Listening to a recent podcast with Hasbro designers and they do gather a lot of reference material for designing toys, it's just sometimes they go to sources that aren't 100% accurate (including TFwiki)

The colours and feel of this toy 100% synch with my memories of my childhood Ruckus - to the point that when I deploy the guns back and forth I expect to hear and feel the friction noises the original toy made.

Standing him next to Beachcomber and seeing only a few parts are outright reused and how much bigger he feels, is quite an impressed trick.

The 9 step conversion for a deluxe is a bit underwhelming, and I struggled a lot to get the fists to lock into place with his legs in buggy mode, resorted to the instructions for help but they didn't.

(The colours on Bludgeon were better than I expected, more of a mustardy yellow than the box art displayed, but he's really the extra accessory in this pack I didn't want)