>>328298>Duke style arms are designed poorly and are incapable of achieving a bend of 90 degrees, or a particularly useful bend in general.This is true of most GI Joe figures. Most 25th Joes have problems holding their weapons with both hands or bend at 90°.
Though, most can be forced to hold them correctly, but unlike the Dukes at least their hands don't pop off when bending the figures to properly hold the guns.
So really... it's not that the Duke arms are a problem. It's just that there is a need of an extra point of articulation on the arms to allow a more realistic positioning of arms when holding guns.
Would a double joint at the elbows be better than the double joint at the legs?
I've been looking at other 1:18 scale figs and noticed that none of them have double joints there even though some have double joints at the knees. Are arms more fragile to put a double joint there?