I was honestly too distracted by the numerous flaws of this toy to be bothered by the bestial robot head. The forearm panels on mine don't lock into place and are highly prone to moving out of place when you move the forearms. The elbows on mine also can't bend, or at least don't seem able to -- I've applied a bit of excessive force and they still won't budge, and I'm too scared to push too hard in fear of breaking them. But the worst part IMO is the lack of heel spurs, causing the toy to fall over backwards easily. The only way to compensate for this is to make him drag his tail on the ground like a freakin' reptile, despite the mammalian/lupine motif of his robot mode.