Grand King

Grand King (グランドキング) was a robot (technically cyborg) Kaiju that first appeared in the 1984 film Ultraman Story.


 * Subtitle: Super Combined Monster (超合体怪獣)
 * Super Subtitle: Super Monster (超怪獣)
 * Maga Subtitle: King Demon Beast of Earth (土ノ魔王獣)
 * Megalos Subtitle: Super-Class Monster (超弩級怪獣)

Ultraman Story
While Taro was fighting Enmargo on Earth, Juda combined the spirits of Alien Baltan, Red King, Gomora, Alien Mefilas, Eleking, and Alien Hipporito into a monsterous robot known as Grand King. The robot took repeated assaults from Ultraman, Seven, Jack, Ace, and Zoffy without even slowing down. Firing back, Grand King brought down each of the Ultra Brothers. Soon the fight was taken to the surface of an alien world where there is no life to minimize damage. The Ultras tried their best, but Grand King was too powerful and continued to shrug off their strongest attacks as if they were nothing. Just as it all looked grim for the five Ultras, Taro returned from his battle on Earth to assist his comrades in stopping the machine. However even after joining the fight, Taro and the brothers were still no match for Grand King's strength and armor. It was then that the revived Father of Ultra sent out an order so the five brothers fused with Taro so that he would have enough power to bring down the juggernaut. Once they did this, Taro managed to topple the goliath. Grand King refused to go down without a fight, resulting in Taro using his new Cosmo Miracle Ray. An attack so powerful it was capable of blowing through Grand King's armor and destroying the mechanical monster for good. With Grand King destroyed, Juda was dragged back to where he came and was never seen again.

Trivia

 * Grand King was also supposed to be put together with the souls of Kingsaurus III, Astromons and Silver Bloome, but the monsters were dropped for unknown reasons.
 * Grand King's appearance and fight with the Ultra Brothers in Ultraman Story was referenced by Hikaru Raido in New Ultraman Retsuden episode 26.

Ultraman Ginga
An updated Grand King, known as Super Grand King (スーパーグランドキング), appeared in episode 10. Here, he was DarkLived by Alien Nackle Gray and a corrupted Misuzu. As Hikaru/Ultraman Ginga and Tomoya/Jean-Nine realized this, Ginga advise Hikaru to enter Misuzu's mind to reason with her. At the same time, Hikaru's friends and Misuzu's father transformed themselves into Ultraman, Ultraseven, and Ultraman Tiga. With Jean-Nine, they tried their best to hold off Super Grand King but failed due to the Ultras' time limit and being overpowered at by the monster. When Hikaru finally convinced Misuzu to free herself, she exited Super Grand King, leaving Nackle Gray alone in charge of it while entering Ultraman Ginga and recharged the Ultra's energy. Together, they defeated the robot with Ginga Sunshine, gaining Alien Nackle's and Grand King's Spark Dolls.

Trivia

 * Super Grand King is the fourth Ultraman Ginga Kaiju to be original to the series.
 * Super Grand King roar is a mechanically altered Gabora roar.
 * Super Grand King and Tyrant are the only monsters in the series that were DarkLived by an alien instead of a human, although for a time Alien Nackle had an unwilling human partner.
 * It is possible that this Grand King's lack of the word "combination" in his subtitle was due to him not being a combination.
 * In stage shows, an inflatable prop is sometimes used instead of a suit, such as in Ultraman Festival 2016.

Ultra Fight Victory
"Destroy everything, Super Grand King Spectre!"

- Juda Spectre commanding Super Grand King Spectre

Super Grand King reappeared in this special as Super Grand King Spectre (スーパーグランドキング・スペクター), where he receives a similar upgrade to his master, Juda Spectre, being gold and silver in color and wielding a giant sword. In this appearance, Super Grand King looks similar to his original form.

Super Grand King Spectre was created by Juda Spectre to defeat the Ultra Brothers and to destroy everything else after that. After firing his energy blasts at the Ultras, Ace launched a Vertical Ultra Guillotine at Grand King but Grand King destroyed it by swinging his Bat Calibre. Then, Leo and Astra used the Leo Kick and Astra Kick respectfully at him, but the kicks weren't enough to counter the energy blasts. Ginga Victory then launched Mebium Shoot at the robot but Grand King overpowered it with his Chest Laser and even separated the two Ultras. While Victory went up to the distortion to challenge Juda Spectre, Ginga, along with the other Ultras stayed behind to deal with Super Grand King Spectre.

After Super Grand King Spectre launched more energy blasts, Ginga launched Ginga Thunderbolt to weaken him a bit so that the other Ultras can deal more damage to him in close combat.

When Victory used his powers in Knight Timbre mode to distort Juda's distortion to his own, the particles from that said dimension weakened Super Grand King Spectre enough to be left immobilized and was defeated by a combination of Ace's Metallium Ray, Leo and Astra's Ultra Double Flasher, and Ginga's Ginga Cross Shoot while Victory defeats Juda once and for all with his Knight Victorium Break.

Trivia

 * The word Spectre was originally written as "Spector", as evidenced by its Spark Doll product . However, the release of its Cyber Card, Cyber Super Grand King Spectre eventually contradicted this name.

Ultraman Orb
1="The red, horned giant sealed away the giant, malevolent beast that shakes the Earth, with the power of the dragon veins."

- Maga-Grand King's description in the Pacific Records

2="I'll introduce you to a much nicer sound than that melody you play... The roar of King Demon Beast!!"

- Jugglus Juggler after awaking Maga-Grand King

A new Grand King appeared in this series known as Maga-Grand King (マガグランドキング).

On a day like any other day at around 3 PM, a large sinkhole emerged in the Minamigawa business district. Using his Ultra senses, Gai Kurenai immediately discovered that Maga-Grand King, "The King Demon Beast of Earth" was responsible for all of this, despite him being sealed in his sleep at the moment. Soon after that, another hole opened up, taking some more buildings with it, It was then revealed that his archnemesis, Jugglus Juggler, planned on neutralizing the Ultra Fusion Card that sealed up the monster's and awakening it by using the Kaiju Cards (shown: Telesdon, Antlar, Gomora, and Golza) to awaken the monster by which they simultaneously disrupted the qi of the feng shui seal and had it absorb their strength in hopes of using its powers to swallow everything on the surface. This would allow the monster awaken despite its seal still remaining, put in place, by Ultraman Taro in the ancient past using the ancient feng shui system.

Despite some intervention from Gai, the vile fiend managed get rid of the last two dragon veins, and succeed in his mission. Maga-Grand King rose again, and Gai transformed into Ultraman Orb to stop him. Although the Ultra managed to dodge his empowered drills with his accelerated speed, his physical attacks failed to daze the monster. Orb launched a Sperion Ray at the robot, which seemed to just stun the beast. Maga-Grand King retaliated by firing large lasers from his chest. After avoiding a few blasts, Orb began to run out of time. Avoiding another blast, he noticed that the beam was reflected off of the glass of the building behind him. Knowing this, Orb beckoned Maga-Grand King to fire yet another laser and, Orb used the Sperion Shield (Mirror Type). After a small struggle, Orb managed to reflect the beam back at the Grand King creating a hole that exposed it's insides, Orb fired another Sperion Ray, this time into the hole, causing Maga-Grand King to explode. Jugglus Juggler obtained Maga-Grand King's Kaiju Card through the use of his Dark Ring while Gai obtained Ultraman Taro's Ultra Fusion Card from the monster's Maga-Crystal.

Trivia

 * Maga-Grand King's early design had its entire body armor dark green, along with a sharper Maga-Crystal that was not completely embedded in his head.
 * Maga-Grand King's head is modeled to better resemble the original Grand King's, while keeping the Super Grand King style body.
 * When Maga-Grand King performs his Maga-Perforation, it mimics a scene from the 2003 Toho movie "Dragon Head". The team were even given direct permission from the film's director to recreate the scene for the episode.
 * A probable reason for a variation of Grand King being chosen to represent the element of Earth may be because the words 'Grand' and 'Ground' are written using the same katakana (グランド "Gurando"), making a pun - 'Ground King'.

Ultraman R/B
A new variant of Grand King will made its appearance in this series as Grand King Megalos (グランドキングメガロス). It was summoned by Saki Mitsurugi in her attempt to defeat the brothers Ultraman Blu and Rosso. When it arrived, it first fired its machinegun upon the brothers and Gomora (who they were initially fighting), it's explosive bullets halted their fight and knocked them back. Then, Gomora rushed towards Grand King Megalos, firing it's Super Oscillatory Wave at it, only to have it deflected away and soon after destroyed Gomora with it's Chest Lasers. Grand King Megalos then turned its attention to Ultraman Blu and Rosso and charged at them, while deflecting all of their physical and beam attacks and pushed them away without much effort. It then deployed its Lightsaber against them and countered Ultraman Blu's R/B Slugger with it and it's tough armor. Near the end of their battle, Katsumi and Isami tried to turn into Ultraman Ruebe but only fail as its power rejected them. Mega King Megalos launched it's Back Spike Projections and used to fire lasers against the Ultraman Siblings. In a final effort to destroy it, Blu then changed into his Ground Form and used his Earth Bringer against it, to only have blocked by Grand King Megalos' Barrier. Finally it proceeded to use its Megalos Blaster upon them.

Trivia

 * Suit Actor: Kenji Kajikawa
 * Megalos means "Great" in Greek Language.
 * The suit was recolored from the Maga-Grand King suit, with a protrusion added in the place of the Maga-Crystal.
 * The sounds it makes when it walks are taken from Galactron.

Spark Doll


"DarkLive, Super Grand King!"

- Super Grand King DarkLived via Dark Dummy Spark.

Super Grand King became a Spark Doll in the conclusion of the Dark Spark War due to the Dark Spark's powers. His Spark Doll was kept in Dark Lugiel's collection, and given to Alien Nackle to give to evil-hearted humans to seed chaos.

Stats

 * Height: 14 cm
 * Weight: 150 g

Usage
This Spark Doll has been used on one occasion by one person and one alien: After Dark Lugiel's defeat, Super Grand King's Spark Doll is likely to have reverted back to its original form and depart Earth to return home.
 * In episode 10, Misuzu Isurugi and Alien Nackle DarkLived into Super Grand King to destroy Furuboshi Middle School. Hikaru Raido and Tomoya Ichijouji used Ultraman Ginga and Jean-Nine to combat Super Grand King, but after Ginga's plan to save Misuzu by transferring Hikaru's consciousness immobilized him, Kenta Watarai, Chigusa Kuno, and Seiichiro Isurugi UltraLived into Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman and Ultraseven, Jean-Nine got some backup, but Grand King soon defeated them.  However, when Hikaru and Misuzu reconciled, an empowered Ginga beat Grand King and Nackle using Ginga Sunshine.

Toy Release Information
Bandai released Grand King twice, once as a normal 6 inch figure and again as a DX Spark Doll. The normal figures have 4 points of articulation, both arms and both legs. They are highly detailed, but one variation has yellow markings, something the original never had.

The Spark Doll version was a DX (deluxe) release of Super Grand King. It has a brown-rust colored scheme, and is highly detailed. It is compatible with either the DX Ginga Spark or the Dark Spark. It stands 6" tall, and features 5 points of articulation (right arm, left shoulder and hand, and legs). A "Fire Red version," painted a metallic dark red, was released as a promo at the Ultraman Festival 2014.

A DX Super Grand King Spectre was released in 2015 to coincide with Ultra Fight Victory. The figure features a new gold-on-black color scheme, with new head crests as well as a Bat Calibre attachment, which constitutes a sixth point of articulation.

The Ultra Monster Orb DX release of Maga-Grand King features a clay-blue/slate-grey base color, with silver highlights on his dorsal spines and claws, with red for the Maga Crystal, eyes, and chest lights. The mold for the figure has been updated from his previous Super Grand King releases, much like the suit. The differences are most notable in the shape of the tail club, the positioning of the legs, and of course a new head which can rotate.

A Banpresto plush Grand King was released in yellow-gold as well.

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