Has anyone else noticed that part of Barricade's feet also transforms? It looks pretty wicked at makes him look all the more intimidating imo. What do you guys think?

 

ooo one kick to the nuts would hurt alot more now   nice lil feature, they seem to add alot of random features to these figures which is quite kool

 

A roundhouse kick to the face with that thing would destroy your opponent! I'm guessing Hasbro left a bunch of these things out so as to keep things kid-friendly.  

 

Yeah, I found those pretty quickly. They are in the instructions. Sort of. The last picture showing the "final" robot mode shows the spikes flipped out, but there's no indication during the course of the instructions telling you to do so.

Also, have you pulled his head up all the way? It actually slides out so that it rests fully on top of the hood. You're not supposed to clamp the hood around his neck, but under his neck.

Also, it doesn't look like you've pulled out his thumbs, or separated his fingers from the tail-lights. The shoulders are also supposed to swivel 180 to closer approximate his movie look.