When a player drops an entity it has a 2D texture, meaning it only shows the sides of the texture, and not the front. When a player is near, the entity will turn to face the player so the side texture is not shown. Even if this is not a bug, I would like this mechanic to be added, as some of my contraptions on the Java Edition rely on this.
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Not all items are "3D." They are working on supporting 3D models for items for a future update. Til then, this is technically an invalid report ticket.
Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as a Duplicate of MCPE-24164.
Which is closed as working as intended
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