>>11723529oof, sorry for being one of the few toy buyers on the board who has a ton of toys from Japan, America, Brazil, UK, Canadia, Hong Kong, etc. I guess you only want opinions from people who only buy from one country to proclaim it the greatest ever, huh?
Generally, Chinese figures are bad. The only company who has consistently been great is Hiya. Been buying their shit for over 10 years (before they became Hiya) and I've never had a problem.
Companies like Storm Collectibles have had many joint cracking problems because their plastic can be poor. Ori/Toy Alliance had aging issues due to the softness and the newer ones can still easily twist themselves apart. Joytoy has QC issues out the ass, from bad paint, to brittle plastics, molding issues, and forgetting to glue down their figures. And that's just my first hand experience. Second hand, you need only look at the fantasy, furfag, and coomer threads to see how often Chinese figure breaks. Only Transformers gets as many reports, but they're the biggest fanbase on /toy/ and one of the best selling toylines in the world
>>11723760>I was honestly trying to start an actual discussion on WHY Western toylines on the whole are dragging their feet with improvementit's because a toy company in China has an operating cost that's 10-100x cheaper than in Japan or America. So not only is manufacturing NOT hired out (the factory owner can also be toy company owner) but the accountants, lawyers, sculptors, secretaries, marketers, are also cheaper by at least 10x. And if you're buying from an overseas shop, the costs are much lower there too. Stores, warehouses, etc are cheap
So China can afford to give paint jobs that you rarely ever see in Japanese figures, so they can look really nice. Why don't they also have higher QC though? Because poor regulations
Also, you're comparing apples to oranges. Collector toys ≠ children toys. Hasbro and Mattel make kid toys. Chinese toys on /toy/ are collector toys.
