BBTS is sending me a replacement and I just ordered some plastic loctite so I should be able to get it back in one piece here soon. Wound up breaking the handle of the bigger fin blade trying to work the peg out of GaoBison's.. collar? I dunno anatomy of real animals, let alone toy ones. Anyway, got those on the way and praying it holds up. If nothing else, I'm just keeping one pair of legs forever transformed and keeping the other as a "perfect" Bison when I get my GaoKnight delivered.

How you liking Gaoking so far, Longhorn? Find all the little extra joints like all 3 elbows per arm? It's wild, I love it.

I dont think they do, since they get all their stock from japnese retail sites themselves and just sell it to us. So no official distribution nor product support. If you still have the pieces, i recommend checking out Lockon toy on youtube. He fixes sheared off joints in shf and models by drilling a hole in both pieces, driving a small metal rod through both pieces to join them together, and then reinforcing with crazy glue. Tried this with an old hg that i had that sheared at a peg, worked perfectly and never broke again. Super strong sealing on the formerly broken piece.

GoaBison has all sorts of problems. Everyone I know who built GaoKing has hated Bison, myself included.

I'll definitely check it out, but BBTS is shipping the replacements now
My biggest issue with him is just how much my thumbs hurt putting the robot hip assemblies together and the weird clearance issues with his hip skirts when transforming him. Overall hes a solid brick in bison mode and has great articulation combined

I had the same problem assembling it, which then mystified me when I put the finished mecha together, and the legs using those connections we weirdly floppy. I would've expected them to be too tight, not too loose. I suspect that's why the GaoMuscle set comes with a non-transforming, non-moving pair of bison legs. If nothing else, it's stable.

As to the clearance problem, sadly, GaoRhinos is even worse. On the plus side, he works better when he's a pair of legs, but transforming him is a nightmare, the stickers carefully applied to the skirts get pretty much destroyed in the process.

My Bison's hips are quite solid actually, not a single loose joint on my kit. The weakest connection I've found was the eagle connecting to lion. Specifically the hip cradle, his wings lock him in rather well for my purposes, though 'd more readily rip the animal out entirely than pull the crown up to change faces. Shame to hear about the rhino stickers but I imagine some careful filing and paint would fix that issue

I love it, and once I get Hunter and Muscle Striker (fun note; if it was allowed my username would've been GaoMuscle Striker Longhorn) I'm gonna study for how the unproduced Power Animals could backpack and such.

Unlikely we'll ever get Boar, Bat, Manta, Peacock, Wallaby, Walrus, and "Tortoise" (it's a sea turtle) but I'm always gonna dream

So, paint GaoRhinos instead of stickers gotcha.

How fun to build are those five? Clicking Bison together aside I've loved my SMP kits

Where do you find all the extra power animal concepts? I know they're out there just never found any good scans. Personally, I'm tryna get a job at Hasbro so who knows, maybe they'd let me make some extra zords like the dropped concepts haha

So BBTS is awesome. I emailed and just asked about a replacement for Bison's neck transformation hinge, and they sent me a whole new kit I think. Animus custom fodder on this old one maybe?