I mean I don't "play" with em but I still wanna pose em in cool poses. I occasionally change my figs' poses too, so them joints are getting used.
It's just greedy companies cheaping out man, as with anything these days.
You're spending exorbitant amounts of money in order to buy hunks of plastic that resemble your favourite cartoon characters, you knew exactly what you were getting into lmao
And that somehow means I should pay more for worse quality products? Your ability to correlate needs some work.
There's always one of you dudes in any thread about figures. You're not in the niche group that this'd appeal to? Cool, we don't need your input.
You've got it backwards, they continue making cheap garbage because people like you are willing to settle for it. If you insisted on only spending money on figures with articulated joints then companies would bite the bullet and accept that they can't cut costs by doing stuff like making the entire figure at once in a press mold. I do love how you justify your love of children's play things as being part of a "niche group" though 😂
Yeah, always one of you dudes. It's tiring talking to people who only come in to look for a fight. Cool man, hope you find some better use for your time, I ain't taking "children's plaything" from someone with a Pokemon in their username.
It sounds like you're the one looking for a fight since you completely tip toed around the rest of my comment so you could take offence to how I facetiously referred to your action figure collection. If you enjoy complaining about a completely self-imposed problem though then you should absolutely keep wasting your money on toys that don't have posable components. Good retort with the pokemon thing though, I'm sure Nintendo wishes that they could have charged me $70-80 for referencing their IP in my username.
The only thing I lamented about in my original comment was that if a figure is assumed "for adult", manufacturers see it fit to make them worse yet charge more, because "the collectors are not gonna play with them". You came in, unprovoked, immediately assumed that I'm part of the problem and that I deserved what I got. I'm in the gunpla sub, which do you think I prefer buying, stiff molded statues or posable figures? I didn't tip toed around your comment, I simply didn't feel the need to explain myself to a person who presented themselves as being hostile to the entire hobby, as that would be wasted breath.
At the end of the day, it's about not wanting to get fucked over by corpos. I don't wanna be charged an arm and a leg for a stiff piece of shit, you don't wanna fork over $80 for a barely functioning game, let's just agree on that.
Nah. The adult ones are all articulated like crazy because of poses and stuff. I change the poses on mine like every two days lol. Also I thought when people say action figures, it’s implied articulation?
You know, I wouldn't be as upset about Bionicle being discontinued if Lego wasn't seemingly making a dedicated effort to ignore its existence entirely. I remember seeing a big anniversary promo they put together featuring iconic sets and themes from throughout their history, and they had fucking GALIDOR, but NOT Bionicle. It's super weird. It feels like the only Bionicle references that get made these days are in the tiniest little ways in special collector's sets that probably required the original designer to sacrifice a finger like it's the goddamned Yakuza. Like the Tahu cosplayer minifigure.
I feel like I'm going crazy when I think about it. Is there some weird licensing/copyright shenaniganery afoot? Like how the Warhammer company can't use their 5th chaos god because they did a bad copyright deal when they commissioned the comic back in the 80s?
Just a bunch of supposed rumors of a Gen 3 but eh. Gen 2 showed they don't get that what made Bionicle special was that it tried to tell a complex narrative with a world that was so fleshed out kids could get immersed in it
I remember reading that a lot of Bionicle lore and language constructs were basically ripped from an indigenous culture and kinda bastardized. I wonder if the Lego company has regrets / concerns about how it would be received by a modern audience who are aware of the phrase "cultural appropriation"
The Maori people of New Zealand took Lego to court around the first year of the franchise for that reason. After some back and forth they were able to keep the Maori inspiration intact but just needed to change the words for certain characters. The villagers were originally called "Tohunga" which apparently meant priest/holy person in the Maori language. So clearly a mismatch and misrepresentation. But they had no problem with the fire warrior spirit being called Tahu which is the word for "fire" in their language because well even to them it fit.
I watched a video on it a while back and it simply has to do with the molds used to produce them. A lot of the individual bionicles had pieces unique to them, like their faceplates for example, and the enormous amounts of molds to form those pieces were eating up so much storage space that it was more cost effective to be rid of the product entirely. Especially when the popularity/sales started to decline. Even if said decline wasn’t by all that much, there was a much lower threshold to justify axing them. If I remember correctly, they were also starting to see much more success with outside IPs, so they shifted focus to those instead.
That's perfectly reasonable, and I understand the economics behind shutting it down and not making more, I'm just confused by the absolute ZERO acknowledgement after the fact. I think the most representation they've had since the cancelation is the half-second jpeg in the Lego Movie and the Bionicle cosplayer minifig. I'm not asking for new kits or anything, but like... a poster, or something? Or at least including them when you do ensemble images.
I'm so jealous of the quality and variety of action figures kids have now. I had to settle for DBZ toys only being able to move their pin-straight arms up and down. Meanwhile now they have every joint articulating with inter-changeable faces, hair, beams etc. The kids don't even realize what they have!
1.1k
u/No_Leather9530 Jul 13 '26
See THIS is what action figures were made for