OTOH that gimmick is what sold me on this, would have just a Wheeljack who turns from the ER figure I already have into a box otherwise. I remember the moment of the two of them together, thats the attachment to Cybertronian Wheeljack for me. Even as a big Wheeljack fan would pass on it without that one feature because... design I already have but it wears a box on it.

And I think the robot came out quite nice. Probably nicer than Bumblebee, who had similar compromises for turning into robots of 100% faux parts. Ig it helps that Wheeljack is a box not a sleek vehicle but still hard to imagine this design with this philosophy not wearing everything on its back