Magmatron
(Target Exclusive)
Landsaur, the raptor, is, in my opinion, the worst of the three individual dinosaur modes. Although the detailing is excellent, there are a few obvious extras- Namely, the robot chest plate on his underside and his robot feet on the back of his dino hips. His legs are also way too large proportionally, and make him look a bit awkward. The chest-and-arms assembly can also rotate a little too easily, and it's a bit difficult to get them into a locked position.
Seasaur, the plesiosaurus, is pretty cool-looking. He has a "swimming" action, where it you squeeze his back to fins together, his front two fins will push apart, like he's paddling through water. His neck is very long and articulated, as a plesiosaurus' should be, but the individual neck pieces are a bit too blocky- if they were more rounded, the neck would look much nicer. There are no extras in this mode, although his main body can split in too rather easily, so watch out for that.
Skysaur, the quezodactyl (hope I spelled that right..) and the smallest individual dinosaur, is also, in my opinion, the coolest. The detailing is decent, and the articulation is pretty darned good too, with the neck able to move in three places. He has a bit of a potbelly to hid the robot head, but this is no big loss. The highlight of this mode, however, is the really cool wing-flapping feature. When you press his tail in, his wings flap, but the wing-arms, which are separate pieces on his underside, also move up and down too, making the flapping action look more realistic.
Magmasaur, the combined dinosaur mode, looks...well... like three dinosaurs jammed together. Although it was creative to make the plesiosaurus head the tail, it just doesn't work out, since the head is so incredibly obvious. The wings provided by Skysaur stick out a bit too far from the rest of the back, and look too small proportionally to lift this monstrous dino. Not a very good mode.
Magmatron, the combined robot mode, on the other hand, looks very cool. It becomes apparent in this mode that Hasbro made one big mistake when getting this guy ready for America- they forgot to put Dinobot spark crystals in! The Predacon spark crystals are easily visible in this mode, which should not have been overlooked- this is a bit of a letdown. This guy does look more like a Predacon than a Maximal, though, with his face filled to the brim with teeth. The pterodactyl wings work well as large "bat ears" but this is the only extra that really doesn't get in the way much. The plesiosaurs neck sticks out behind the robot a lot, and thus makes him look pretty odd from a side or back view. His raptor head and plesiosaur shield get in the way quite a lot too, not to mention his plesiosaur shield doesn't stay on the back of his arm that well in the first place. There is also a noticeable gap between his chest and his robot head. This mode is pretty good for a combined dinosaur mode, however, and is definitely beefed up. His main weapon, which can fire a missle, has plenty of ammo- 1 missle supplied by Landsaur, 2 supplied by Skysaur, and 2 supplied by Seasaur. This mode, as good as it looks, is very hard to transform into, however, and it does fall apart a bit easier than I would have liked it to.
A nice robot, but the robot mode could stay together a little better. Oh, and don't even try to get this guy into his Magmasaur mode- it's not worth it for the result.