Beast Wars - Magnaboss

I've had this team of figures since they came out in 1997 but I haven't had the time to review them. Even now I had to rush the review a little bit. While individually they are alright it's together where this set really shins.
These figures were sold together in an ultra sized box.

[@autobotsNdecepticons]

"I'll be down in a minute!" Classic.

[@SomethingorSomeone_yawn]

Lol

[@thequagestclodsire]

This was the top comment when he said it.

[@Autorailrun2006]

Yep

[@mobileobbygod2589]

Wow this comment is older the a 8 year old!

[@lorirueda381]

M Z

[@stephenmiller4091]

that was an impressive set and combiner for its time. Silverbolt/Skywarp is very fragile and suffers from GPS, so if you track this set down check him for breaks and fracture lines.

[@silentassassin47]

gps what's that

[@stephenmiller4091]

@@silentassassin47 Gold Plastic Syndrome. In the 80s-90s the gold colored plastic used in by many toy companies would become brittle to the point of being like egg shell. Didn't matter if the toy was sealed in package, the plastic would turn to dust. BeastWars Grimlock, mutant Soundwave, and Fuzor Torca all suffered from GPS to name a few. The range of plastic colors affected was a lite butterscotch to a dark caramel color. Clear plastics also had a high degree of brittleness after prolonged times. Inferno for example is mostly made of clear red plastic and are usually broken or have fracture lines from play.

[@silentassassin47]

@@stephenmiller4091 😰

[@stephenmiller4091]

@@silentassassin47 it sounds like a lot of stuff to worry about, but its not so bad. I would suggest watching a youtube review of an older figure before purchase to see if there are any common issues. 👍

[@thejoker15678]

Actually, Silverbolt needs to be less fragile, he looks golden!

[@marydorsett635]

poor guy can't play with his toys, cause its dinner time.

[@mr7oclock346]

That comment cracked me up

[@rootedbricks5217]

😂

[@krissybrown5202]

you are true

[@mattnova18]

Living alone is just no fun after a while lol

[@moomanchu608]

"ILL BE DOWN IN A MINUTE"

[@Gaelicnationalist]

Was that his mom or something?

[@moomanchu608]

Jerry Carmody his wife

[@lordofslam]

+Jerry Carmody mom and wife

[@USSMariner]

To be honest, you'd think she'd wait when he's not filming. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@beastlyhero100]

+Mariner1712 that's true!!!!

[@TheBonkleFox]

when you're hitting it from behind and she turns around and moans, "I'll be down in a minute!!"

[@jonathankent1517]

I got this and Tripredicus as for Xmas when I was a kid. I called this guy "Megaboss" instead.

[@markswenson8439]

The attack mode of silverbolt remindes me of the falcon zord from mighty morphing power rangers

[@kstanni87]

those were finger misssiles. falcon zord had the wing weapons so dragonzord fits less with silverbolt. dragonzord is still really cool on his own though.

[@thewiseguy01_71]

YES

[@damienjohn]

I remember having this figure as a kid and thinking it was so detailed and complex.. lol

[@gwenc1371]

This is one of those "I'm glad I never had enough money to buy this as a kid" toys. Just about all of those robot modes are really underwhelming.

[@AwesomeMooseSmile]

Prowl and magnaboss are pretty cool, but the other two do suck pretty hard

[@MrBioniclefan1]

And sliverbolt has GPS issues

[@bobthedopeman7327]

I got this set. I was soooo confused lol

[@robertdelgadocapetillo8684]

Transformers + Animorphs And that's how we got Beast Wars.

[@M_D93]

Didn’t Animorphs come after Beast Wars?

[@XteroBlade2117]

Yeah

[@coatsmcgoats4719]

Animprphs were awful lol.

[@lookingforwhiteprivilege9330]

@@coatsmcgoats4719 the books? The books were really fun. Theyre not literary masterpieces but for kids they were cool.

[@coatsmcgoats4719]

Flip books are ok but they literally made transformers that were animorphs. The human forms looked like a butchered robot kid tho not supposed to be a robot .

[@RealEktris]

Magnaboss remains one of my favorite toys as a kid. This was an excellent review of it.

[@JadeMythriil]

I hope they bring these guys to Kingdom, both Tripredicus and Magnaboss. Being the only beast wars combiners, its certainly an interesting addition.

[@lordsheogorath5494]

i’d weep with joy

[@mystics1ay3r17]

They sort of did kinda not really. The 2 pack with beast wars 2 Skywarp and sideswipe. Skywarp was the name for silver bolt for the Japanese magnaboss. So far he’s the only one made though so nothing else to combine him with if he even could have that functionality

[@Soundwaveproductions8419]

Let’s hope in legacy!

[@DidiTheCoolio]

I wish they made new magnaboss and tripredacus

[@The_Barroth]

Well we are getting magmatron so maybe this guy and tripredacus aren’t that far off now

[@irrespondible]

Silverbolt is Skywarp, Ironhide is Santon

[@breadaholic6445]

Wat

[@irrespondible]

Ryan Overcash There's an Anime called Beast Wars II, where Magnaboss was reissued, as he appears in that anime. He mentions it on the video (he even mentions Prowl is called Lio Junior in the anime), but he doesn't know the alternate name of Silverbolt and Ironhide in BWII.

[@annie20081000]

Richard Surraco

[@Zook85]

Richard Surraco Finkle is Einhorn, Einhorn is Finkle.

[@RickyJC]

I had this one for literal decades and today, I discovered they could combine 😮

[@beastlyhero100]

I'll down in a minute!!!!

[@lordmalayanorca7943]

classic

[@gurt1973]

can you feed the cat!!!!

[@valiquity9534]

Be*

[@DatFluffyMonkey]

Love how he didn't edit the shouting in the background out, thought it was really funny xD

[@beastlyhero100]

me too!!!!

[@redpotanimations]

999 magnaboss!!!!!!!!

[@kabuto1859]

he didn't edit it, it was only that the microphone couldn't pick up her voice.

[@TheBogbo]

DatFluffyMonkey I'LL BE DOWN IN A MINUTE!!!!!!

[@ricardomartinez9772]

That was hilarious, I was dying laughing😂

[@shawz10]

I'LL BE DOWN IN A MINUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@juanquezada9971]

I heard that too😂

[@DXGraveman]

Lmao

[@pyrotek77]

shawz10

[@yunyanni6513]

shawz10

[@lamvienngodinh1398]

shawz10 mj

[@clintoncalimag822]

This is my fave toy when i was a kid. Wish i could buy one of these again

[@adventureallanglesaus6826]

EBay

[@Kieran_JSL]

I wish Ironhide was less panel heavy and you could probably 3D print (yes I know that 3D printer were not a thing when this video was made) a piece that would get rid of silverbolt all together

[@marethyu1323]

Kieran JSL , actually the first 3D printer came out in 1983, created by a man named Chuck Hull

[@josephriley4044]

Lio Junior = Prowl. Santon = Ironhide. Skywarp = Silverbolt

[@davidmanwarin221]

I loved Magnaboss. I got him and Tripredicus as my only Christmas presents one year. Didn’t care it was two boxes. It was six guys. Thanks for the reminder

[@TheJoKeR1713]

Oh man this brings back memories... I used to own one of these as a kid!

[@kristopherjazz9295]

I had this toy as a kid!!! My dad bought this for me we would piece them all together and then we displayed the robot in the living room

[@Will10885]

I haven't seen my magnaboss figures in 20 year's XD wish i could have him hanging around again

[@RowdyRodimus]

Beast Wars needed about another year or two in the gestation period before they hit the shelves. I worked at TRU when they were released and people were "Oh man, they can move so much better than the old Transformers, those sucked!" Then of course we old original Transformers fans would say, "Yeah but the old ones actually Transformed, these things are just robots inside boxes that look like animals. We had that with the originals, we called them Pretenders." And so the battle of G1 vs. Beast Wars began. A battle that ravaged more worlds than Autobot Vs. Decepticon, Maximal vs. Predacons (How is that a Predacon? I don't see them combining into Predaking. Another quote from those days) I still hold that the only reason they decided to tie the cartoon and in effect the storyline into the G1 mythos is that they hoped to wrangle original fans into getting into Old McDonald's Transformers.

[@ChapsUnlimited]

Lol! Funny point of view!

[@ethanackroyd5944]

I totally agree I’m a g1 fan it was is and Always will be my favorite thing ever and don’t get me wrong I do like beast wars but the original transformers is way way better

[@DavidRuiz-br3gv]

dang thanks for the nostalgia! I had this set as a kid and I remember hating the combined form. so I just always played with them separately.

[@cloudedarctrooper]

3:35 .... I'LL BE DOWN IN A MINUTE!

[@leorianr]

This brought me so many nostalgia flashbacks! My neighbor best friend got one because we loved the 3D beast wars! Always expected to see him on the tv :P

[@Theofficialkingwillex]

I had these figures back in the early 2000's. My pap got it for me in my BW collection. I loved it so much.

[@dylanmeushaw4542]

Wasn’t silverbolt that wolf/eagle hybrid?

[@terischannel]

Yes but then they couldn't think of another name for him so that became the name for both of them but I think of these guys as the shattered glass versions of the characters because they are in the comics

[@morganrobinson8042]

These were named after the G1 transformers, as was the Fuzor. It was probably a marketing decision for these, and Mainframe was just never informed until both toys existed.

[@dominiqgaming2065]

Yep

[@insertfunnynamehere6552]

No, he was the most useless part of magnaboss- beast wars in Japan

[@smittyg513]

I thought he was called Skywarp in the JP dub

[@ThomasMurphyCosplay]

did your wife said can you feed the cat?

[@QuietBorb]

Look at him being successful and still having time to play with transformers That's awesome

[@Zolnova]

Really liked this review, brings back memories. I preferred his nemesis Tripredacus but I never got them. As for transformation difficulty I would say this guy seems like a walk in the park compared to Optimal Optimus, which took me 4 months to figure how to transform him. Thats when I realised the instructions for robot mode where on the other side of the instructions XD

[@zixise]

I love these old Balt reviews

[@kurtamaya6841]

Did anyone notice that he didnt put the horns correctly?

[@jaysougames2943]

no one ever does. lmao. Suppose to be horns sticking out from the sides, not laying flat, like everybody does.

[@chemlogic8924]

Oh, wow! I've not seen this thing in about 15 year! This video gave me some feels. Nice work. 👍

[@meowsers450]

my god, i got this guy when i was like 5, i remember making my dad transform him for me cuz it looked to dificult. i still have mine. great review, thanks for this, you got me BACK into beast wars.

[@dexterdexter8208]

The fact that you actually transformed Silverbolt… You have our condolences.

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

I had this figure several years ago, but I don't remember what happened to Mangaboss.

[@bigl1462]

I can’t believe it’s been ten years since this video came out

[@sadwalrus4106]

I inherited these as a kid from cousin and had no idea they combined!!! :o

[@Darkshadow715]

My Gosh. I completely forgot about this figure. I got such a wave of nostalgia when I saw the thumbnail of this vid. Thanks for posting it! cheers. :)

[@MistaEnzo]

When he split the head in half for the elephant I was like "HOLY"

[@Cinder_the_Art_Gal8144]

This video makes me want to watch Beast Wars the Second again. Good times

[@NeDeKu]

to make it easier to transform, here's a small breakdown. iron hide transformed mode: more stability rotate the fists in his feet to lay flat and be level with his feet 3into1 transformed mode, split knees of the lion and rest it on the hips of iron hide, then fold up the chest plate. On the sides of the head of the Lion, there's two tiny pegs that if you split the eagles back and fold it upwards by 45 degrees, the sides will fit onto those pegs, and at the back, rotate the feet to curl them into the back piece, and it will look more like a backpack instead or a conglomeration of crap just thrown together

[@HKSilverwater]

you have to turn silverbolts legs around and fold then into its body in megnaboss mode it makes the back look alot better

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

Magnaboss was one of my favorite Transformers when I was growing up. Part of me wishes that Hasbro would make a Legacy series version of this combiner.

[@CMOSERROR]

i got this figure for Christmas when i was little. I still love it so much.

[@MrGrimlocksmash]

Theoretically, if kingdom toyline redecos, Cheetor as prowl, rhinox as iron hide and air razor as silverbolt.... we could have a magnaboss. Maybe fossilizers could do something. Shame they cancelled the saber tooth figure :(

[@cksuperdude]

Nice review. I have always liked this set. Guess cause I"m a huge fan of combiners, and even more so, beast wars. Ironhide impressed me, and I like to display them next to TFU Nemesis Prime Mastadon. Keep it up Spada! Cheers!

[@yourlocalbaltimorerailfan.6756]

lol, I love how you just frikin yelled, ignoring the video for a split second😂

[@EnderPreston]

while doing Prowl, what was it you were shouting about anyway? did your spouse need you? or did your cat get stuck behind a pile of Sentai figures again and your wife happen to notice? what?

[@LucasAbaddonAzrael]

lol

[@Delfromteamrad]

Probs the one bout the cat

[@UndeadAhead]

She yelled dinner time

[@ucitymetalhead]

Man i forgot about these brings back some memories.

[@antoca6]

Yes! My childhood! ❤️ Thanks

[@martypedia]

I know this is an old review, but you missed a few little gimmicks that make combining him much smoother. For starters, the eagle's top comes apart at the middle and is kind of double-hinged so the front half can rest soundly on those two tiny pegs that are on the outside of the lion's mane (you'll notice two tiny connectors on the eagle for that very purpose.) There's also just enough room between the eagle body and the lion head to turn around the eagle legs at the knees, angle them and slide the talons into the space that is there. You'll also have an easier time getting him together by looking at the inside of the lion mane and find the two pegs that go into the side of the big head.

[@renjoSounds]

This was probably my favorite set as a kid!

[@chasformer3091]

Careful with Silverbolt, he suffers from Gold Plastic Syndrome, especially with the eagle head. Thank goodness I had a spare.

[@classictoyreviews7435]

13 years ago, ive been watching baltmatrix that long? I feel old now

[@Ouderas]

I had this freaking set as a kid but never even knew we could merge them together and such a struggle to transform in my memories, wonder where they at in my stuffs now

[@HoweHomie]

I owned this trio back in the 90ies as i was a child. There are two things I have to admit. In combined mode you can bend silverbolts legs and feet in that hole where you can see prowl's back! Also silverbolts eagle head is supposed to be bend in that back area to be adjusted in an almost matching degree to the lions head!

[@TheDrzeus8900]

I just discovered your videos, thanks for the major nostalgia trip :)

[@bigmacattack9833]

Woooow you just brought back my childhood i had this toy as a kid i got for my birthday i believe and i remember how to transform him very well and all i have to say is dude you miss so many peg holes but it still was a ok transformation wow i wonder if i still have it probably not tho

[@J-MOGallery]

I bought the Predicon Combiners back in '97. My 9 year old senses were telling me to not buy Magnaboss because of the complexity I saw with Ironhide's robot mode on the back of the box.

[@ДмитрийИванов-л9ц4й]

5:09 To me personaly he reminds Holy Stealth Beast Tsubasamaru more.

[@BishyB]

I'LL BE GOING IN A MINUTE!!! anyone got it??

[@JoeExoticReddo]

Yuval88fish I did

[@cheetor182]

he is mistransformed: silverbolt's legs peg between prowl's body and silverbolt's; you can split the eagle's body in half so you can form a better helmet for magnaboss but overall a very cool review! besides, this is a very cool (nostalgic) set

[@pious83]

I actually do think Ironhide is the worst of the three. Practically a shell-former and _no real hands_ syndrome. Remove his head and you'd think he was just kibble for Magnaboss. At least there is a definitive robot within Silverbolt.

[@Demosthenes84]

Man I loved this toy as a kid. But the games I played were stories that involved battles like in the show so when the two sides met and it was time to transform it took all day lol

[@petroskoklas6277]

Hey this one brought back memories. You re making a mistake in the fusion mode. Eagles legs can be hidden and not just stay like that. Also the middle of the eagle can actually detach so you can manage better the position in rovot mode and fusion mode

[@marsjawa9805]

“If I die in this world who will know something of me”

[@wampasully7797]

this was and still is my favorite beast wars set ever

[@nerdicwarrior]

My brother got this set for Christmas one year. Ironhide was probably my least favorite out of these because he was so difficult to transform. Oh, and neither of us could get them into the combined form.

[@bagofshhh]

You can pull silverbolt apart and collapse him so he lays more flat against the combined mode head. There are two little posts on the lion's mane that line up with notches on the eagle's neck.

[@mikeburger2486]

As a kid i had this toy me and my brothers never could figure it out how to combine it so my parent just return the toy to the store.

[@jurassicking112]

*When he puts the clubs into Ironhides Hands* "Ya Feeling Lucky Punk"

[@zeroshinkai957]

I'm always going to love Prowl.

[@EmerentusGaming]

silverbolts robot mode looks like an eagle sitting on the back of a really derpy man in a halloween robot costume

[@richmond200]

I remember getting this for Christmas as a kid, I could never get all three of them together to form magnaboss 😂

[@mattnova18]

That elephant transformation would be disturbing in a live-action movie..... horrifying

[@Disturbed87113]

i had this as a kid...i really miss it, my mum detached prowls arms and legs to fit him as the head piece lol and so began a slow process wherein i lost all the pieces over the course of 2 years

[@Biochemitra]

The final product looks better than I was expecting, but holy crap, that's a lot of kibble! With all the fussing I had to go through to figure out Tripredicus, I still feel like I made the right decision getting him.

[@joshestes6597]

You can tuck silverbolts feet up to hide them. I still have mine from when I was a kid. Had to save Christmas money to pick it up.

[@Prime92]

@likeits1985 Don't worry. I'm sure some third party company will make combiner parts to connect the G1 Dinobots together.

[@devinleber5604]

prowl ironhide and silverbolt from beast wars are the same characters from G1

[@protogod19]

Still better then most power ranger Zords

[@retrocute]

thanks for the review. i collect gestalts and I must say, the beast war combiners are pure toy engineering love. hope you can do tripredacus as well

[@Hipojak]

It always amazes me how incredibly violent the beast wars toy line is. First you start off by ripping his face in half. Then you split open his gut. and so on. Awesome lol.

[@Sharingan1989]

If silverbolt didn't have GPS this set wouldn't be half bad. Found that out the hardway combining prowl and silverbolt when one of the pegs broke off into one of the clips on prowl.

[@adakuosondu3691]

YOU'RE AWESOME BALTMATRIX

[@Marcosaur03]

transforming robots that also combine rarely ever work. This is more true for the Beast Wars series of toys. The only robot(s) I can think of that pulled off the gimmick well is the Turbo Rescue Megazord with 5 cars that transform into 5 robots and combine into the megazord. But, those were vehicles, animals are organic and have curves and complex structures and when you add the complexity of transforming individually and combining, things have to be sacrificed to make the gimmick work and it just doesn't here.

[@balrighty3523]

12:09 IIRC, the eagle head bit separates a little at this stage. It has two slots on either side and Prowl's mane has two pegs, snd you're supposed to fit the pegs into the slots.

[@lukeallan5931]

I always thpught the eagle looked a lot like an old style court judge so I called him Justice. The lion had a very feminine look to me as well so I called her Lioness ( give me a break i was 9) and ironhide wss called Flatfoot. He had some serious angr management issues. I could never remeber the proper combined name so considering the predacon combiner was tripredicous I called this one trimaximus. In my imagination they came from three crashed protoform pods that had all crashed near each other. On two there was damage to the systems. One had low energy reserves for sustaining life support. The second had lost all programming related to scanning and reformatting and the third was intact. On the third the computer recognized the problems in both other pods so it initiated a linkup of all three pods to feed programming, power and scanning equipment to all three. Upon succesful inigration all three scannned and found appropriate animals and reformatted properly. The byproduct of this linkup was an energy connection between the sparks resulting in the maximals being telepathically linked to each other. Able to hear each others thought during times of distress they could mentally call for help from the other two who would come running to the rescue. Unitentionally this also resulted in them being capable of combining, something unseen in the other maximals. Magnaboss, a shrewd and inventive predacon who had experimented on himself to attempt immortliaty by splitting his spark essence into three components (voldemort?)so even if he was mortally wounded in one area would not die outright, found the maximal combinig tecnology interesting. He found a way to duplicate this by retrieving the pods and researching the technique. His experiment resulted in tripredicus. Though powerful his combined form was also insane and barely able to be controlled and required a combine kill switch to force the three to seperate. Only used in extreme circumstance. I created a whole new chapter to the continued outflow of beast wars characters after the series wrapped up. ( I hadnt heard of the other japanese series at that time.) Anyway this review brought it all back. Thanks for helping relive a piece of my childhood I had almost forgotten about.

[@reptisaurusking8494]

So this is Silverbolt's first mode before he became a Fuzor Prowl vs Cicadacon Silverbolt vs Ram Horn Ironhide vs Sea Clamp Magnaboss vs Tripredacus

[@Underscorezeus]

Always wanted this set. Too bad I wasn't born in the 90's

[@jonhylu]

I used to have these when I was a kid. Ah... Nostalgia

[@jasonlauritsen5587]

Oh this takes me back

[@100blueeyedboy]

I always had issues with forming these together. Prowl never fit together properly and Ironhide was just all over the place. I also broke Silverbolt a little bit because the hinge on his back was incredibly stiff. I actually still have this on a shelf though

[@VirussRuss]

he looks great combine man looks pretty cool I do like it so hope I can get the other two to combine this big guy great review bro

[@TheMrgamer2011]

Silver bolt and magnaboss looks like a Indian warcheif

[@TheWingblade86]

Hi I think you mis-transformed him in combined mode: 1) Skywarp/Silverbolt's legs need to be transformed back into eagle's legs, then bended, so that they don't flot around; 2) Skywarp/Silverbolt's neck need to be extended (there's a yellow joint underneath) , so that the grooves on the sides of Silverbolt's neck tab onto Prowl's mane tabs. Anyway, good job!! ;)