Blood for the Baron!

It was (& still is) one of distinctive features...thinking about it, apart from the original Han Solo, the only other figures I can think of with bent elbows are those unfortunately posed Mego guys.

's lack of a weapon was annoying too.

Potato mashers and loose 7.62 in a Wehrmacht canister are not much use if the Shadowtrak had been taken out by a sleeping policeman. Or something more kinetic.

But then there were other things to worry about like actually managing to use his weapon system in a meaningful fashion beyond demonstrating the universality of Newtonian physics.