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Transformers 2010 ep 25
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Me Grimlock make geeks!
"Grimlock's New Brain"
Production code 700-110
Season 3
No. in season 24
Production company Sunbow Productions
Airdate November 14, 1986
Written by Paul Davids
Animation studio AKOM
Continuity Generation 1 cartoon continuity
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Grimlock gains tremendous intelligence and creates the Technobots.

Contents

Synopsis

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Purple stuff? Bah! I wanted Sunny D!

On Cybertron, the Autobots are unveiling a new generator that will better supply them with power. As Rodimus Prime signals Grimlock to activate the machine, Grimlock admits he's forgotten which switch to pull, and manages to trigger several alarms before Rodimus points out the switch he's supposed to pull. Grimlock points out that he is "smartest Dinobot of all," which Perceptor notes is probably true, wishing the Dinobots had more sophisticated brains. Grimlock, mildly insulted, threatens to bash Perceptor's brain. Elsewhere, a Skuxxoid and Slizardo are sneaking into the generator to place anti-electrons inside the device, a mission Galvatron has paid them to carry out with the aim of eventually killing the Autobots.

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Me Grimlock hate Windows Vista.

In space, Cosmos and Sky Lynx are flying back to Cybertron, musing that they're late for the ceremony. Cosmos suddenty finds himself flying out of control, and when Sky Lynx swoops in to help, he loses control of his auto gyros too. The other Autobots spot their predicament and rush to help as the two fliers crash into Power Platform Alpha. Springer tries to air lift Sky Lynx to repair bay, but also begins to malfunction. Perceptor concludes that the problem is originating in the generator and Rodimus, Ultra Magnus, Grimlock, and Kup head down to investigate, using an electro map provided by Perceptor as a guide. The electro map is soon broken by Grimlock, who storms off in a huff after Rodimus yells at him, so while Kup babysits Grimlock, Rodimus and Magnus continue to search for the core. While Rodimus starts malfunctioning thanks to the anti-electrons, Grimlock and Kup reach the generator's controls, and Kup begins to suffer memory malfunctions. Grimlock deactivates the generator with the ever-appropriate tactic of biting it, but immediately begins to act differently. He speaks in a proper manner, with an extended vocabulary, and appears to have lost his taste for combat. He rescues Rodimus and Magnus from a security system they've tripped by simply switching it off. They soon spot Ratbat who has been observing them, but the Decepticon escapes. The Autobots return to the surface and pass the Dinobots fishing in a local pond. Snarl invites Grimlock to join, but Grimlock declines, saying he has more important matters to attend to. The Dinobots are concerned, as they always fish together. Meanwhile Ratbat and reports back to Galvatron. Galvatron threatens to kill the Skuxxoid and Slizardo for ruining his plan, as the anti-electrons have already vaporized and were hard to find, but Slizardo reveals that there is another source of anti-electrons...in Unicron's brain.

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"Rodimus, isn't that a public pond?"
"Quiet, Magnus, this is the only way we can get them to bathe."

Elsewhere, Grimlock concludes that anti-electrons were the source of the problem. As Galvatron's ship approaches Unicron's head, he cautions his soldiers, saying that Unicron may be quite powerful. On Cybertron, the Dinobots seek out Grimlock, who is building a new spaceship, and he asks for their help. Sludge does not like Grimlock's change in attitude, and Slag declares that "Grimlock no fun". With their leader not acting like one of them, the Dinobots decide to go hunting without him. Later, Grimlock has taken Rodimus, Perceptor, and Kup to Unicron's head, having concluded that Unicron's body was the original source. However, Galvatron fires anti-electrons at the shuttle, causing it to crash and the Autobots to malfunction and even causing Rodimus to revert back to Hot Rod. Galvatron then unleashes the Terrorcons on the Autobots while Grimlock runs off. Grimlock then uses components of Unicron to build Nosecone and asks him to drill a hole into Unicron's brain.

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Computron teaches Abominus to slow dance.

Elsewhere, Cyclonus and Scourge are retrieving the anti-electrons when they reactivate Unicron. The Chaos Bringer's internal defenses activate, but Strafe, another robot built by Grimlock, destroys the defenses. Finally, Grimlock builds three more robots: Afterburner, Lightspeed, and Scattershot, the last of whom he appoints as leader of the Technobots. He sends the Technobots to fight the Terrorcons. Cyclonus and Scourge are handing Galvatron the anti-electrons they've found when the jar is destroyed by the Technobots before they engage the Terrorcons in battle, until the Terrorcons merge into Abominus. Retreating, the Technobots ask Grimlock for advice, and Grimlock reveals that they are also Combiners, commanding them to merge into Computron. The computational capacity held by the gestalt is massive, yet he claims that he lacks the intelligence to feed it. Grimlock connects a device to Computron's head which transfers his super-intelligence to Computron. Now armed with incredible intelligence, Computron is able to defeat Abominus, using intense vibrations to cause the Decepticon combiner to separate, and sends the Decepticons running.

On Cybertron, Rodimus is holding a celebration for the newly functioning generator, the creation of the Technobots, and Grimlock's efforts. However, Sludge reveals that Grimlock is fishing with the Dinobots. Grimlock says that being a genius all the time is no fun, and he'd rather be a regular Dinobot. The Autobots cheer his statement, apparently preferring their one-bot engines of destruction to be simple-minded.

Featured Characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Others

Quotes

"Can't be that one, must be one of these. Eenie Menie miny moe. This switch real rad! Gonna pull."
"Grimlock, no!!!!! It's this one over here!"
"Uhhh, that Grimlock's next choice."

Grimlock showing Rodimus why he should not have been given such an important task.


"Why you think Grimlock stupid? Me no stupid. Grimlock is smartest Dinobot of all."
"Unfortunately, that's probably true. I just wish the Dinobots had more sophisticated brains."
"Brains?! Grimlock know how to bash brains. Maybe bash yours."

Grimlock threatening to beat up Perceptor.


Grimlock: What go wrong?
Perceptor: Something incapacitated their aerial capabilities.
Grimlock: Huh?
Rodimus Prime: He means they couldn't fly, so they crashed.
Grimlock: Me knew that!

—Simplifying things for a Dinobot isn't that simple.


"Hey, how did you shut down that baby?"
"I, Grimlock...used my rear molars."
"Uh that makes good sense, good going. You what?!"
"Is your hearing impaired, Kup? Ohh, with some Autobots, you have to explain everything."

Kup and Grimlock the latter of whom has just received a great deal of intelligence


"Anti-electrons, of course! They attack our electrocircuits! Now why didn't I think of that?"
"Perhaps because your mental abilities are so limited."

—Oh snap! Perceptor just got dissed! By Grimlock!


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Strafe: Yahoo! It feels great to be a Technobot! My name is Strafe!
Afterburner: Far out! Fantastic! I'm Afterburner! I'm raring to burn neutrons and see some heavy action!
Lightspeed: Mellow out, Afterburner.
Afterburner: Says who?
Lightspeed: They call me Lightspeed, faster than a speeding photon.
Grimlock: And you, Scattershot, shall be the leader of the Technobots.

—The newly created Technobots and Grimlock engage in a brief introdump.


"Me Grimlock say you smart now. Me no can help you anymore!"

Grimlock transfers his intelligence and is done with his Skyfire impression.


"Me Grimlock say no fun to be genius all the time. Much more fun to be good old Dinobot Grimlock."

Grimlock on his recent bout with intelligence.

Notes

Production information

  • Premise/Outline revised: 28th July 1986 (Original title: Creation Of The Technobots)
  • First draft script: 16th September 1986
  • Script finalised by Marv Wolfman

Continuity notes

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Snarl and Blurr are stepping on Broadside's feet, while Kup is stepping on Snarl's feet.
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Somehow these shots hit the Terrorcons, who are standing on the same surface as him.
  • Final appearance of Cosmos.
  • Broadside appears here in his revised toy-based model, with a faceplate and smaller head. He's also consistently shown to be huge - twice the size of the Dinobots, who loom over the average Autobot. This can be considered rather odd, as AKOM was typically handed out of date pre-final model sheets for most of their episodes.
  • The Skuxxoid previously appeared in "Five Faces of Darkness" and "Starscream's Ghost", again working as a freelance agent in Galvatron's employ. He repeats his grumbly "wife and kids" schtick from the latter episode, though a lot more half-heartedly.
  • Slizardo, meanwhile, hasn't been seen since Season 2's "The Gambler", when he was rocketing off with Devcon following a change of heart. Looks like it didn't take!
  • Ratbat appears, but Soundwave isn't in the episode.
  • The Terrorcons make their inauspicious debut here; they appear without explanation or introduction.
  • Cybertron circa 2005 has some standing water - the pool the Dinobots are "fishing" in.
  • Unicron's head is shown to no longer orbit Cybertron, after the events of "Ghost in the Machine" saw it blasted off into space. It's also looking substantially worse for wear than it was the last time we saw it, presumably a consequence of the explosives that were set off in its immediate vicinity in that episode.
  • The anti-electrons have a neat effect on Rodimus Prime the second time they cause his transformation systems to malfunction: he briefly reverts into Hot Rod! This is no error: in addition to transforming into his junior self's vehicle mode, his coloring changes to Hot Rod's traditional magenta, and actor Dick Gautier raises his voice in pitch to his normal Hot Rod voice. (It's one in a series of incidents that see Rodimus reverted to Hot Rod, presumably to push the toy.)
  • Gadgets and powers:
    • Scattershot displays his often-forgotten third mode, a stationary artillery piece.

Real-world references

  • Star Wars sound effects:
    • TIE Fighter roar as Sky Lynx and Cosmos crash.
    • And again as Ratbat flees from Rodimus & company.
    • Millennium Falcon roar as Strafe takes off.
    • TIE Fighter again as Scattershot makes his first attack.
    • And again as he dives in front of Abominus.
    • X-wing diving whine as the Decepticons retreat.

Animation and technical errors

  • "Grimlock's New Brain" features spectacularly low production values almost across the board. The animation is choppy, the artwork is poor, the shot blocking frequently cuts off characters (Kup utters his whole first line of dialog while we look at the back of his head; Magnus keeps blocking and unblocking our view of Perceptor while he delivers his opening speech), characters are often off-model, the visual effects are goofy, much of the voice processing is incorrect, and the story doesn't entirely make sense.
  • As is par for the course post-Movie, Cybertron looks different in the opening establishing shot than any previous appearance.
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WOO YEAHHHH! I'm gonna chug this whole keg, then I'm gonna do the animation for "Grimlock's New Brain"!
  • Coloring errors:
    • Just as in Season 2, AKOM seems to have gotten incorrect color models for several characters. Thus:
      • Rodimus and Galvatron are both consistently colored using outdated color models; Rodimus's shoulder indentations are red instead of white, his pelvis-windshield details are white instead of light burgundy, and his gun is red instead of black, while Galvatron has pale purple "underpants."
      • The inside of Ultra Magnus's mouth is consistently portrayed as red.
    • A long shot during Magnus's speech shows Perceptor's chest in all-red.
    • In a pan over the listening Autobots, Sludge's dino mode eye is drawn too large and colored all-blue; Broadside has red bits on his cheeks that should be gray.
    • Grimlock's entire neck is grey for a moment as he tries to remember which switch to throw; it should be yellow-gold.
      • The back of his neck is grey in several subsequent shots.
    • When he drops the container of anti-electrons, Slizardo's eye is green.
    • And then both his eyes - including the one under the patch - are featureless yellow blobs as he and the Skuxxoid report to Galvatron.
    • When Rodimus is grabbed by Hun-Gurrr, his spoiler is all-yellow. (It should be orange in the middle.)
  • Rodimus is missing his spoiler as he reacts to Grimlock's first wrong button-push.
  • Though he's speaking, Grimlock's mouth doesn't move as he deactivates the first switch and pulls the second.
  • Rodimus's collar extends much too far into his chest as he corrrects Grimlock.
  • When the Autobots applaud the activation of the power generator, Springer is twice as tall as Kup and Blurr.
  • Voice processing:
    • The Skuxxoid's voice is missing the raspy flange it had back in "Five Faces of Darkness".
    • Cosmos's voice is missing its usual self-echo effect throughout the episode.
    • Blaster's voice is missing its usual modulation.
  • The smoke that first bursts from Cosmos' engines is layered behind him, rather than emerging from the thrusters.
  • When Blaster is struck by the beam of light, his switch is drawn as one long switch instead of three small ones.
  • As Perceptor, Grimlock, and Rodimus walk forward to see Blaster's predicament, they seem to appear out of thin air.
  • As Springer flies off to help his about-to-crash comrades, he clips through Grimlock.
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It follows him around everywhere: down stairs, into space, on other planets...
  • Where's the trailer go?
    • The cartoon never quite decided how Rodimus Prime was supposed to transform. More often than not, his robot form becomes his entire space Winnebago form, as when he transforms alongside Springer. Occasionally, though, his trailer portion is treated Optimus-style, sliding on or off the screen as needed - twice in this episode. It rolls off-screen as he returns to robot mode at the crash site, and it rolls in from off-screen when he involuntarily transforms in the tunnels.
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  • Cosmos transforms into robot mode, but is back in spaceship mode as Blaster tries to report.
  • Teletraan II's report starts with a shot of space for some reason.
  • The next shot shows a huge display in front of the Autobots instead of a framed screen.
  • "Me Grimlock wonder how this happen" - the inside of Grimlock's dino-mouth is missing, making his head appear one-dimensional when his mouth is open; meanwhile, Rodimus's collar is dark red instead of orange.
  • After Teletraan II's report, a shot is layered incorrectly, so Perceptor looks huge next to Rodimus Prime.
  • As they enter the tunnels, Kup and Magnus are the same height; Kup should be several heads shorter.
  • Rodimus's spoiler is too far up on his back after Grimlock storms off.
  • When Rodimus starts reacting to the generator, he and Magnus are bathed in a bright blueish light; the subsequent two shots show them in normal colors.
  • "What did you do, bite the controls?" - Rodimus is as tall as Magnus; he should be a bit shorter.
  • "But Dinobots always go fish together!" - Slag's mouth is drawn moving (just barely), but Snarl's voice is speaking.
  • Ratbat flies into one of the slots in Galvatron's terminal, but subsequent shots are missing the slots.
  • When the Terrorcons open fire on Unicron's cerebral chamber, Hun-Gurrr and Sinnertwin's lasers don't come from any actual point on their bodies.
  • "But - what you do?" Slag's horns are gray instead of red, and his foreleg is missing.
  • Sludge's neck repeatedly flashes between yellow and grey for a few frames when Grimlock gives him orders.
  • The Decepticon ship has no thrusters as it approaches Unicron's head.
  • The Terrorcons are HUGE as they attack the Autobots. Hun-Gurrr has been shown to be a bit larger than the standard Transformer, but not to the point of towering over Rodimus in his low-slung beast mode!
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Rodimus's "EAT ME!!" challenge might've gone better if he were Tommy Lee Jones, but alas, he is not.
  • Hot Rod's missing his spoiler as Hun-Gurrr grabs him. Hot Rod also has a red Decepticon insignia in this scene.
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  • Nosecone is huge in his first few shots - he's taller than Grimlock after drilling into Unicron's brain, and his vehicle mode is large enough for Grimlock to hang onto the back of.
    • Said drilling of a "passage deep into Unicron's brain" consists of drilling through... one wall.
  • Cyclonus is missing the orange shapes on his chest and waist in several shots.
  • Thanks to Roger C. Carmel's inconsistency with his voices, Unicron sounds similar to John Colicos's Apocalypse from the 1992 X-Men TV series (although it also sounds drunk).
  • Afterburner's Autobot logo moves up his chest (and has a black frame instead of white) as Lightspeed introduces himself. Lightspeed's own logo is missing in the same shot.
  • Scattershot's chest is misproportioned as Grimlock names him leader.
  • In a subsequent closeup shot, Scattershot's optic visor has a white outline that shouldn't be there.
  • An overhead shot shows the Autobots firing their weapons, but no beams coming out.
  • As he dives to attack, Scattershot is layered over some parts of Unicron when he should be behind them.
  • Much like the Stunticons and Combaticons before them, the Technobots appear to lack proper transformation sequence guides. One after the next, they morph from robot to vehicle and back with no correlation between the two modes.
  • During Abominus's combination sequence, Hun-Gurrr transforms into Cutthroat and Sinnertwin, who then transform into Abominus's legs. Hun-Gurr himself then drops into the frame from above and merges with them.
    • The same effect is used in reverse when Computron breaks Abominus apart. The Sinnertwin leg is also drawn with one of Cutthroat's wings attached to it.
  • Hun-Gurrr's order to merge continues long after the combination sequence is complete.
  • As Abominus reacts to Scattershot, the background behind him suddenly changes saturation.
  • Even with Computron's combination sequence almost entirely off-screen, AKOM still screwed it up - two halves of Scattershot are seen separated and combining.
  • As the Decepticons shoot Computron, Galvatron is shooting too, but we don't hear his cannon's sound effect.
  • Computron shoots the Decepticons, but his laser is missing its beam.
  • The Decepticons are far too big when they leave Unicron's head.
  • As Rodimus delivers a closing speech to the Autobots, Cosmos's arms are drawn backwards, and Kup is portrayed as a generic in a vaguely Kup-esque color scheme. The same shot is also a good illustration of how the Technobots had no back-side character models - Scattershot's nosecone is drawn as a tiny flat cylinder on his left shoulder, for example.
  • Afterburner is missing his mouth as he and the others turn to look for Grimlock.
  • Earlier on, we saw Sludge devour a mechanical fish. In his final shot, Grimlock grabs what is clearly an organic fish (which must be like ten feet long). So... which is it?
  • In the last shot of the episode, Blaster is missing his switches, Perceptor and Cosmos are missing their Autobot logos, and pretty much everyone is a malformed blob.

Continuity errors

  • The creation of the Technobots seems to conflict with the premise established by "The Key to Vector Sigma"; in those episodes, it is established that the supercomputer Vector Sigma is required to give personalities to Transformers, but here, the Technobots get personalities independently of it. We might hand-wave it by saying the super-smart Grimlock simply has the skill needed to program full, authentic cybernetic personalities into the Technobots on his own. With the introduction of the concept of sparks in much later fiction and the reclassification of Vector Sigma as a conduit to the Allspark, the events of this episode are called into question again.
    • Note that this discrepancy is shared with every single other episode in which new Transformers are shown being created.
    • Maaaaany years later, Ask Vector Prime would offer the explanation—for the alternate-continuity "Wings Universe" version of the cartoon—that Grimlock had been able to use Unicron's lifeblood to generate sparks for the Technobots, in the same way that Primus's lifeblood could.
  • If Grimlock has proven himself so incompetent, why does Rodimus have Grimlock, of all 'bots, activate the generator at the beginning? Why not someone like Perceptor, who's even conveniently nearby when they decide to pull the switch?
  • Likewise, why does Rodimus bring him along to find the power generator? There are plenty of other Autobots who can provide muscle.
  • The anti-electrons affect Cosmos and Sky Lynx without any visual effect to convey that they were hit by them. But on the surface, the generator suddenly starts targeting random Autobots with pinkish anti-electron rays. Nobody seems to notice this peculiar behavior, even when it causes them to malfunction. Later, Rodimus and Kup suffer the effects again with no visual representation.
  • Blaster's "This ain't ever happened before" claim is a bit hyperbolic - similar things happened to various Autobots during the events of "Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1" and "Kremzeek!".
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  • Perceptor's "electro-map" looks a lot like a compass!
  • When the Autobots near the power generator, why are Kup and Rodimus affected, but Ultra Magnus and Grimlock aren't?
  • Swoop is curiously absent from the Dinobots, particularly since Snarl makes a fuss over them all fishing together.
  • Blurr can be seen numerous times fighting alongside the Autobots, despite him not being present on the shuttle ride over.
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  • Even being super-intelligent, Grimlock somehow creates the Technobots in what seems like a few minutes. He also creates the intelligence transfer helmet in no time at all!
  • Seems like a scene or two may have been swapped around: after Nosecone brings Grimlock into Unicron's brain, things cut away to Cyclonus and Scourge as they awaken Unicron, and when we return to Grimlock and Nosecone, Strafe and Lightspeed have suddenly appeared, and Strafe (referred to by name) is instrumental in disabling Unicron's defenses. We might simply assume Grimlock built these two new 'bots in the intermission, but then, after the action cuts to the fighting on the surface, we return to Grimlock, and he is finishing the construction of the Technobots, who then line up and give their introductory speeches and names, including Strafe, like we were supposed to be hearing of him for the first time. It appears that scene of Unicron awakening and his defenses being disabled should have come after this, rather than before.

Trivia

  • While the episode is centered around Grimlock, he never once transforms out of his dinosaur mode. Then again, seeing a T. rex talk with such an extensive vocabulary is kinda funny.
  • The device Grimlock invents to transfer his intelligence into Computron was later rendered in plastic and included with the Super Collection Figure PVC version of Grimlock. It would subsequently be recreated in plastic again for the Masterpiece version of Grimlock, which dubbed the contraption the "Brainwave Transfer Device".
  • Voice actor Gregg Berger has stated that while this was the most difficult episode for him to do (in that it required figuring out how an intelligent Grimlock should sound), it was also the episode he enjoyed working on the most, as it shows him using his Skyfire voice for Grimlock's intelligent voice.
  • The concept of Grimlock becoming smart for a single episode would be revisited in the Robots in Disguise episode "Brainpower".
  • "Anti-electrons" in this episode are clearly meant to be a technobabble-sounding fictional substance with an adverse effect on electronics, rather than the positrons that exist in reality and are also known as "antielectrons".

Foreign localization

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Meet Prof. Grimlock. Cheaters and plagiarists will not be expelled, merely eaten.

French

  • Title (European French broadcast): ?
  • Title (Canadian French broadcast and European French DVD release): "La nouvelle intelligence de La Menace" ("Grimlock's New Intelligence")
  • Original airdate: ?
  • To date, and although there is probably one in existence, the European French dub of this episode is lost. The French DVD editions use the Canadian French dub instead.
  • In that same Canadian French dub, Sky Lynx is still called by his English name instead of "Chaînon".

German

  • Title: "Grimlocks neues Gehirn" ("Grimlock's New Brain")
  • Original airdate: July 6, 1990

Italian

  • Title (first dub): "Tiran l'inventore" ("Grimlock the Inventor")
  • Original airdate: ?
  • Usually in this dub Springer speaks using an aulic and poetic speech, but in this episode he speaks in normal Italian instead. He's also not voiced by his usual actor here.
  • Grimlock doesn't change his speech when he becomes intelligent. In fact, Kup's lines are slightly changed making it look like he simply didn't understand what Grimlock said instead of being surprised by how he was talking.
  • Skuxxoid's line: «I did what you asked and now I want my money 'cause my kids need it, you see» finishes after he stops moving his mouth and after Slizardo begins speaking (you can actually hear both talking at the same time). Skuxxoid also says that his friends need the money, istead of his kids.
  • When Grimlock tells the Technobots that he can't be their leader, he says that the reason is that they will live more than him, and that he's old. This is clearly not true since Grimlock is actually extremely young for an Autobot, being more or less twenty years old.
  • Title (second dub): "Il nuovo cervello di Grimlock" ("Grimlock's New Brain")
  • Original airdate: ?

Japanese

  • Title: "グリムロックの新しい頭脳" (Grimlock no Atarashii Zunō, "Grimlock's New Brain")
  • Original airdate: May 29, 1987
  • Artwork for the episode featured in TV Magazine showed Grimlock wearing a mortarboard and lecturing on something complicated.
  • A (very short) "Secret Files of Teletraan II" segment unique to Japan was attached to this episode. The segment focuses on Bruticus, Menasor and Superion. It replaces the original "Secret Files" segment used in the US broadcast which focused on Ultra Magnus. The original segment was never used in the Japanese broadcast of the series.

Mandarin

  • Title: "Cōngmíng de Gāngsuǒ " (聪明的钢锁, "Clever Grimlock")
  • Original airdate: ?

Brazilian Portuguese

  • Title: ?
  • Original airdate: ?
  • This episode's original translated title is currently lost due to a glitch in the only known surviving copy of the audio track.

Home video releases

All releases listed are in English audio unless otherwise noted.
VHS

United Kingdom 1988 — Transformers — Dark Awakening / Grimlock's New Brain (Tempo Video)
United Kingdom 1990 — Transformers — Dark Awakening / Grimlock's New Brain (Abbey Home Entertainment)
United States of America 2000 — The Original Transformers — Volume 9: Grimlock the Hero (Rhino Entertainment)

LaserDisc

Japan 1999 — The Transformers: 2010 (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.

DVD

Japan 2001 — The Transformers: 2010 — DVD Box (Pioneer LDC) — Japanese audio only.
United States of America 2004 — The Original Transformers — Season 3 Part 2 & Season 4 (Rhino Entertainment)
United Kingdom 2004 — Transformers — Season 3 and Season 4 (Metrodome)
Australia 2004 — Transformers — Collection 5: Series 3.2 (Madman Entertainment)
France 2005 — Transformers — Volume 21 (Déclic Images) — Canadian French audio only.
United Kingdom 2006 — Transformers — The Complete Generation One Collection (Metrodome)
Australia 2007 — The Transformers — Complete Collection (Madman Entertainment)
United Kingdom 2009 — Transformers — Season's Three & Four [sic] (Metrodome)
Australia 2009 — The Transformers — Complete Collection: Decepticon Edition (Madman Entertainment)
United States of America 2009 — The Transformers — The Complete Series: 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection (Shout! Factory)
United States of America 2010 — The Transformers — Seasons Three & Four: 25th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)
United States of America 2011 — The Transformers — The Complete Original Series (Shout! Factory)
United States of America 2014 — The Transformers — Seasons Three & Four: 30th Anniversary Edition (Shout! Factory)
United States of America 2014 — The Transformers — Roar of the Dinobots (Shout! Factory)
United Kingdom 2014 — Transformers — The Classic Animated Series (Metrodome)

External links

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