[SPLIT LIP]

Built Fourze today and he's pretty good but those orange stickers are just a mess. They don't really adhere and they crease on the chest right at the center. There's orange on the runner, why couldn't these be separate pieces? Yeah it wouldn't be the exact shade but it'd be close enough for most straight-builders and anyone who paints will just have an easier time without having to mask.

I'm getting tired of Bandai's constant corner cutting. I get things are tighter but I'd honestly pay another 300-500y if it meant a better quality kit. The drill module has big, hideous stickers on the little silver section that easily could've been one in-set part. No stickers are included to back the eyes and they look really weird without them, so I ended up painting the white sections underneath silver. Aside from those examples the parts separation is actually fantastic with the black, silver, and white all being separate parts (on the main body) with no stickers except for the arm pits. It actually makes the lack of orange for the stripes stand out that much more. I also feel like the construction overall isn't quite as good as, say, Agito. The arms are double-jointed but the design really nerfs the lower joint, the hands fall off quite easily and the stalk for the ball joint is quite long and obvious, and while I got the antennae in without issue I've heard more than a few people have broken theirs.

So yeah, good kit but frustrating in a lot of ways. The negatives aren't detriments so much as just odd drawbacks that only materialize in contrast to the rest of the kit being genuinely fantastic quality. There's even a gloss finish on the "hard" parts of the suit compared to the ones meant to represent fabric, complete with a gloss black runner just for the face alone! And of course all tat pre-painted silver. Makes me excited and worried for OOO, since I know a lot of details will be stickers just from the sheer number of lines on that suit.

I'm actually thinking o getting Build and Zi-O as my next kits so I can get the "old" ones out of the way. Build in particular needs to be painted, and Zi-O uses stickers for all the solid pink, so those are both going to be pretty involved when I eventually get to them.