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I just wish the mold could hold its guns in-hand.

Deluxe Optimus felt like it was trying to compete with RobotMasters G1 Convoy over who could be the more awkward G1 Optimus at the Deluxe scale. Years later, Studio Series Gamer Edition Devastation Optimus came along to really show them both how it's done.

Then he wouldn't be true to his name. ;)

I get the feeling that if he ever did confront Cyclonus, Cyclonus might attempt to reason with him into rejoining the Decepticons. Of course, it'd be an uphill task and Ferak would likely reject the offer, but Cyclonus would most likely be the one Decepticon who would try to persuade him...

Specifically, the Obama administration. They really had a hate-on for the Autobots despite how obvious it was constantly proven to them over and over that they can't defeat the Decepticons without the Autobots' help.

I've speculated that if there were to have ever been an American-original continuation of the English RiD dub, Scourge would probably eventually regain his old memories and break away from Galvatron to form his own separate evil faction distinct from the Predacons and Decepticons, and lo and...

That is the exact message the U.S. government wishes Optimus would have sent out at the end of the first movie.

The CR Combatrons did use the G2 Autobot symbol upside-down, but only because Takara didn't want to retool the projectile discs of the Laser Optimus mold to remove the molded G2 Autobot symbols off of the discs for Black Convoy. Then when CR got imported as RiD and the Combatrons were rebranded...

Cyclonus is Shockwave.

Yeah, very weird and random choice for them to give him Machtackle's colors. Although, since it was a Platinum Edition, the decision might have been Hasbro Asia's doing rather than Hasbro proper since most of the Platinum Editions were initiated by Hasbro Asia.

Watch it turn out to be a surprise that we're only seeing the sword from one side being silver while the other side is actually red.

The purple chest reminds me of "Rage over Cybertron" Megatron as well as Darkside Megatron.

Yeah, all other deco versions besides that version had more mixed colors between the two altmodes. Original Hasbro 1985 release: e-HOBBY 2004 Collectors Edtion "Proto Color Version": Hasbro 2015 Platinum Edition:

I mean, the original Astrotrain toy could do that too when it was first released in Japan:

It wasn't until the Beast Era when scanning became a common thing for altmode changes, but which was treated as new technology developed in the age of the Maximals and Predacons. Armada was the first time scanning was treated as standard Autobot/Decepticon technology. I don't disagree, but in...

I'm guessing D.M wanted to make these look as formal in their presentation as possible, likely to prevent others from passing them off as their own works.

That... really wasn't a thing back then. Changing altmodes on a whim, I mean. They had to be physically reconstructed, or be fully morphed by phenomenal cosmic power, in order to do that.

Eh, the Ark's computer did that to him, not he himself. He kinda had no say in the matter, being offline at the time (speaking of both the cartoon and Marvel G1).