[WhiteRanger]

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Originally Posted by Electric Turahk

Get her in hand and you might feel quite differently.

In general, they're all too soft. Literally. Their limbs can bend (and I don't mean at joints) from just trying to swap hands, in large part likely due to how thin they all are. And the joints are just generally too exposed in places to look good. So they're awkward to handle and there's kind of a quality issue.

Luffy isn't horrible. I can't say much bad about him except for the aesthetics at the shoulders and mid-torso joints not being the best.

Ace is top. He's probably the best in my opinion. He comes with an incredible amount of fire effect parts that you'd be remiss not to use them. He does suffer from the same awkward exposed joints as Luffy and I'm not fond of his face options (they hardly look like him to me). And yes, I understand that the joint issue can't be easily be avoided with figures with so much exposed skin and I personally don't actually have much of a problem with it in these two. But, from what I've gleaned from all over the place over the years, anime fans like clean looks. So they hate joint cuts, and One Piece fans in particular are just stupidly obsessed with statues. That's part of what killed the line early.

What really didn't help was making Nami the third entry. She's just too damn skinny to work well as an action figure where they went for a faithful recreation. It causes massive bulges for her eblow and knee joints that are unsightly. She also can't stand worth a damn. But really it's those damn shoulders. If you don't have her arms pressed up against her body or her angle away in such a position that her shoulders are hidden, they just look horrible. Like her arms are floating away from her body. Many point to her as the reason it failed early, and I'd have to agree even though I got them all after the fact. She really just should not have been the third figure made if they were trying to get it going. It should have been Zoro or even Sanji. (Ace made sense as second given he came out around the time of the War of the Best.) But Nami? Absolutely not. And she was sub-par on top of that.

Sanji's alright. He suffers from awkward shoulders because of the rigid suit he's wearing, but overall probably looks the best. And he comes with pretty much everything you could need... except for a cigarette hand, despite having hands molded as if he were smoking (which granted is easily fixed with a tiny piece of rolled up paper as I've done in my display). And oh yeah... his classic smiling look. A face he is shown as coming with all over the back of the box. Except he doesn't come with it. Bandai fucked up and didn't include the face with him. I ordered him not long after he came out apparently, because next thing I know HLJ's just sending me a "Bandai Part" without saying anything, and lo and behold it was his face. So they tried to fix it, but really it shouldn't have happened.

But really the big issue is the preferences of the fans over in Japan. They just want damn statues and it's a shame. I don't hate three out of the four characters. The third one just might just have been too weak, both as a character to release so early and as a figure.

I think they'd do so much better if given a second chance, especially with all of the improvements made to their anime figures with the likes of Sailor Moon. And started with a bigger hitter like Zoro. The market's just, unfortunately, not there in Japan.

Who man I want them all cause franky got a soul robot chook in release