Quote Originally Posted by Verno View Post
Spot on. None of these Voltron-esk combiners of G1 when it came to BW, give me some impossible combination!
Tripredacus is the better BW gestalt IMO.
Quote Originally Posted by Geigerrock-2 View Post
FORM ARMS AND LEGS... FORM..... .. No scratch that..
Form spine and crotch.. Form lats and elbows.. Form abdomen and inner thighs..... And I'll form... the back of the head. And can someone form the face
frowny preferred
The great thing about the BW gestalts is that they all have complete self contained components and parts. So unlike G1 gestalts (with the notable exception of Lio Kaiser) where the gestalt form is reliant on detachable (and losable) accessories, everything you need to combine Magnaboss and Tripredacus is built into the individual figures themselves! Even if you lose all their accessories/weapons, you can still combine them to form Tripredacus and Magnaboss (it just means that they have no weapons). This is really different from G1 gestalt teams like the Constructicons who absolutely cannot combine with accessories and even the Scramble City gestalts which can still interconnect without accessories can't truly complete their gestalt robot forms without the head, chest panel(s), fists and feet ('cept Defensor's head which is built into Hot Spot).

1989's Lio Kaiser was the first Transformer gestalt to introduce almost all of its gestalt parts being self-contained in the individual figures - only the head is a detachable component... but everything else is in-built, which was a really clever design feature, especially for its time. The Beast Wars gestalts took this concept and improved on it further since ALL of its gestalt parts are in-built (and even its weapons have storage compartments anyway); so there's really nothing for people to leave lying around.

The original Car Robot/RiD gestalts also carried on with this concept - JRX/Railracer & Build King/Landfill all have self-contained gestalt parts... but then it kinda took a backward step with Super Link/Energon where their gestalts went back to using detachable "Energon" accessories for the hands and feet (allowing the limbs to be interchangable - but then again, Build King/Landfill's limbs are interchangeable too without the need for detachable accessories). IMO we haven't really had any decent gestalt figures since CR/RiD (except ROTF Legends Devastator, who's a very nicely designed gestalt figure for its size IMO -- a helluva lot better than the fail-gestalt that is Combiner Class Devastator). Yeah alright, the Power Core Combiners all have self-contained parts too, but the individual limbformers are just lame toys (being more like drones than proper TF action figures).

I personally miss the days when we had awesome gestalt toys like Magnaboss, Tripredacus, JRX/Railracer and BuildKing/Landfill.