The look of a base figure is largely irrelevant.....it is simply a "functional base". How good that base is, is determined by how good looking of characters that products makers can make of that base. I have tried a large number of the bases out there to see what they can do, and many are not easy to work with. The success of a figure is not so much the base itself...but how much support it gets, so it has to be functional and easy to work with.