Got my Skids in the mail today, to the pleasant surprise of a properly painted hood AND properly painted TEETH!
Skids is a neon Green Chevy Beat (now "Spark") in vehicle mode, with some stripey designs on the sides:
His license plate says "Skids" (but there are no dice in the mirror)
He compares favorably sizewise with other deluxe class figures:
Transformation is pretty involved, there's a lot of twisting and turning and flipping and folding involved. The roof of the car is probably the hardest bit to get moving, you almost feel like you're going to break it until you figure it out. And even then it's still tough. Here's just a sample of the craziness of it all:
Once you get him into robot mode, he's pretty cool and remarkably stable. He's also MUCH more poseable than pictures and that leg kibble would lead you to believe:
His main gimmick in robot mode is the extendable punching fist on his oversized right arm:
He also has a gimmick that if you push on the grill on his chest, his armor panels flex and his head moves up and down so it kind of looks like he's laughing. (He's the Pilsbury Doughboy of the Bay-o-verse!) Hard to capture in pics, but I show it off in the video review.
His backpack actually folds up a lot more than early pics show. I've seen several pics with the roof of the car just sitting on his back, but that's not the case:
Also, the proper transformation has the backpack pegging in right behind his head, hence the raised bit between his shoulders. If you prefer to have the backpack less visible from the front and want more range of motion for his neck, you can leave the backpack unpegged and have it sit a little lower down. It's a little more wobbly this way, but looks slightly better aesthetically:
Overall he's short but bulky. Just a little shorter than Sideswipe, about the same height as Soundwave:
Final analysis? I like the figure, and I think the general design is pretty spiffy. The head is slowly growing on me, especially fully painted, but is easily my least favorite part of the figure/character design. If you can look past the head, or if you're one of those who like the head design, there's a lot to like about this figure. If the head's a deal breaker for you, though, you're probably better off skipping this one.
Video review is avialable here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvzkM3JaHaY
The car mode is nice and the colours are great though, imo. It's just the face. 
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