Grapple (G1)

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This article is about the Autobot crane. For the ex-Constructicon crane who looks exactly like him sometimes, see Roadhauler.

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Grapple is an <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobot</a> from the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1_%28franchise%29" title="Generation 1 (franchise)">Generation 1</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Continuity_family" title="Continuity family">continuity family</a>.

[[Image:|right|300px|thumb|"Elementary, my dear Hoist."]] Grapple is technically an architect, but in his <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spark" title="Spark">Spark</a> he is an artist. On <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a>, before the war, his buildings were considered great works of art, but now his constructions are limited by the realities and needs of the war effort. It is a situation he often finds stifling. Grapple takes great pride in any work he constructs, and is prone to severe bouts of depression should his "masterworks" be destroyed in the course of combat. Grapple can usually be found hanging out with his close friend <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hoist_%28G1%29" title="Hoist (G1)"> Hoist</a> who does his best to cheer Grapple up when his artistic temperament has him down.



<table style="border-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: transparent;" class="cquote" align="center"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 9px 10px 0pt; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;" valign="top" width="20"> “ </td><td style="padding: 4px 10px 5px; font-family: 'lucida console',arial,sans-serif;" valign="top"> Someday I want to build something that doesn't get trashed! </td><td style="padding: 10px 10px 0px; color: rgb(178, 183, 242); font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right;" valign="bottom" width="20"> ” </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0pt;"> <p style="font-size: smaller; line-height: 1em; text-align: right;"><cite style="font-style: normal;">—Grapple laments his creations' constant destruction, "<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Auto_Berserk" title="Auto Berserk">Auto Berserk</a>"</cite>

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Portugese name (Brazil comic): Chave
Hungarian name: Csáklya
Italian name: Gancio
French-Canadian name: Grappin
Portuguese name (Portugal comic): Lutador


<a name="Fiction"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Grapple&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Fiction">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Fiction</span></h2> <a name="Cartoon_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Grapple&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cartoon continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Cartoon continuity</span></h3>

Voice actor: <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Peter_Reneday" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Reneday">Peter Reneday</a> (US), <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kenyu_Horiuchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenyu Horiuchi">Kenyu Horiuchi</a> (Japan)

[[Image:|left|150px|thumb|"Boy, I bet you we'll win top prize at the Autobot Science Fair this year! We'll beat Wheeljack's catapult-making machine any day!"]] <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dinobot_Island%2C_Part_1" title="Dinobot Island, Part 1">Dinobot Island, Part 1</a></span>

Grapple designed a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Solar_Tower&action=edit" class="new" title="Solar Tower">Solar Tower</a> to collect solar energy for the Autobots--even built a little model of it. When <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28G1%29" title="Optimus Prime (G1)">Optimus Prime</a> wouldn't let him build it, Grapple ran off to sulk and encountered the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Constructicon_%28G1%29" title="Constructicon (G1)">Constructicons</a>, and naturally told them all about his awesome tower idea that got nixed because Prime didn't want the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon" title="Decepticon">Decepticons</a> getting their hands on it. Brilliant.


[[Image:|right|150px|thumb|"Your invention has a practical application, so it was disqualified. Sorry."]] They agreed to help Grapple and his buddy Hoist out, but then <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28G1%29" title="Megatron (G1)">Megatron</a> found out and decided to turn it into his latest evil plan. The Solar Tower was completed, but <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Devastator_%28G1%29" title="Devastator (G1)">Devastator</a> trapped Grapple and Hoist inside it, and the Autobots had to show up to save their skidplates. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Master_Builders" title="The Master Builders">The Master Builders</a></span> 

<span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Auto_Berserk" title="Auto Berserk">Auto Berserk</a></span>  <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron%27s_Master_Plan%2C_Part_1" title="Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1">Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1</a></span>  <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Desertion_of_the_Dinobots%2C_Part_1" title="Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1">Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1</a></span>  <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Desertion_of_the_Dinobots%2C_Part_2" title="Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2">Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2</a></span>  <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Quest_for_Survival" title="Quest for Survival">Quest for Survival</a></span>

Grapple was also one of several Autobots captured by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Lord_Chumley" title="Lord Chumley">Lord Chumley</a>'s wildly-improbable traps; Grapple fell victim to a series of girders that magically fell into a cage configuration. Taken to Chumley's goofy-ass castle, he was used as bait to draw in <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28G1%29" title="Optimus Prime (G1)">Optimus Prime</a>, "forced" to hold up a giant boulder - which did not seem to be actually supported by anything and therefore Grapple could have just dropped it or thrown it at one of the other devices keeping the Autobots prisoner.

Grapple's kind of stupid. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prime_Target" title="Prime Target">Prime Target</a></span> 

<span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Starscream%27s_Brigade" title="Starscream's Brigade">Starscream's Brigade</a></span>  <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Masquerade" title="Masquerade">Masquerade</a></span>

Alongside <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Swoop_%28G1%29" title="Swoop (G1)">Swoop</a>'s lower leg and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Perceptor_%28G1%29" title="Perceptor (G1)">Perceptor</a>, Grapple valiantly defended <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot_City" title="Autobot City">Autobot City</a>. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers:_The_Movie" title="The Transformers: The Movie">The Transformers: The Movie</a></span>


<a name="Marvel_Comics_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Grapple&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Marvel Comics continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Marvel Comics continuity</span></h3> [[Image:|left|150px|thumb|He built Omega Supreme strong enough to survive at least one attack by Buzzsaw.]] Prior to the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ark_%28G1%29" title="Ark (G1)">Ark</a> leaving Cybertron, Grapple (along with <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Smokescreen_%28G1%29" title="Smokescreen (G1)">Smokescreen</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tracks" title="Tracks">Tracks</a>, Hoist and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skids_%28G1%29" title="Skids (G1)">Skids</a>) had his memories recorded onto crystals in case Optimus Prime required more warriors during the Ark's mission. Four million years following the Ark's crash on <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>, Grapple and the others were revived in new bodies on Earth. While the other newly revived Autobots were sent out to learn more about their new home planet, Grapple was sidelined. Optimus Prime had a very special building project for Grapple. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Rock_and_Roll-Out%21" title="Rock and Roll-Out!">Rock and Roll-Out!</a></span>

So Grapple built <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Omega_Supreme_%28G1%29" title="Omega Supreme (G1)">Omega Supreme</a>. On his own. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Command_Performances%21" title="Command Performances!">Command Performances!</a></span>

<i>When Optimus Prime, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ratchet_%28G1%29" title="Ratchet (G1)">Ratchet</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prowl_%28G1%29" title="Prowl (G1)">Prowl</a> disappeared due to time-jumping Decepticons, Grapple found himself in the position of Autobot medic, repairing a damaged <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hound_%28G1%29" title="Hound (G1)">Hound</a>. Led into battle with <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Galvatron_%28G1%29" title="Galvatron (G1)">Galvatron</a> and his goons by the new leadership triumvirate of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ironhide_%28G1%29" title="Ironhide (G1)">Ironhide</a>, <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Smokescreen_%28G1%29" title="Smokescreen (G1)">Smokescreen</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jetfire_%28G1%29" title="Jetfire (G1)">Jetfire</a>, Grapple and his friends were sorely outmatched against the future Decepticons. Grapple was even part of a half-dozen or so Autobots who dogpiled on <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Scourge_%28G1%29" title="Scourge (G1)">Scourge</a> and barely managed to slow him down. In dire straits, the Autobots were actually forced to go to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28G1%29" title="Megatron (G1)">Megatron</a> and forge an alliance against Galvatron. Megatron's strategy managed to capture one of the time travellers, Scourge, but not before the fiendish tracker hurled a razor bladed dart straight through Grapple's chest, putting him out of action for the remainder of the conflict. Once Ratchet returned, he managed to piece Grapple back together soon enough. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Target_2006" class="mw-redirect" title="Target 2006">Target 2006</a></span></i>

Grapple remained with the Ark's crew for quite some time, and was seen on the moon during the grudge match between <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blaster_%28G1%29" title="Blaster (G1)">Blaster</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Grimlock_%28G1%29" title="Grimlock (G1)">Grimlock</a>. When the Decepticons attacked, Grapple engaged <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wildrider" title="Wildrider">Wildrider</a> in some gunplay. They appeared to exchange hits, but his final fate is unknown. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Totaled%21" title="Totaled!">Totaled!</a></span>


<a name="Marvel_UK_future_timelines"></a><h4><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Grapple&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Marvel UK future timelines">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Marvel UK future timelines</span></h4> <i>In 2008, Grapple was operating out of one of the Autobot bases on Cybertron when Scourge and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cyclonus_%28G1%29" title="Cyclonus (G1)">Cyclonus</a> led the Decepticons into an all-out war on the base. (The base was a big honkin' mushroom in the middle of an empty field. One can only hope Grapple didn't design it himself.) Anyway, he did pretty well in battle, actually standing up to two Decepticons at once, including the commando <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blitzwing_%28G1%29" title="Blitzwing (G1)">Blitzwing</a>. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Legacy_of_Unicron%21" title="The Legacy of Unicron!">The Legacy of Unicron!</a></span></i>


<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">Note: <i>Optimus Prime says he copied Grapple's memories in case he needed another warrior while away. Does that mean there's still the original Grapple out there somewhere?</i></div>


<a name="Marvel_Books_Big_Looker_Storybook_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Grapple&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Marvel Books Big Looker Storybook continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Marvel Books Big Looker Storybook continuity</span></h3> [[Image:|right|150px|thumb|Dear Diary; Cliffjumper asked me to the prom today. Should I say yes?]] While lamenting the fact that he couldn't build beautiful buildings like he did back on Cybertron because the Decepticons would destroy them, Grapple spotted a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kickback_%28G1%29" title="Kickback (G1)">grasshopper</a> and a <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bombshell" title="Bombshell">beetle</a>. He wished life were as simple for him as it was for those insects, who promptly violated his brain. Under Bombshell's control, Grapple attacked <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beachcomber_%28G1%29" title="Beachcomber (G1)">the resident Autobot hippie</a>. Later, at their base, the Decepticons made Grapple their bitch. After the Autobots removed his <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cerebro-shell" title="Cerebro-shell">cerebro-shell</a>, Grapple sucker-punched Megatron and they all celebrated. Hurray! <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Insecticon_Attack%21" title="Insecticon Attack!">Insecticon Attack!</a></span>


<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">Note: Throughout almost the entire story, Grapple is drawn with <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hook_%28G1%29" title="Hook (G1)">Hook</a>'s <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Character_model" title="Character model">character model</a>, only appearing with Grapple's own head in close-ups.</div> <a name="Dreamwave_comics_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Grapple&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Dreamwave comics continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Dreamwave comics continuity</span></h3> After the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Great_Shutdown" title="Great Shutdown">Great Shutdown</a> ended, Grapple was among a group of Autobots chosen to serve as a High Council, ruling jointly with the Decepticon <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shockwave_%28G1%29" title="Shockwave (G1)">Shockwave</a> over the newly unified Cybertron. However, the Decepticon easily manipulated the council into giving him more and more power, until they were functionally impotent. Grapple and his fellow council members were among the last Autobots to truly recognize Shockwave's deceits, but did eventually join their fellow soldiers in bringing down the Decepticon's control of Cybertron. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Revelation" class="mw-redirect" title="Revelation">Revelation</a></span> Afterwards, Grapple decided to accompany <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prowl_%28G1%29" title="Prowl (G1)">Prowl</a> and the Ark's crew back to Earth, where he could put his skills to work on the construction of Autobot City. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Route_of_All_Evil" title="The Route of All Evil">The Route of All Evil</a></span>


<a name="IDW_comics_continuity"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Grapple&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: IDW comics continuity">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">IDW comics continuity</span></h3> [[Image:|left|150px|thumb|DULL LOOKING UP!]] While <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Inferno_%28G1%29" title="Inferno (G1)">Inferno</a> was running an emergency rescue operation in <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kaon" title="Kaon">Kaon</a> during the first major outbreak of Decepticon violence, Grapple was at his side to presumably offer engineering advice on safely evacuating trapped civilians. Their efforts became moot when a hovering pleasure cruiser was shot down and landed right on top of them. <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_Origin_issue_4" title="Megatron Origin issue 4">Megatron Origin issue 4</a></span> Grapple's fate is unknown, but since Inferno survived <span style="border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-width: 0pt 1px; padding: 0pt 5px; font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(236, 236, 236);" class="tt1_nowrap"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spotlight:_Blaster" title="Spotlight: Blaster">Spotlight: Blaster</a></span>, Grapple may have as well.


<a name="Toys"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Grapple&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Toys">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Toys</span></h2> <a name="Generation_1"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Grapple&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Generation 1">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Generation 1</span></h3> [[Image:|right|180px|thumb|You'd think that having only one hand would make you an Operational Health & Safety disaster on a jobsite.]]

  • Grapple (Autobot Car, 1985/1986)
  • Japanese ID number: C-47
  • Accessories: Left & right fists, "Arc-Welder Rifle", 3 rockets


Grapple transforms into an orange crane based upon the same truck design that <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Inferno_%28G1%29" title="Inferno (G1)">Inferno</a>

uses, the Mitsubishi Fuso. Each of his forearms contains a spring-loaded missile launcher, so he can fire his own fists or silver missiles (though the mechanism was severely neutered in the original US releases). He is also armed with a small black rifle.

This version of this mold was also used to make <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/RoadHauler" title="RoadHauler">RoadHauler</a>. The fire engine version of the mold was released as Inferno and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Artfire" title="Artfire">Artfire</a>.
  • Autobot Grapple (Commemorative Series, 2004)
  • Accessories: Left & right fists, "Arc-Welder Rifle", 3 rockets


Grapple was reissued by Hasbro in 2004 as part of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Commemorative_Series" title="Commemorative Series">Commemorative Series</a>. The spring-loaded firing mechanisms in his arms were completely removed due <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/For_safety_reasons" title="For safety reasons">to safety reasons</a>.

Additionally, the hook on his crane as well as the hydraulics in the crane arm were changed to plastic painted silver, rather than using the more brittle (but authentic to the original release) vacuum-metalized plastic. He also gained a new Autobot sigil <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tampograph" title="Tampograph">tampograph</a> on his chest/cab, and his eyes were changed from yellow to blue.

Interestingly enough, Grapple was not released as part of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Takara" class="mw-redirect" title="Takara">Takara</a>'s "<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Collection" title="Transformers Collection">Transformers Collection</a>" reissue series.

<a name="Attacktix"></a><h4><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Grapple&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Attacktix">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Attacktix</span></h4> [[Image:|right|180px|thumb|The tower of power.]]

  • Grapple (2007)

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<tbody><tr> <td>Attacktix ID number:</td><td>Unknown </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#ececec"> <td>Faction:</td><td>Autobot </td></tr> <tr> <td>Class:</td><td>Warrior </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#ececec"> <td>Special:</td><td>Unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td>Point Cost:</td><td>30 </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#ececec"> <td>Base Speed:</td><td>Unknown </td></tr> <tr> <td>Attack Type:</td><td>Rammer </td></tr></tbody></table>

One of many Generation 1 characters slated to appear in <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Attacktix" title="Attacktix">Attacktix</a>,

Grapple would have been a "rammer"-type piece, with a spring-loaded boom-crane attack. A presumed wave-3 Booster, this piece was ultimately never released.

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