Lugnutz is a motorbike, like a big American one. He's orange on his mud guards and fuel tank, black on the saddle boxes and grey everywhere else. One of his exhaust pipes - on the right as you're looking towards him - comes separately and will need mounting via a clip on the saddle box and a slot on the body work. This will fall off. So too on mine does the saddle which was loose in the package and nearly got lost as I took out the package while waiting for Liz to pick me up. The right saddle box has a Planet Key slot - Earth with this toy number s3y6 - which causes part of the left exhaust to pop up as a missile launcher. There's a stand of sorts that can be extended from under the bodywork - I say of sorts because it's part of the TF and not specifically designed. He does need it though. Apart from the bits falling off the bike isn't bad, if a bit elongated.
To TF: separate both halves of the grey bodywork under the bike and swing to the sides. Turn each leg 180 degrees at the ball joint and fold back together so they're sticking up and towards the back of the bike. Fold the feet down - these may need some pressure to fold all the way. Pull the engine down to form the arms and swing out to the sides as much as possible swinging the shoulders out too. Pop the top of the fuel tank up to form the head. Rotate the rear wheel and saddle box section 180 degrees round a ball joint and fold up to lock into place in the interior of the body - it will lock there are dimples on the sides of the back of the saddle and corresponding notches in the back. If it doesn't lock, it is aligned right. Then fold origami the arms so that the fists are facing forward/up and the bike halves are extended out to the sides. The exhaust pipe which will almost certainly have fallen off earlier forms his gun and you'll be replacing the front of the saddle at the same time.
Lugnutz then becomes a small slight grey & black robot with an orange chest plate ...... and a Motorbike on his back ! He looks ridiculous like this, you need to see it. Liz laughed. Road Rocket may have had the wheel positioned similarly but the handlebars weren't there too and his wheels make it look like some sort of sci fi energy weapon back pack. Here it literally look like he's got a bike on or rather through his back ! What's worse is it impinges on his articulation ! Because the bike wheels are attached to each shoulder and go round the outside of the back of the bike the shoulders have no movement other the round in a circle - impressive though the engineering is to get the bike halves to miss the backpack when they turn. However the shoulders are ball joints so won't move to the sides. Since the elbows are straight up and down (and backwards !) you can't get an deviation to the sides. In addition he has ball jointed hips, and knees that bend in the correct manner. At least the feet balance OK - even with the planet key slotted into his back and the missile launcher popped out onto the shoulder - which is about the only thing about the robot mode which looks good.
Not my favourite Cybertron Toy or TF Bike. Not even my favourite Cybertron Motorbike.
Lugnutz was sold in Japan as Galaxy Force toy GD-12 Road Storm.
His Earth Key number is s7n5.
Lugnutz has an unreleased version that would have appeared in the fifth wave of Target Sector 7 basics. And as is the way of things it looks nicer than the repaint we did get. The grey becomes more silvery and the bodywork becomes blue which is more of a contrast to the red/orange used on the released versions. He would have come with a clear light blue Cybertron chip matching the clear blue Energon weapons of the other two toys in this wave.