I'm no ryuki fan, but I got tiger and I was blown away, great posablity and amazing character with all those accessories

So much truth dude. ANY Ryuki figure will blow you away. Especially Zolda.

Have you looked at any of the pictures I have been taking over the last 8 months? I have done more posses with those things that I have done with any other figure line I've posted pictures of.

And I have no idea what you mean about the hip joints. They work perfectly fine on all of mine.

Well...if you move a joint on any figure it's going to look odd, and if you want o see joints that look bad look at Play Arts Kai's knee joints, I typically don't mind breaks in sculpts, but those just really bother me.

The extending hip joint is meant for deep leg bends for stuff like high kicks. Most of the time whenever that joint is used chances are the leg's pose is covering up the large gap left when you extend the hip down. There's literally no reason to use that joint for anything else.

Plus I don't see how it breaks up the sculpt at all. It usually always looks fine.

I think I was just led to believe these things would blow my mind with their range of motion... except I had already purchased other high-end Bandai Japan figures with the same, or better range of movement.

I never said they were unposable, just I guess I expected this greta thing, only to unwittingly have "spoiled the surprise" already.

They look weird, and unrelated, mine squeak the most terrifying squeak I've ever heard.

Not always. And odd =/= terrible.

Oh, Play Arts Kai have the worst knee joints I've ever seen. I personally think PAK are supremely over-hyped and over-priced figures that remind me of a poor man's SIC.

And the drop-hinge Figuarts hip joint is still bad.

What if you just want to pose the figure with it's legs slightly apart, say to balance because the ankles are loose as hell? Literally unless the figure is sitting (something the hips can't do very well) or standing straight with the gaps completely closed the hips just don't look right. I actually prefer more toy-looking hip joints (like on Agito, who I'd like to get were it not for his sad accessory count) because they aren't so... glaringly awkward. And that's really why I don't like them. It's like someone took a straight-legged statue, cut the legs off at weird angles, and glued them back on in weird ways. It's so unatural and inorganic, even beyond your typical toy joint. I mean, the super-exposed elbow joints don't bug me. It's almost like in trying to find a solution to jointy-looking hips they made them even more distracting.

Really? You don't see how the line of the thigh going straight into the belt with gaps all around looks fine?

As I said, and will probably say again since I'm thinking you guys may not realise this, I don't dislike Figuarts at all (If I did I wouldn't be here. I have a list of "when I get around to it" Figuarts of Den-O and Agito etc.) or think they're not good, and I'd still probably buy one in the future if I couldn't find a certain Rider in another format, I just don't find them so maddeningly addictive dude to problems that I can't ignore. Even looking at the "best" I only think "yeah that's cool."

Yeah...I guess I can see where you're coming from. It sounds like you just got unlucky and got ones with bad QC, which happens, heck it's even happened to me, and it does suck that other people over-hyped it for you. Trust us all when we say that newer ones are better and completely show accurate. I personally don't think that those joints look horrible, they look fine to me, there are a few figuarts that don't have that type of joint, Decade for example just has normal universal joints for hips.

I personally agree on the leg-stem joints. They're rather obnoxious given that most of the poses that figures are put in don't really require that style of joint.

Except for Wizard's proportions from what I can tell.

Well the appeal to me for SH Figuarts is that unlike other lines like Revoltech and such, Figuarts ditches PVC for a harder plastic. Sure PVC is still used for parts that need it, but for the most part, Figuarts have ABS, some POM and sometimes diecast metal for stability.

As a collector I've grown to prefer harder plastic as PVC tends to warp, lends itself to stuck joints and various other quality control problems. YMMV though, if you're used to American figures Figuarts might seem like a huge breath of well needed fresh air. There's a lot of innovation that Bandai has used in Figuarts that American companies may not utilize for years to come. This is mainly due to target market, toys in Japan can be catered to adults moreso due to the comparatively lower birth rate, whereas in the US, kids are still the target market by far.

If you're used to Japanese action figures, Figuarts might not be as impressive. It really all depends. As for myself, I would rather have a Figuarts figure than a Revoltech, Figma, or even a Play Arts Kai figure. I can see why companies like Bandai use PVC for SIC, and why Square Enix uses it for PAK, it's a cheaper material and since it's soft, it lends itself well to intricate details and paint apps with a lot of depth. However it is more prone to quality control problems and frankly these figures aren't getting any cheaper meanwhile the qc problems tend to increase.

With a Figuarts, they aren't problem free either, but since PVC is not the primary plastic used for construction, I worry less.