New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp

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Transformers News: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp

Beast Wars Tuesdays begins here! Every Tuesday, we'll be focusing our camera lens on a new set of galleries featuring vintage Transformers action figures from the Beast Wars era. Check back next Tuesday to see our next set of Beast Wars related galleries.

Now onto today's topic of discussion: Seibertron is proud to bring to you galleries of Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp! This version of the figure is a repaint of its Hasbro counterpart Magnaboss, which featured Ironhide, Silverbolt and Prowl as the 3 components. In this case, Santon, Skywarp and Lio Junior are repainted from their Hasbro members as the elephant, eagle and lion, respectively. Beast Wars II Magnaboss was sold by Takara back in 1998 and featured some extra paint details, among which were very badly needed robot mode head details outlined. Check out this mighty 3-member combiner down below and experience one of the most complex figures of the Beast era and let us know what you think of this Big Boss in the comments section down below. And as always stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your latest Transformers News and Galleries!

Beast Wars II Magnaboss (124 images) - Ultra Beasts

Beast Wars II Lio Junior (114 images) - Basic Beasts

Beast Wars II Santon (114 images) - Deluxe Beasts

Beast Wars II Skywarp (133 images) - Basic Beasts

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Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by LOST Cybertronian Jun 7, 2016

Digging the facepaint

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Railbomb Jun 7, 2016

Why does it seem no one can pose Magnaboss' horns like they're supposed to be.

The way they are in this picture are incorrect. I'm not sure what the instructions say but you can very much pose them as they are in the show, sticking out of the side of the head like this:

EDIT: Looking at the full gallery there's even a picture of the box with it showing the right way to put them. :BANG_HEAD:

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Sabrblade Jun 7, 2016

I can't wait to get to the episodes where these guys show up in the cartoon.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by thedistinctroom Jun 7, 2016

My Magnaboss met a terrible GPS fate (like so many). :GHOST:

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by UltraPrimal Jun 7, 2016

Does Takara's version suffer from GPS/BPS like the Hasbro one does?

Man, do I wish Hasbro would do a BW reissue line. I went to pull my TM2 Cheetor out of storage last weekend. Grabbed him out of the box and all the vac-metal transferred from his body to my hand. I was so sad I just put him back in the box.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Sabrblade Jun 7, 2016

UltraPrimal wrote:Does Takara's version suffer from GPS/BPS like the Hasbro one does?

Yes. Skywarp is able to suffer the same tailfin GPS as Silverbolt.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Decepticon Stryker Jun 7, 2016

UltraPrimal wrote:Does Takara's version suffer from GPS/BPS like the Hasbro one does?

What's BPS? I've heard of Gold Plastic Syndrome but not this other kind.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Sabrblade Jun 7, 2016

Decepticon Stryker wrote:
UltraPrimal wrote:Does Takara's version suffer from GPS/BPS like the Hasbro one does?

What's BPS? I've heard of Gold Plastic Syndrome but not this other kind.

It's a nickname for what Hasbro's Transmetal Megatron suffers from: "Brown Plastic Syndrome". It's essentially the the same thing as GPS, only that the fundamental plastic involved is brown instead of gold.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Decepticon Stryker Jun 7, 2016

Sabrblade wrote:
Decepticon Stryker wrote:
UltraPrimal wrote:Does Takara's version suffer from GPS/BPS like the Hasbro one does?

What's BPS? I've heard of Gold Plastic Syndrome but not this other kind.
It's a nickname for what Hasbro's Transmetal Megatron suffers from: "Brown Plastic Syndrome". It's essentially the the same thing as GPS, only that the fundamental plastic involved is brown instead of gold.

Ah, thanks. I figured it was something like that.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Noideaforaname Jun 7, 2016

Wow, just look at all the details! Not just the painted ones, either, there's all these wrinkles and cables and veins and spikes and stuff. Simply marvelous to behold!

UltraPrimal wrote:Man, do I wish Hasbro would do a BW reissue line.

Same here. They release so much every year, would be nice to throw us BW fans the occasional bone. I mean damn, surely there must be AT LEAST as many people that'd want a non-breaking Transmetal Megatron as there are that wanted a G2 Stunticons set.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Seibertron Jun 7, 2016

Railbomb wrote:Why does it seem no one can pose Magnaboss' horns like they're supposed to be.

The way they are in this picture are incorrect. I'm not sure what the instructions say but you can very much pose them as they are in the show, sticking out of the side of the head like this:

EDIT: Looking at the full gallery there's even a picture of the box with it showing the right way to put them.

Apparently I used to back in the day! The Hasbro Magnaboss gallery has the horns more or less properly transformed, with a few creative liberties, so I must have been aware of something. It's just been a while since I had transformed these guys, though I swear Takara's Magnaboss instructions show the horns positioned like I had them in the gallery, but I haven't had a chance to confirm yet since your post. I know each version of Magnaboss had their own unique instructions with different "artwork" for the various steps. I'll check it out in a little bit. I'm about to head down to start working on galleries before I hit the sack.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Hellscream9999 Jun 7, 2016

Noideaforaname wrote:Same here. They release so much every year, would be nice to throw us BW fans the occasional bone. I mean damn, surely there must be AT LEAST as many people that'd want a non-breaking Transmetal Megatron as there are that wanted a G2 Stunticons set.

They do, we bought Armada Predacon :-P

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Seibertron Jun 7, 2016

Just looked at Takara Magnaboss' instructions. I'll be damned. I have no idea why I've been transforming his horns the way I do other than it just seems more natural than having them stick straight up. All of the instructions and artwork I just looked over show it the "correct" way so I'm unsure where I ever got the idea to wrap them around his head like I usually do (and did in his gallery).

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Seibertron Jun 7, 2016

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Noideaforaname wrote:Same here. They release so much every year, would be nice to throw us BW fans the occasional bone. I mean damn, surely there must be AT LEAST as many people that'd want a non-breaking Transmetal Megatron as there are that wanted a G2 Stunticons set.

They do, we bought Armada Predacon

To be fair, Takara did a non-show accurate Transmetal Megatron that doesn't have the problem of the Hasbro version. Hopefully one day some of those figures will be reissued. I could really go for a non-GPS Grimlock!

Just so all of you know, Beast Wars Tuesdays is going to go strong for a while. I think I've photographed about 2 dozen Beast Wars toys that aren't up on the site yet. Here's a list of what I've photographed so far plus there will be a few additional surprises that will happen along the way.

Beast Machines Tankor
Beast Machines Jetstorm
Beast Machines Thrust
Beast Machines Sonic Attack Jet Drone (unfinished)
Beast Machines Tank Drone
Beast Machines Motorcycle Drone
Beast Wars C-1 Special Convoy Gray Type
Beast Wars C-5 Rattrap
Beast Wars C-7 Rhinox
Beast Wars D-3 Waspinator
Beast Wars Drill Bit (unfinished)
Beast Wars Powerpinch
Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Optimus Minor (unfinished)
Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Prowl II (Black)
Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Prowl II (White)
Beast Wars Transmetals 2 Scourge
Beast Wars VS-7 Rhinox (different than regular retail version which is also different from Hasbro version)
Beast Wars II X-3 Tripledacus (with DJ, Gimlet, and Motorarm)
Beast Wars II Drillnuts
Beast Wars II Scissor Boy
Beast Wars Special Lio Junior (Black)
Beast Wars Special Lio Junior (White)
Beast Wars Metals Rattle Special Version
Beast Wars Telemocha TM-12 Gimlet
Beast Wars Telemocha TM-12 Motorarm

In addition, I'm also working on galleries of the following "Beast Wars" related toys that might be separate from the "Beast Wars Tuesdays" galleries (all are being finished currently):

Transformers Legends LG-01 Rattrap
Transformers Legends LG-02 Optimus Primal (who is currently featured in the header on the homepage)
Transformers Legends LG-03 Tankor
Transformers Legends LG-EX Rattrap
Transformers Legends LG-EX Rhinox
Transformers Legends LG-EX Waspinator

You will see these galleries as well in the upcoming days/weeks just to fill out the Transformers Legends series:

Transformers Legends LG-04 Roadbuster
Transformers Legends LG-05 Whirl
Transformers Legends LG-19 Springer

I'm sure I've got a bunch of surprises up my sleeves but just wanted to give all of you an idea of what I've already photographed so that you know Beast Wars Tuesdays will continue for a while into the future. I hope all of you enjoy the love I've put into these galleries.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Seibertron Jun 7, 2016

before anyone says anything ... I just caught the error where the spotlight image said "Santon, Lio Junior and Santon" instead of "Santon, Lio Junior and Skywarp". Image has been fixed but you might need to force a refresh in your browser to show the fix.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Jun 8, 2016

Magnaboss is a beauty and I love it. I want to congratulate whoever came up with the name. It is an awesome name :MAXIMAL:

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by MGrotusque Jun 8, 2016

I much prefer the Takara face paint colorway over Hasbro. I should dig mine out and see which one i have.
I've been meaning to dig Magnaboss and Magmatron out for a while now.
Thanx for the reminder.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Jun 8, 2016

I just took a little looksie at Skywarp's gallery...

Transformers Beast Wars II Skywarp Gallery

Ouch...

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Seibertron Jun 8, 2016

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I just took a little looksie at Skywarp's gallery...

Transformers Beast Wars II Skywarp Gallery

Ouch...

Fortunately I had a spare Silverbolt hanging around with unbroken wings. I was able to swap the wing out, which appears to be identical in color, by simply (and carefully) knocking out a pin from the regular brown plastic (note: BROWN plastic, not the gold plastic), swapped the wings and was good to go ... until I was taking apart Magnaboss and the "peg" on the other side of the wing that connects to Lio Junior shattered a piece off. It is still functional but missing part of the peg. Ugh.

Even though I know my Beast Wars Silverbolt (from Magnaboss) is made of Gold Plastic, I've never had a problem with him. He transforms just fine, parts move just fine. I'm sure if I dropped him, he shatter, but as long as I'm careful with him he seems good to go.

I bought another $30 mini-collection of about a dozen figures off eBay that had a broken Silverbolt but with perfect wings. I'll do a wing swap again so that Skywarp is perfect once more (until next time I transform him) and I'll sell off the rest of the figures I got from that collection which had a few complete figures in it surprisingly for that price.

Re: New Galleries: Beast Wars II X-4 Magnaboss with Lio Junior, Santon and Skywarp (view post)

Comment by Decepticon Stryker Jun 9, 2016

Seibertron wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I just took a little looksie at Skywarp's gallery...

Transformers Beast Wars II Skywarp Gallery

Ouch...

Fortunately I had a spare Silverbolt hanging around with unbroken wings. I was able to swap the wing out, which appears to be identical in color, by simply (and carefully) knocking out a pin from the regular brown plastic (note: BROWN plastic, not the gold plastic), swapped the wings and was good to go ... until I was taking apart Magnaboss and the "peg" on the other side of the wing that connects to Lio Junior shattered a piece off. It is still functional but missing part of the peg. Ugh.

Even though I know my Beast Wars Silverbolt (from Magnaboss) is made of Gold Plastic, I've never had a problem with him. He transforms just fine, parts move just fine. I'm sure if I dropped him, he shatter, but as long as I'm careful with him he seems good to go.

I bought another $30 mini-collection of about a dozen figures off eBay that had a broken Silverbolt but with perfect wings. I'll do a wing swap again so that Skywarp is perfect once more (until next time I transform him) and I'll sell off the rest of the figures I got from that collection which had a few complete figures in it surprisingly for that price.

Y'know, with all the cases of GPS in the early ages I'm surprised that it hasn't been added to any shows. I know some books have mentioned it, but never any shows.

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