They never claimed it'd transform.... just that its color deco was that of StarScream...though technically it should have been a Night Raven like in the DDP books.... But I was in TRU and had a guy start screaming cuss words when he told me that TRU exclusive was the StarScream Skystriker and I told him NO it was a SDCC exclusive and that started him cussing up a STORM. Didn't think I'd ever stop laughing..