That's honestly the best way they could've done it, since painting the black will be super easy when they're unassembled.

I also think the proportions are spot on. If I could nitpick anything it'd be that I wish the non-flexing open hands were more relaxed for neutral poses. They're a bit too similar to the action-rage hands. Other than that this looks great. Even the chest logo is parts separated!

I think my one other nitpick would be that the red parts on the antennae are stickers; I think those could have been separate pieces. Great looking kit otherwise, excited for mine

I don't see how you could make those red parts separate. The parts would be tiny. This is only barely larger than the SHF and if the parts were separate it'd need an incredibly small peg and hole.

Finished TaJaDor today and it's a decent build. There's some pretty lackluster parts separation though, like the red pieces on the chest being stickers and most egregiously the feet being all red instead of black with a red insert. The only stickers I can understand are the thin red lines on the outside of the upper arms given how small they are, though Bandai could've made those separate parts if they wanted to. I mean hell, they made the forehead gem/beak separate.

Like most Premium Bandi kits there's little here that feels "premium" but the standard of these models is high enough that even without surpassing it TaJaDor is still great. Hope this isn't the only OOO's alt form we get but I suppose if it had to be only one other I'm glad it was this. Can't wait for Black to drop in a few days!

I'd be very surprised if Tajador was the only OOO combo we get seeing as W, Den-O and Kuuga got all of their alternate forms.

While true, OOO doesn't share as many parts with his alt forms as they do. W is almost a straight palette swap (on top of being a far simpler, earlier FRS) Kuuga gets new weapons and armour around the chest, and Den-O gets part of a new helmet and half of a new chest. OOO would, outside of GataKiriBa and LaToraTa, need all-new parts. TaJaDor's body only reuses a runner and a half from TaToBa, the one with the joints and hands, as well as the belt and gold ring for the chest symbol. (since TaJaDor is the only form to use the same full gold ring as TaToBa, everyone else would only use one or no segments of it)

I'd love to be wrong, though I think we only got TaJaDor because it's special. (though any other forms would definitely be P-Bandai as well, which would just suck separately)

Yeah, I guess you're right, though we can still hope.

I think they did hint at multiple combos; and OOO is one of those series alongside Kuuga, W and Den-O that always gets a bunch of merch (and for OOO it's always focused around Combos and Ankh). Preban FRS Rider kits have steadily been more and more open to having a lot more original parts anyway, as Tajador itself shows. I think we'll at least see Gatakiriba and Ratoratah

Yeah. It would also be kinda odd for them to make them interchangeable only to release two figures for the system.

That's my thought too, yeah; it would mean that otherwise the combo change system was essentially just made for Takatorador and Takajaba (granted, those are so nice that's kind of worth it).

I think the main obstacle would be that each combo's three sections (head, arms, legs) are slightly different shades despite being the same colour; meaning different runners. Really obvious when you look at Gatakiriba in particular. Tajador was a lot easier in this regard as it's the only one whose colour is the same consistent shade throughout