"HATED: Figure standing on one leg while firing" Topic

You were asked – TMP link

Least Favorite Figure Pose?

And in the final round of voting:

26% said "figure standing on one leg while firing"
20% said "all of these poses"
17% said "figure holding gun above his head with both arms"

I believe this result discriminates against Long John Silver in pirate skirmish games.

26% said "figure standing on one leg while firing"
20% said "all of these poses"
17% said "figure holding gun above his head with both arms"

I think it discriminates against Plastic Army Men! They are the singularly most popular war game figures in the world, bar none. They are very offended. Santa Claus had to learn his lesson the hard way.

Beware the Green and Tan Armies! You have been warned… Cheers!

Peg legs don't count?
Well, Sir! You are canceled!
Arrrrgh!

Don't think I've ever seen one of those…

Don't think I've ever seen one of those…

Top row, 2nd figure from the left.

Is that lone Green guy actually holding a gun? I see no stock, trigger, clip, barrel, sights— just a rod of about rifle length. Maybe we're all *assuming* it's a gun, when he's just delivering the commandant's churro order.

The guy on one leg is just running with his gun at the ready, never thought that was a firing pose.

Obviously, he's manning a trench.
Duh.

I had hundreds of those Timmee army men when I was a kid, they came in tan and green, they were a great addition to my Marx Battleground set.
I know now that they weren't historically accurate, but when you are 7 and playing in the dirt in the corner of the backyard, you don't care!

I think "figure standing on one leg while firing" should be clarified to "figure standing on one leg while firing a long firearem-- musket or rifle"

As Ochoin says, consider one leg pirates firing a PISTOL. I see no problem there.

I do dislike "figure holding NOTHING above his head with both arms"

I never liked "laying down guys" as I phrased it when I was a kid

I didn't like "sitters," figures designed to sit in the back of a truck (lorry), which never came with them. My friend assumed they carried a pistol in their pocket, making them slightly more useful than the unarmed guys I saw them as.

Grelber

Running holding a weapon on one leg is fine, that is what running or walking actually is.

I don't think I've ever owned a figure firing a rifle on one leg, although my memory may be at fault.

My pet hate were the Airfix para figures firing into the air (at their pals? why?).

When I was younger, what I really needed were more kneeling figures with their weapons at rest so I could convert them into heavy weapons crews.

I can't find a single example of a figure standing on one leg while firing. Please prove me wrong.

Ochoin for the win! And Sgt. Slag for Best Picture award!

I believe the Russian officer with the pistol raised was used for the cover on a SPI board game and was also used as the basis for an AMT 1/72 set of figures.