[Zolda]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

Meant to post this much sooner, but my OOO also broke at the elbow a couple weeks ago. I was trying to attach the standard forearm again after having used the claws. Didn't even really apply force. Just began to plug it on and it sheared right off.

Ouch!
It's very heartbreakingly unfortunate news to start the New Year, Den-O.

Yours is the second report of the same incident. I was already suspicious that there would be more report of the same breakage. I'm still baffled why Bandai didn't see this coming, and even more baffled why they didn't reverse their decision to use this new over-engineered joint system. It's a 1/12 scale figure, for God's sake. You can't add complexity into that tiny space without adding more fragility into the system (perhaps at an exponential rate). This is pretty much the most basic law of engineering. Over-engineering makes a system unnecessarily complex. Now the system is collapse, failed beyond repair.

I REALLY wanted to purchase the SHF SS OOO (and the new SHF SS Den-O) but refrained from doing so due to this issue. When I expressed my concern of this issue to some of friends of mine who actually purchased the SHF SS OOO, they asked why I was so suspicious of the new joint system to the point of being nervous (perhaps even paranoid). They said they would simply be more careful when handling the figure and moving the joint. I think they REALLY missed the point. Besides making figure playing unfun, careful handling will NEVER eliminate the source of fragility, that is, the new joint system itself. The SHF SS Kiva was already a perfect combination of proportion, movability and complexity. Damn, he can even do a high kick. If I were a Bandai engineer, I'd rather use the SHF SS Kiva joint system rather than use the SHF SS OOO and make myself feel like tiptoeing on a glass table when handling the figure. I'm sure veteran reviewers and adult collectors like Den-O (and the OP of this thread) know how to handle a figure carefully. This proves that the fault is the new joint system itself.

Heck, you can even see the failure in TasteToy's review here. The pathetically thin plastics around the new swivel joint had visibly started to crack. And this is a first day release review!












This whole debacle is pretty much the essence of what I have learned in my profession so far:
What people call paranoia, I call it prudence.