You're right. they nailed the connection to the body better than ever, which just makes that other seam more painful to me.
It's still the best Varan i own by a long shot, but looking at all the X-Plus tails for Godzilla, Anguirus, Gigan and Gorosaurus I wonder why they did the tail in two parts. Really that's my only complaint about the figure, which when i look at my collection, most of the tails are hidden so i guess it could be worse.