As I said on facebook, this is a situation where individual results will vary when doing this mod. As I did this very same mod on my THF Magnus and added the KFC articulated hands and were not at all loose. In fact they are a bit too tight, so much so that I added lubricant to mine. Now they are awesome. Love this figure.

 

I guess it's a YMMV type of thing with the KFC/Eness MP22 articulated hands being a good fit or not. Looks like there's hope for some of us.

It's still sealed in the shipping box. I've been busy and hadn't had the time to check it out yet. Hopefully I can get to it later this week.

That's what @Confusedbystander did with his.

 

Ya. I showed mine off to Bots & Bits on facebook as he actually wanted to use footage of mine in his review to show in the vid that some did not have the looseness problem.

 

Hopefully he'll be able to include footage of your copy.

 

Not that anyone would expect differently, but the Reprolabels for MP Magnus fit exactly right on this KO.

 

Well if you follow him on facebook you can check out the post with my video as my KFC hands are crazy tight!

 

overall would you say it's better or worse than the "perfect" v 2.0 MP-22?

 

Ok just unboxed mine. Am I a moron here or is his left arm put together incorrectly. It only bends that way not the other way around..... so he currently can't hold a gun for example.

Any fix?

 

Wow, looks like they assembled the cover on that arm wrong way around. It looks like to get it off you'd have to drive out the metal pins that hold the tabs on... No idea how difficult that would be or whether I'd want to tackle that on a new figure I just got. If it were screws, I'd just undo and flip around but all I see holding those panels on is pins.

 

Yeah you're right. Screws are easy & the blue parts just need to be swapped around. Unfortunately they are held on by pins and i have no clue how to tackle that!

Ugh ill email Show.Z and see if they can offer a decent solution.

 

Good luck - hope it's either a simpler fix than I think or they offer you a part/replacement.

 

I'm on the fence about this figure. I'm missing an ultra magnus but this one seems very hit and miss with little defects. There are instructions on how to fix most of them, but it just seems like a risk

 

Not the most comforting picture to see when I just ordered this dude from ShowZ...

 

Don't stress. Its probably a one off, unfortunately for me.
And Frank at Show.Z has always helped me out with any issues on figures i've had.
Your in good hands if anything unfortunate eventuates

 

If anyone else has this and has put kfc hands on it. Id like to know your results in the next few days. If you could link me your vids on YT or DM my facebook page that'd be helpful. Im on holiday atm, but should have it finished Monday or Tuesday.

 

Put KFC hands on mine and they were super loose. A couple of coats of varnish has sorted them out nicely though. Other than that, I need to trim the plastic tabs down for alt mode as the arms don't peg into the leg sections properly as the tab is too tight.

 

I've got the KFC hands on mine and they're not bad. Not super tight but not super loose either.

 

I'm waiting on me Eness MP22 hands to arrive from Baba.

@Tirade
@deaculpa
Baba has Eness hands for Takara MP10, Hasbro MP10, and Takara MP22 Ultra Magnus.

 

Ha, mine went from not tracking after it left China to being delivered today. Can't wait to get home and check it out.

 

I got some hands on time in bot mode a couple hours ago. So far it seems pretty solid in bot mode.

However I noticed that the red left shoulder hinge, while it can be positioned in place into the hole/socket it doesn't snap securely in place like the right red shoulder hinge. Would a coat or two of clear nail polish or pledge polish (Future) fix that?


Also the top lids of the white shoulder tops don't seem to want to stay snapped in all the way. I think the original Takara version had this issue but even on the THD version it is barely noticeable.