>>10052173>Sure is desperate weeaboo who is lying and moving the goalposts.No, subby, you just can't kick. If you're gonna hold up a figure as the "standard" it needs to hold up. That Goblin does not.
>but man, it was heavily flawedGood thing they majorly upped their game with the literal next release!
>6 years behind what western toy companies were producing.Such as? All the Western toys you've posted from that era have sucked.
>but it took years for Japanese companies to produce something that matched what i was already buying.Your warped perspective is showing. Fuck, even the very first Figma absolutely wrecked all Western competition. A line that wouldn't exist without Revoltech's influence I might add.
>$20 for something that was basically a worse GI JoeBuh? If you're talking Microman, they were some of the most articulated figures around at the time (completely demolishing contemporary Joes) and still are in their size class. Also pretty sure the only way to get Japanese figures at the time was through overpriced importers like BBTS or comic shops, so most people weren't paying fair prices compared to Japan.
>You do realize that western lines also improved in 4 years, right?You yourself claimed that ToyBiz Green Goblin "set the standard" for Western collector figures. Well, if the standard hasn't improved since then, then A: you've contradicted yourself and B: what a sorry state of affairs for THAT piece of junk to be "the standard".
Of course we know the West has in fact improved since then...slowly. Still about 10 years behind Japan. I'm still waiting on what amazing figures the West supposedly released in 2006 that were SO much better than anything Japan was doing.
Have a Revoltech Tetsujin 28. An older figure that manages to get dynamic poses out of a literal metal bean with arms and legs.
