Takara Website Update - ROTF Toys Web Manuals

this is pretty useful, seems like they have video on parts of the transformers that are quite confusing on paper.

I like the fact that documentation is available in digital format. However, I found that the instructions for both Leader OP and Leader JF didn't help a lot. After spending a few minutes going through the instruction diagrams, I just put them down, picked up the toys, and learned to transform them on my own. There are just some transformation processes that aren't put to paper well. Or maybe they can't be put to paper well.

Their instructions for Mudflap are bad, really. You can fold down the backpack and hood segment to be even more compact than it looks. Makes a tightly packed, more solidified robot mode.

There's even a mod that'll let you cut off two small pieces of plastic (not even noticeable) that allows the wheels on his shoulders to come forward more.

Fortunately, they got Skids right. I don't know of any other way to make him more compact, really.