Nice review, but still not sold on a single RoTF figure...hope you called your wife back btw! Mine would kick my ass if I hung up on her to do a Transformer review
What do you mean by "fan mode?" It's obviously a third mode that Hasbro has been trying to keep secret. Near the end of the movie he battles Ratchet and turns into this secret mode, suprising the audience and at the same time killing Ratchet. It's called his "Squack Mode." You really need to get on the ball.
Chocobo mode totally sold Ravage for me. I'm likely going to clip off all his little spiky bits though, so he looks more like a cat and less like a skeletal fish.