>>11013977They're some revoltech/AY-style joints. And that's absolutely not me brandwarring. They're not my favorite style, but they've never fallen apart on me with revoltechs the way they have with this SHF. They're sturdy and stay in one piece. At worst, they get a bit loose, but stay together. Nothing like this Guts where if the joint splits apart once, it's over, it's not going back together.
Clearly, Bandai can't do these joints. Not at this point, at least. They should've just gone for something closer to home, and I don't know why they didn't. It almost feels like they're TRYING to sabotage their own line by making these questionable decisions for no gain. The shoulders could've literally just been like 90% of SHF and it would've had the same range and not been nearly as liable to pop apart, and even if it did pop apart in those instances, you could pop it back together.
This isn't even a defect, it's a design flaw, as far as I can tell. Sure, some people are getting unlucky with their figures, but I think that unless you literally just barely pose him or not at all and stand him in a cabinet to never touch him again, that joint is going to fall apart on every sample. Every. Last. One. Because it's down to how it's engineered, and why I don't have faith that my replacement isn't going to fall apart the same way. And I really, really hate it. For me, if this guy's shoulders/arms weren't literally designed to fall apart, and were just dependable, it'd probably be my favorite figure of the past few years. Instead, they have this really fatal flaw baked into an otherwise cool (but overly expensive, I agree) figure that could've been grail-tier, which ruins the entire figure.
It's frustrating, and I feel like it's a good example of Bandai's recent failings. They get close to the finish line, then screw the pooch with one or two things that affect the entire figure and so it goes from being a 8/10, 9/10 or maybe even a 10/10 to being a 5/10 or a 1/10. I am so mad
