Would you want to see Dinobots combining?

[Cat]

They can't combine without Paddles.

[GoktimusPrime]

Ahem…

Well played, sir.

I am perfectly ok with the idea though if it involves a sub, splinter or entirely different group who also happen to be known as the "Dinobots" (Perhaps such a group could take up the "Dynobot" title?) that do such a thing however.

Yes, I agree. A group of new Dinobots being a gestalt team would be fine -- just not the original core five characters being a gestalt. They were going to do something like this for the 1986 line up as a Scramble City style gestalt (which would have given us our first Dimetrodon TF long before Sling), but the idea got canned. Imagine if HasTak released, as part of Classicsverse, a set of 6 Scout Sized Dinobots that combined into a gestalt. Their alt modes would be:
* A tyrannosaurus-Rex (leg)
* A stegosaurus (leg)
* An ankylosaurus (arm)
* A triceratops (head/upper torso)
* An apatosaurus (mid-torso/waist)
* A pteranodon (arm)

...then repaint the whole set as Dinoforce (and possibly retool/repaint as Classicsverse Monstructor)!

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I could live with it if it was done well, so...no.

The Dinobots are heavy-hitters, possibly the heaviest hitters there are in the Autobot ranks. They don't need to combine, they can already overpower just about every TF short of the combiner gestalts (and up) just as a team of individual members. When the Constructicons form Devastator in Heavy Metal War that's them leveling out the playing field.
Would a well-realized Dinobot combiner toy be awesome? Yeah, it would - so would a well-realized anything combiner team. But it'd also be overkill, and when you get right down to it they're humungous fire-breathing transforming robot dinosaurs. How much more awesomeness do you need than that?

Summons up my thoughts nicely. Lets face it combining toys need sacrifices, I'd rather have a group of nice, cool looking Dinobots than a bunch of neutered dinobots that combine into some large looking block of crap.

Dinobots no need combine, they tough enough without it.

[Cat]

As cool as dinosaur alt modes are, I'd rather they left them exclusively for the Dinobots (G1 continuities of course).

Makes them stand out, makes them special.

[rocman12]

NEVER!!!! Would be the worst thing to happen to G1 since action masters!

Though, in combiner mode they should take the crown from predaking for being the biggest and strongest combiner with no known weaknesses!

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Though, in combiner mode they should take the crown from predaking for being the biggest and strongest combiner with no known weaknesses!

I assume it'd pretty much be an Autobot Abominus, only more so.
Sorry for reposting a link to that thing, but it's true dammit - the Beast is basically Abominus with a different insignia and an even more stupid creative design.

[SuspectimusPrime]

After reading the current RID Annual, it's interesting how IDW Monstructor has those freakish little arms - was the design influenced by 'The Beast'?

IDW artists does do a very good job at carrying off the freaky idea

[Lord_Zed]

I'm going to say no they should not combine, it's just not the Dinobot way.

Let those other teams of big wussbots combine the Dinobots are too tough for that.

Besides the Dinobots are all big fans of personal space, you can barely get them to stand in arms reach of each other without a brawl ensuing, let alone combining.

[GoktimusPrime]

After reading the current RID Annual, it's interesting how IDW Monstructor has those freakish little arms - was the design influenced by 'The Beast'?

Probably inspired by the actual Monstructor toy itself. re: Slog's arms.

[M-bot]

I was all for it - sounded cool initially - but the more responses I read, the more I agree that the Dinobots are awesome in their own right. So mine's a 'Never' vote.