[Jeddostotle7]

Recently, I've been thinking a lot about how one could maybe modify the SP//dr BAF to have more articulation, because as cool as the sculpt on this figure is, the shoulders are incredibly useless, and the hips are very annoying to deal with.

I'm thinking the best solution for the shoulders would be to implement a Figuarts/import line-style butterfly joint system; you'd hollow out the upper torso, place two ball joints deep into the torso, have bars coming from those with ball ends out of the torso and the red parts of the shoulders plug onto those, so that you not only have a smaller ball so it gets more range in that middle area, but also you can then raise the bar joint so that the shoulder can clear the torso and get, like, almost 90 degrees out. Maybe you could hollow out the grey bit of the existing shoulder joint and have it act as a hider piece for the shoulder/butterfly joint bar.

For the legs, I'm thinking you could modify the hip piece so that the peg goes straight down like normal instead of 45 out to the side (with corresponding straight down peg socket in the thigh), but it's slightly offset outwards, so the axis of the peg is not aligned with the ball joint of the hip. Then, in the leg, you'd have the socket not just as a hole in the thigh piece, but as a separate piece that can slide out from the leg a bit so you can have a bit a sliding leg joint system similar to the S.H. Figuarts TLJ Stormtroopers, so that the figure could actually move the leg directly out to the side a good ways without trimming down any of the outer sculpt or anything.

I don't know, I might be crazy, but that's what I've been thinking about in terms of improving SP//dr.

If only I actually knew how to implement any of those changes...

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Originally Posted by Nitelife

Yah but that 24.99 price tag for them vintage wave things plus the fact it seems only gamestop and a few select targets carry them..... hopefully they get better distribution and lower prices. Especially with the barebones style of em,

Where do they cost $25? Usually they only cost ~$20 like other Legends in Target or online retailers.