We need some tips and tricks in here.
There are many copies of this where folks are running into issues. Some of these are user error, some are not.
Common Problem 1: Broken smokestack tabs. This is almost definitely something you did, if it happened. Go look at the manual and make sure both of the smaller robot's knee joints are unlocked. When you press the back of the calves onto the tabs, there should be little to no friction. You want the legs almost perpendicular to the smokestack tabs
before tabbing them in. No forcing it. Whether this is good design is debatable, but hopefully that helps.
Common Problem 2: Super Ginrai's head won't stay down. The general cause of this is that the toy is designed with tolerances at a high level of precision that probably cross the line into "way too picky" territory. I really don't like how they made the head attach, it leads to the same issue that Fans Hobby's version of this guy had where if everything isn't in place near-perfectly, that head isn't staying down. Put another way, ughhhhh Ono-san why did you do this to us ;_;
The cause of this in practice can be either user error or qc. Or both. Let's start with user error.
Press the truck cab cube down as far as you can, so that the top of it is even with the top of the sides of the "box" it sits in, before attempting to plug in the Super Ginrai head.
- Flush
You have to take care when you do this, or you could end up back at common problem 1 because you pressed down too hard in the wrong place, moved the legs and broke the tabs. I recommend swinging the arms out at the shoulders on the horizontal butterfly joint, then grasping the Super Ginrai torso and pressing down with both thumbs on the top part of the cab only. You'd be touching the red painted areas here. Once satisfied, swing the head down and peg it in. If it still doesn't want to go, press on the joint from the back (just behind the smaller Ginrai's feet) while also pressing down on the head. You should be good now, unless you have an actual QC problem. Like I did.
I had two.
The first thing to check is that your Ginrai chest cube thing is transformed correctly, with everything nicely in alignment. I can't quite do this on MPG-09, but can with MP-60. Why? MPG has an extra bit of junk, seen below on the left where the die-cast piece meets the small robot's chest, preventing it from clipping in all the way
- On the very very left where things tab in gently, hard to see
I didn't want to shave this down and can get everything in place regardless, but it does make the SG head want to pop out every now and then. I've also seen a case where the rotating peg holding little Ginrai's head assembly on was put together backwards in the factory. If that happens to you, you have a pin to knock out to fix that up.
The second issue I noticed was when using the MP-60 truck cube to verify the first one. I still couldn't initially get the cab nice and flush in the box. Then I looked and oh good, what's this stress mark?
- Stress mark on right inside cube cradle thing
Seen from the front, you can see where this was caused by me putting downward pressure onto the cab. It pushed that piece on the right which isn't entirely squeezed in correctly. Both of those pieces needed a little shaving.
- Stress mark seen from the front
Thankfully, this was an easy fix. Take out the screw that holds the ab crunch joint, then gently separate the torso halves vertically, and voila. Clearance to shave those parts down achieved.
- Torso unclipped
At this point, I was able to shave those pieces a little, put it back together, and finally get the toy into Super Ginrai mode properly.
Common Problem 3: The Godmaster keeps falling out super easily. Yep, it sure does. I got nothin' helpful for this.
Between all that and MP-60's stupid drop down hip mechanism being pretty loose on my copy, and with this being smaller overall than my imagination wanted, and with it using some of that accursed cheapo plastic seen on recent Generations stuff in places, I'm not liking this guy very much. It feels more like a slightly nicer Commander Class dude than a Masterpiece.
Hope this helps someone out there to enjoy it more than I have!
just doing kinda random one offs from now on.
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