Graboid - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

In the television series, the townspeople live more or less in harmony with a thirty-foot albino graboid named "El Blanco". As the animal is sterile, it lives on instead of giving birth to shriekers. Since graboids have been declared an endangered species, it may not be killed by the townspeople, who in turn profit from their valley being declared a protected habitat. However, despite this, Burt Gummer is allowed to and even hired to hunt down and kill other Graboids, presumably as they aren't sterile and will turn into Shriekers. During the series, Burt and his sidekick Tyler hunt down and kill a Graboid in a town obsessed with aliens. Also, the government wanted one Graboid to be alive and since El Blanco is, they are likely satisfied as they had agreed to let Burt hunt Graboids again if helped them capture one alive. The townspeople also have to deal with Shriekers a couple of times and the Ass-Blaster captured in Tremors 3.

Steve Traiman writes, "MCA piqued consumer interest for the direct-to-video title Tremors 2: Aftershock with the graboid Game, which challenged Web site visitors to hunt for the giant worms featured in the movie."

In Final Fantasy XI there is a "Notorious Monster" named Glavoid, an alternative romanization of graboid. Its design is very similar to that of graboids from the Tremors movies.

Both the graboid worm form, and the Shrieker form can be seen on display at the Lone Pine Film History Museum in Lone Pine, California.