August Purchase (1) - DX Fourze Driver, DX Billy The Rod, Various Astro Switches

Went over to the John Little Expo Sales this morning, and got a few super cheap Kamen Rider Fourze DX stuff... The DX Drivers (Fourze and Meteor), DX weapons (Billy the Rod, Meteor Galaxy) are selling at SGD 10 per piece... incredible cheap price... The Astro Switches are also on a sale, selling at 5 packs for SGD 5... So for a total of $25, I am able to get the stuff as seen in the picture below!!!!


Special mention to these 2 Astro Switches - N and S Mag-Phone Astro Switches. These are the Gashapon LED version, but sold as carded. So they only have half the transformation sounds (speech only, no final music). With the experience from the gashapon Cosmic Switch, I had a feeling that these can be modded to have complete transformation music, so after some search on the internet, my prayers are answered...


CAUTION: DO AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!
When you dismantle the (sound part of) N Mag-Phone Astro Switch, you will find 4 sets of contact points in a column, labelled P20 to P23. First, the SMD resistor on P20 needs to be removed (cut, destroy, etc)...


Next, solder a tiny bare wire to join up P22... alternatively, you can also solder a small blob of solder to connect the 2 points of P22. This will allow full play of transformation music of N Mag-Phone Astro Switch part...


Repeat the process on the other Astro Switch, take note that this time the SMD resistor to remove is at P21 for S Mag-Phone Astro Switch, and the set of points to join up is at P23...




Here's a video to show the difference for a normal vs modified one...

And a video to show how the music will play with both modified...