With Age of the Primes Superion recently revealed, combiners are back in the mind of Transformers fans everywhere, as is the debate of how best to make these toys work! Should they partsform? Should they be "all-in-one"? Or has the new effort gone the right route with it's "shell" style conversion? Let's get to the bottom of it all.

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#97: What makes a great Transformers combiner?