Many figures released nowadays tend to be exceptional, but suffer from one or more major or minor flaws (specifically, uncommon flaws). I'd like to see what you guys would name them. Chonkpack - When a figure's backpack is too large. ex. MP-44's large backpack, MP-51's large backpack, XTB Toro's large backpack Spaghetti Engineering - When a figure's transformation involves becoming a mass of parts. Coined by JobbyTheHong ex. Bold Forms Gladius, Fans Toys Rouge Fillerprice - When a figure's price is over inflated by an unecessary amount of accessories.
Content on the figure that makes you scratch your head and ask, “what value does this add?” Let’s call that ‘feature’: reygn thread. (uhhh, you know, like when you find on a piece of clothing that’s ‘new,’ a loose ‘thread’ that you can’t figure out its use or where it went)
Fillerprice When a figure is packed with a bunch of excess filler accessories that no one asked for and end up inflating the price beyond the point of reason. MP44 is the most egregious example of this in recent times. EDIT: The MMC Guzzle is probably a better example of this as the fillerprice is a Brawn that noooooo one wanted.
Ski Boots Syndrome- when the ankle articulation is poor, causing every pose to look like the character's standing in ski boots A good red flag is when they're often shown posed in a bastardised zenkutsu dachi (because its the only decent looking dynamic pose that its limited ankles can pull off)
Ab crunch that bisects the figure, save for a hinge that holds the two halves together. Which seems to be most ab crunch in TFs. Not sure why so many fans are so obsessed with ab crunch that they keep encouraging designers to chop our figures in half. We should call it..."Nearly Torso-less Nick".
Shitty hardware. Inconsistent rachets, friction joints with no friction, and poorly placed rachets. Nothing kills my enjoyment of a figure faster than joints that don't move how they were designed to, or feel like they will break when I do move them.
One thing I hate is the kind of ratchets that deteriorate and loosen the more you use them. The deluxe t30 bumblebee does this, for example. That and pins that start out or become loose. ESPECIALLY the flat ones.
