I never understood why Japan loves to push things like statues and figures with little to no articulation. Someone explained that usually they are cheaper and easier to obtain for less privileged families, like those soft rubber figures of Kamen Rider and Super Sentai characters. But the same logic doesn't hold up when the figures or statues in question are made from superior material, have meticulous detail to them, are extremely rare, or any other factors that raise the price considerably.
The only way it makes sense to me right now is that it appeals to certain kind of collectors, but I guess I just fail to see eye to eye with collectors like that. Just seems like you get more uses out of a functional item than an item that's essentially nothing more than eye candy. And if they're essentially the same price, then why bother with the item that's purely for display purposes? Just for bragging rights, even if all it does it collect dust in the corner or something? I'm willing to bet that you could count all the people who care on one hand.
