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Originally Posted by K Dubious

I want to know everyone's opinion on pins!

I personally love the pin-less look I feel like it adds to the perceived quality of the figure and makes the price increase seem somewhat tangible to the upgraded design.

What I am not a fan of is the inconsistent use of pin-less joints. I think the new longshot looks great (except the weird shoulders) then I open Avalanche and he feels like a cheap after thought... The pins are all there and visible and it really grinds my gears that almost every wave now is about 50/50 pin-less/pinned.

These are brand new designs and Hasbro thought "Don't worry about the arms we did pin-less legs so they should be happy!"

"But Boss what about Yondu?"

"Screw the comic book guys we haven't tooled anything new for them in ages"

Blankly stares at Vulcan and returns to putting those gloriuos pins back in place...

Pin-less is nice enough, but I’m not too bothered one way, or the other. The pins were never a problem for me because I’ve seen them on figures my entire life and rarely notice them. I’ve never collected NECA figures, so I haven’t grown accustomed to life on the other side of this argument. However, regarding NECA, it is interesting that for their more comic/cartoony/musclebound figures, like Gargoyles and Flash Gordon, they use pins.

I sympathize with custom makers and the complaint that without pins, their adjunct hobby is hampered and fixing figures is made more difficult. All that said, I agree that having half the figs in a wave as pin-less, and, even more annoyingly, half of an individual figure being pin-less, while the rest of a wave/fig is pinned is pretty silly. Get your shit together Hasbro. You’re either in, or out/ pinned, or pin-less – make your minds up, Marvel Legends team.