Leaning Figures

Is it my imagination or is this figure leaning?
She looks like shes trying to pull a Matrix or something ^^;

Many figure collectors may experience a leaning figure in their collection from time to time.

Here is some low down that I got from Modeller T last Sunday. There are different grades of figure factories in China (mainly in Shenzhen). The cost per unit goes up with higher grade factories. So if you are going to give away a freebie with a magazine ( like this figure of Kujo Hachie ) then you will want to keep the cost low.
Cost goes up when the body and arms are made of PVC and leg parts of ABS. The strong ABS usually prevents figures from leaning even if they are standing on one leg.
In this case, I guess the figure was designed with too much weight distributed towards the front of the figure + cheap unit cost = leaning.

So what can I do about it? Well I do what I did to my leaning star wars figures and take a hairdryer to the legs.
Once the legs start to turn black and you start to smell burning plastic, then you can kiss your figure goodbye.
Only heat the legs until they are bendy ^^;

Once the legs are soft n bendy, I run them under cold water and hold the legs in the position I want them to be in. You can feel the plastic harnening as the water runs.

The result. I kept her leaning forward just a bit. From time to time figures will start to bend depending on how cheap the plastic was and or weight distribution but this has worked wonders on my star wars figures before without having to repeat the process.

More lowdown behind the figure scene soon. If there is anything you particularly want to know, let me know ^^

BTW, this is a figure of Kujou Hachie who can be found weekly in a series called "bee-be-beat it" in the telephone book sized manga Dragon Age Pure.