[Snowflakian]

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Originally Posted by jimsloth

The silver samurai release is perfect IMHO. Extremis Ironman is aswell. Packing that much articulation in figures of this scale has to be commended. With that said, why are the movie style hips still coming out on so many new figure molds, when it looks like the Tbar style with hip rotation actually requires less parts (therefore cheeper), and moves much more smoothly?

I'm curious about this for future figures, but for previous it's because once the mold is made it's cheaper to reuse than making a new one with the new style. But with the new bucks now made, I am definitely curious if this will change in favor of them.

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Originally Posted by Saint Phe

I would LOVE to hear a real answer for this question. Not that "we're trying to keep the different lines distinctive" crap we've heard before. If that was true, we wouldn't have gotten any XMO hips in MU (various Wolverines) or the Cap line (Winter Soldier and WWII Cap).

See above.