)? I think a diecast upgrade would be sweet, if priced right. I think if diecast figures are spread out to maybe 1 per year, I might be able to pay whatever price HT decide to place on them.
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Thank you.
Unfortunately we seem to be in a minority. I can hardly get anyone on board the hate-wagon for those damned ball-joint heads. People apparently find it essential to be able to make their figures look 'intrigued and curious' or have them do puppy dog head tilts. Thats the only benefit of such a joint over and above what an all-in-one head and neck can do. Seemingly its worth making the profile look unnatural and toylike with an obvious seperation of the head and neck. Go figure
Thank you.
Unfortunately we seem to be in a minority. I can hardly get anyone on board the hate-wagon for those damned ball-joint heads. People apparently find it essential to be able to make their figures look 'intrigued and curious' or have them do puppy dog head tilts. Thats the only benefit of such a joint over and above what an all-in-one head and neck can do. Seemingly its worth making the profile look unnatural and toylike with an obvious seperation of the head and neck. Go figure
I appreciate that maybe a figure such as Black Widow or Hulk would need upper neck articulation as having it on the lower neck would ruin the look but the others don't need it. If they had to have them, they could've been A LOT more subtle. 
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Some will.
and then the first time it falls over, they'll buy new detolfs as it smashes every shelf on the way down.
The single neck joint makes for some wonky-***, unatural as hell poses.
I do get that the statue crowd in particular hates having the head and neck as separate pieces, and some of the figure crowd as well. REalistic human movements are sublte, and slight. added joints can mean the difference between having the correct pose.. and looking like a giraffe with rigamortis.
I disagree, the DX10 has your favoured type of joint and not only does it look unnatural because of visual of the cut and seperation but it poses unnaturally too. The neck looks just as much like what you describe by being seperate from the head as it would if it weren't...in any pose. Incredibly stiff with the head awkwardly plopped on top. Its lose lose.
Oh I agree. The counter argument is that our necks do not articulate - our heads do - on top of the necks and thus thats where the figures' should articulate. When you have the head and neck as one piece you can tilt the head but the whole neck goes with it which can look unnatural because our necks don't tilt over. I understand the argument but I have 2 problems with it:
1) Aforementioned DX10 T-800 has a seperate pivoting head on top of a neck and yet it still manages to look exactly like what lerath666 described as a 'giraffe with rigamortis' even in a neutral pose I can barely stand to look at the figure's profile because of it and diagonal POVs are affected too
2) Would it not be preferable to have a figure that looks natural and realistic most of the time with no ugly cuts and gaps in a visible area than to have a figure that maybe in some cases can look more natural in very specific poses some of the time?
I'll head off the 'then buy statues' response that some people come out with by saying is the Hot Toys T-1000 figure less an action figure because its head and neck are all one piece? I'm not even advocating the loss of a point of articulation - only that it be moved back to an invisible area like it used to be on most figures.
Well put. We all want articulation, but a figure worth its salt and at these prices should have as little as possible showing in terms of joints.
What I originally planned to post is below. This is a post gone wrong, that I'm not sure how to delete. That is all.
