S1: Deadend
S2: Breakdown
S3: Wildrider
S4: Dragstrip
S5: Motormaster
He's assembled thus:
Deadend, Breakdown, Wildrider & Dragstrip
Due to the similar construction of the limbs robots they all have the same transformation sequence to combine them.
Arm mode: From car mode remove the vehicle mode gun. Fold the head & connector arm out from under the car. Place a fist in the 5mm hole at the rear of the car.
Leg mode: From car mode remove the vehicle mode gun. Fold the bonnet back. With the underside of the car pointing towards you and the front of the car pointing up, peg a foot into the hole on the rear of the car.
Motormaster serves at the body for Menasor. From robot mode, fold the legs out to the sides at the hips and then in again at the knees. Fold the cab halves back behind the legs. Fold the arms straight down to the sides and push in. Place the waist plate on so the robot's upper legs are covered. The car, turned so the roof faces you and the ends point to the sides pegs onto the chest - the peg holes are at the top as the car is now facing you. The mask goes over his face.
You can then attach the Stunticons as limbs and place the purple cyclone gun and chromed silver sword into the 5mm peg holes in his hands.
Menasor inherits many of the design features, and thus the problems, inherent in Motormaster. The main body is very boxy, in fact you can trace a straight line from the top corners down through the body, the hips & into the legs which is then continued into the body of the Stunticon serving as the leg. Similarly the other edge of the Stunticon leg unit's chest forms a line with the inside of the leg. The mask forming the face delineates the head better than before and does slightly protrude above the line of the top of the body. But essentially the toy is a box with four cars stuck on it and a couple of pieces of black armour. The cartoon and comics version modifies the design by placing the head on top of the body which looks slightly better. But the only time I've got the toy to look OK is when I've stood it against my Digital Radio, which is a similar shade of grey, causing the top of the body to disappear.
You can have a little fun playing with the Sword: since it's held by a 5mm peg , then it's capable of plugging into the 5mm hole the fist sits in and can act as an extension of the arm. If the sword was moulded in clear coloured plastic then the sword would look like the energy weapons used by Optimus Prime & Megatron in an early episode of the Cartoon.
No I'm sorry Menasor really doesn't do it for me. It's mostly Motormaster's fault but the cars play same role by being very similar and allowing you not much opportunity to improve the design by swapping the limbs round.
Menasor was first sold in 1986 in the USA, UK & Japan where he could be formed from the individual Stunticons or bought as a giftset, which was numbered D-55 in Japan. The individual Stunticons were reissued in the UK as gold carded/boxed Classics toys in Europe in 1990. A number of Chinese Menasor giftsets were sold in the UK in the mid 1990s.
Menasor's name has been reused a number of times. However the Classics Legend Menasor and Sand Diego Comic Con Menasor are both closer in design to Motormaster than the combined form. Cybertron Menasor reuses the name on a totally different design while in the Power Core Combiners line both the Destructicons & Stunticons carry elements of the original combiner toy.
G2 Dead End
G2 Breakdown
G2 Wildrider
G2 Drag Strip
G2 Motormaster
G2 Motormaster is a bit of a train wreck with bright neon blue hands & feet which don't work full stop and are even worse here because they're exactly the same colour as one of the limbs.
However since it's the only existing repaint of Menasor we can live in the fear that when a reissue of the Stunticons eventually comes along E-Hobby will provide us with this as an exclusive repaint.
