Kickback

The retrospective look at the Insecticons continues! Today, our focus is on Kickback. He transforms from robot to grasshopper and back. He is a really good looking figure in both modes. To transform him from insect to robot, you flip the wings back, fold the rear insect legs into the robot legs, clip together the front insect legs to form the robot arms, flip down the face, and rotate the head. The feature that sticks out the most for Kickback are his metallic wings above his shoulders. Shrapnel's shoulder hooks looked good, but Kickback's extra feature looked excellent!

It was a shame that such an awesome looking toy was the most underdeveloped of the trio. Shrapnel and Bombshell had a lot of onscreen dialogue and plots for the team, but Kickback served mainly as the soldier. His lines in the show were mainly related to sarcasm or agreeing with another one of the Insecticons.