Glad it makes sense for you. But, I’d rather not have to feed half the arm back into the sleeve every time I want to swap hands. It’s already pretty easy to swap the hand with the magnets vs the little pegs that Ht and other companies use.Not true. When you swap hands, you don’t have to do ambidextrous martial arts by gripping the whole figure in one hand, pulling the hand out with the other, all the while paying extra attention so your kung fu grip doesn’t mess up the pose you had it in and you don’t accidentally break pegs or elbows.
Magnets at the forearms makes swapping put parts easier and less stressful.
“crap, I just wanna swap hands. If I pick up the figure, the hair is gonna get all unkempt. The outfit I spent HOURS to drape perfectly is gonna be in disarray. The pose I put in effort to make it look good is gonna be affected…CRAP! ah, forget it, I’m not gonna touch it now. Too much work!”
This literally happened to me.
So magnets at the forearms will encourage more replay. For me at least.
The forearm being removable is more trouble than it’s worth in my experience though. Like with the full purple suit joker, I really dislike how, unless you hold the forearm in place at around where the magnet connects, the whole thing will come dislodged. Then, lining it back up without catching the shirt becomes a hassle to which I have to nearly disrobe him just to put the arm back on. This has happened several times for me when all I wanted to do was switch out a hand. Different strokes for different folks though.
Seamless arms aren’t really necessary for Gandalf though given that, to be accurate, you should have his hands wrapped in the sleeves with the thumb in the hole so the wrists wouldn’t be seen anyway.
