Title:
Menasor Stunticon Motormaster Offroad Breakdown Dead End Brake-Neck Blackjack
Description:
Decepticon Dragstrip (Deluxe Class, 2015)
Dead End (Deluxe Class, 2015)
Motormaster (Voyager Class, 2015)
Breakdown (Deluxe Class, 2015)
Decepticon Offroad (Deluxe Class, 2015)
Brake-Neck (Deluxe Class, 2015)
Decepticon Blackjack (Legends Class, 2015)
Accessories: Sword (formed from Motormaster’s sword and gun), 4 hands/feet, 4 small weapons
Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro), more»
Part of the Combiner Wars subline, Generations Menasor is an entirely new mold Scramble City-style combiner made up of four Deluxe figures (Dragstrip, Breakdown, Dead End, and new member Offroad) as limbs, a Voyager figure (Motormaster) as the torso, and Blackjack for the chestplate. He can wield a large, 5 mm post sword formed by connecting Motormaster’s smaller sword to his gun and can also hold any of the Deluxe components’ smaller weapons. He was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2014 along with fellow combiner Superion. His stock photo cleverly concealed an online listing image of Generations Huffer and Blackjack. A few months after the other Stunticons’ release, Brake-Neck (actually Wildrider, renamed due to trademark reasons) was announced and released shortly thereafter, intended to replace Offroad and complete the original Stunticon roster.
Menasor is considered the least-stable Combiner of the entire Combiner Wars line, due to the various design failures that plague Motormaster’s design which will more likely than not cause him to fall apart. Such issues include but are not limited to: bad hip articulation due to poorly-designed ratchet joints which complicates his ability to stand any way other than straight and stiff (further complicated by the lack of ankle articulation necessary to compensate), shoulder mechanisms that come untabbed due to weak lock tolerances if the arms are moved, a problematic waist swivel caused by the skirt flap being attached to the stomach instead of the pelvis, and the inability to keep Blackjack securely attached to the chest due to incorrectly-molded sizing in the tabs. Although the hip ratchet problem was (slightly) resolved with an updated re-release of Motormaster that included remolded ratchets, the other problems were not addressed by the rerelease or subsequent redecos.
Although heavily based on the G1 design for Menasor, the Generations iteration of Menasor instructs the legs to be attached with the car body facing forward, as opposed to facing backwards like the G1 toy. Although the undersides of the Stunticons resemble the G1 toys enough to resemble the G1 design if attached backwards, doing so will rob Menasor of his functional knees, ironic due to the fact the reverse was done to give the G1 Menasor toy functioning knees.
As a part of the first and second wave promotion in Hasbro’s Asian markets, a free sticker sheet for the Aerialbots and Stunticons was given out when purchasing any four Deluxe Class toys from those waves. As such, Menasor was given Generation 1 toy-esque stickers for the owner to apply if they wanted. These sticker sheets did not include stickers for Brake-Neck or Blackjack, however.
Dead End (Deluxe Class, 2015)
Motormaster (Voyager Class, 2015)
Breakdown (Deluxe Class, 2015)
Decepticon Offroad (Deluxe Class, 2015)
Brake-Neck (Deluxe Class, 2015)
Decepticon Blackjack (Legends Class, 2015)
Accessories: Sword (formed from Motormaster’s sword and gun), 4 hands/feet, 4 small weapons
Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro), more»
Part of the Combiner Wars subline, Generations Menasor is an entirely new mold Scramble City-style combiner made up of four Deluxe figures (Dragstrip, Breakdown, Dead End, and new member Offroad) as limbs, a Voyager figure (Motormaster) as the torso, and Blackjack for the chestplate. He can wield a large, 5 mm post sword formed by connecting Motormaster’s smaller sword to his gun and can also hold any of the Deluxe components’ smaller weapons. He was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2014 along with fellow combiner Superion. His stock photo cleverly concealed an online listing image of Generations Huffer and Blackjack. A few months after the other Stunticons’ release, Brake-Neck (actually Wildrider, renamed due to trademark reasons) was announced and released shortly thereafter, intended to replace Offroad and complete the original Stunticon roster.
Menasor is considered the least-stable Combiner of the entire Combiner Wars line, due to the various design failures that plague Motormaster’s design which will more likely than not cause him to fall apart. Such issues include but are not limited to: bad hip articulation due to poorly-designed ratchet joints which complicates his ability to stand any way other than straight and stiff (further complicated by the lack of ankle articulation necessary to compensate), shoulder mechanisms that come untabbed due to weak lock tolerances if the arms are moved, a problematic waist swivel caused by the skirt flap being attached to the stomach instead of the pelvis, and the inability to keep Blackjack securely attached to the chest due to incorrectly-molded sizing in the tabs. Although the hip ratchet problem was (slightly) resolved with an updated re-release of Motormaster that included remolded ratchets, the other problems were not addressed by the rerelease or subsequent redecos.
Although heavily based on the G1 design for Menasor, the Generations iteration of Menasor instructs the legs to be attached with the car body facing forward, as opposed to facing backwards like the G1 toy. Although the undersides of the Stunticons resemble the G1 toys enough to resemble the G1 design if attached backwards, doing so will rob Menasor of his functional knees, ironic due to the fact the reverse was done to give the G1 Menasor toy functioning knees.
As a part of the first and second wave promotion in Hasbro’s Asian markets, a free sticker sheet for the Aerialbots and Stunticons was given out when purchasing any four Deluxe Class toys from those waves. As such, Menasor was given Generation 1 toy-esque stickers for the owner to apply if they wanted. These sticker sheets did not include stickers for Brake-Neck or Blackjack, however.
Theme:
Combiner Wars
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2015
Date Added:
2023-07-14 09:19:15
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$37.49
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-07-13
Date Added:
2023-07-14 09:19:15
