>>10604304I think people like you who grew up with western toys are often conditioned to hamhand toys. I started off with imports and always found them very smooth and easy to pose into very precise poses. Even wrist pegs, the most fragile part of most import figures need retard strength to break, not that swappable hands are a feature on most western toys to begin with.
When I did try out American action figures I was immediately struck by how stiff, jerky yet also gummy all the articulation is. The softer plastic and ratcheted/snap-into-place joints makes precise posing much harder and requires far greater force to move than you ever would need with imports. I was hoping it was just a dated Mcfarlane quirk with their Halo Reach figures but the current GI Joe classified figures shows me that stiff joints are pretty universal to western figures. You can pose an import in your hands but you only need a finger and thumb to do the actual joint manipulation. With western figures, I often need to clumsily use my palm or several fingers as leverage. If I posed imports the say way I wrestle with western figures, I have no doubt Id destroy all my import figures too.
I see the appeal of the lower price point and larger size of western figures but part of the reason of that larger size is so small children can abuse these figures with their shitty motor coordination without breaking them. As an adult with fully developed motor skills there is no excuse to be destroying import figures that are so well engineered that you can precisely pose them with a single finger. I will agree that imports are fucking overpriced though.
