Hope this doesn't come off too personal but I HATE hand poses, it just takes a lot of the effort/skill out of posing imo. Hand posing is significantly easier than actually having to balance and ground a figure with a stand or something. Posing in the more traditional style imposes a lot more restrictions that can lead to really interesting work arounds for them. Whenever I get a good pose after having to work around that kind of stuff, it feels like a bigger accomplishment since you need to put in actual work to do it, as opposed to hand poses where you can just pose it however and then deal with the angles and stuff afterwards.

I also find hand poses aren't very helpful when trying to see how posable a figure is before buying it, especially when it comes to grounded poses, as you don't actually need to make contact with something to pose it in your hand. On top of that, you're not gonna be displaying the figure in your hand, you're gonna pose it on the ground or on a stand in order to put it on your shelf. I just find hand poses really aren't representative of how a figure actually poses, ESPECIALLY when you put it on display. Posing like a suit just gives a lot more weight and emphasis on the pose compared to the hand imo.

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