Consider this my PSA for the day - transformed Lockdown and immediately broke his right hand in half at the peg - apparently they A) Don't align vertically w/ his forearms and B) are made of some very brittle plastic.

Now I just have to go raid more stockrooms for a second Lockdown! DOH!

 

A) is correct. A couple of members here have taken advantage of B) and managed to shave away a bit of plastic so that the hands will align properly with the forearm.

 

They should sticky-thread the animated 'fixes' and 'touchups'

 

this is a well documented issue that was covered at botcon

 

While I agree with A), you're wrong on B). It might just be your fig, but the plastic on my LD's hands are fine.

 

Did they fix it in some? I heard they fixed prowl legs.

 

Ah, sorry if I'm treading over old territory...today was the first time I got hands-on w/ a Lockdown...it was also the first Transformer I've truly broken in about 20 years, so it surprised me!

 

It is very traumatic. The only two I have broken in my adult life were OpOp and TM Megs who died a horrible 'crotch rot' due to brown plastic.

 

I t is supposed to be addressed when they do chain saw lockdown

 

A day late for me.  

 

I know! Brought me back to that Xmas morning in 85(ish), sitting there w/ a Deluxe Roadbuster in my lap, his right arm broken off at the shoulder!

Luckily Lockdown's got a handy pirate hook so that he can cover his (my) shame!  

 

Do the fix and all is fine.

 

I broke mine. May run out tonight and exchange it...

 

Yeah, the fix would be great, if I hadn't already snapped his hand in half. I'll definitely transform my next one a wee bit more carefully.

But, hey, pirate hook. So it's all good!  

 

Just broke mine, looks like I will be owning two lockdowns.. at least it was the right hand I broke off and the hook hand covers it up. I think he just became the first candidate to be repainted.

 

give it a chrome treatment  

 

I'm thinking sanding the injection molding nubs down giving him a very nice gloss black, and then silver/chroming the pipes and engine. Plus with a second figure... ratchet gets his EMP generator back.

 

I tend to transform a TF very slowly and carefully when I'm doing it for the first time. This was what prevented any harm from befalling my Lockdown - my methodical approach exposed the fact that his hands could only fold out so far.

 

I fixed the left hand of mine and it works perfectly. I did not bother with the right one since I always use to hook.

 

I hope the Chainsaw arm Lockdown comes with the red arm that the first one should have come with. that way I can mix the two and have at least one that looks like the cartoon model.

see habro's product pictures to see what I mean.
http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/animated/default.cfm?page=Products/Detail&product_id=21347

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