Most Vexing and/or Horror Inducing Hot Toys Design Feature

[Zurdo95D]

I voted other, I have some gripes with hot toys:
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2) Pegs. Why don’t they do what sideshow does and include a wrist peg for every hand? And then a few more just in case? Just lazy and cheap from hot toys.

Yeah I like that SS's hands have a peg attached, would be nice if HT adopted that, or even create a different but easier to use system all together.

3) Seamless. They suck at it. Give me ugly joints that will last forever and have actual articulation and won’t fall apart after 1 pose (looking at Arkham Knight Harley). TBLeague makes seamless body have have more articulation than a normal hot toys body, and they will last a lot longer than a hot toys seamless body. I think of Hellboy, who looks great but can just barley get his arm straight out before I feel like I’m about to rip it off, compared to my male TBLeague body that I’m using for a Conan that can move his arms straight up over his head and I have 0 fear it will rip apart. Yes Hellboy looks great but I love posing not just museum pose 100% of the time and nothing else. If hot toys can team up with TBLeague for any figure that needs to be seamless then it would be perfect!

No doubt TBL/P is the best in seamless figures. It'd be a dream if HT collaborated with them. If I'm not mistaken (correct me if I'm wrong), HT uses some sort of rubber mixture for their seamless figures, whereas TBL uses a type of silicone, hence the major difference in quality.

Though for me I don't mind exposed joints, actually I think I prefer them in most cases. It'd also be cool if they included both options to appease most collectors, for instance for a Thor figure, include both a set of seamless arms and a set of jointed arms (and to go further maybe different sets of pre-posed arms).

Then there is other stuff, like being 99% Disney focused, the bases with the footprint that they recycle for Star Wars stuff, and flight poles that damage the figure. I’m sure there’s more I’m not thinking of right now. I am aware some of these are nitpicky but hey, this is my opinion.

I still think hot toys is the best 1/6 scale company and only a few unlicensed companies are close (LIM toys and VTS Toys are the only third party companies I like) I’ll still happily collect hot toys and will still happily complain when they do stupid stuff I don’t like.

Agreed!

Yeah I think some 3P companies are moving towards better standards.

 

[sky_captain]

It's the flight stand with no crotch grabber option, for me.

They did it with the original Captain Marvel, why not all figures that supposedly require a flight stand?

It especially p*sses me off with caped figures.

Also, those huge stands that they used for the original Thanos, Amazing Spider-Man 2, Winter Soldier Falcon, etc, can get right in the f**king bin.

 

[skizzoid]

Voted Other...

I agree with a lot of the other ones listed, but the big gripes I have are around scale- figures that keep getting taller, inconsistent neck peg sizes/heights/styles (which means head sculpts can't be swapped easily for different figures of the same character), female figures that come with just one height/build (with very few exceptions).

If I can add one more, it's robotic (non-Iron Man) arms that are single jointed. I'm looking at you, Winter Soldier and Nebula.

Also, sculpted (medium-long) hair that looks (and moves) like a plastic helmet. Consider this another vote for more rooted hair (when appropriate).

 

[jaztermareal]

Yeah, the scale issue is another big one. Tony Stark/Iron Man just just keeps growing it seems!

 

[shadow_wolf]

Bloody pleathers...