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For me, it's "staction figures" and other figures with severely limited articulation for the purpose of preserving the (often not particularly good) sculpt. It's the most pointless halfway-house fence-sitting method of doing things. The presence of joints is enough to ruin it as a statue, but the joints are nowhere near good enough to allow it to achieve anything other than a handful of poses, leaving it pretty mediocre as an action figure. I'm firmly of the opinion articulation is a pretty all-or-nothing thing, either give the thing proper range, or just make a statue. Trying to make something that tries to be both will succeed at neither.
Pic related is a perfect example (though most toys by McFarlane and NECA could qualify with their seriously hampered range). Single jointed elbows, no torso articulation AND the shitty preposing, and that ridiculous cape.
Pic related is a perfect example (though most toys by McFarlane and NECA could qualify with their seriously hampered range). Single jointed elbows, no torso articulation AND the shitty preposing, and that ridiculous cape.