I transformed him to robot and it's quite straightforward but there are some (particularly one) troublesome areas.
1. If you find the heels aren't going straight (flat), then the heel edge is hitting the lower edge of a circular part. To get beyond it, you have to angle the forefoot (toes) up, while keeping the heel steady, which will angle the circular part upwards and out of the way. Then you can complete rotating the heel.
2. There is zero clearance when rotating the forward fuselage toward the chest. You lower the part surrounding the head as much as possible then the cockpit/nose part seems obstructed. If you push down on the nose towards the chest, it will rotate at exactly the area where parts are touching - like a hinge joint.
3. When folding back the flap between the backpack halves, it seems impossible due to the tabs obstructing. Push each half apart with a thumb simultaneously to get the tabs out of the way, then guide the flap down with your index fingers.
4a. Compressing the two halves of the backpack together was frustrating and worrying. For ages, I couldn't get the two to join. Firstly, follow the Takara Tomy video, as some youtubers e.g. EmGo have mistransformed this section - the bottom of the backpack (the exhausts part) must be pushed up first before the halves are joined. Otherwise a gap is left at the bottom as the "sliding door" (see below) prevents further upwards movement. In the picture, the left half side is how it should be - the halves should be touching the white stem i.e. fully in the midline.
4b. A word of warning - as I was fiddling with this area a lot, I pushed down the bottom backpack section on a seam, which broke the glue. I suggest pulling on the corners of the rectangular areas (not sure I would pull forcefully and repeatedly on the exhausts).
4c. The problem I had with joining the backpack halves was I felt something obstructing the bottom of the backpack, stopping the halves from reaching the midline. It was a squishy but definite blocking sensation. So I opened one wing side to see what the obstruction was, which you might want to do. I noticed that when the bottom section was not pushed up, the halves came together easily. So something about the bottom part was obstructing - the "sliding door".
4d. When the backpack halves are pushed together, there is a piece at the exhaust assembly that becomes exposed like a "sliding door". This strikes the edge of a rectangular hole in the swinging wing assembly, giving that squishy block when the halves move to the midline. To get past this, you have to push the two halves together where that obstruction occurs EXTREMELY hard. I felt I was going to break something. I suggest opening one wing assembly and looking at how the parts move - At first, join the halves with the bottom section down (mistransformed like EmGo) to see how they come together. Then try transforming correctly but just pushing one half in forcefully while seeing what this sliding door is doing. Basically, it's poor clearance. But thankfully, separating the backpack halves (transforming back) requires not much force. I think with repeated transforming, the clearance will improve (or something breaks). This sliding door is also the reason why you can't join the halves then push the bottom up - the sliding door obstructs full movement.
4e. If you feel a rock hard obstruction when joining the halves, check that the edges of the top of the backpack halves aren't hitting the white stem.
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Originally Posted by Skyfire
