Grayox

Grayox is a Beastformer from the Generation 1 continuity family.

His drawings seem especially good when you realize he's left-handed.

Grayox (グレイオックス Gureiokkusu) is one of the many Beastformers who joined White Leo's resistance forces as Galvatron's Decepticons began to conquer the formerly-peaceful planet Beast with their army of cold-blooded insurgents. His role in the Autobot-allied Beastformer forces is an amphibious attack warrior. He also holds the rank of Emperor of Petra, under King Graysharp.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation 1 continuity

Grayox was present when Razorclaw took on the invading Megatron, fighting off the Decepticon Air Warriors. Welcome to the Jungle

Mini Mayhem!

When Galvatron unleashed Predaking, boasting that the gestalt's combined animal strength was unparalleled, Grayox and his allies stood united to prove him wrong. Mini Mayhem!

Toys

Transformers: Beastformers

• Grayox (Beastformer, 1987)
  • Beast ID number: 10
  • Accessories: Blade-weapon

Part of the first series of Takara's Beastformers toys, Grayox is an anthropomorphic buffalo with blue-green robotic armor. His left arm ends in a twin-horn claw. The rubsign on his chest reveals one of three symbols; Fire, Water or Wood.

He was re-released in the subsequent second and third series; while the toy proper was not changed, the packaging and packed-in bio card was. The Series 1 release comes in a generic red-grid "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with a red-grid bio card with a painted character image on the front, though there was a random chance of his card being replaced by the rare "Holography Mirror" card. Series 2 came in a green-grid generic "Cybertron Beastformer" box, with the bio card putting the painted image on a jungle backdrop. Series 3's box was unchanged, but the bio card replaced the painted image with a simpler line-art image, first used in Hasbro's Battle Beasts cast poster. In the green-box releases, depending on the "Pack" he came in, there was a chance of his bio card being replaced with a rare "Secret Photo", "Bewitching Serpent Seal", or "VS Holography Mirror" card.

Beastformers

• Grayox (Beastformer, 1988)
  • Beast ID number: 10
  • Accessories: "Oakron" MVP Weapon

Re-released in the Transformers-less Beastformers sequel series, Grayox was given a straight re-release with new packaging and a new, more filled-out bio card with corrected coloring. This new card also gave his weapon, now branded an "MVP Weapon", the name "Oakron" (オークロン Ōkuron).

The initial early releases of this series had the chance for any Beastformer to have the rare Burstsun symbol; we'll probably never know if Grayox was ever actually one of them. Later in the run, the "mood ring" styled rubsigns were replaced with new rubsigns that revealed full-color Fire/Wood/Water images on black backdrops. (These rubsign variants also happened at the same time in the Hasbro Battle Beast version of the line.)

• Grayox (Gashapon/candy-toy Beastformer, 1988)
  • Meiji ID number: 9
  • Accessories: "Devil Waver" weapon

A small, super-deformed, articulation-free version of Grayox was sold both as a gashapon capsule prize by Takara, and as a candy toy with "chocoballs" through the candy/ snack company Meiji. The candy toy version came with a bio/data card with its own role-playing rules, using the old Transformers-era painted character art.

This stumpy lil fellow could be found in red, blue or green plastic, representing the Fire, Water and Wood elements (even though he still had a rubsign). All of the Meji Beastformers comes with a different Beastformer's weapon attached to their left shoulder by a snippable sprue, common for inexpensive toys of that nature. Grayox came with Devilbat's "Devil Waver" weapon, while Grayox's weapon came with Badshark.

Notes

Foreign names

• English: Roamin' Buffalo