Anyway, I used some clear thick soft plastic (think is PVC) and layered & trimmed them (with double-sided tape except for the blade's tip joined with super glue) to resemble the profile of the original blade, but longer. The inner-side of each layer is coloured with red marker, hence when pulled/pushed, the outer surface will not cause any colour damage to the blade... Below picture shows a near-complete new blade, in comparison with the original (shorter) one... Not very much extension can be done, due to the blade-holder's limitation itself... There is a black piece (blade-lock) with mechanism to "click-lock" the blade in position yet to be connected to the new blade...
The blade-holder part (aka the "magazine" for the gun-mode) also has to remove some parts to make a path for the blade to slide in further when keeping... The 2 pieces of white colour plastics are used to lift the blade-lock to correct height in correspondence to the original path... To save time, I used the last peg-peghole as the retaining wall to lock the blade-lock in place...
Done! Now the Ixa Calibur is ready to "transform" into a more decent-looking sword... Gun-mode is not affected...
Ixa Calibur and its new blade! Looks so much better... Why can't Bandai do this in the first place? Safety???... Nah....
Tried to combine the 2 pictures for a blade-length comparison...
Comparison with the DX Sword of Omen (Thundercats series)... Blade lengths are almost the same! The extra Thundercat symbol thing is the one that makes the Sword of Omen longer in overall length...Nice, now I have a decent Ixa Calibur...
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