The shoulder pad is attached via a hard plastic rod on the shoulder pad looped through a soft plastic hole in the harness. It's not difficult to detach. But the harness is one molded piece, so you cannot remove the the piece with the hole (which will now be visible), nor can you remove the underpiece which the Remake harness does not have. But there are other differences from the remake outfit (the shoulder pad itself is completely different, plus the gloves), so you can't truly convert this into a remake look just by removing one shoulder pad anyway.