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| | | Author: | uticabrix  | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 11:35 | | Subject: | Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 134 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| Here's is a stupid pointless question that has me curious. Does anyone
know why Lego figs are always manufactured with their arms slightly forward?
You would think straight down would be easier to package and manage. Just
my thought process for the day 
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| | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 11:38 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, uticabrix writes:
| | Here's is a stupid pointless question that has me curious. Does anyone
know why Lego figs are always manufactured with their arms slightly forward?
You would think straight down would be easier to package and manage. Just
my thought process for the day
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It might be hard for a robot to do it that way if it is holding onto the hands.
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| | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 12:05 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, uticabrix writes:
| | Here's is a stupid pointless question that has me curious. Does anyone
know why Lego figs are always manufactured with their arms slightly forward?
You would think straight down would be easier to package and manage. Just
my thought process for the day
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It might be hard for a robot to do it that way if it is holding onto the hands.
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I think it’s simply that the robot that inserts arms has to have the arms this
way (upper arm aligned with the torso) and there’s no real need to turn them
afterward.
You’d need a stage where the complete torsos are put on the back and aligned
in order to push the arms.
And you win a bit of thickness on a torso’s 3D footprint¹… which is not really
useful when you put them higgledly-piggledly² with other parts.
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¹ Does a “3D footprint” make sense? Bounding box?
² I just learned that word 
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| | | | | Author: | watch505 | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 12:01 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| The arms are up to attach the hands, I'm sure LEGO determined it's the
optimal setup for assembly. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChZotngQ3_8
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| | | | | | | Author: | popsicle | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 14:52 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, watch505 writes:
Enjoyable video. Thanks for posting it.
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| | | | | | | Author: | uticabrix | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 15:45 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 33 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, watch505 writes:
Great video, thank you for sharing
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| | | | | Author: | Tracyd | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 12:37 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, uticabrix writes:
| | Here's is a stupid pointless question that has me curious. Does anyone
know why Lego figs are always manufactured with their arms slightly forward?
You would think straight down would be easier to package and manage. Just
my thought process for the day
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I think you mean why aren't the arms straight instead angled like they currently
are? Straight armed figures look unnatural, to have the hand level to the ground
required the shoulder to be at 90 degrees which puts the hand right below face
level, which is a rare position in real life.
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 12:59 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 31 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, uticabrix writes:
| | Here's is a stupid pointless question that has me curious. Does anyone
know why Lego figs are always manufactured with their arms slightly forward?
You would think straight down would be easier to package and manage. Just
my thought process for the day
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It is also interesting that the machine at the factory that does CMF puts the
hands on in a different orientation to other figures.
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| | | | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 16:58 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 30 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, yorbrick writes:
| | In General, uticabrix writes:
| | Here's is a stupid pointless question that has me curious. Does anyone
know why Lego figs are always manufactured with their arms slightly forward?
You would think straight down would be easier to package and manage. Just
my thought process for the day
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It is also interesting that the machine at the factory that does CMF puts the
hands on in a different orientation to other figures.
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Maybe that machine is people.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 17:13 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, yorbrick writes:
| | In General, uticabrix writes:
| | Here's is a stupid pointless question that has me curious. Does anyone
know why Lego figs are always manufactured with their arms slightly forward?
You would think straight down would be easier to package and manage. Just
my thought process for the day
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It is also interesting that the machine at the factory that does CMF puts the
hands on in a different orientation to other figures.
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Maybe that machine is people.
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Just got a flash of Solyent Green
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| | | | | | | Author: | axaday | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 17:04 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 22 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, yorbrick writes:
| | In General, uticabrix writes:
| | Here's is a stupid pointless question that has me curious. Does anyone
know why Lego figs are always manufactured with their arms slightly forward?
You would think straight down would be easier to package and manage. Just
my thought process for the day
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It is also interesting that the machine at the factory that does CMF puts the
hands on in a different orientation to other figures.
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Actually, the video seems to be the factory that makes CMF. They are making
llama heads and sealing up CMF packets.
I just checked a fresh, undisturbed CMF (Winter Soldier) and his arms are on
the normal way. The days of them being different may be passed. They have neck
markings too and I think that used to not be the case.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Sep 13, 2021 17:22 | | Subject: | Re: Manufactured minifig arm stance? | | Viewed: | 23 times | | Topic: | General | |
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| In General, axaday writes:
| | In General, yorbrick writes:
| | In General, uticabrix writes:
| | Here's is a stupid pointless question that has me curious. Does anyone
know why Lego figs are always manufactured with their arms slightly forward?
You would think straight down would be easier to package and manage. Just
my thought process for the day
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It is also interesting that the machine at the factory that does CMF puts the
hands on in a different orientation to other figures.
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Actually, the video seems to be the factory that makes CMF. They are making
llama heads and sealing up CMF packets.
I just checked a fresh, undisturbed CMF (Winter Soldier) and his arms are on
the normal way. The days of them being different may be passed. They have neck
markings too and I think that used to not be the case.
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Maybe, I've not really collected them for myself for a few years now and
I've been going through lots of old packs recently that all have the side
to side orientation instead of front to back. Obviously the leaflet also changed
style and folding pattern and some newer ones have the extra bag inside too.
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