Skydive is a dino bird - a pteradon - in the main Beast Machines line instead of as part of the Dinobot sub lie. He's a mixture of purple, orange and blue/grey plastic with some transparent orange pieces mainly on his wings and his nose. His dino legs are folded underneath him - ball jointed at ankles and hips. The wings have a ball joint at the base. He has a gimmick in this mode - pull down on the tab on the beast neck and the entire head and neck springs forward.
TF: turn the beast over an look at the tail. Fold the clear orange sections down so the ball joint at the end is level with the end of the tail pieces. Fold the ball joint round to the back and stretch the legs out behind (was probably this step I was getting wrong when TFing back to dino bird). Bend the tail section forward, then bend the back panel forward. Fold the shoulder panels out to the sides at the front. Fold the robot head out of the front of the body. Rotate the back panel 180 degrees round so it's now under the body then fold up so it's flat against the back of the neck. Bring the arms through the shoulder sections and then fold the shoulder sections round the beast neck. Fold the robot head panel down onto the base of the beast neck. Fold top of the robot legs back round the beast neck and fold the tail down as a loin cloth. Fold the wings down to the sides, pull the clear bits back at the elbow and fold the grey bits up at the shoulder moving the wing mass behind the upper arms.
The type of SW Alien I was thinking of was an Anx (Graxol Kelvyyn from the Watto's box cinema scene) It's the tall conical head that does it. Skydive is very tall and thin for a deluxe TF but it somehow works for him. His legs - mainly blue till the orange at the top are ball jointed at ankle, knee and hip as is the neck, shoulders, elbows and wrists. There's long blades extending from each hand that did use to run along the top of the wings - these bend up or down where they attach to the hand. The wings are clipped up behind the elbow but a small push deploys them easily. The chest features a green Maximal spark with a vivid cut diagonally across the chest as if he's been struck by a blade weapon across the spark. The poseability of the toy is excellent - I can think of no other TF capable of sitting cross legged in a meditative pose like this one can !
Decent dino bird, inventive turn inside out TF and poseable robot. Very decent toy !