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:''Gran Arm is an [[Autobot]] [[Micromaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].'' | :''Gran Arm is an [[Autobot]] [[Micromaster]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].'' | ||
[[Image:Sixbuilder-granarm-packageart.jpg|thumb|250px|right|"Gran Arm is fleshling wife to Gran Leg."]] | [[Image:Sixbuilder-granarm-packageart.jpg|thumb|250px|right|"Gran Arm is fleshling wife to Gran Leg."]] | ||
'''Gran Arm''' (グランアーム ''Guran Āmu'') is the comedian of the [[Sixbuilder|Build Team]], even going so far as to appear on [[human]] [[television]] shows with [[Digger]] for publicity stunts. He's not as physically strong as his teammates, but his incredible armor and tight-turning vehicle mode compensate for this shortcoming. | '''Gran Arm''' (グランアーム ''Guran Āmu'') is the comedian of the [[Sixbuilder|Build Team]], even going so far as to appear on [[human]] [[television]] shows with [[Digger]] for publicity stunts. He's not as physically strong as his teammates, but his incredible armor and tight-turning vehicle mode compensate for this shortcoming. | ||
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==Fiction== | ==Fiction== | ||
===''Transformers Legends'' comic=== | ===''Transformers Legends'' comic=== | ||
Gran Arm was among the [[Cyberdroid]]s who left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and came to [[Earth]] in search for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. A dimensional shockwave mutated them, altering their forms and enabling them to transform. {{storylink|Transformers Legends (comic)#Tailgate/G1 Micron Chapter|Tailgate/G1 Micron Chapter}} | Gran Arm was among the [[Cyberdroid]]s who left [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] and came to [[Earth]] in search for [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. A dimensional shockwave mutated them, altering their forms and enabling them to transform. {{storylink|Transformers Legends (comic)#Tailgate/G1 Micron Chapter|Tailgate/G1 Micron Chapter}} | ||
===''Micromaster''=== | ===''Micromaster''=== | ||
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: The original version of Gran Arm was available only as part of a [[Sixbuilder]] gift set in Japan. Aside from the payloader mode, Gran Arm can form the chest or back of any of the Six-Teams, though his nominal placement is as Sixbuilder's chest. The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find. | : The original version of Gran Arm was available only as part of a [[Sixbuilder]] gift set in Japan. Aside from the payloader mode, Gran Arm can form the chest or back of any of the Six-Teams, though his nominal placement is as Sixbuilder's chest. The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find. | ||
: This mold was used to make the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Micromaster [[Buckethead]] | : This mold was used to make the ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Micromaster [[Buckethead]] and the [[Scrapper (Micromaster)|evil half of Gran Arm]]. | ||
::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1992/Cybertron/GranArm/granarm.htm More information on Gran Arm at TFU.info]'' | ::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1992/Cybertron/GranArm/granarm.htm More information on Gran Arm at TFU.info]'' | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/11fd9b8f69430ec1?dmode=source&output=gplain Translation of Gran Arm's bio by Doug Dlin] | *[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/11fd9b8f69430ec1?dmode=source&output=gplain Translation of Gran Arm's bio by Doug Dlin] | ||
[[Category:Combiners]] | [[Category:Combiners]] | ||
[[Category:Micromaster Autobots]] | [[Category:Micromaster Autobots]] | ||
[[Category:Operation Combination Autobots]] | [[Category:Operation Combination Autobots]] | ||
Revision as of 07:54, 7 December 2015
- Gran Arm is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Gran Arm (グランアーム Guran Āmu) is the comedian of the Build Team, even going so far as to appear on human television shows with Digger for publicity stunts. He's not as physically strong as his teammates, but his incredible armor and tight-turning vehicle mode compensate for this shortcoming.
He also has an evil counterpart running around.
Fiction
Transformers Legends comic
Gran Arm was among the Cyberdroids who left Cybertron and came to Earth in search for Optimus Prime and the Matrix. A dimensional shockwave mutated them, altering their forms and enabling them to transform. Tailgate/G1 Micron Chapter
Micromaster
Gran Arm was one of several Cyberdroids in stasis at the Autobot Micromasters' Earth base. During a particularly pitched battle with the Decepticon Sixwing in Berserker Mode, the capsules containing the Build Team took a shock, activating them. A little while later, Micromasters resembling the Build Team were spotted wrecking human construction sites. The Build Team soon confronted them in Sixbuilder mode... only for the impostors to do the same! The green Decepticon Sixbuilder announced that the two teams were actually halves of the original whole, and that he would rejoin with Sixbuilder only after all the other Autobots had been destroyed. Sixbuilder the Ill-Fated Warrior!?
Later, after Sixtrain beat back the Decepticons at an excavation site by a dormant volcano, the Build Team began their own investigation, wondering what the Decepticons were digging up. Gran Arm's grumbling was interrupted when Raise discovered two pieces of Cybertronian metal, one of which bore a strange purple insignia. Realizing something incredibly important was buried there, but not sure what, the Autobots built their new Metrobase headquarters there to protect it from the Decepticons. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!
Operation Combination story pages
Years later, Gran Arm and the rest of the Six-team Micromasters joined Guard City and the Road Corps in defending Earth from the forces of the Decepticon Führer Scrash. Operation Combination
Toys
Operation: Combination
- Sixbuilder (Micromaster, 1992)
- Japanese ID number: TF-01
- The original version of Gran Arm was available only as part of a Sixbuilder gift set in Japan. Aside from the payloader mode, Gran Arm can form the chest or back of any of the Six-Teams, though his nominal placement is as Sixbuilder's chest. The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find.
- This mold was used to make the Universe Micromaster Buckethead and the evil half of Gran Arm.
Micromaster
- Gran Arm (Micromaster, 2003)
- Sixbuilder ID number: 4
- Accessories: Sixbuilder torso & head
- In 2003, the entire Sixbuilder team was re-released as part of The Transformers: Micromaster, in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. For this release, the team was extensively redecoed; Gran Arm went from red to orange-yellow. All decals were also replaced with paint applications.
Notes
- Gran Arm, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Operation Combination release.
