>>10051822>it's bait to point out that toylines outside of Japan were doing what OP is talking about 5-6 years before Revoltechsure are butthurt weeaboos
Really loving the fact you try and criticize Western toys for having cut joints, yet early Revoltechs were even more guilty of having them.
You guys don't even know the history of the lines you're trying to pretend revolutionized the industry.
>>10051831>jankierIn terms of what? Early Revoltechs were sculpted by Yamaguchi, so their sculpts have tini-tiny heads and very cartoony proportions. That cartooniness is the anthesisist of what collector toys were/are about, because that's what children toys did, while collector lines grew out of accuracy to subject matter. If it's jankiness of articulation, nothing is jankier than being noticeably segmented, looking like they're made of LEGOs or Bayformer scraps. Revoltechs are king of that.
>Revoltechs that relied on cut joints had outstanding range of motionYeah, it's nice, but it still looks pre-posed, hence almost all the figures looking like they're hunching over and thrusting their cock out no matter who poses it. Or spreading their legs out like a 90s Playmates Star Trek figure.
But you're getting far off base, trying to insert your obviously biased view, while OP was trying to be objective on how toys integrating sculpts with articulation, standardizing articulation, pushing for more of it, [not applicable cuz imports], yada yada yada.
If he was strictly talking about imports, yeah, Revolechs were the first and other Japanese companies saw that articulated colletor figures sold well and did their own lines.
Outside of imports? That push for super articulated collector quality toys started in the 90s in the west. By 2001, companies like McFarlane and Toy Biz basically already had what we still ahve today... albeit fewer paint apps, cuz too expensive.
