Draft:Dinobots

Megatron no longer has complete control over them, but is able to persuade Grimlock, Snarl and Swoop into destroying the Autobots and all fossil fuel-powered vehicles, after which they are trapped and imprisoned in a tar pit. Prowl and Bulkhead secretly transport the Dinobots to a forest island where they can live in seclusion and peace with nature, hidden from the rest of the world by a holographic screen. However, Grimlock accidentally figures out how to transform into robot mode, to the surprise of the other two Dinobots. Prometheus Black, also known as Meltdown, later threatens to melt them unless they serve him. The Dinobots reason that Meltdown is not one of them, so they transform to defeat him, and ally with the Autobots.

The Dinobots return in "Megatron Rising" (part one), where they refuse a request by Optimus Prime, Bulkhead and Prowl for their help against the invading Decepticons. They briefly feature in "The Elite Guard", where they attack Sentinel Prime when he trespasses on their island, but are forced back by

In "Human Error" (part 2), Grimlock and Swoop appear when a teenaged Sari asks for their help to rescue the Autobots from Soundwave, who wants to reprogram them into serving him. Sari discovers that Slag has been domesticated into a pet by the Constructicon Scrapper, and the two help Sari to defeat Soundwave, though Scrapper calls him Snarl probably as a shoutout to the other Dinobot not featured in the series, and a nod to the fact his naming gives difficulties in British countries due to its slang status.

Transformers: Power Core Combiners

Grimstone is the first Power Core Combiner to use animal forms instead of vehicles like his team members. According to his bio, Grimstone has dreamed of power and the privilege it brings, yet he considers the needs of others before himself. His belief is that it is the responsibility of the powerful to protect those less fortunate; and with his newly formed Power Core team, he will enforce that belief.^[28][29][30]

A set of dinobots toys were released as part of the "Power Core Combiners" line in 2010. This set was a new mold and came with four Dinobot drones: a Parasaurolophus, a Pachycephalosaurus, an Ankylosaurus, and a Dimetrodon mislabeled as a Spinosaurus, all of which combine with Grimstone to form a larger robot.

Aligned Continuity

Notable members include:

• Grimlock - leader, Tyrannosaurus, voiced by Crispin Freeman in War for Cybertron, Gregg Berger in Fall of Cybertron, and Khary Payton in Robots in Disguise where he is a different character.
• Slug - Triceratops
• Sludge - Apatosaurus, in video game Transformers Battle Tactic, his name Slog
• Snarl - Stegosaurus
• Swoop - Pteranodon, in video game Transformers Battle Tactic, his name Strafe

Transformers: Prime

While the Dinobots never appear in the animated series Transformers: Prime,^[31][32] they were briefly referenced once. In the episode "Project Predacon" of the third season, during a discussion about the existence of the Predacons and their relationship to Earth's dinosaurs, Miko asked Bulkhead about the Dinobots. However, Bulkhead assured her that they were entirely different from Predacons. .

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

The Dinobots appear in the 2012 video game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, belligerent, bullheaded, and rebellious, the Dinobots (formerly the Lightning Strike Coalition Force) are a brutal commando unit of Autobots, who handle the jobs that other Autobots don't have the stomach for. Openly critical of Optimus Prime's conservative tactics, the unit instead defers to their leader Grimlock, who isn't above defying his higher-ups if the need arises. One such rebellion resulted in the team becoming captives of Shockwave, who subsequently experimented on the team by giving with new alternate modes based on dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, intending to turn them into mindless berserkers. The Dinobots managed to escape Shockwave's lab, and their mutual struggle to adjust to and understand their strange new forms has resulted in the team becoming more tight-knit than ever. In the games, Grimlock is playable, and Swoop, Sludge (only shown in his non-Dinobot form and in stasis lock, although there was a model made for his dinosaur mode), Slag (renamed "Slug"), and Snarl appear alongside him.

Transformers Prime: Rage of the Dinobots

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Transformers: Rescue Bots

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A human-built robotic Dinosaur called Trex appears in

The Dinobots, including Grimlock, appeared in the fourth Transformers film, Transformers: Age of Extinction.^[33] At the climax of the film, Optimus Prime rides Grimlock into battle through Hong Kong, Bumblebee rides Strafe, Drift rides Slug,^[34] and Crosshairs rides Scorn.^[35] In the film, the Dinobots are also called Legendary Warriors. Unlike their animated counterparts, they don't have the ability to speak. Grimlock, Slug, and "Mini-Dinobots", appear in The Last Knight. One of The Dinobot original character names back in G1 for the Dinobot was Slag but this was now changed to Slug due to the fact that Slag has the very highly offensive derogatory nature in the word connotations of that word in the United Kingdom (Europe) Internationally in that European Country.

Listings in the toyline and recent box images showed that their alt-modes are the following:

• Grimlock (The leader) - Transforms into mechanical horned fire-breathing Tyrannosaurus
• Slug - Transforms into a mechanical spiked and bestial Triceratops
• Scorn - New member who transforms into a mechanical three-sailed Spinosaurus
• Strafe - Transforms into a mechanical two-headed and two-tailed Pteranodon

Mini-Dinobots includes:

• Sharp-T - Transforms into mechanical horned fire-breathing miniature Tyrannosaurus
• Tops - Transforms into a mechanical spiked fire-breathing miniature Triceratops
• Pterry - Transforms into a mechanical miniature Pteranodon

In the film, the Dinobots were held prisoner as trophies aboard the Knight ship that is used by Lockdown. They are taken with Optimus and the Autobots when they commandeer a detachable section of the ship, and Optimus later uses the Sword of Judgement to free them from their captivity to save Earth from Galvatron's army. At first they refuse to obey Optimus due to suspicions, but after Optimus defeats Grimlock in single combat, they gain respect for and assist him in the battle of Hong Kong in exchange for their freedom.^{[36][37][38][39][40]}

Unlike the original Dinobots, they are much larger than the Autobots and the Decepticons, which allowed the Autobots to ride them. But like the originals, they prove to be powerful, destroying and tearing apart the Decepticons with ease and proved able to breathe fire in their alt-modes. They were named as "Legendary warriors" by Optimus Prime. In 2009,

Although four Dinobots were seen in the movie, there are three more Dinobots in the toy line and promotional images.

• Slash - Transforms into a mechanical spine-clawed Velociraptor
• Slog - Transforms into a mechanical spiked Apatosaurus
• Snarl - Transforms into a mechanical double-spined Stegosaurus