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Originally Posted by Saint Phe

THIS! Think how much they could save (and make!) by using existing MU bucks for the movie lines! Instead of spending MORE money for new tooling with less articulation that we don't want to buy! I DON'T GET IT. Everybody would win!

I think you missed the point: Hasbro has said that it was the articulation as much as the new tooling that was costing them. With movie figures, there is a certain look that the figure requires to appear like its character on the screen. To their credit, they didn't reduce the articulation of figures already made, but when new tooling was required, they reduced it then. Hasbro has basically said that this is a money grab for them during a movie year. They argue kids don't care about articulation so they are reducing it for movie figures but not messing with other lines (except apparently the Clone Wars figures).

To be fair, it is better than one of the GI Joe figures that was unreleased that they changed the tooling to reduce the hip articulation on it! That is when it hurts!