My preferred interpretation of Menasor is that Motormaster is an idiot who saw other combiners, thought they were cool as fuck, and then grabbed some Decepticons, tore them apart, and slapped them onto his body as armor. Motormaster's not more powerful as Menasor, he's just so ridiculously strong that he can power through the extra bulk. The only reason he's effective in combat is because the sheer amount of "what the fuck is this lunatic doing" freaks everyone out. Motormaster is so stupid and brawny that he wound up becoming one of Megatron's greatest psychological warfare assets.

I tended to like the idea that Motormaster could just become "Menasor" by himself as a mildly stronger super mode, but to get the full mileage, he could put the other Stunticons on at the cost of becoming more and more fucked in the head from the constant noise of different voices arguing with eachother.

Hasbro seems to have a weird talent of taking the dudes with boring designs and giving them one hell of a glow-up with all the details they can sculpt into them.

The fact they pulled off mass shifting for the feet so perfectly is a genuine surprise coming from Hasbro

Why fans of the Stunticions like the Stunticons: They're a group of varied personalities and designs that aren't unified at all but work as a ragtag cohesive unit regardless. The combiner form, Menasor, functions as a combination of all their negative traits, forming whats basically a brainless, monstrous brute of destructive proportions with a defective mind. It works as a destructive unit, but only really barely. Its held together by sheer hatred and determination to destroy, individual differences get drowned out by that cause. They're sort of the odd ones out. If you think about them, they're really the decepticon underdogs. They're a team all their own, and they have their own sort of road warrior street gang kind of vibe that's uniquely them. They stand out, being bad guys who are so indicative of autobot designs, just gives them an appeal. Like the decepticons can trip the autobots up anywhere, even on the streets where cars and trucks should feel a bit more safe. Almost all the autobots are cars, its in the name, autobot. Motormaster and his cronies may not be the strongest or even most threatening cons, but they're cool. And they're comin for ya, on the road. This is why Motormaster has a compkex about Optimus Prime being "king of the road", because the road is his turf. That's what encapsulates their appeal. They have a sort if cool factor to them. But they're also incompetent and kind of silly. Theyre grunts with a flare to them, and you like to see em fail, but love to watch em work.

motormaster is honestly one of my fan favourite decepticons after astrotrain and octane,tantrum and dirge etc....,and glad he's got a well made and unique engineering toy,this figure is honestly better than his combiner wars brick figure,even tho i still love cw stunticons,i feel like the legacy stunticons cloud work as a new optimus maximus as a call back to that g1 episode were the autobots hide as the stunticons and as a call back to combiner wars

Just so you know, the flippy thing on the gun is used so when you have menasor combined so you can extend the turret more upwards to make menasor grab it easier. There’s a port on the tip of the flap that you peg into the trailer hitch port, which also ends up putting the detail on top.

It's hard to believe I've been watching this channel for almost 2 years now your videos have definitely improved since you start and I can't wait to see how much this channel and its community grows as the years continue

Just bought mine on BBTS yesterday. Gotta say it looks great in the promos and in hand it seems to be very competently made. Ever since he appeared in Devastation I’ve grown on his G1 design a bit, and this will definitely be a centerpiece in my collection once fully combined!

I like that headcannon alot. However I like to think they made the trailer because the stunticons are extremely mentally unstable and hate each other to the ends of the earth that the only way they can combine is with outside help

I think menasor being the first of this new combiner style makes sense simply because he's so plain. He's practically the prototype for future combiners. another ( more easy) way to think of it is that artist didn't start with realistic art pieces. They usually started with a simple stick figures and from that stick figure they grew and grew to the point drawings are realistic.

In my lore Motormaster is so simplistic as menasor because he's combining process is just the stunticons attaching to Motormaster to form "Limbs" which is a draining process for him mentally

I personally like to imagine the stunticons who become decorations work the same way like mini cons where they aren’t required for the main bot to work but instead they give them a power up or a boost in power

I saw this being Hasbro's 2nd attempt at Menasor as alot of people didn't like Combiner Wars Menasor (which I agree with). I do hope for a eventual Combaticon combiner too, but don't think that would be happening too soon.

I was waiting this review as he, along with Scourge, are my most anticipated figures of the year (should finally be picking them up at TFN next Saturday!!!) so I really enjoyed watching this. And seeing how big he is next to Jetfire makes me so excited to finally get a Commander Decepticon

It took me forty minutes but I managed to like every single PerspectiveEnd video. My liked video playlist went from 50 videos to 350ish but it was totally worth it. Hopes this helps.

Oh hey, I think I was the guy who suggested the thing with menasor being a huge power-up body that the individuals have to fight to power and control. If it wasn’t me, I apologize because hearing it threw me for such a loop. Good to hear that you’re enjoying yourself with legasaur so far. This is the only commander I’ve bothered with beyond Skyfire (because I had a coupon and figured hey I can get Motormaster for $70 that’s not too bad) and I was surprised by how much more worthwhile it seemed as an overall package. Also, in part thanks to the huge knee pads, I can’t help but see motormasters legs as giant rain boots. The winesmashers.

I always felt the Stunticons were meant to be an artificial combiner by design. The trailer is a frame for them all to connect.

My god this thing is going to be epic I can’t wait for this thing to be complete. On a side note the way you describe Motor master in that part where you talked about getting the trailer as part of the robot mode with an extra long part of the trailer coming reminds me of Fans projects Stunacons that Lazy Eyebrow did a review on after he did CW Menasor.

@5:26 because most of the 'Cons were aerial while the Autobots were mostly cars and trucks. So they're the 'Cons answer to that.

Is there a way to mis-transform the feet so that they don’t look like they’re made of the entire alt mode and therefore stupid? Like just have the rest of the cab that makes up the shin continue into the feet. Also, does Motor master look any good with Rodimus’ swords? Maybe it will be a good use for it for you.

Glad to see this guy is worth the price, hope legacy stunticons will be a good introduction to those who haven't purchased a combiner before

Great review! I love this Combiner too! What do you do with the tower part in Menasor mode? I attach it to the gun pointing up to create a huge rail gun.

Reminder that the G1 toy managed to turn into torso mode, although I don't think the combined mode is as lazy as the animation model's "Slap on cars to shoulders and back of the upper legs", I'd rather have an upgrade kit for legacy motormaster to cover the gaps to just make it his super mode, and I do think motormaster would be cool to tower over the others so he can look better than prime even though prime might have something up his sleve, but if your willing to look up any 3rd party offerings to compare this guy to, the only thing I know of is the magic square one

Looking back at this a month later, I really wish you were wrong about breakdown being a retool…

Hot take: this justifies the commander price point less than the rodimus. That thing atleast had a above average transformation and articulation + it also had a nice density to it. This is just a 5/10 figure with an abundance of accessories.

Remember when Optimus and the gang “disguised” themselves as the Stunticons? And then they combined into Menasor somehow.

Having Wild Rider and Breakdown on the backis actually G1 cartoon accurate believe it or not Edit: he would be looking up at Legacy Cybertron Metroplex

I would love to see a new chug bruticus, with a commander onslaught and 4 deluxes again! I think they did menasor first since the combiner wars one was so bad, and the others weren't awful at least.

I’m glad commander will finally be an actual $80 worth it figure

Ranking for decepticon combiners from the first 2 seasons, Devastator, Bruticus (I hope we get him in legacy), and Menasor. Also unrelated but PerspectiveEnd, what is your opinion on the Sonic the hedgehog franchise?

Since you mentioned it, now i can't unsee Motormaster head is being similar to Megatron's with an extra block covering his head. I agree with the whole cab beeing his feets and making him have the same scale as Optimus prime is a stupid idea, unless if they intended to make his alt mode out of scale. I know you hate the battle station mode, but i'm wholeheartedly in love with it. It's just miles better than what Rodimus has and fun to transform. I kinda wished his combiner hands had possable fingers thou.

If hasbro decides to make more combiners, I'm hoping that they will make bruticus from fall of cybertron. FOC bruticus desperately needs an upgrade. also how did you get motormaster?

Can’t watch the video yet, but I would like to thank you in advance as I’m boarding a plane today and will be watching your videos using plane Wi-Fi to survive. I did that on the way here too, and new content only makes the option more enticing.

Glad ya liked him so much my dude. I agree with it being a great use of the commander slot, it best whens it's doing characters that really need the special scaling considerations.

10:35 well, from what I can tell and I'm pretty sure the designer said this but don't quote me on it, the sword is meant to be a combination of the dark energon legacy weapons making it a giant piece of dark purple translucant plastic which would be heavy for normal wrists

is it possible to switch the legs with each other? if yes i think it could make him a bit less boring though sacrificing the knees

This is one of my most anticipated figures this year. It's shaping up so well. And yeah, I love to see Decepticons with different coloured eyes. Like how Blast Off and Dead End have purple visors. It looks so neat and helps them stand out. As for the creatures collide box, I would like to see them in a repaints palooza. I liked the style of that video

Might i ask do you think people should buy the 3rd party Menasor's over this or should people wait for the rest of the Legacy stunticons?

Great review PerspectiveEnd!! I still have my Combiner Wars Motormaster/Menasor, so I am still not sold on the Legacy Stunticons. I hope the next combiner released after Menasor will be Monstructor. lol Keep on being amazing.

My only big problem with this guy is where are you supposed to put the stand for his gun in base mode, just doesn't seem too fully thought out in that area, seen others put it onto their back giving it kinda trailer wings, but I hope there can be an upgrade kit that fixes that

Little did he know Swindle was leaked for 2025 meaning mainline Bruticus!

Hey perspective end is it possible to turn his legs around from the knee down to make the bots on the legs on the front? If so that’s how I’m gonna display him even if it makes the leg joint move in a weird way

What perfect timing! I literally just bought him off BBTS yesterday

Agreed, pretty amazing figure in hand. The leftover weapon tower feels like an afterthought but it’s better than forcing it to incorporate with Menasor. I did go over the headlights with a silver Sharpie and currently have Motormaster wielding Red Cog’s Ultra Magnus type rifle with sniper barrel

This Menasor really looks promising... I need to have him so I can complete the G1 Gestalt Collection! I also want a Lio Kaiser, but a good one... Not the crap we were given on Combiner Wars.

Off topic: My main gripes with some Menasor figures that that it doesn't look like a combiner, but rather looks more like cars strapped on to him like armor.

I think the faux forming toes and the box surrounding his head look positively stupid, but it does appear that you can unscrew the head to the box and you aren't required to flip out the faux parts.

I think even in the IDW comics, the Stunticons were existing dudes who were turned into a combiner

I'm literally watching this while my Wi-Fi is getting replaced and you can't stop me

Just from what I’ve seen I might try to pick up all of the stunticons this guy looks really good

At least the box has space for all four of the other Stunticons, for the collectors who prefer compact storage in their original boxes.

Not gonna lie, scared the piss out of me when you misspoke and said "this really needed some ankle tilts."

Are you going to review the Newage H44 Grimlock he looks super cool but dont know if hes worth it

Thanks for the review! Just got mine, great figure! Let’s talk head cannon: one thing that separates the Stunticons from other combiner teams is the four limb bots absolutely despise their leader, Motormaster. This isn’t shown in the cartoon, but it is documented in the G1 tech specs, Marvel bios, and Dreamwave bios. I never really noticed the 80s Menasor aesthetic as a kid-how the limbs act as arm and leg guards-until I saw Fansproject M3 revealed, and now Legacy Motormaster. The conclusion I’ve made for my head cannon is Menasor and Motormaster are the same person, and he’s got something on the other four that compels them to do what he says-even if that means protecting him. Blackmail perhaps? Some control over their sparks? Whatever you decide, the feud that exists between them is something unique to the “team.”

I just got my hands on a Warbotron, so I don’t entirely mind that we don’t have a Bruticus. But yes, we need one.

The bigger bully using his underlings als armor is a very decepticon thing to do

I figured out you can use the purple panel on the gun combined with the leftover piece from the trailer to form a croch level turret for Menasor, and it is the intentional use for that purple panel it show the turret in the instructions as well.

I think I read that the empty space in the box, is for four other Stunticons to go into, for like storage.

The stunticons are interesting because there aren't many car decepticons

Nice review PerspectiveEnd! Suggestion: Motormaster looks awesome holding Siege/Earthrise Astrotrain's dual rifles.

I think that box set only deserves a repaint Palooza but I’ll watch any new transformers content you make hahaha. I have no idea why I wanted stunticons so much. Maybe I have a lot of memories of Ariel bots vs stunticons. I know their design is dumb but I want it. I was completely happy when I got motormaster. Love his evil looking truck mode. I am definitely on board for upgrade kits when it comes to this. Don’t need much for the motor master figure but definitely some new fists or weapons for menasor would be perfect. Also have people noticed the top of the legs need to be swiveled to match the thighs? Put the big pins at the back but they have to be at the front for transformation. Great review again.

I wonder if there will be an upgrade kit for the trailer to make it bigger and maybe make the combine mode a bit taller

do you think they will make the other combiners

As if I didn't mention that motormaster/menasor lacked articulated hands, that is, open and close them to hold some core to make it look more imposing and that an extra accessory that is in combiner mode would have made it a shield if you can notice the things that leftover from combiner mode

I think the top and bottom of the box could be used to store the other stunticons in car mode. Maybe it could point to a box set in the future or a gen selects box set with the g2 colors. Also in terms of the head sculpt, I’m hoping for someone to make an upgrade with the Studio Ox head. I really hope we get another combiner in Legacy, specifically Liokaiser or Bruticus.

Gotta say, not having his limbs be made of cars but decorated with them is kinda sad.

The only real thing I could see Hasbro improving upon the Motormaster robot mode with is maybe have it where the backpack tires are on an articulated piece where you can lock it in place so the tires sit flush right into the back. That way, it does make the backpack way less noticeable! Issue would be how to lock it in place and concerns about it breaking. Solution: Make it where the hinge can tab into 2 tabs: One for vehicle mode (tires out to the sides) and robot mode (tires flushed into the back) while also making it where it cannot go any further. I was considering having the tires fold in half and tuck away, but then it jeopardize the vehicle mode. Week of Sandstorm when?

Have you seen the TF animated motor master figure? I think it looks really cool

my motor master says arriving Tuesday on amazon, though somethings telling me its going to be delayed, it hasn't shipped yet

I would not be surprised if someone makes an upgrade kit to be able to have the cars on the legs up front and for sure someone is going to make a better sized sword for it.

My ratchets on the left arm just broke out of the box, it couldn’t hold at all… which is a big bummer because I really like this. Waiting on my replacement now but I really love this figure.

I can't wait for my copy of the figure. I have already pre-order him many weeks ago via gamestop and excited to have a combiner in my collection.

Is there a good 3rd party masterpiece style menasor that you know because as much as I want this figure, I dont want it because it's not big and it's a combiner so it must be big

I was tempted by motormaster, and dragstrip is okay, but wildrider's backpack was just the excuse I needed to not go in on the whole set. Yeah that's kind of a pettier reason than "I just don't want to spend the money" - which is always a valid reason in itself - but one member of a team throwing me off more than the good members can make up for is spending money to feel regret.

I can't wait to see the full combiner! After the Stunticons hope they make giant Arielbots

4:35 Counterpoint: The double mushroom peg is a blessing

Can't wait to put Legacy Shockwave in his hand

Honestly even tho people are angry about the combiner skeleton personally I think it’s cool like a mech that all the stunticons pilot that’s cool

Hasbro pulse has the Velocitron speedia 500 figures on their site. Blurr is already released and most of the other stuff is on preorder. For anyone that doesn’t want to check Walmart. Although cosmos has been out of stock the whole time

My theory on the backside leg attachment is they are still trying to remain genuine to G1. And in G1 shows the cars on the backs of the legs..... I also would love to see them in the front. But that is just me.

Repaintpalooza, honestly. It feels like more of a surprise + the thoughts are more focused, when there are multiple figures to cover at once than just two

I like it, (the Stunticons are probably my favorite Decepticon combiners), but the trailer definitely looks too short to me. It's weird how Motormaster and Optimus both got tiny trailers, but Rodimus, who is supposed to have the smallest trailer of pretty much anyone, had a lolhuge trailer. As for the multiple figure boxed sets: I'd really like to see any figures reviewed separately, really. The only exception being figures that are accessories to another figure (cassettes, targetmasters) etc.

YESSS I FINALLY FOUND THE BACK OF MY ER CLIFFJUMPER

Repaintspalooza for the two packs, I say, but as for Motormaster's box I plan on putting the whole team inside, with the DX guys' boces opened to the point they can fold flat or discarded outright. Some work on the insert cardboard or a bit of foam could already turn it into a gift set box for the whole team anyway... That theorycrafting for the trailer-frame reminds me of Gobots' Puzzler combiner/super-armors, but that's not really a point against it; I always thought the concept for Puzzler was cool, even if the implementation was typical clunky Gobots style. I do hope we get some more combiners with this level of engineering elegance, and of course with legbots on the front since even Menasor only combined that way sometimes IIRC. G1 animation models, lol. I know you want your Bruticus, but I'm more for the Seacons (Masterforce version or white and gold as in... Beast Wars Neo maybe? Whichever, they looked cool, and the CW sets were gone before I ever found out they existed) and/or Technobots, as they were the ones I actually got a few of in G1. Or an official Volcanicus that actually doesn't suck. Or a Megatronia that isn't a Japan-only exclusive at a single toy show and utterly impossible to get as a normal person with a sane toy budget. I'd settle for an okay Abominus, even! Or, you know, a new team, from a new show, or even without a show appearance at all. Just some cool toys with solid engineering and a little bio blurb like ye olden days, maybe a two minute short on the official YT channel. Like hell is a $200 team aimed at children to begin with, and the adult fans wil buy as long as it looks cool -- Heck, I'm more likely to buy a new team than a Devastator ever, because I have the Sixbuilder recolor as them that was released through Walgreens sometime in the early to mid noughties and even with basically no articulation and being VOY sized combined, it's a great looking set and takes up less space on my shelf.

I do like how motormaster transforms into a torso instead of truck in square hole, but the spring loaded shins are stupid. I’m very interested to see how hasbro tackles the other combiners like will Bruticus or superion have the same skeleton to peg figures onto or will the figures make the limbs

I think they should’ve just released the stunt icons in 1 wave instead all spread out ESPECIALLY when motormaster comes out before 60% of the actual combiner

I’m really curious too see how they will handle other combiner teams, like how would something like abominus work there is nothing that could give it a skeleton like mensor so I’m like both excited and confused for when they do future combiners because I don’t know how they could get other characters to work on the commander size class

Do you think you can review your sandstorm figure?

I call Motormaster's standing problem a lack of heel support. And I's hates me's a lack of heel support.

I mean, in G1 Motormaster really was cab + trailer, and they just didn't care about scale, so that's where all of that comes from. So Menasor was kinda just Motormaster augmented with the personalities and power (whatever that means) of the rest of his team in the show, which just wasn't toy-accurate. Edit side note: the only modern Motormaster I know of that's bothered to go full cab + trailer is the Fans Toys one.

personally my only gripe about legacy Menasor is the fact the entire truck and trailer is not the robot and torso mode like the G1 toy and one of the 3rd party figures was(Fanstoys I think? I cant remember all the offerings that well) But now, your review added that sword to the list I know he wouldve been ridiculously huge if the entire truck and trailer formed Menasor, Lazy eyebrow has a scale chart showing how big one would be roughly on his socials, its not really a scale thing for me, I just want a modern remake of the G1 toy without reinventing the wheel like they did with Laser Prime Personally, if I was designing the sword for this figure, I wouldve included two versions, one sized for Menasor and one sized for Motormaster like in Devastation also yes, legacy Bruticus please, I'm not terribly interested in the entire combaticon team personally, I just want Brawl and Onslaught, but I'll pick up the whole teams eventually, as for Menasor, I'm really only interested in getting Motormaster, need more semi truck transformers

Hasbro pulse decided to pull a surprise on me and pushed my motor master and wreck and rule line figures to tomorrow, meaning Im getting all those figures way earlier than expected.

for me getting this motormaster felt like a full circle moment because the 1st transformer i was ever given was a g1 motormaster i also could not pass up the chance to get a motormaster that scales well with earthrise prime and the trailer being its own thing instead of part of motormaster is pretty much exactly what i wanted so cant complain

I feel like they should have gone all out for the sword by making it regular size for menasor and making it a giant robot anime sword for motormaster

In order from best to worst, how would you rank the combiners?

I’m glad you called out Menasor’s weapons! They suck. You know this thing will probably get an upgrade kit.

New sub and what is your opinion on coraline (movie 2009)

I know you’ve probably already gotten responses saying this, but the purple hinge piece on the gun is so you can make the turret taller so that Menasor can put his hands on it.

2:55 the solution would be (assuming budget is less of an issue) to have his alt mode be a truck hauling two small box trailers. Those exist in life, and you can use the cab and one trailer to form Motormaster, then the cab and both trailers for Menasor.