Griffin Rock

Griffin Rock is a location from the Rescue Bots portion of the Aligned continuity family.

The small island town of Griffin Rock, Maine, is a testing bed for all kinds of new experimental technologies and gadgets. Most of these have a propensity for running amok or malfunctioning spectacularly. It's a good thing the island has its own team of alien robots to protect the populace.

Fiction

Rescue Bots cartoon

The town was established in 1649. Family of Heroes Mount Magma was moved to the island after the World's Fair in 1939. Under Pressure

The Rescue Bots were assigned to protect the island after arriving on Earth, and were presented to the population by Chief Charlie Burns as hi-tech robots which would assist him and his family. After they successfully dealt with a fire at the natural history museum, Cody Burns discovered that the four robots were aliens. He showed them the tunnels which ran all over the island from the Cold War bunker beneath the fire station, and they managed to stop a rampaging robotic Tyrannosaurus rex that had escaped from the museum and was threatening the drive-in theater. Family of Heroes

Further trouble came when Chase and Chief Burns had to stop a robo-landscaper that had gone rogue and begun carving up downtown. That same day, the rescue team had to deal with lava flooding out of the sewers, thanks to Mount Magma building up too much pressure. Under Pressure The town was also briefly threatened when Doc Greene's experimental solar car careened through the streets out of control. Hotshots During the Lobster and Technology Festival, an accident with floatium and some lobsters created flobsters. The flying crustaceans quickly spread out over the town, causing damage everywhere, and had to be rounded up by the Rescue Bots. Flobsters on Parade

The town's population panicked when Huxley Prescott reported an alien invasion. When the power went out as well, many of them tried to evacuate on the ferry, only to overload it. The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock The escape of the lion and lemurs from Griffin Rock Zoo resulted in the destruction of the new Mayor Luskey Library before they were rounded up. Walk on the Wild Side

Nanites from Doc Greene's lab caused the Scrapmaster to go berserk, and also made Boulder knock down trees in the park until the nanites were lured to the power plant. Cody on Patrol A blocked sewer pipe caused a sinkhole that almost swallowed the bank. During the rescue operation, the town's central water supply had to be shut off, forcing Cody to switch the island's power from the hydro-electric plant to the wind farm. Four Bots and a Baby

Griffin Rock was struck by a heatwave so hot that eggs didn't just cook on the pavement, they burst into flame. Doc Greene set up a weather machine that created a localized snowfall in the central park, but it went out of control, creating snow all over Griffin Rock and threatening city hall with a roof collapse until Greene could get it fixed. Christmas in July

A robotic shark destroyed the automated lighthouse's sensors and disrupted the annual Miss Griffin Rock pageant. Deep Trouble

Notes

• A town that's a testing ground for new technology is also the premise of the SyFy television series Eureka and Griffin Rock's resident scientist Doc Greene bears a more-than-passing resemblance to their chief scientist Henry Deacon.