bithomas wrote:
The ball joint is connected to the hip horizontally rather than vertically, which more easily allows for moving the leg forward without losing the ability to also move the leg out to the side.
AdrienVeidt wrote:
Yeah, the two hip balls connect into one another thru the groin via a thick peg/socket connector like the wrist swivels. Then you have the two hinges and the two upper thigh swivels; so moving up and around from id-thigh to mid-thigh it's a swivel/hinge/swivel/hinge/swivel series. It's pretty ingenious, really; altho you now have to hold one leg while moving the other so both don't move at once.
If that is the case I may have to pick up some more of these than I had originally planned (which is great because the Avengers were one of my favorite comics growing up). I had thought the Captain America line had improved on the hip articulation but after getting Crossbones and seeing first hand that the hips were still jacked up he became the first and last figure I got from that line. I wonder if this horizontal connection will show up in the Star Wars line as well. The way Jedi Knight Luke's hips connected at a diagonal to the body was very disappointing.
I get that Hasbro is trying different things to improve (or to cut cost) but it amazes me that the company that has made the most articulated 1:18th size action figures (second only to Takara's Microman Micro Force line 2003-2007) for decades has let some of these changes past the research phase.
Sorry to veer off there. It is encouraging to hear the Avengers movie line is articulated better in the hips than previous movie lines from Marvel and Hasbro.
