I found Deep Space Starscream at my local TRU and I was so excited and bought it right away. To my dismay when I opened him up the left leg fell off. Upon closer inspection, the joint holding the leg in place was completely worn out. I continued with his transformation, all the while reassuring myself that this kind of thing is normal and it’s nearly impossible to find a figure without any flaws. So about three quarters of the way through the transformation, I realised that the right arm can’t be connected to the body. I didn’t take it that hard because I’ve heard that this was a common problem and I had this problem with my G1 Redeco Starscream as well, so I was kinda prepared for it. Then I found the biggest defect of all and this one, I could not ignore: my figure has TWO left tailfins. When putting this figure together, some idiot in China must have thought it’d be funny to give someone two tailfins instead of a right and a left. So now I can’t complete his transformation to jet mode because he has a left tailfin where a right one should have been. I cannot express how incredibly disappointed and frustrated I am right now. I guess I’m gonna have to pay TRU a little visit again this weekend to exchange this piece of excrement for a (hopefully) better one.

 

dang dude! sorry to hear that.
i have not opened mine. i had problems with my animated starscream though.

 

I thought he was a Target Exclusive?

 

overseas maybe?

 

Everytime I buy a repaint it seems the quality is less than half of the original toy. One reason I rarely buy repaints.

 

I'm in Australia. Over here, it's a TRU exclusive.

 

Ah, didn't know that.

 

interesting, tru has it huh

 

Well i'm not going to open it so i'm not to worried

 

Sorry to hear that.

 

Clearly he defected to TRU!

 

that has exactley the same problem as mine good job i got him for £7

 

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