Must mean incoming Takara Jazz lol

 

How interesting, I thought it was my poor handling of J4ZZ that made his waist break but it sounds like it's a common issue. I tried everything to fix it, model glue, cyanoacrylates, even redrilling the broken peg, but no dice.

He's now in Porsche mode in storage, and Downbeat took his place.

Still a great toy and I wish I could get GT to offer a replacement waist, but they don't really exist any longer, do they?

Tim
'toy geek'

 

Mine did the exact same thing. Was able to glue it back together, permanent robot mode. Just snapped totally apart

 

I mean, Downbeat's okay and all (not amazing but good), but if you were intending to have an IDW Jazz, Downbeat's going to disappoint as it's a G1 aesthetic, not similar to J4ZZ.

 

My J4ZZ has been perfect from day one. I'm surprised to hear this issue.

 

Yeah, this is a HUGE disappointment for me. I don't want Downbeat in my collection, in fact the closest that matches what I want would be to pick up the old Generations one and just give up. I really hate the current bland MP "toon style" and Downbeat falls into that category. *sigh*

 

Hearing about the waist breakage is kind of making me glad I sold my copy a couple months back.

 

I got mine when they were first released, transformed him a week ago, no issues, solid as a rock!!!

 

Thanks for the picture. shame about that, especially since he's a great representation. If i were to guess (I'm o engineer, so this is an uneducated guess) that the screws in his posterior are to tight for that specific type of plastic. Still, I won't rist messing with mine, I have a history of taking something that works ok but not great, and 'fixing' it. And by fixing I mean being a total idiot (he's better now, managed to glue him back together, retaining his posability).

 

I krazy glued mine, looks perfect and everything still works/articulates. Exact same break. It has sat on a shelf and I just recently moved it, then plop half falls off.

 

yeah glue that shit carefully and it'll transform like nothing happened imo. If you do splooge a bit over, you could just use a small blade to scrape/cut that off

 

Really late to party and kind of a long shot, but does anyone know any place that has this guy in stock? i've looked around quite a bit and he's sold out everywhere

 

As far as I've seen no one has any stock left, even broken ones are going for like $200 on ebay last I looked.

 

figured so, looked everywhere and couldn't find anything. Guess i should've taken less time to decide on my Jazz  

 

Me too. I think he was the first one out but others had announced Jazzes so I held back on the one I wanted only to get a few who look exactly the same.

 

Ask on the taobao thread...

 

i tried having a quick look there aswell but the prices are still quite high sadly, excluding whatever shipping or import fee are going to be added later

 

Zeta's Jazz might work for you. I have both him and downbeat and I like both