#dinoking

Combaticons (Bruticus): coworkers turned lifelong ride or die friends of circumstance (they all deny it)

Protectobots (Defensor): coworkers turned lifelong ride or die friends of circumstance (openly accepts and embraces it)

Constructicons (Devastator): either plain jane coworkers or butch lesbian polycule. No in between

Aerialbots (Superion): vaguely sibling-like dynamic but unrelated to each other biologically; stronger adherence to rank hierarchy

Stunticons (Menasor): dysfunctional family. Straight up just a complete mess of a familial dynamic. Little to no respect for rank hierarchy

Technobots (Computron): coworkers who experimented on each other to the point they somehow became a combiner through sheer will and average IQ

Terrorcons (Abominus): combiner of happenstance (legit nobody knows how they ever became a gestalt)

Seacons (Piranhacon): military squadron turned gestalt via Big Science

Brainmasters (Road Caesar): long established comrades in arms with a deep trust between them; a cohort if anyone’s ever read my one post about them

Dinoforce (Dinoking): idiots who got lumped together into a team because Goryu wanted a squadron to lead (regrets his decisions)

DINOVEMBER!

Who doesn't love dinos? Liars and mountebanks, that's who. So it's a whole set of dino-formers for this month's @tfwiki Patreon-backed pic set! Let's kick things off with the goodest of dinobois, the lovable JAWBREAKER, in his Deluxe EarthSpark form.

Speaking of adorable, how about TRYPTICON in "MyClone" form? This line of soft-plastic modular super-deformed mini-figs from 2002 Takara included not just TFs, but various other Takara lines, Tsuburaya characters (like Ultraman) and adorable animals.

We're keeping the cute train rolling with a fave of mine, ROARISTA from BotBots. Yes, this is a coffee machine and carafe that turns into a t-rex-bot with a power cord tail. How can you not love it. Wish she'd been in the cartoon.

Okay you knew this was coming. It's Legacy DINOKING, finally fulfilling the role the Legacy Core Dinobot molds were blatantly meant to be all along. You can get a much more natural axe-handling pose by putting the scythe fully trough the fist.

The two standouts of Dinoforce, team leader GORYU and team schmuck KAKURYU. This set come with a ton of all new parts; not just new heads but extra accessories for more anime flavor. Kakuryu got his axe, but no shrimpy revolver, dang.

RIARYU lacks his anime melee weapon, but gains a pair of massive missile pods that emulate the original's, and form footplates for Dinoking. GAIRYU has a whole new larger dino-tail/cannon that makes for a bulkier Dinoking forearm.

DORYU gets a scythe... which he didn't in the anime. That went to YOKURYU, but his new part is a huge "cannon"/blatant chunk of Dinoking forearm. You can swap them around if you like, I can't stop you. I'm not your dad (as far as you know).

"Whycomes no classic Dinobot characters?" you ask. Okay, here's GRIMLOCK... the 2015 Robots in Disguise Grimlock, in Kre-O Kreon form. This "Armor Up" set was a Dollar General exclusive(!), and was supposed to come in three decos... but wave 2 of this series never happened.

No, he's not a dino-bot, but he did accidentally merge with Jawbreaker that one time, and I like this toy a lot so here's EarthSpark Deluxe AFTERMATH as a bonus as I was feelin' punchy. Man I love this design.

If you enjoy these themed monthly meanders down the memories of mechanical merchandise, you can make them even bigger with a lil donation to the Patreon! Want to pick a theme for a month? It's possible! Just check out

LEGACY UNITED Dinoking

Kyoryu Sentai Destron!

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Legacy Evolution Volcanicus

Combiner Wars custom Star Saber

(liokaiser/the breastforce on top, dinoking/the dinoforce on bottom. )

he has liokaiser and dinoking. like he just has them on his team. and not only that, but there is the potential of both teams being able to double their numbers by splitting themselves as well. the breastforce could be headmasters with beastformer partners by idw lore, and the dinoforce are pretenders and can act independently of their dinosaur shells. (though given the instability of the pretender shells in idw, take the dinoforce having their shells in this continuity with a bit of salt)

neither combiner is used during the DOTL fight, but we know at least liokaiser is canon to idw- we see him later on in lost light. we don't see the dinoforce again in idw, but the possibility of having both combiner teams on the field during DOTL,,,

that means it's the rodisquad (minus megatron) going up against the djd, overlord, deathsaurus, deathsaurus' 200+ crew, and (potentially, if dinoking is real in idw) TWO COMBINERS.

oh, and greatsix- who might be a six changer.

im ngl if im one of the lost light crew having to go up against that mess and megatron decides to just opt out of fighting then he better hope i die in the battle 💀. bc if i live im going after his ass next

If I had a Nickel for everytime a Combiner Leader becomes a Leg, I would have Two, I guess