See, this right here shows why the proportions on the Hot toys are off which gives off a more toyish look.
Hot Toys really need to do better with their proportions.
You can see how high the belt and chestplates sit on the Hot toys. Its way higher.
at 1/6 scale, a mm off can be huge. This happens a lot on their Captain America figures.
I would always end up pushing the pants down lower to lenghten the torso. The problem though is sometimes, due to the pants
tailoring, the crotch area can look like its sagging. So I have to do some trickery in posing.
And you can also tell if you're being nitpicky that the torso looks off based on where the belt is supposed to be in conjuction with the ab armor. But still, I would leave it like that as to me, Im more concerned with the proportions.
If they would like to maintain their status as the top dog, they would do more revolutionary measures to keep their figures more up to date.
Instead, they do a certain standard that they are satisfactory enough with and move on cause they have so many more marvel and star wars figures to pump out instead of fine tuning the figure more to the best standard.