Yeah, the shoulder data band cover is a lame design. The shoulder armor actually hits the edge of it so when you lift up the shoulder armor to get to the lock there's a good chance you'll pop that little cover off too. And I don't mind the other locks, but the shoulder lock sucks. Having to move the drives out of the way and then swing the shoulder around just to pose it is a stupid design decision. And why are some locks on the outside and some on the inside, it's just needlessly confusing. I agree about the locks in general. If they were going to do that they should have made the teeth of metal instead of this ridiculously brittle plastic. Speaking of metal, I wish the center body ring were metal too, it's the least they could have done after going CHEAP and using plastic instead of metal for the hip joints.
I sent HLJ a parts request for the hand runner, hopefully they can fill it for me, otherwise I'm going to have to ask my friend in tokyo to check out that one store and see if there's parts there. It really doesn't matter to me that the detailing isn't right, I'll take the Strike hand over the 00 hand.
I like the kit, only because I like the way the naked 00 looks but I'm not thrilled with how feature poor the suit is and the overall quality and materials choices of the kit.