Ultimate Edition Butterfly Joints THE POLL

I like butterfly joints, because you can their arms and give them attitude!

Absolutely, it’s all about the aesthetics for me…we didn’t need to sacrifice the look of Andre for the functionality, I mean, how are people posing the guy? One arm up mostly? Side on facing hogan? It’s not needed so the shoulder area looks ugly as, even more so side on and for zero benefit.

This is dumbo. The 6 of you should stick to elites.

Some of the backs can look a little gnarly with the cutout portions breaking up the musculature (UE13 Hogan) and tattoos, but overall, I like having the extra playability.

I know I’ve been staring at my collection too long when I start wondering “Maybe Elites would look better without the ☹️ articulation in the chest”

My bad I could’ve sworn the new one had updated parts.

I'd buy the version without butterfly joints because I hate Mattel's answer to them. They're far too loose and they look hideous in all honesty.

Only exception would be if any specific character needed those joints to to their signature post (AJ Styles needing to put his arms close together to match his gloves together).

If that character regularly wears a t-shirt, and it comes with a t-shirt, I'd consider the butterfly joints solely because the shirt covers those things.

I prefer elites, but am indifferent about the butterfly joints on Ultimates. I like the extra accessories. And I like the removable arms. I hate the toe joints, though. Those get loose too easily.

...they don't come with the all the extra heads and accessories though.

And that's the thing - I don't think people are against the Ultimate Edition line in general, as it's fantastic. When it works. At the moment though, the butterfly joints (and/or torsos) really take away from the overall look and "premium" feel of some of the figures - these new Eddie and Rey UEs look worse than their Basic figures... 😬

Here's the thing.

When I was younger, my first experience with wrestling figures, were the BCA figures. They were awesome to play with. Their arms and legs were flexible enough to perform a decent amount of moves.

Before those, I remember playing with my uncle's Hasbro ring and figures. He didn't have many Hasbro wrestlers, but he had tons of GI Joe's. So I played with his Hasbro ring and his GI Joe's. Best ever IMHO. To this day, I feel like a line similar to GI Joe scale would be great to have. Maybe a colab with Hasbro? Steve?

Yes jakks did make a line in that scale, but if you even played 5 minutes with them, your figure is essentially a helicopter with the limbs ridiculously loose.

Anyways, after the BCA line, obviously started getting the RA figures. In terms of improvement in face technology they were awesome to look at. That ends there in terms of looks. But they IMHO were terrible to play with. Trying to do a power bomb, or pedigree it severely limited the playability trying to do certain moves. I couldn't imagine playing with ljns and the like, but that was that era of time.

They improved the articulation with the deluxe line. But see comment about playing with the figures for 5 minutes.

Mattel, in terms of scale, look, and playability have probably the best aesthetic all in one.

I wanted butterfly joints since playing with bcas. Because they had rubber arms, it was easy to to maneuver your hand to squeeze the arms in word and it just worked.

They finally added what I been clamoring for.

There are a couple of ugly ultimates, but I want to attribute that to a poor torso choice rather than the joints themselves.