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For me, it's "staction figures" and other figures with severely limited articulation for the purpose of preserving the (often not particularly good) sculpt. It's the most pointless halfway-house fence-sitting method of doing things. The presence of joints is enough to ruin it as a statue, but the joints are nowhere near good enough to allow it to achieve anything other than a handful of poses, leaving it pretty mediocre as an action figure. I'm firmly of the opinion articulation is a pretty all-or-nothing thing, either give the thing proper range, or just make a statue. Trying to make something that tries to be both will succeed at neither.
Pic related is a perfect example (though most toys by McFarlane and NECA could qualify with their seriously hampered range). Single jointed elbows, no torso articulation AND the shitty preposing, and that ridiculous cape.
