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Originally Posted by Den-O

I'm gonna be blunt but I don't really give a damn if my action figures can sit in hypothetical tiny chairs that I don't own.

I'm going to be blunt: that's BS and you know it.

It has nothing to do with sitting in chairs. That's just the easiest way of explaining the problem. The problem is the drop-down hips offer terrible range of motion, and fuck up the sculpt since the legs move outward.

Ryuki can sit, crouch, kneel, get in craz wide-legged stances, run, kick forward, etc. with his hips.

W can do none of that because all those poses require the knee joint to remain facing forward as a knee is supposed to do. The knee can't face forward while the leg is moved forward because the sculpting forces you to swivel the thigh outward. Which wouldn't even be the problem itself were it not for the absence of any swivel above the knee itself.

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Originally Posted by Locke

The fact that they are unable to do a very basic pose is kind of important though considering the hype around the toys.

Absolutely.

Think fo it liek this: if Ryuki had the old hip joints, he would not be able to ride the Rideshooter.

Plus there's also the simple fact of the old hips make posing unnatural and stupid, since if I want to move W's leg forward for a particular stance I have to swivel it out and then pull it down before moving forward. Ryuki? I just move the leg forward. No tricks, just a simple, non-moronic joint.

Hell, the simple fact that they phased out the old drop-down hips is evidence that even Bandai saw how dumb they were. Plus, they're ugly as hell. Ryuki looks fine in any pose, but W looks like shit if he's in anything besides a straight-legged pose.

I cannot believe that there are cases in Figuarts, the line touting itself as "the new standard" and that is so popular, so high-end and does so much, that lack fundamental articulation that even other examples in the line have and people are like "it's impossible." Then when said examples are offered for comparrison people then say "yeah well it's not important."

What?