I'm very well aware that not everyone has the same income I have, but at the present time 10-20 bucks extra for a Web-Exclusive every other month isn’t making a difference for me.

Should it? Yes. Does it keep me from getting my plastic drug fix? No.

It's even worse than "If you so much as look at the elbows they'll break!".

It's the DIRECTION that Bandai is taking the Shinkocchou Seihou line to. The announcement of the SHF SS Den-O proved (so far) that Bandai was doubling down (or rather, :eek:tripling down:eek:) on this new joint system, after implementing it on SHF SS OOO Tatoba and SHF SS Gatakiriba. As THE prestige line of 1:12 action figures that Bandai offers, we can safely say that this decision is going to be implemented on ALL future SHF SS releases, and probably regular SHFs as well.:thumbdown

Now, THIS is the problem. Instead of isolating the damage and put a stop loss on their portfolio by only committing one blunder, they decided instead to commit the same blunder two(!) more times. The problem is not releasing a figure with super fragile joints. The problem is releasing a figure with super fragile joints, NOT learning from the blunder, AND committing the same blunder on two other releases. So, highly anticipated unreleased SHF SS lines (to me), like Ex-Aid, Faiz, Gaim, and God forbid, :cryRyuki:cry, almost certainly will use this new joint system. We can all imagine how epic the fail will be. :eek::eek::eek:

Well, let's sit back, and just wait and see.
Let the final arbiter, time, answer this question:
"How many broken joints does it take to change Bandai executives' minds?"

https://forums-images.oneplus.net/at...bb0d7e3135.jpg

Or is it possible the decision to use the new joint design came well before the reports of OOO breakages?

Only God knows. :lol
As far as I know, ANY engineer worth their title would already have smelled the fragility from miles away. :cool:
Bandai's engineers are probably mass facepalming in their office right now. :D

Unless it's not an engineering problem and a material/production problem.

Something I don't think anyone has noticed but is it just me or is SHF Horobi's head too long and his waist is too thin? I distinctly remember the suit's head being a bit smaller and the whole suit being baggier.

Nope.
It's 1000% engineering problem. Material/production problem is only a tiny fraction of the overall cause of failure. You can read my previous posts on this new joint system.

Boy howdy it's a good thing your posts don't reek of stubborn sensationalism otherwise you'd just look silly.

In other news,

even if TN is trying to make it harder for us foreigners to get their figures, hopefully Team Rider will be able to back us up in the end. I'd really rather not have to spend like $100 on every form of Kuuga if I can avoid it.

Shouldn't we maybe, I dunno, wait and see how more than one body using these joints turns out before we start saying 1000%?

Because right now you seem like you're talking a lot about something you know little about.

If you mean his head is too long as in it looks a bit stretched tall, then it's something I noticed about the suit design itself. I always felt that his helmet looked a little weird it might just be the design giving off that illusion. I don't think his suit was ever that baggy, it's always been relatively form fitting to me at least.

In terms of the figure itself, I am really liking that shade of dark purple for the suit.