil Gong and Sideways resulted in various GoBots, Rock Lords and Starriors swapping places with characters during the events of that film. Granite was featured in the 2016 Ask Vector Prime story Echoes and Fragments, set during the events of The Transformers: The Movie. The 1986 Rock Lords Coloring Book by Golden, a division of Western Publishing, revealed Granite can transform himself to look like other Rock People.
In the first episode he plays on the beach with his companion Rock Lords.
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Granite was among the Rock Lords who appeared in the French animated series Bleu, l'Enfant de la Terre. Granite in GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lordsīoulder first appeared in the 1986 film GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords among the of heroic Rock Lords on the planet Quartex. Granite and Saberstone review on YouTube by Take Walker.Granite review on YouTube by predaking79.Granite review on YouTube by Edward Hancock.Meanwhile the toy solicited as Marbles was the Granite mold in an alternate color scheme. Granite appeared in the 1986 Tonka's World of Entertainment catalog as the Marbles toy in an alternate color scheme. In the IDW Publishing Transformers stories Granite is a Cybertronian Non-Aligned Indigenous Life-form. In the French Bleu, l'Enfant de la Terre series he is small and can fly. His figure has 2 fingers and a thumb on each hand, but his animation model features 3 fingers and a thumb. In the English Rock Lords series he is a gigantic and powerful alien rock-man. True to their name, a stone-like durability leaves even the most heavily-worn samples unbroken decades later.Granite is a heroic Rock Lord made of granite. Despite its much-maligned theme choice, the more common Rock Lords toys are somewhat ubiquitous in the second-hand market. The combiner gift set Fossil Saurus was intended for mass release, and featured in the movie, however, he was scrapped from US markets, only to see release in the Revenge of Cronos portion of Machine Robo as BH-04 Gattai Saurer.Īs GoBots faded to obscurity and died by 1987, Rock Lords died with it. For unknown reasons, the first wave of figures were released in Europe with altered weapon colors, and the final wave of Action Shock Rocks were also recolored in non-US markets. The Rock Lords were also sold in Europe ostensibly as part of the Robo Machine: GoBots line, and as part of Australia's Machine Men. Due to the obscurity of the later additions to the line, it is uncertain how many figures were released in 1987, if any.
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The movie made clear the Rock Lords' tie to the GoBots, but failed to impress, and the line barely lasted beyond the year of its introduction. The Rock Lords toyline was supported by a cartoon movie animated by Hanna-Barbera, and featuring stars like Telly Salvalas voicing main characters. Rock Lords eventually expanded beyond its Machine Robo roots by introducing the Action Shock Rocks, who eschewed a weapon accessory in exchange for a spring-loaded or motorized action feature. Later additions to the line were Rockasaurs, larger dinosaurian beasts that transformed into boulders, as well as Narlies, the furry non-transforming fauna of planet Quartex. Almost all were cast in multi-colored swirled plastics, except those that were coated entirely in vacuum-metalized "chrome" to represent metal ores.
The figures were often textured to resemble a type of stone, sometimes illustrating fractures or lumpy mineral structures. They also included a mini-comic, illustrating one of their battles. As an attempt to edge in on the booming transforming robot market being dominated by Hasbro’s Generation 1 Transformers, the Rock Lords’ entry in 1986 proved to be too little, too late to help the GoBots compete.Įach Rock Lord came on a blister card with a stony-textured weapon, and could transform into a "rock" of a type specified on the stats card. Based on similar transforming rocks in a subline of Bandai's Japanese Machine Robo toyline, the action figures featured bio cards highlighting their strengths with reference to the type of stone they were said to represent. The Rock Lords were a line of transformable rocks marketed by Tonka in conjunction with their ongoing GoBots series. Movie - Revenge of the Fallen (ROTF) (135).
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