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Originally Posted by The Heat

They're not really making me want to jump back into 3.75" Star Wars with these 5 PoA offerings. The sculpts are decent, but I just can't get over their complete inability to do dynamic poses.

Part of that is longevity of the line. Can't make you rebuy the same key character if they give you the best articulated version now, and Star Wars has a more or less permanent shelf life now that they have to think ahead like that.

So I kind of expect much later we'll see versions with knees and elbows. Probably after the last movie in the trilogy to celebrate the back half of the trilogy. They've done that before previously too, slowly upping the articulation in the figures over time, then scaling it back, then upping it again. It helps to keep pushing the merchandise that way by having some margin to improve into.

It'll probably go something like rotation cut legs, with the ball knees, elbows and shoulders (like Indiana Jones had) to then eventually ball jointed thighs to replace those. Allowing them the ability to sell the same character in that costume 3 times over the years.

Right now it's blockbuster movie material and the toys will likely sell anyway. So the first run outside of the vehicles aren't really a main concern as yet on articulation. Whereas stuff like accessories and vehicles can be re-used a lot over the years.

I'm with you on that though. A dynamic 3.75'' poseable Rey, Praetorian Guard, Finn, Chewbacca, Poe, General Organa, Han, and Old Man Luke would be awesome to have. And I guess Kylo Ren too.

Absolutely loving those little therapy bird critters for Chewbacca! Wonder how they get into the story.