“I found the hand and leg designs of the 2008 set to be quite limiting. Utilizing minifigs for fingers was a creative workaround given the era's part limitations, though it compromised articulation and aesthetics. Similarly, the leg construction, reliant on click hinges due... More to the absence of smaller ball joints, restricted movement to basic splits.”
BrickEconomy
“The idea of using mini-fig legs as fingers is ingenious to me and the the wings though simple are the touch that made the figure. The figure does have eleven points of articulation not counting the three on each had for a total of seventeen. The six metallic "claw" pieces... More are awesome.”
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