The finale to my look at the FansProject Saurus Ryu-Oh set (3P Dinoking/ Monstructor) is here with combined form day! Included herein, we see how well he functions and see him next to all his pretender shells, with his Toyhax labels, and, finally, we look at him compared to my other combiners!
Great review. I've patiently waited for years for an official TT/Hasbro modern Dinoking or Monstructor Combiner. I feel it will come sooner than later, but I've been tempted at times to get the FT versions despite never having purchased any 3P product so far. Though it has been a few years since their release, I believe it would be very difficult and expensive to track down.
I know they did an alternate in Monstructor colors (Beastructor I believe?), did they ever make the pretender monster shells for that team?
As for official original series Combiners, I believe for the Decepticons the only one TT/Hasbro hasn't revisited since 2015 other than Dinoking/Monstructor is Battle Gaia (which would be a very easy Bruticus repaint).
For the Autobots we are still missing, Raiden (supposedly TT has a masterpiece in the works), Landcross, Road Caesar, Guard City, and the Micromaster Combiners from Operation Combination
After Volcanicus, I gave up on an official Dinokinh. FansProject did do Monstructor, yep, but not those pretender shell. As I kniw zero recollection of Battle Gaia, I can live without. The Autobot boys would be nice though. We won't see the micromaster ones though. Sadly, they deemed the nicromasters a failure, hence core class.
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2021 3:58 pm
I owned this combiner, but sold it during a purge of my third-party toys.