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Throwing my thoughts into the mix
Overall, i really like Menasor as a set. He feels great, looks good, has a great shelf presence and poses really well for a combiner with excellent joint tolerances. i dont find any issues with his proportions, nor with the use of trailer. I think he blows every previous official or 3p attempt at mainline scale out.
Individually.
I think Motormaster looks great in both modes, has interesting transformations, poses well, and contributes meaningfully enough into the combined mode to properly feel like the lead member.
Dragstrip is easily the best of the cars, he does everything perfectly and looks good doing it. The splitting in half thing is really cool imo
Dead end is the start of the issues. His upper half looks great, borrowing from Dragstrip but still looking unique, but his legs and feet suck.
Wildrider is even worse. He at least has stunning black and translucent red colours going for him, but its so fucking clearly just the cw transformation again and it really sucks, especially his stupid tiny shoulders and arms that are even worse than the cw mold.
And finally Breakdown, my favourite character of the 5 design wise and the one with the shittiest toy. Unlike Dead End he doesn't even pretend to not be copying Wildrider, who was already just copying the cw Dead End mold. And then this shitty tail fin is a slap in the face.
As a combiner, the thighs are short, the sword is way too short and the doors for the shins was a terrible idea, i wish the cars were on the front to add some colour.
I havent had any breakage, and overall i really recommend the set despite the issues i have.
