Transformers POTP Volcanicus Unboxing

Today, Blade does an unboxing for the Power of the Primes Volcanicus Dinobot set, plus Red Swoop, and G1 Sludge.
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[@DragoonMS]

The Combiners in Power of the Primes all had dedicated "Prime Armor" hand and foot parts. The hands doubled as guns (though the covers in them ALSO doubled as guns), and the feet doubled as "shields". The feet usually came with the Voyager class torso bots (Starscream, Elita-1, Grimlock, Inferno, Hun-grr), while the hands came with the Deluxe class limb bots.
The big gimmick here was that you could either stick a Prime Master in its Matrix Core mode (those repurposed Headmasters) or an actual Matrix Core (from Optimus, Nemesis, Rodimus Prime, Rodimus Unicronus, and/or Optimal Optimus) or a frameless Matrix Core called an Enigma (named after the Enigma of Combination; ex.: Dinobot Enigma, etc. That's the silvery thing with the red paint in the middle, btw) into these Headmaster shaped slots in the hands or feet for "Prime Armor powers". And being that they're all shaped similarly, yes, you can also use the actual Headmasters from Titans Return (I refuse to call them "Titan Masters", that sucks) & Takara's Transformers Legends. (This is especially funny considering that although renamed, there WERE bodiless Headmaster versions of Grimlock (Clobber) & Swoop (Ptero).
Yeah, Red Swoop's QC was known to be pretty bad. And yes, Blue Swoop was better...but that's not saying much, because his QC wasn't great, either.
14:44 Oh, you got that correct. That's a dumb design decision from Hasbruh. *AND IT CARRIES OVER TO THE STUDIO SERIES 86 LEADER CLASS SNARL.* That gold pegged hand belongs to Snarl, and you're right, the clear sword goes to Snarl as well.
16:45 Yeeeaaahhh...in her Velociraptor mode, you've gotta get the angle on her JUST RIGHT or she ain't standing.
Don't bother with Volcanicus, the lack of stability just ain't worth it. You absolutely need to get one of the various third-party upgrade kits to make that combined form worthwhile.

[@kevinbergman3784]

I want them to combine into a spinosaurus.

[@jasonhowe1697]

there were 3 versions of the dino bots clear/display, gold metalic then a colore version
the smaller version of the dinobots were nwver designed to combine
the reson there wasn't much done if you follooed ther cartoon law the reason there ius only1 instance of them combining because they their combining cog or grimlolock didn't have the mental capacity to control them in combiner mode..
the reality is do to their in the larger formats combined they stood 3-4 foo tall and north of 1,400 in combined model 1:18-1:24th scale you have there wouldn't have been a combiner mode
i on;y saw the option in the larger sizes when i was a kid within toyworld franchisees of the 80's and early 90's