In the spring of 2024, I bought a pack of Goodsmile’s Simple Stands. They came highly recommended by multiple online sources, and I figured they’d be worth giving a go after having some issues with Bandai’s Action Bases.
Having used them for a few months now, I can tell you that they are, in fact, pretty useful, but they have some weaknesses. The simplest way to describe it is that they’re much less finicky than Action Bases, but they’re also much less configurable and articulated.
Eventually this got me wondering what a Bandai-esque take on the Simple Stand would look like. And as it turns out, I don’t actually have to wonder, because they actually did it:
