{"id":13287,"date":"2013-08-10T00:59:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T04:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=13287"},"modified":"2013-10-13T18:25:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T22:25:04","slug":"the-new-way-to-judge-articulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-new-way-to-judge-articulation\/","title":{"rendered":"The new way to judge articulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We've long maintained that in order to be an \"action figure,\" a toy has to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/articulation\/terms.php#big%20five\">at least five points of articulation<\/a>: the neck, the shoulders, and the hips. That's how <i>Star Wars<\/i> did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far!<\/p>\n<p>But just doing the bare minimum isn't enough. These days we expect more; we expect better. And so someone came up with a new standard by which to judge toys:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>New standard for reviewing toy articulation: 1) Ankle tilts 2) Iron Man pose 3) Sassy pose. 3 out of 3 or IN THE TRASH.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; nik (@T16skyhopp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/T16skyhopp\/statuses\/365307112915599360\">August 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\"Ankle tilts\" is obvious enough: we want feet that will remain flat in wide poses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tcats_bc_lo.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/tcats_bc_lo6.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course, you already know what the \"Iron Man pose\" is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/necapsacbrcp.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/necapsacbrcp2.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But \"Sassy pose?\" What's Sassy pose? Well, think Beyonc&#233; in \"All the Single Ladies.\" That's a sassy pose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/ml11_sw.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/art\/ml11_sw1.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"455\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We've long maintained that in order to be an \"action figure,\" a toy has to have at least five points of articulation: the neck, the shoulders, and the hips. That's how Star Wars did it, that's how America does it, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-new-way-to-judge-articulation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13287"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13776,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13287\/revisions\/13776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}