BEASTWARS - MAGNABOSS

This combiner figure is from 1997. He is a Maximal. He sadly had no comic or cartoon appearances as far as I know.in USA but Japan brought out their own version and he appeared in the second series of Beastwars. Although there was toy in the universe toy line he did appear in the Transformers Universe comic book 3. He was head of the maximal High Council.

From the Japanese Cartoon Beastwars second series

FUNCTION; Combat Leader

MOTTO; " May wisdom nourish my spirit and courage guide my sword"

TECH SPEC;

A new breed of super robot blasts its way to the head of the Maximal battle lines with three times the fighting force! Prowl's ferocity, Silverbolt's swiftness, and Ironhide's strength team up to form Magnaboss -a triple power threat capable of annihilating any Predacon enemy, even the ultra combative Tripredacus. Magnaboss owns the battlefield, arming itself with a massive, megaton battle sword composed of Silverbolt's razor-tipped wing swords and Ironhide's blunt force battle clubs mounted on Prowl's cyber tail claw. If two heads are better than one, Magnaboss is way ahead of that game ...times three!

Ironhide in Elephant mode

Ironhide side view

Ironhide robot mode with clubs

Prowl side view

Prowl front view

Prowl in robot mode

Silverbolt in Eagle mode

Silverbolt in robot mode with weapons

Silverbolt weapons mode

The combined robot Magnaboss with weapon

He is quite a big impressive figure. He is complicated to combine but he does hold together well once he is together. he is made up of three animals. On Ironhide there is quite a lot of detail on the elephant skin. he can be tricky to convert to elephant mode and back as the tusks can come off ball joints. There is no ball joint on Silverbolts legs which make his legs look back to front which is a shame. prowl is the easiest of the tree but there are still visible robot bits on his figure. It is a shame that there weapons are not part of there beast mode but good that they combine to make magnaboss's weapon. Only prowls weapon is part of his beast mode which forms his tail and back. Ironhide is a bit unsteady on his feet.The plastic on silverbolt is delicate but with lots of detail. This figure can be fragile so care must be taken. For collectors.