Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-7083810-20140319234801/@comment-24728184-20140320021356

The S wrote: The truth is, most toy companies do things like this, and Playmates has been one of the worst culprits for over 20 years. I mean, sure, some of their changes actually do look kind of neat, especially in the old line, but they're cutting more and more back. 90% of the secondary figures have details sculpted on that are not painted. Even more damnable is things like Dogpound's harness that not only aren't painted - but are not even on the actual character. The thing is, the original cartoon was made in 2D animation and in the 80's to they didn't put much effort on the character's details, so plamates was free to add as much details as they wanted as long as it was based on the original character. that's why figures like mutagen man and muckman look so much better than their cartoon counterparts.

With the CGI playmates lost a bit of that freedom, because the toys are supposed to be a 3D representation of the cartoon, but the problem is that the cartoon is already it's 3D representation, so playmates had o make it exactly as seen in the show. And as we know, that doesn't always works.

That's the molding, now about the paint, Playmates never put much paint aplications on most of their figures, most parts were already molded in the colors they should be, which is a problem nowadays if they really want to compete against the big guys like hasbro and Mattel. Although they do have better price points.

In the matter of articulation it doesn't really bother me so much, I mean, if some figures didn't have such stupid positions - kraang for example - and weren't so hard to stand it would be fine, they mainly aim the kids so some times less articulation actually makes the figure more durable. I can't count how many spider-men I've found without an arm or a leg.