I think it was a matter of them looking at it and saying, "but it already has articulated arms" without looking at the big picture of said articulated arms...
Which sucks for us.
The arms aren't bad though. They go neutral, they hold a rifle... They do that which completely unarticulated arms cannot, so I rank them in terms of quality around the POTJ Imp. Officer perhaps... Not perfect but they do well for the most part, if that makes sense.
What would've been ideal would've been Hasbro retooling the vest and the shoulders... Make the shoulder parts of the vest solid on the arms, thus more mobile. Sacrificing some of the looks of the vest as it is to get better poseability is acceptable to me.
SA would've been great, no doubt... That would've been a 100% new sculpt though. For the time being this is the best Rebel out there... It's passable to me for this character(s) moments, but like i said I'd love a NEW sculpt (100%) of the POTF2 styled Endor Rebel then at some point... This guy will just be great filler till (hopefully) that happens.
RFT and Hoth Rebs have solidified their holds on my MOST wanted resculpts though over this guy. The Endor Trooper now has something I'm fairly happy with (thus far).
If the vest is really stiff, like the original, this figure will have some tough time posing though at the arms.
