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Originally Posted by ukshaun
Presumably Porcelain pieces can never suffer from leaning issues?
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That's right. They are fired (baked) at such high temperatures, that they become strong (resistant to heat, and weight), but brittle. Toilets and bricks are baked the same way. No one's ever seen a toilet or brick melt, unless they were in a nuclear explosion. But take a hammer to one, and you'll crack it pretty easily. I've worked on brick walkways, and it's amazingly easy to chisel a brick into the shape you want.
Our statues lean because they're mostly 'glue', i.e. plastic resin. I believe dao2 mentioned a detail regarding XM (I don't know whether it's true, but easily could be), that in addition to using porcelain powder, they may use a higher ratio of powder to resin, which would increase the heat resistance and strength (and weight), but potentially make them more brittle.
It's possible (but I'm guessing not likely) that XM statues are made from old toilets! Porcelain powder could be made by pulverizing any porcelain product, but it may just come from a factory that fires the raw materials and pulverizes it immediately. I'm not sure how much recycling goes on.