I'm told Night Glider is a flying squirrel. In beast mode he's mainly orange with orange chrome over the edges of his wings, down the back and into the tail. The chrome is used to pick out robotic sections in the beast mode and down the back this really works with metallic paneling showing through the fur. The wings are fixe but there's a pair of small arms along the front edge that are ball jointed at shoulder and elbow. His robot legs form the back legs - ball joints at hip, knee & ankle. The tail has two folding joints at the base - the first closest the body bends up and down but he second only bends down.
TF to robot mode: Look at the underside of the toy. Flip the head up so that it's facing towards you. Fold the entire wing and tail section forward over the beast head as far as you can - but don't force it. Fold the robot arms that were inside the body down to the side. Click the beast head into the back of the robot chest. Turn the head round - important to remember to turn it back when TFing to beast mode. Turn the waist so the screw hole is the opposite side to the green spark crystal. Turn the knee and/or ankle so the front of the lower leg and the three toes are on the same side as the spark crystal. Fold the tail up the robot's back.
Standard BW Basic articulation - ball joints at ankle, knee, hip, shoulder, elbow & neck with a turning waist. Wings end up positioned behind the robot which is good. His Green Maximal Spark is open on the chest - one of the few sparks that isn't covered up in some way. He's even got a weapon - stored in the tail (now like a scabbard on the robot's back) is a grey sword - the same colour as the upper limbs and beast arms. Sword can be held in his hand or by any other basic with smaller size fist hole.
Overall: Decent basic. Gains points for the sword and scabbard.
In 2001 I wrote: "I've said before that a repaint can make or break a toy - here we have both extremes in one box. I think one of the first reviews I did was for the original later TM2 Basics so I'll just concern myself with the paint jobs:
Dark Scream (Flying Squirrel, formerly Nightglider): Uggh, wrecked with a nasty light blue and silver colour scheme. Surely something in brown or black would have been better than either of the colour schemes used on this toy.
Buy them if you're missing the originals, like the red frog repaint or find them cheap."
Yes he's not done well out of this repaint. The spark's become a Predacon one done in pink here. Not the greatest repaint in the world.... it's that cyan blue I think which also crops up on other bad repaints (EG Energon Strongarm)