Bootstrap walking toy rendering - This toy was designed to look like a pile of junk in its "collapsed" state. The legs and tail sections were joined to the body by lengths of thin cable; when the cable was loose, the sections assumed a jumbled appearance.
However, when the cables were all tightened by a motorized central reel, the leg and tail sections would pull together and self-align, allowing the creature to stand up from the post-apocalyptic future (junky) landscape.