>>7260873Not really, takara has, and always been, the other end of the scale when it comes to their figures, hasbro appealing to the western market has to contend to price points and budgets and as a result their "collector" figures are poor quality in comparison to their japanese counterparts, thankfully westerners don't mind but this could be due to the collect them all mentality although siege is a step in the right direction since they're actually fun but how long before we get stuffed with head only retools into characters that don't fit?
Meanwhile in japan they do whatever they want make less production runs and see who bites knowing who they're aiming at also has that collect them all mentality but without the budget constraints, remember Japan has a declining birthrate for a reason, no kids means less money to spend on more unessential stuff
I say this as a guy who buys into both lines and I know who's aiming at who, we may not have takara versions of main line figures but we're at the point where we don't need them, now we just need the factories that make mp's to stop treating these figures the same way, I can forgive a store bought figure for a missassembly like cw skylynx but not when my mp ramjet comes with a chipped nose let alone all the other problems
Short version-few of us in this thread aren't the intended consumer
