BEAST
WARS: TOY REVIEW 
He’s about 180mm long, with a 155mm wingspan, standing about 55mm tall. His wings are way to small to carry his massive bulky body anywhere. So it’s a good thing he’s got four of them, he can get twice as nowhere.
Basically you have a vaguely iguana body (With an extra
set of vestigial legs plonked on for good measure) with an Iguana type
head and a… well a dragonfly sitting on his back.
There’s not other way to put it. There is a giant dragonfly
(doubled over so it’s looking at its own butt) on Skyshadow’s back. If
he shoo’d it away he might actually look like something.
He has various points of articulation in this mode, about
3 in each leg (hip, knee, ankle) and four wings and a jaw (for a total
of 17 points of articulation). Disappointingly, you can’t move his tail.
Partly to do with his transformation, but mostly because you shoot his
missile out of it. His only gimmicks in this mode are an incredibly lame
flapping mechanism and his tail-missile. Nothing spectacular.
Click the torso back into place, and then turn the robot’s waist around. His beast legs can now be changed into his robot legs, but only do that if you’re lame and stupid. Before you do that, flip his beast-tail up, and turn it into his robot head. Don’t be too literal here. The whole tail doesn’t form the head, just the tip. The rest of the tail forms the back spine of the robot mode. Any attempt to turn the whole tail into the head will BREAK the toy. So stop being stupid.
After this it’s a matter of fiddling. Turn the robot legs around, move the main-body wings so they rest against his chest. Move the forelegs/vestigial legs up out of the way. The final thing is to find his hand. His dragonfly head conceals a three-fingered hand just push the head towards the wrist and you see the hand. Cool.
The second major problem is the missile. He launches his missile out of his mouth. All you do is push on the missile and the force of you pushing it is supposed to launch it. It does. But not that well (and the missile gets curved). That’s not the only problem with the missile. The other problem is the lack of plural. He has only ONE.
Finally, his other weapon. In robot mode one set of dragonfly wings becomes a kind of pincher claw. Unfortunately the claw is way too big and unbalances all his poses. Oh well.