>>10816548While the transformation is interesting, the resulting beast mode, sadly, needs work. Again, a lot of the problem here is the proportions - this time, the cat head and robot legs/beast arms are way, WAY too big, which makes the rest of the body look small by comparison - those 'spindly chicken legs' people keep complaining are too small are actually around as thick as SS86 Jazz's arms and thighs, but you wouldn't guess it from how huge Tigerhawk's entire front is. On top of that, his 'cat' parts don't strike me as very feline, and look more ursine to me, as if someone took Polar Claw's entire front and slapped it onto a bird. Again, having never owned the original toy of the character, I have no idea if the proportions were always this wonky in-hand or if this is the result of the new engineering, but it's awkward. Another thing that annoys me is the way his entire rear section looks - the bird tail seems to pop up from the small of his back instead of hanging off the base of his spine, meaning his entire bird butt is just hanging out there; the tail feathers themselves can't actually lay flat, either, so they're always poking slightly up no matter what. Also, his cat head can look down but can't look up, and his beast arms don't have a very large range of motion at the 'elbow' - unlike the old Silverbolt toy, whose robot knees/beast arms could flex 90 degrees in both directions, Tigerhawk's cant bend up much further than what you're seeing in this pic, due to the fact that his robot mode has kneecaps that get in the way of the joint.
He still has his 'battle mode' from the old toy, though, looking at the pictures, it seems he no longer has his bird-visor that apparently should flip down over his head in this mode; still, his wings can swing forward and the gatling guns on his wings flip around to reveal a pair of cannons (which no longer have missiles, but can be detached and held in his robot mode hands).
