>>8677515I think the bigger problem has always been the Kaiyodo company itself. They are cheap as hell. Not surprising coming from making their biggest growths with garage kits and candy toys. And in a way always looked down on action figures. So they end up being made in the cheapest way possible and especially in recent years it shows. Getting rid of ratchet joints finally made them interesting at least. Hard plastic action figures nearing Bandai quality are starting to come out. From his tweets I get the sense Yamaguchi wants to do this with anything remotely mechanical.
I don't know if it made the difference, but Vulcan Logs from Union Creative felt better, had less QC issues than something Kaiyodo handled at the time like Revol Mini or Legacy. Eva comes out through Union now and they might have better QC too...?
Kaiyodo got bought out so who knows what the future holds for Yamaguchi figures.
