Broken Gavan powers unite :(

Should that turn out to be the case, I'm perfectly fine with a slight loss of wrist motion. Better that then constantly fearing something will snap every time I swap hands.

More like Eiji's poor everything :p

The plus side is that peg joints are easier to fix then ball joints provided you got metal rods and super glue handy.

Once you have it in hand you'll know what's wrong with it.
Lanky proportions, a head that's a bit too small for it's body, legs that connect to the hips in such an odd way that it leaves unsightly gaps when posing anything beyond standing straight, bowed legs, gaped armor detailing, etc etc.
The Kabuto SHFs aren't bad figures (Hell, when first released, they were heralded as some of the greatest Kamen Rider figures ever), but as SHFs evolved and grew in quality, the errors with the Kabuto (And The First) figures became extremely apparent.

As for the new hand system, as long as the wrist isn't just a hinge, I don't have any problems.

It looks great but the price I've seen is heavy. Also I'm not a fan of the figma style hand system, I like the current one that allows you to choose between an up/down tilt or an in/out one.

I agree on the hands. I think there is nothing wrong with them the way they are currently. In fact, those hands look like the pegs are going to be fragile as ****. Plus, it means you can't interchange hands.

The only difference besides the hips are he is thicker. The head is only appropriate size because his body is too. Unless they plan to redo ALL of the Kabuto riders in this style, this version is pretty much pointless because he won't match with the others.

This is my thought. I could think of 5 other riders to fix first.

But that defies the point. I want to be able to pose my hands.

I think you quoted the wrong post, Zeo was FOR the peg system.

I was agreeing with Blade Raider and disagree with Zeo.

Where have you seen a price and what is it?

Also hadn't thought about the up/down wrist tilt... Yeah that actually is pretty important for a lot of Rider poses. :/

Again these hands could still be on ball joints. The only difference being that instead of swapping the hands over those thin ball joints you'd be plugging the entire assembly into the forearm. Soundss perfect to me.

And on price ive seen rumors floating about that it could be upwards of 5000 yen. Totally unsubstantiated right now though. That price would be pretty steep, but i cant say I wouldnt pay it for such a superior figure when compared to the original.

The new hands seem interesting. I might look into getting him.