Grimlock commercial

[tigerpaw28]

I found the Grimlock commercial (http://www.retrostatic.com/videos/p803_sectionid/13/p803_fileid/483/p803_js_on/1) on your site and am very intrigued by it. After working on the Commercial page at TFWiki.net (http://www.tfwiki.net/wiki/Commercial), I've seen just about every 80's/Generation 1 era U.S. Transformers commercial there is. And none of them have a 'static shot' (my term for the shot of the toy or toys just sitting in front of the camera at the end of a commercial) taken in front of a solid blue background. G1 Transformers commercials always have static shots taken in front of whatever diorama was used for the spot. A blue background was used for many 80's G.I. Joe commercials however.

This unusual shot, the fact that the commercial shares a lot of footage with the two versions of the Dinobots commercial (including the special 'Dinobots' version of the theme song), does not have a kid mouthing the 'Robots in Disguise' line and only Grimlock is mentioned and featured in the static shot, has me wondering where this commercial came from. It seems like a early draft of the Dinobots commercial. Did this ever make it to air? And how did it come to be posted on this site?

Any and all insight is appreciated.

-Tigerpaw28

[8-Bit]

There were a few TF commercials (mostly the ones from '84-'85) that did this, I've noticed... it must have been for the earlier series of commercials. That particular commercial was off of a taping of some Saturday morning cartoon.

[tigerpaw28]

Thanks for the reply. Nice to have it confirmed that this Grimlock commercial indeed made it to air.

Not to doubt you, but I've never seen another TF commercial with that blue background. That list I linked to above, has YouTube links on it for every 84-85 commercial I know of, and none of those examples have one. Unless you count the Mini Spies commercial, but it doesn't really freeze at the end. Do you have any other examples you could post? I'd love to be proven wrong.

-Tigerpaw28