The first ball-joint...

[Snapes on a Plane]

So I was messing with some of my G1 figures this morning and something caught me by slight surprise. I have never paid attention to the fact that Wreck-Garr has ball-joints on his shoulders.

 

Then I got to thinking as I looked at my collection.... Is he the first Transformer to use this kind of joint? And furthermore, is he the only G1 figure who has them? I was wracking my brain and thought maybe someone here could shed some light. Am I overlooking someone obvious?

 

-Snapes

[MikePrime]

I think the Aerialbots, not including Silverbolt, have ball joints at their shoulders.

[Buddykiller]

so do the combaticons, or at least members there of although i could be mistaken.... i guess nobody noticed the potential.

[Snapes on a Plane]

You're right. I knew I was overlooking something...

 

I forgot that several of the smaller combiner bots used them to connect their arms.

 

... i guess nobody noticed the potential.

 

Until later-G2 and BW :D :clap :boogie

 

-Snapes

[Agent Zero]

Blastoff had a lot of them, by G1 standards at least.

[autobotmaintenance]

The Aerialbots design could be the oldest, as they have no rubsign indents... ?

[Soundwinder]

Blast-off and Vortex both had shoulder ball-joints.

 

The smallest Aerialbots did as well.

 

Who came first?

[Starwarpcracker]

Pretty sure Astrotrain was the first transformer toy to ever have ball joints.

[Thad_theImpaler]

well, plenty of go-bots had ball joints before Transformers. But technically as far as Transformers go, the earliest would be the arm on Optimus Prime's trailer.

[Zakufarmer]

well, plenty of go-bots had ball joints before Transformers. But technically as far as Transformers go, the earliest would be the arm on Optimus Prime's trailer.

I wonder which toys were designed first, seeing as how TFs were originally Diaclone toys, and Go-bots were Machine Robo in Japan? :schin