figures(Conformers)actually make more sense these days as they can do anything that props can do and more. Props, while they can inherit the bends of a parent cannot have their own joints or even more then one bodypart, you can't parent them to more then one object, and you cannot apply mat poses to them unless they are parented. the one thing that props have that Figures don't is ease of creation. for a prop its as simple as load in poser, save prop, done. Figures have to have at least a rudimentry skelital system, even if its just one bone, so it is going to be more work then creating a prop.