[AsafV2]

So this is mainly for sharing my pain and/or asking around if this happened to any other people around these parts.
Please excuse me if this is posted in the wrong area, I'm a bit new here on the forums.

[Spearichu]

The elbow broke? That apparently can happen with Figuarts, remember it happen to a couple of people here before. So how did it break?

[AsafV2]

I don't know if you one a SS OOO, the elbows have an extra hing in them that allows the join to bend sideways, which means that there is and extra hinge between the double joint of the elbow. The breakage itself happened while I was just swapping the forearm to the regular one.

[Zolda]

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Originally Posted by AsafV2

I don't know if you one a SS OOO, the elbows have an extra hing in them that allows the join to bend sideways, which means that there is and extra hinge between the double joint of the elbow. The breakage itself happened while I was just swapping the forearm to the regular one.

Can you post multi angle close-up photos of the breakage area? I'd like to see where the weak areas are.

[Tokumonkey]

Oh, man, I'm sorry that happened to you! Reminds me of my original OOO Figuarts, only the broken part was the leg, moments after I removed it from the package. I was very relieved to replace it recently.

In that case, I very carefully applied a tiny touch of superglue. I also wrote that point of articulation off as a loss, and was super-happy to replace the figure with the Shinkocchou Seihou version.

[Zolda]

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Originally Posted by Tokumonkey

Oh, man, I'm sorry that happened to you! Reminds me of my original OOO Figuarts, only the broken part was the leg, moments after I removed it from the package. I was very relieved to replace it recently.

In that case, I very carefully applied a tiny touch of superglue. I also wrote that point of articulation off as a loss, and was super-happy to replace the figure with the Shinkocchou Seihou version.

I think the weak point of the new elbow joint is on the additional pivot joint. It's nice to have additional articulation point, albeit at the risk of it breaking completely, like OP's report. Add that over-engineered joint with forearm swapping gimmick, and you have a recipe for disaster.

The OP's report was why I didn't pull the trigger on this figure. I don't think the risk of complete breakage is worth one additional minor articulation point. It might work on the knee. But on the elbow? I don't think so.

[venth85]

This is the reason I quit collecting SHFiguarts, my SS Kabuto suffered the same fate, and kinda killed my mood for collecting another SHF
Maybe this is just me, but I feel that Bandai is reducing the material quality in SHF line, is just not as good as old SHF anymore, feel more rough eventhough newer SHF are better engineered/designed

[venth85]

[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.

[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.