Backtrack: Pull out the legs at the front and pull his feet out. Arms pull out the side and then slide upwards. If you can do this without using a tool or loosing an arm or forearm you have my admiration ! Back folds down to create the chest and swing round at the waist.
Spiral: Nearly the same except here the door panels form stabilizers down the back of the legs, and the arms fold down off the roof.
All 3 have joints at the hips, knees and shoulder, Spiral and Backtrack have ball joints there and waists too. There are elbows but they only bend about 10 degrees and the fore arms fall off at will ! But they all look OK as cars and seem quite stable as robots so..... All 3 have a powering socket somewhere underneath them in car mode.
They are the first set of Minicons I've got that don't do anything apart from be small robots !"
Spiral - like the rest of the Street Speed Team - is a car. In his initial release he was blue with a grey underside. He has a small spoiler at the rear behind a long sloping window.
If you turn the car over there's a Minicon socket at the back and in the middle. This can be used to mount the car on a larger robot and (with some imagination) you can pretend it's body armour or a power pack.
TF: Fold the sides of the car down under the front, pull down on the front extending the legs, pull the very front out to form the feet and fold them up. Fold the boot down to become the robot's chest. Spin the waist round 180 degrees. Split the roof of the car in two and fold to the sides to become the arms.
The robot maintains the blue of the vehicle mode and adds the grey into the body that the rest of the team have. He's got ball jointed hips & shoulders, arms that bend at the elbow and a waist. The mid arm joint is weak like the rest of the SST.
OK but small car (especially for a Minicon). Flimsy robot.
Spiral was available with the rest of the Street Speed Team as the Micron team numbered MM-06 where he was known as Jiiku. This team was also packed in giftset MS-05 with Silverstreak (Blurr). The Street Speed Team are the only Minicon team not to have a Dimension-X release in Japan (The Dimension-X Street Action team is packed with Final Battle Prime & Overload)
Don't like the colour scheme on this one so much.
Nice repaint.
Jiiku has grey car bodywork & white robot body (common to the whole team)
The original intention was that Energon Ultra Magnus would be released with a set of Street Speed team repaints. According the Transformers Wiki this version of Oval would be Clocker. Pictures show a blue car body with orange windows. I've not been able to find any pictures of his robot mode so I'm unable to say what colour the body parts would be.
All three Minicons in this set have major moulding changes in the surface detail of their car bodies but maintain the same basic shape, TF and robot mode. In particular Spiral looses his back window gaining some extra detail in vertical slits that cover the space where the rear window would have been.
The car body in this case is moulded in red while the robot body and upper legs continue to be grey.
I say red but it's not a bright vibrant red like Gagenta, more a pinky raspberry colour. Very nice again.
All 3 of these together make up probably the best set of these so far ! All 3 are very realisticly painted, you can quite easily believe you could see all 3 as real vehicles"