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The Dinoforce are a Decepticon subgroup from the Victory portion of Generation 1.

The Dinoforce are a pack of dimwitted Decepticon dinosaur Pretenders. They are looked down upon by the other Decepticons, most-notably the Breastforce, because they're just so darn stupid. Despite being dinosaurs, they are not very strong and resort to combining into Dinoking in a tight spot. The Dinobots they ain't.

Rather uniquely, the Dinoforce's pretender shells appear to have some level of independent thought; when the Dinoforce aren't merged with them they can think and act on their own, though usually simply doing whatever they were told to do by their robot masters. In fact, team leader Goryu rides around on on the back of his shell rather than within it. Another odd thing is that the Dinoforce rarely -possibly never- seem to convert into their "monster" alternate modes when outside of their shells.

The Dinoforce consist of:

They can combine to form Dinoking.

Crackhead English-Malay dub name: The Dinosaur Regiment

Fiction

Victory cartoon

Victory manga

Toys

Victory

Dinoking (Multi-pack, 1989)

Japanese ID number: D-328

The Dinoforce toys share the same robot molds as the Hasbro Pretender Monsters, but their Pretender shells are modeled after dinosaurs with cyborg armor attachments rather than monsters. Each one transforms into a small monster-robot, plus has a third mode as part of the combiner robot Dinoking.

The entire team was available both as six individually-packaged pieces, and in a big six-bot set as Dinoking.

Trivia

The Dinoforce shells are notable for developing a green patina on the painted-gold portions, as well as a slimy texture over their whole surface over time. What causes this is unknown, but ick. Even previously-unopened samples will develop this nastiness. While some water and a little bit of hand-soap should take care of the slime, there's not much to be done about the green discoloration.

Note that although "Dinoforce" is spelled out in English on the toy packaging, the group breaks Japanese Transformers convention by not actually being referred to by their English name in the animated series. Instead, they are identified as the "Kyoryu Sentai", literally, the "Dinosaur Force".

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 The '''Dinoforce''' are a pack of dimwitted [[Decepticon]] dinosaur [[Pretender]]s.  They are looked down upon by the other Decepticons, most-notably the [[Breastforce]], because they're just so darn stupid. Despite being dinosaurs, they are not very strong and resort to combining into [[Dinoking]] in a tight spot. The [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] they ain't.
-Rather uniquely, the Dinoforce's pretender shells are sentient. When the Dinoforce aren't merged with them they can think and act on their own. This is most obvious when Goryu rides around on his. Anothe odd thing is that the Dinoforce cannot transform into alt modes, their pretender shells filling that roll.
+Rather uniquely, the Dinoforce's pretender shells appear to have some level of independent thought; when the Dinoforce aren't merged with them they can think and act on their own, though usually simply doing whatever they were told to do by their robot masters. In fact, team leader [[Goryu]] rides around on on the back of his shell rather than within it. Another odd thing is that the Dinoforce rarely -possibly never- seem to convert into their "monster" alternate modes when outside of their shells.
-Note that although "Dinoforce" is spelled out in English on the toy packaging, the group breaks Japanese Transformers convention by not actually being referred to by this English name in the animated series, where they are identified as the ''kyoryu sentai'', literally, the '''Dinosaur Force'''.
 The Dinoforce consist of:
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-'''Crackhead English-Malay dub name:''' ''The Dinosaur Regiment''
+:'''Crackhead English-Malay dub name:''' ''The Dinosaur Regiment''
-==Fiction==
+==Fiction==
 ===Victory cartoon===
 ===Victory manga===
 ==Toys==
+===Victory===
-The Dinoforce toys share the same robot molds as the [[Pretender Monster]]s, but their [[Pretender]] shells are modelled after dinosaurs rather than monsters.
+*'''Dinoking''' (Multi-pack, 1989)
+:''Japanese ID number'': '''D-328'''
+: The Dinoforce toys share the same robot molds as the [[Hasbro]] [[Pretender Monster]]s, but their [[Pretender]] shells are modeled after dinosaurs with cyborg armor attachments rather than monsters.  Each one transforms into a small monster-robot, plus has a third mode as part of the combiner robot Dinoking.
+: The entire team was available both as six individually-packaged pieces, and in a big six-bot set as Dinoking.
+==Trivia==
+* The Dinoforce shells are notable for developing a green patina on the painted-gold portions, as well as a slimy texture over their whole surface over time. What causes this is unknown, but ''ick''. Even previously-unopened samples will develop this nastiness. While some water and a little bit of hand-soap should take care of the slime, there's not much to be done about the green discoloration.
+* Note that although "Dinoforce" is spelled out in English on the toy packaging, the group breaks Japanese ''Transformers'' convention by not actually being referred to by their English name in the animated series.  Instead, they are identified as the "''Kyoryu Sentai''", literally, the "'''Dinosaur Force'''".
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