[Rabbitman]

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Originally Posted by Shin Henshin

If it's just the gap you're worried about, like you said you have the shoulder cover and the joint's range to cover things up. Personally don't really find it a bit deal since they're designed to be moved and positioned in ways where you can hide large gaps with some better positioning of the joint itself. Like for example, Gokai Red and V3 have very different shoulder joints, but can look totally fine once you pose them properly.

Main reason for the design changes is to get as much forward range as they can get beyond a butterfly joint. V3 has his signature pose, Gokai Red has his ability to cross his arms without swap-out parts, and Kyoryu Red's case, some of his poses have him really swinging his arms out in-front of him or crossing them over one another.

That Guts figure is notorious for the shoulder cap coming undone and the arm falling off. Also basically the entire shoulder assembly is a small little peg put into a tiny hole. A lot of force gets put on that peg when you rotate the shoulder. I worry about the durability.


Don?t know how the other shoulders worked because they never failed on me like the Guts shoulder.

[DreamSword]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shin Henshin

If it's just the gap you're worried about, like you said you have the shoulder cover and the joint's range to cover things up.

But that's the thing though. Not only is it extra effort that wouldn't be needed if this were a more traditional shoulder, but this new method with the hallowed out shoulder cap actually results in less range that if this were a well designed shoulder wherein the joint were the shoulder itself. And butterfly joints really should not be an issue to implement on Sentai figures their their monochrome designs. Especially since it's all been done, and well, before. It's "fixing" what isn't broken, essentially.