>>6504407"G1 toy with Articulation" is certainly a novel idea, but yeah it's no surprise the novelty wore off nearly instantly. It's kind of cool seeing it executed at least once, though.
On a related tangent, I still hope that some day an Optimus based off the G1 toy's design gets made with modern engineering, detail and articulation. I saw a really cool fanart rendition of what that could look like (could never find that picture again though) and ever since that's been like my dream toy to have
