Given that Skids' Chevy Spark vehicle mode is already a little "squished" in its proportions, it makes the transition to Gravity Bot with relatively little proportion-meddling in this mode. The front has been squashed in a little but, but that's the only thing that jumps out at you proportionally. The body is a bit big proportionally and the windows a bit smaller, but somehow Skids' squat vehicle mode pulls it off better than the other Gravity Bot alt modes that have to have their proportions squished up a lot more to fit the Gravity Bot design. All of the necessary mold details are painted in on Skids-- the windows, the "skidmarks" on the side, the front and back bumpers, it's all there. No worries about large, boring patches of light green plastic here. (The light green plastic itself is a rather nice shade, to boot.) The dark metallic blue used on Skids' windows is a particularly eye-catching shade and contrasts excellently with the green. The only details that aren't painted are the lower, smaller head & taillights, but those are hardly a big detail given how much other paint Skids has on him.
    Like all Gravity Bots, all you have to do to transform Skids is stand his vehicle mode up on its back end, and everything flips and folds into place. The roof of the vehicle mode rotates around to become the robot chest while the front half splits in half and moves down to reveal the robot head and become shoulders. It's a nice idea for little kids, even some sacrifices had to be made to Skids' robot mode to get this to work. For example, just like all the other Gravity Bots, Skids can't move at all in this mode. However, in stark contrast to his vehicle mode, the mold detailing on Skids' robot bits is very well-done and intricate-- particularly the hands, legs, and all the exhaust pipes 'n such on his back (or bottomside of his vehicle mode, if you prefer). Said mold details are, for the most part, lacking in paint, though. The fake chest panel is also nicely done, though the sky blue headlights don't match the actual silver headlights in vehicle mode. The face isn't well-sculpted, however. I know Skids doesn't exactly have the prettiest mug, but this sculpt makes it look even uglier, but making it look fat and not highlighting his nifty gold tooth. Like all Gravity Bots, his arms are rather difficult to say, hidden on the insides of the front halves of his car mode, which make up his shoulders.
    Gravity Bot Skids is one of the better Gravity Bots in terms of general color scheme and his rather generous amount of paint apps. His face sculpt is ugly, and the front part of his car mode is a bit too small, but otherwise he's fairly solid, given the gimmick. I'd still recommend this toy more for little Skids fans given the easy transformation and complete lack of articulation, but I could say that about any 'bot in the Gravity Bot subline.

Review by Beastbot

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