>>10449349Despite being a 20-year-old toy, he's got a lot of good flexibility in robot mode that still holds up - like I mentioned before, his feet are balljoints, so he has plenty of ankle articulation; his lower torso also connects to his upper torso via balljoint, so not only does he have waist rotation, but a tiny bit of ab crunch as well. While neither of his arms have rotating biceps due to the gimmicks built into them, his forearms do rotate about halfway down, plus his wrists, thumbs, and fingers are hinged, so there's room to make things work for poses. Lastly, while his robot head is supposed to peg into a slot under his mane to lock it in place, his neck is on a balljoint - meaning that unpegging his head from his mane lets you have free range of motion to turn his head wherever, as seen in pic related.
My only real complaints about this guy are that his beast head seems a little too small - as does his tail-sword thingy. Also, both his box art and the stock photography on the back of the package show that his tail is supposed to be painted black with purple details on it, while the actual toy is just using the same unpainted one from his original release; I haven't decided if I should try painting it or not. Whatever the case, I'm loving him - he's the sixth member of the Universe line I own, the others being Silverbolt, the Crystal Widow and Oilslick (and his Minicon drone) two-pack, and the Stockade and Magna Stampede two-pack (with their two Minicons, which, along with Olislick's buddy, technically brings the count up to nine). Oh, and Universe Minicon Brimstone, so that actually makes it ten. Huh. Guess I just love wacky colors.