Not true. The neckballs on the ARAH figures were in differing sizes, shapes and neck lengths depending on the figure. Granted most worked well when swapped but there were some that didn't. Not to mention the swivel necks from the first couple of years and some of the later multi-packs.

So the neck ball size has been an issue from the early days, we've just never complained about it until now.

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It just went from the bottom of the neck to the top of the neck.

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Please vote if you haven't. viewtopic.php?f=10&t=25960

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If we're talking about stupid stuff, trigger guards on guns. If Hasbro wants to make hands with the finger extended that can loop in it, that's fine, otherwise, get rid of the trigger guards. It makes gun swapping hard when half the line has extended fingers and the other does not. I'm tempted to cut trigger guards off.

And the Snow Serpents. They really can't stand without the snow shoes on and even with, they barely take to figure stands well. I just got sick of this and glued the snow shoes on. I like this figure, it's a nice troop builder and with some swapping of guns and backpacks can add some variety- the Snow Serpent Officer with Repeater gun and Roadblock backpack is quite nice- but they have terrible feet.

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Don't forget about the angle of the post. I bought Recondo, took off the vest and thought, "Hey, this could work for Pathfinder." Except that every head that goes on him gets its chin shoved so far down his throat that they look like they're choking to death.

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Close, but not quite.

With the original RAH run, figure parts were pretty much made with swapping in mind. The 82 releases definitely come to mind, but the same was true with all figures that came out from 82-84. It is pretty rare to find a torso from any of these years that won't work nearly seamlessly with no mods whatsoever with a head from any of those years.

When the neck joint was altered in 85 to give us the ball joint, things did change a bit. Obviously these weren't compatible with previous releases, but they were compatible with each other. Meaning that pretty much any head made in 85 would fit into a torso made in the same year.

All subsequent years of RAH were the same... a head released in that year would always be compatible with torsos released in that same year. I have run into problems doing something sticking an 85 head into a 90 body, but never with a head and torso from the same year.

Now, the head and neck ball sizes aren't even consistent across a single wave, let alone an entire year.

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