>>6179619Yeah the problem is that 4H did bother to make the joint, and they must've realized how inneffective the elbow joints are from the prototype but they didn't care for it enough to rectify the sculpt before going onto full production. They were parading the troll prototype for more than a year around many toy fairs.
Or they're just Mattel-lite in their mindset and thought that articulation doesn't matter as much as sculpt. None of the MOTUC stuff, nor Mattel DC stuff have excellent articulation anyway. Kind of explain the lack of articulation also on the human figures