>>6082514>casuals who don't know how to pose figureshahah. Every kid knows how to pose a figure.
You siad it yourself, statues in the US go for higher prices because of the smaller market. These statues are better painted and detailed than normal action figures. You seem to forget that most western collector lines wont cut up the sculpt to make the figure more poseable.
If you hadn't noticed, the Revoltech Deadpool figure has gotten a lot of distinterest and negative comments that it just looks so weird here on /toy/ and many reviews. Lots of figures are disliked because of how many sacrifices to the sculpt a toy gets for the sake of articulation.
Articulated toys are seen as kids figures and will be continued to be seen as kids stuff because of the budgets given to them on how they're made. In both east and west articulated toys, practically all of them are lacking in paint. It's incredibly rare where an action figure will match what an expensive or even half-way expensive statue's attention to detail.
This is where McFarlane was actually loved, because he managed to introduce low cost figures with the paint jobs you'd only get from a statue. Even figures like that 10th Anniversary Spawn and others that were super poseable had those sort of paint jobs, but the joints were seen as a mar.
So by making McStatues they gain the attention of collectors that expect expensive detail. Companies who make poseable toys but retain as much of the sculpt as possible is going half way into the collector market and casual market, which is more profitable.
And McFarlane does continue making super articulated figures, the WD comic line and i guess their lego sets.
No company uses resources up by adding more articulation to their statueshit. Tooling is too expensive for them to basically split their market by making a McStatue and a super articulated figure. And that takes up too much time, as that's twice as much work despite sharing the same sculpt.
