@@darkneon5637 Partially why we prefer the Dinoforce of Transformers Victory. Complete goobers compared to their hasbro counterparts being soulless corporate moguls.
Fun fact: Several Dinobots & Terrorcons from the Power of the Primes toyline had some alternate heads and accesories based on the Pretender Monsters/Dinoforce that sadly went unused.
Yeah, I thought about mentioning this in the vid, but since it was just one head and one gun we know of, I decided not to bother, episode was long enough already!
Yeah I feel that was intended to be a Monstructor who (as the episode mentions) was a semiregularly featured character in the IDW comic at the time. Would have been great to get a big one!
Monstructor has a special place in my heart as he was my first completed combiner as a little kid. I remember saving all my allowance money and doing extra chores to get a bigger allowance.Just so that I can get all six of them. I still have them somewhere in my collection
That's cool. Having such a personal connection to a set like that. My brother and I got the Horrorcons for Christmas as kids. As a result Apeface is still my favorite. So I also see them as as a pair. I kept mine in good condition while my brother lost every removable piece of his.
Eee! I remember you saying this was meant to be last year’s Halloween special, but then the Core Dinobots were announced. I’ve been loving my copy of Dinoking!
@@SilverHairedFreak25 Yeah, I'm glad I waited. The extra parts do a lot for him. Now I've just got to wait and see if someone does an upgrade kit for the missing melee weapons for the individual members.
the minute I hear about the bio for the Dinoforce, I'm like "these doesn't sound like Decepticon-y" XD. Coz if you hear the individual bios for the other Decepticon Combiner team, NONE of them are sunshine and rainbows lel
Funny you should mention that, since while they may be comic relief, they're still a threat; they canonically have a body count. They destroyed an entire space station and killed almost everyone onboard in search of fuel. Star Saber adopted the sole survivor as his son.
@@MDestron2282 Yeah, you regularly see them just fly through spaceships and buildings in their Dino Shells. Being dumb doesn't make you less deadly when you are a several ton wrecking ball.
I'm going to repost Slog's bio in the Dreamwave More Than Meets The Eye series, because it's weirdly intriguing for a character who's mostly been a nonentity in the franchise. *Bio:* Slog is the most tasteful and refined of his comrades. When he originally joined the Decepticons, they used his exceptional talent as an artist to produce sculptures and art pieces depicting the glory of the Decepticon empire and its leaders, and record their rise for posterity. Eventually, they realized Slog was a capable warrior as well as an artist, although his battlefield work is definitely more of the 'abstract' variety. He carves up his foes on the battlefield more out of a desire to survive than actual spite, and he always attempts to make each of his victims a work of art to honor their memory. This aspect of war, and the fact that the Decepticons have no interest in supporting free expression and art, troubles Slog. Although he finds destruction to be the best way to create pure, chaotic art in an inanimate subject, he wonders about the lives lost in the Autobot/Decepticon conflict. Slog once organized an underground art show of his work, reflecting the horrors of war in the twisted, rusting ruins of his foes. This led to the coining of a new art form - 'slogism' - and the use of the exhibit's pictures in the Autobots' anti-Decepticon broadcasts. This and occasional doubts about his cause have not pleased his Decepticon superiors. *Weapons/Abilities:* Subject possesses great intelligence and exceptional skill as an artist. He is a surprisingly effective warrior. Subject's outer Shell has harder-than-diamond talons capable of cutting through almost any substance. Inner robot is armed with a magnetic rifle that can be set to fire waves that repel or attract; it can even make its target's bodies repel themselves, tearing apart metallic opponents. Combines with fellow Pretender Monsters to form Monstructor. *Weaknesses:* Subject has bouts of depression that make him useless in combat. Also, going by that one Marvel appearance, he talks like Yoda. I learned this stuff because I found an oddly elaborate Slog-focused fanfic back in the day.
You have to appreciate how far Transformers fans will go for the most random characters that have no relevance otherwise. Sure, I'll dedicate an entire fanfic to a guy whose most major role was appearing in two panels in a comic, why not?
@@charliejenkins3211 It's Paper Statues, and a sequel called Pieces in the Whole, by Wayward. I haven't read them in a long time, but I recall they were pretty good.
Well apparently he has the power to fire a beam that can turn a city into a primeval world, according to the Wiki, making him a counterpart of sorts to Monstructor's entropic nature.
I knew some of the Monstructor components had GPS, but I didn't remember which ones. The moment I heard "brittle" in that bio I started to wonder if it was a bit of foreshadowing.
It's not like we didn't get our fair share of silly things with the American ones in G1's cartoon. Remember the time Blitzwing got advice from a football coach?
I love both Monstructor and Dinoking! I'm grateful in knowing what the names of the Dino Force members mean in English. My favorite member of the Pretender Monster team (my friend and I call them Monstercons) is Slog because of his Yoda-like speech patten.
In the Japanese script, the Dinoforce" was just literally "Kyoryu Sentai". And there's six of them Speaking of Japanese names, knowing the meanings of their names makes it easier to know who's who
THIS IS the best birthday present for me... thank you so much Chris! Monstructor and Dinoking are my favorite combiners, thank you thank you so much...
@@bruzzunathtuch happy birthday! Sorry machinima shafted you and shoved volcanicus down your throat. But hey dinoking is out and monstructor is on the way. Merry Christmas too.
@@AntiDecepticonCampaign True,,, I'm just hoping for updates of their shells with modern engineering, based on their dreamwave designs that are on the leaderclass size so that potentially voyager class members can curl up inside? I'm trying to learn 3d modeling software so I can make it happen.
Monstructor is one of my longtime favorite combiners. I actually have all 6 original toys (with shells!), but I only have one of the combiner pieces, so I've never combined them. Even if I did have them, though, I don't know how often I'd combine them; the originals are pretty infamous GPS survivors. At least I have the new Dinoking.
I had no idea that the Dino Force were redesigns of the Pretender Monsters. Makes me want a continuation of Transformers G1 that includes the Japanese toy lines and foreshadows into Beast Wars even more than ever. You could easily see them at first being created by Starscream as the Monster Pretenders, (f.y.i, in the commercial for the Monster Pretenders it's shown that Starscream supposedly created them, since it was shown him dipping the six into vats of ooze that gave them their Pretender Shells) then after they get seemingly destroyed we'd see Deathsaurus rebuild them as the Dino Force.
The core robots of Monstructor were used to make Dinoking, in fact in the Omni Productions English dub of Victory, Dinoking was called Monstructor. No idea how well the Legacy Evolution Volcanicus mold would work retooled as Monstructor but there is a precedent
The most monstrous of the Transformers combiners is not always the largest, they are just the most ruthless, and Monstructor is a prime example of this.
That and having Slag as the chest piece were the obvious tells that Legacy Volcanicus was a Dinoking Pretool. But hey, getting a sixth Dinobot is always a plus.
I remember that in the Spanish dub of TF Victory they kept the name Monstructor for Dinoking. "Dinosaurios fusionaos! Monstructor!" phrase was a classic.
Some details overlooked from the comics, Monstructor had more of a role then just select appearances. Yes, he served Shockwave and Jhiaxus, but the experimentation was originally Nova Primes orders for his creation. Omega Supreme and Monstructor didn't just fight. Their fight caused Nova Prime to destroy crystal city just to hide Monstructors existence after that failure. In the Spotlight Revelations comics, after Monstructors retrieval from Autobot Prisons by Banzaitron and his goons, they escaped and had became a guardian for one of the Nega-Cores and Jhiaxus, where a vengeful Arcee and Banzaitron hunted him down. Later in the comics, command of that monstrosity was given to Bludgeon, where his goals went from serving Shockwave and Jhiaxus for their plans to restart... basically everything to "Lets be the root of all evil. Destroy and kill it all. Nothing left but monsters." Where Bludgron betrayed them for Unicron and took Monstructor with him. Which lead to his defeat at the hands of Superion and Victorion.
Fun Fact: In the Robots in Disguise 2015 Series in the episode Similarly Different, there is a Decepticon Dinobot named Scowl (like the Wolf Pretender’s name) who can transform into an Ankylosaurus (like the Dinoforce Member Gairyu) who faces off against Grimlock, I don’t know if this is intentional or not, but it’s still a cool subtle detail!
I had no idea that the inner robots of the Pretender Monsters were the same as the Dino Force (despite having watched Victory many years back). You learnt me something new there Chris.
Hey there Chris McFeely and fellow Transformers fans. I do apologize for the tardiness of this comment, but when this video was dropped I was on my way to work and just didn't get the time to check this spooky new video out, until recently. Anyways, I just wanted to say that this video was absolutely amazing. The information was absolutely amazing and truly astonishing that I never really enjoyed it. Thank you so much for this great video and I hope that you and everyone else in this community has a terrific day and a fantastic Halloween too. Until next time and All Are One. Peace Out and Maximize!
Icepick, Scowl and Slog have also had their names reused in other continuities. Icepick got a toy in the Power Core Combiners toyline which transformed into a snowplow and could combine with 4 drones into a larger form, as well as a triple-changing toy in the Dark of the Moon line which turned into both a snowmobile and a hoverbike for his human partner Sergeant Chaos. Scowl was reused for an escaped Decepticon prisoner in the 2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon, transforming ironically into an Ankylosaurus, and who used to be brawling buddies with Grimlock, who in this series looks more like Goryu. And Slog also became a temporary alternate name for the Brontosaurus Dinobot Sludge for the live-action movie toyline and Aligned continuity version of the character in the Transformers: Battle Tactics multiplayer game before the trademark was reacquired in 2018.
I didn't even know these things existed. I thought only the Horrorcons, Terrorcons, Monsterbots, Dinobots existed. Don't get me wrong, I like the designs and personalities, but I hope they get to appear in their own Spinoff show someday (something more akin to the recent Transformers/Monster Hunter crossover)
I never knew about the connection between Monstructor and Dinoking, nor did I know about Dinoking having Legacy toy. Now I wonder if we'll het a Monstructor retool from Legacy Dinoking
When I first found out about Rairyu, I had a nice little giggle. Since Rairyu means thunder lizard, I instantly starting thinking of that old cartoon with the earworm theme, Terrible Thunderlizards. 😊
In my school vr game, Monstructor is in the game as 1 of several prisoners of the Earth maximum supervillain prison known as Tarterus then during the facilities destruction he broke out and went into the forest he was later suspected of the death of Super Villain of Gigantomachia but was ruled out by Sir Nighteye due to the killer being only organic, then later played a role in the Titan Hybrid boss fight where he kills the supervillain Overhaul but was killed by The All for One Merged Photoius but not before bringing them done which "monstrously" wounded them but thats not where there story ends as they were revived as Dinoking and played a critical role in the death of Anerga and is currently undergoing Redemption
I always thought Monstructor was an interesting character since I first got and IDW Transformers medley graphic novel from Scholastic's book fair in which he was the villain in Optimus Prime's story. Six Decepticons fused together but experiencing a death of personality together was something I don't think ever happened to a Combiner before until Transformers Prime's take on the Seacons came in Titans Magazine's continuity. Wildfly, Scowl, Bristleback and Birdbrain are definitely my favourites out of the six. Plus, its interesting to note that Scowl wasn't the only Decepticon to be reimagined as a Dinobot in the 2010s! I didn't know the Dinoforce was created prior to 2015, when new Dinobots were created for the live-action movies and the aligned continuity (Tricerashot, Strafe, Scorn and Slash just to name a few).
The pretender shells don’t even get used in the combiner. It should’ve been like that one gobot guardian combiner where the gobots wear space suits and they can combine.
A great one! I absolutely love Monstructor and always hope they will get a new Generations toy. Maybe a Titan, so he can go up against Omega Supreme???? 🙏
Note that Icepick was referenced in Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters figure line when a recolour of the Preadacon Blot/Blight was given a Red and Blue Colour scheme just lick Icepick
funny enough DinoKing's team name "Kyoryu Sentai" is similar to the 1992 and 16th Super Sentai team "Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger" which became Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers in America.
This is cool I remember having the original Ice pick and Scowel toys as a kid but I got them when I was so young I don't think it ever connected that the "Skin" and the robot where all meant to be the same toy as I never saw them in the cartoons as a kid but now that I know I might have to go looking in storage to see if I still have them lol
I feel envious, though its weird they're so small... That said TFwiki did say their shells unfortunately didn't age well so maybe its better off I don't track onee down (that and darn GPS)
I remember these. I had Bristleback, Icepick, Scowl, & Wildfly, though I think I may have lost Scowl's robot version at some point. Had I known they were a combiner, I probably would've tried to get the others. Even though they didn't interest me at all.
They were the last original combiner team of the first generation of the Transformers toy line. I had 4 of them, but was never able to find the last two.
woahh I actually know this one but for the Victory side, I love the Dinoforce, seems they became the definitely version as they have a lot more stories and toys and actual animated appearances thanks t TF Victory.
I love the idea of Monstructor, and his colors are the exact brand of late-G1 kooky I live for, but the Dino Force, particularly Kakuryu, are a buncha doofuses after my heart and they are succeeding.
I *really* hope we get a full-sized Monstructor combiner soon. A Titan would be ideal, given his history with Omega Supreme, but I’d take one at regular Combiner Wars scale.
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"A fanatical believer in planned obsolescence" Huh, I never knew Icepick was a tech company CEO.
ahead of the curve even
Never knew
@@darkneon5637 Partially why we prefer the Dinoforce of Transformers Victory. Complete goobers compared to their hasbro counterparts being soulless corporate moguls.
Makes sense - he sounds positively cold-blooded.
.....good one.
kinda funny how much the lore for their original figures mention how they cause metal to decay while being made of the infamous gold plastic.
Fun fact: Several Dinobots & Terrorcons from the Power of the Primes toyline had some alternate heads and accesories based on the Pretender Monsters/Dinoforce that sadly went unused.
Yeah, I thought about mentioning this in the vid, but since it was just one head and one gun we know of, I decided not to bother, episode was long enough already!
A crime that we didn't see them released.
Yeah I feel that was intended to be a Monstructor who (as the episode mentions) was a semiregularly featured character in the IDW comic at the time. Would have been great to get a big one!
@@ChrisMcFeely There are TH-camrs that make videos that last half a day, we wouldn't have minded an extra minute of your commentary!
@@ChrisMcFeelyspeaking of which can you do one about Sludge or Swoop?
Monstructor has a special place in my heart as he was my first completed combiner as a little kid. I remember saving all my allowance money and doing extra chores to get a bigger allowance.Just so that I can get all six of them. I still have them somewhere in my collection
That's cool. Having such a personal connection to a set like that. My brother and I got the Horrorcons for Christmas as kids. As a result Apeface is still my favorite. So I also see them as as a pair. I kept mine in good condition while my brother lost every removable piece of his.
The way they depict Monstructor makes me think he's like a scary story monster that autobots tell their children when they want them to behave
Yeah but unlike the Boogeyman he’s real!!
Or he's a total Chunni.
and he's one of the few people who can look at an elder god and shrug it off.
Eee! I remember you saying this was meant to be last year’s Halloween special, but then the Core Dinobots were announced. I’ve been loving my copy of Dinoking!
Honestly I’ve messed a ton with dinoking myself, such a fun set
I have mine with me while watching this video
It was so worth the wait to get Dinoking. I honestly don't think I would have had as much fun getting the individual molds one at a time.
Huh neat
@@SilverHairedFreak25 Yeah, I'm glad I waited. The extra parts do a lot for him. Now I've just got to wait and see if someone does an upgrade kit for the missing melee weapons for the individual members.
the minute I hear about the bio for the Dinoforce, I'm like "these doesn't sound like Decepticon-y" XD. Coz if you hear the individual bios for the other Decepticon Combiner team, NONE of them are sunshine and rainbows lel
Funny you should mention that, since while they may be comic relief, they're still a threat; they canonically have a body count. They destroyed an entire space station and killed almost everyone onboard in search of fuel. Star Saber adopted the sole survivor as his son.
@@SilverHairedFreak25 Yeah, that's what I really appreciated about them. They were both hilariously bumbling and super deadly.
@@MDestron2282 Yeah, you regularly see them just fly through spaceships and buildings in their Dino Shells. Being dumb doesn't make you less deadly when you are a several ton wrecking ball.
@@SilverHairedFreak25 yup
I'm going to repost Slog's bio in the Dreamwave More Than Meets The Eye series, because it's weirdly intriguing for a character who's mostly been a nonentity in the franchise.
*Bio:* Slog is the most tasteful and refined of his comrades. When he originally joined the Decepticons, they used his exceptional talent as an artist to produce sculptures and art pieces depicting the glory of the Decepticon empire and its leaders, and record their rise for posterity. Eventually, they realized Slog was a capable warrior as well as an artist, although his battlefield work is definitely more of the 'abstract' variety. He carves up his foes on the battlefield more out of a desire to survive than actual spite, and he always attempts to make each of his victims a work of art to honor their memory. This aspect of war, and the fact that the Decepticons have no interest in supporting free expression and art, troubles Slog. Although he finds destruction to be the best way to create pure, chaotic art in an inanimate subject, he wonders about the lives lost in the Autobot/Decepticon conflict. Slog once organized an underground art show of his work, reflecting the horrors of war in the twisted, rusting ruins of his foes. This led to the coining of a new art form - 'slogism' - and the use of the exhibit's pictures in the Autobots' anti-Decepticon broadcasts. This and occasional doubts about his cause have not pleased his Decepticon superiors.
*Weapons/Abilities:* Subject possesses great intelligence and exceptional skill as an artist. He is a surprisingly effective warrior. Subject's outer Shell has harder-than-diamond talons capable of cutting through almost any substance. Inner robot is armed with a magnetic rifle that can be set to fire waves that repel or attract; it can even make its target's bodies repel themselves, tearing apart metallic opponents. Combines with fellow Pretender Monsters to form Monstructor.
*Weaknesses:* Subject has bouts of depression that make him useless in combat.
Also, going by that one Marvel appearance, he talks like Yoda. I learned this stuff because I found an oddly elaborate Slog-focused fanfic back in the day.
Huh, a very interesting bio, no wonder someone decided to make an interesting fanfic about him
What a neat character!
You have to appreciate how far Transformers fans will go for the most random characters that have no relevance otherwise. Sure, I'll dedicate an entire fanfic to a guy whose most major role was appearing in two panels in a comic, why not?
@@charliejenkins3211 It's Paper Statues, and a sequel called Pieces in the Whole, by Wayward. I haven't read them in a long time, but I recall they were pretty good.
Sounds like he'd get along great with the Shattered Glass Terrorcons.
The life-draining agent of destruction Monstructor has so much potential for some amazing stories.
indeed...
This video went from "spooky" with Monstructor to hopeful and cool with Dinoforce!
Well apparently he has the power to fire a beam that can turn a city into a primeval world, according to the Wiki, making him a counterpart of sorts to Monstructor's entropic nature.
@@brettwood1351...yeah maybe it's best they never used it
Shows how radically different adaptations can be
1:23 Ohh, the irony of that part of his bio if you know of the toy itself.......
I can tell when a toy has GPS just by looking at it lol
I knew some of the Monstructor components had GPS, but I didn't remember which ones. The moment I heard "brittle" in that bio I started to wonder if it was a bit of foreshadowing.
I find it funny how despite being on the Decepticons, the Dinoforce turned out to just be a bunch of silly goofballs.
It's not like we didn't get our fair share of silly things with the American ones in G1's cartoon. Remember the time Blitzwing got advice from a football coach?
I love both Monstructor and Dinoking! I'm grateful in knowing what the names of the Dino Force members mean in English. My favorite member of the Pretender Monster team (my friend and I call them Monstercons) is Slog because of his Yoda-like speech patten.
Does Know Weirdwolf ripped off his quirk was?
In the Japanese script, the Dinoforce" was just literally "Kyoryu Sentai".
And there's six of them
Speaking of Japanese names, knowing the meanings of their names makes it easier to know who's who
Sounds like the writers were fans of super sentai.
That Dreamwave Monstructor looks fantastic, I really like it when someone tries something new with the designs.
Birdbrain was one of the first transformers I ever owned and I still have him to this day.
It's kinda funny how the guy prone to Rust is prone to Gold Plastic Syndrome in both versions of the figure
THIS IS the best birthday present for me... thank you so much Chris!
Monstructor and Dinoking are my favorite combiners, thank you thank you so much...
@@bruzzunathtuch happy birthday! Sorry machinima shafted you and shoved volcanicus down your throat. But hey dinoking is out and monstructor is on the way. Merry Christmas too.
@@AntiDecepticonCampaign True,,, I'm just hoping for updates of their shells with modern engineering, based on their dreamwave designs that are on the leaderclass size so that potentially voyager class members can curl up inside?
I'm trying to learn 3d modeling software so I can make it happen.
"Fuse six robots together"
Human centipede but with robots?
He was a mad scientist after all.
Another interesting and informative video.
Happy Halloween, everyone! 🎃
1:17 Bird Brain, like a bird's brain!
9:04 ok that’s actually adorable
Monstructor is one of my longtime favorite combiners. I actually have all 6 original toys (with shells!), but I only have one of the combiner pieces, so I've never combined them. Even if I did have them, though, I don't know how often I'd combine them; the originals are pretty infamous GPS survivors. At least I have the new Dinoking.
I had no idea that the Dino Force were redesigns of the Pretender Monsters. Makes me want a continuation of Transformers G1 that includes the Japanese toy lines and foreshadows into Beast Wars even more than ever. You could easily see them at first being created by Starscream as the Monster Pretenders, (f.y.i, in the commercial for the Monster Pretenders it's shown that Starscream supposedly created them, since it was shown him dipping the six into vats of ooze that gave them their Pretender Shells) then after they get seemingly destroyed we'd see Deathsaurus rebuild them as the Dino Force.
I love ❤️ the Dino Force team and for one reason I love dinosaurs so I can drawing my own version of the team
If history is any indicator, we will get an announcement of a Monstructor combiner in the next 6 months, making your video prematurely outdated.
The core robots of Monstructor were used to make Dinoking, in fact in the Omni Productions English dub of Victory, Dinoking was called Monstructor.
No idea how well the Legacy Evolution Volcanicus mold would work retooled as Monstructor but there is a precedent
I'm 50 m‰ sure they'll announce a Monstructor tomorrow.
Thankfully there's already two combiners announced for next year. I can't see them doing a third.
Your probably right
These transformer never was a big hit! In fact, they’re more like spawn of Unicron! Fantastic video 👍👍👍👍
3:46 So he's Omega Red. Yeah, that's pretty scary. 😶
I DEFINITELY had a Wildfly as a kid. Once again Chris reminding me of toys I forgot u had or existed
The most monstrous of the Transformers combiners is not always the largest, they are just the most ruthless, and Monstructor is a prime example of this.
Or the ones that aren't dumb as bricks. Isn't that right Liokaiser....
the fact that it took Optimus prime & Omega Supreme to take him down shows how powerful he is
One of my favourite Combiners
Another good educational video by Mcfeely
Perfect Halloween video
i love how dino force just screams dino rider
I was wondering why the evolution line had an ankylosaurus. I didn't ask because I was getting an affordable Volcanicus
That and having Slag as the chest piece were the obvious tells that Legacy Volcanicus was a Dinoking Pretool.
But hey, getting a sixth Dinobot is always a plus.
I remember that in the Spanish dub of TF Victory they kept the name Monstructor for Dinoking.
"Dinosaurios fusionaos! Monstructor!" phrase was a classic.
Some details overlooked from the comics, Monstructor had more of a role then just select appearances.
Yes, he served Shockwave and Jhiaxus, but the experimentation was originally Nova Primes orders for his creation.
Omega Supreme and Monstructor didn't just fight. Their fight caused Nova Prime to destroy crystal city just to hide Monstructors existence after that failure.
In the Spotlight Revelations comics, after Monstructors retrieval from Autobot Prisons by Banzaitron and his goons, they escaped and had became a guardian for one of the Nega-Cores and Jhiaxus, where a vengeful Arcee and Banzaitron hunted him down.
Later in the comics, command of that monstrosity was given to Bludgeon, where his goals went from serving Shockwave and Jhiaxus for their plans to restart... basically everything to "Lets be the root of all evil. Destroy and kill it all. Nothing left but monsters." Where Bludgron betrayed them for Unicron and took Monstructor with him.
Which lead to his defeat at the hands of Superion and Victorion.
Fun Fact: In the Robots in Disguise 2015 Series in the episode Similarly Different, there is a Decepticon Dinobot named Scowl (like the Wolf Pretender’s name) who can transform into an Ankylosaurus (like the Dinoforce Member Gairyu) who faces off against Grimlock, I don’t know if this is intentional or not, but it’s still a cool subtle detail!
“Monsters vs Dinosaurs” That would be awesome B-movie. Dracula vs T-Rex anyone?
I had no idea that the inner robots of the Pretender Monsters were the same as the Dino Force (despite having watched Victory many years back). You learnt me something new there Chris.
Hey there Chris McFeely and fellow Transformers fans. I do apologize for the tardiness of this comment, but when this video was dropped I was on my way to work and just didn't get the time to check this spooky new video out, until recently.
Anyways, I just wanted to say that this video was absolutely amazing. The information was absolutely amazing and truly astonishing that I never really enjoyed it.
Thank you so much for this great video and I hope that you and everyone else in this community has a terrific day and a fantastic Halloween too. Until next time and All Are One. Peace Out and Maximize!
I've always loved how detailed the bios are. Wish the toys still had them.
You should definitely do "The Basics on War Crimes" Where you go over every instance a Warcrime was committed during a Transformer Series 🥰
that's like 5000 hours of content
@@KingKuuga Easy money 🤑
@@That_OneGuy46 not so sure about the "easy" part
That’s quite the journey
Your hx lessons are always appreciated
Now this is how you celebrate Halloween!
Icepick, Scowl and Slog have also had their names reused in other continuities. Icepick got a toy in the Power Core Combiners toyline which transformed into a snowplow and could combine with 4 drones into a larger form, as well as a triple-changing toy in the Dark of the Moon line which turned into both a snowmobile and a hoverbike for his human partner Sergeant Chaos. Scowl was reused for an escaped Decepticon prisoner in the 2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon, transforming ironically into an Ankylosaurus, and who used to be brawling buddies with Grimlock, who in this series looks more like Goryu. And Slog also became a temporary alternate name for the Brontosaurus Dinobot Sludge for the live-action movie toyline and Aligned continuity version of the character in the Transformers: Battle Tactics multiplayer game before the trademark was reacquired in 2018.
I didn't even know these things existed. I thought only the Horrorcons, Terrorcons, Monsterbots, Dinobots existed. Don't get me wrong, I like the designs and personalities, but I hope they get to appear in their own Spinoff show someday (something more akin to the recent Transformers/Monster Hunter crossover)
Love how in the West it’s Monstuctor/Monster Pretenders while in Japan it’s Dinoking/Dinoforce.
man, glad I got Dinoking. Better than the Dinobot version for sure and happy for Deathsaurus to finally have some minions
I never knew about the connection between Monstructor and Dinoking, nor did I know about Dinoking having Legacy toy. Now I wonder if we'll het a Monstructor retool from Legacy Dinoking
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I think Monstructer should get a new figure based on his IDW design and it’s awesome seeing Dinoking gets some love in Legacy!
I had all 6 toys. Had to scour many toy stores to get them all.
The Dinoforce sound interesting.
I love how different the two are.
This show should be put onto Spotify
When I first found out about Rairyu, I had a nice little giggle. Since Rairyu means thunder lizard, I instantly starting thinking of that old cartoon with the earworm theme, Terrible Thunderlizards. 😊
I snagged Slog MOC in Thailand in 1999; he fell apart the moment I opened him. The most canonically accurate use of gold plastic.
In my school vr game, Monstructor is in the game as 1 of several prisoners of the Earth maximum supervillain prison known as Tarterus then during the facilities destruction he broke out and went into the forest he was later suspected of the death of Super Villain of Gigantomachia but was ruled out by Sir Nighteye due to the killer being only organic, then later played a role in the Titan Hybrid boss fight where he kills the supervillain Overhaul but was killed by The All for One Merged Photoius but not before bringing them done which "monstrously" wounded them but thats not where there story ends as they were revived as Dinoking and played a critical role in the death of Anerga and is currently undergoing Redemption
I always thought Monstructor was an interesting character since I first got and IDW Transformers medley graphic novel from Scholastic's book fair in which he was the villain in Optimus Prime's story. Six Decepticons fused together but experiencing a death of personality together was something I don't think ever happened to a Combiner before until Transformers Prime's take on the Seacons came in Titans Magazine's continuity. Wildfly, Scowl, Bristleback and Birdbrain are definitely my favourites out of the six. Plus, its interesting to note that Scowl wasn't the only Decepticon to be reimagined as a Dinobot in the 2010s! I didn't know the Dinoforce was created prior to 2015, when new Dinobots were created for the live-action movies and the aligned continuity (Tricerashot, Strafe, Scorn and Slash just to name a few).
The pretender shells don’t even get used in the combiner. It should’ve been like that one gobot guardian combiner where the gobots wear space suits and they can combine.
I love how the Japanese continuity made the monstructor team more lovable
Halfway through the video I forgot this was a Monsterbots video with all the Dinoforce content.
Was here for the spooky bit, but stayed for the wholesome part 9:45
Ngl, it's been years since i watched your channel (as i outgrew my Transformers obsessed phase). It's good to be back.
A great one! I absolutely love Monstructor and always hope they will get a new Generations toy. Maybe a Titan, so he can go up against Omega Supreme???? 🙏
Thank you for dropping this video it made my day recently I lost my dog to a deadly virus in her body
It's funny that the comics made Monstructor a rival to Omega Supreme considering how MUCH SMALLER the toy was to Omega :p
My 2nd favorite Decepticon combiner after Abominus. Thanks for posting this video. 🤘🤘
lots of great new info here Mr McFreely! I didnt know much at all about Dino-force so this was great.
I was too busy with video games by the time these came out but I definitely would have loved them if I was still playing with toys
Happy Halloween and awesome video! 🎭
What good Halloween basics video today
Note that Icepick was referenced in Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters figure line when a recolour of the Preadacon Blot/Blight was given a Red and Blue Colour scheme just lick Icepick
I hope they make an updated Monstructor without pretender shells and straight transforming into their monster forms
And this is why we need to see Godzilla vs Transformers so badly. Because it would be insane for sure.
And now Dinoking is coming to Earth Wars, what a coincidence
Awesome character and episode. I never knew about him until now.
The Halloween Basics are my favorite episodes
I have never heard of these guys other from legacy but you learn something new everyday on this channel :/
I ❤ the Dinoforce in TF Victory. They were endearing.
Such a fun video! Happy Halloween, Chris!
funny enough DinoKing's team name "Kyoryu Sentai" is similar to the 1992 and 16th Super Sentai team "Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger" which became Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers in America.
I remember having Bristleback and Slog at the time. No memory of the others, maybe they were sold separately here in Italy.
Yeah, they were only sold individually, no giftset of them was available!
This is cool I remember having the original Ice pick and Scowel toys as a kid but I got them when I was so young I don't think it ever connected that the "Skin" and the robot where all meant to be the same toy as I never saw them in the cartoons as a kid but now that I know I might have to go looking in storage to see if I still have them lol
YES MONSTRUCTOR MY BELOVED I WOULD HAVE WAITED AN ETERNITY FOR THIS BASICS
I loved these guys and got them one or two at a time during their original run. I'm hopeful they get updated toys soon.
I feel envious, though its weird they're so small...
That said TFwiki did say their shells unfortunately didn't age well so maybe its better off I don't track onee down (that and darn GPS)
I remember these. I had Bristleback, Icepick, Scowl, & Wildfly, though I think I may have lost Scowl's robot version at some point. Had I known they were a combiner, I probably would've tried to get the others. Even though they didn't interest me at all.
I had almost all of Monstructor when I was young but now the only ones, I have left are Wildfly and Birdbrain.
They were the last original combiner team of the first generation of the Transformers toy line. I had 4 of them, but was never able to find the last two.
Monstructor was the first full combiner I ever got. I keep hoping for a new version of him.
Please please keep up the GREAT WORK!! Love when you drop a new video.
woahh I actually know this one but for the Victory side, I love the Dinoforce, seems they became the definitely version as they have a lot more stories and toys and actual animated appearances thanks t TF Victory.
The new Dinoking set is fun, but I hope that we get a proper sized Monstructor and Dinoking that scales with other combiners in the near future.
I love the idea of Monstructor, and his colors are the exact brand of late-G1 kooky I live for, but the Dino Force, particularly Kakuryu, are a buncha doofuses after my heart and they are succeeding.
What an episode for Halloween Monsters or Dinosaurs. Like any good fan I am a fan of both these characters. That comes from this toy mould.
MONSTRUCTOR feels like an antagonist that would have joined forces with thee monsters seen in humanoids.
I *really* hope we get a full-sized Monstructor combiner soon. A Titan would be ideal, given his history with Omega Supreme, but I’d take one at regular Combiner Wars scale.
On HALLOWEEN,
I hope the basics on Rampage will be uploaded
Bristleback: it's not a good idea to use gold plastic as armor
Slog: he infected me
This Great Universe is Huge my friends. Thanks.