That was my thought as well. Or United Wreck-Gar?

 

some one should contact hasbro about this so they can try and avoid useing this joint in the futer god i hope my one dosnt have these stress marks

 

Fair point, but even United Wreck-Gar would presumably be easier to individually replace than part of an eHobby set. :/ Hopefully this will turn out to just be an issue with the early batch of Hasbro Wreck-Gar and none of the other uses of the mold will be affected.

 

You might be able to see a tiny part of one shoulder post in the package, but it'd be difficult to get a clear look through the packaging, and the other one is completely out of sight.

That said, my first Wreck-Gar came in today and only one shoulder seems to have the stress lines, and only a few at that. If the other one isn't stressed, I'm gonna call this a problem of the pin being inserted incorrectly, rather than a design flaw.

 

I hope so if not there is going to be alot of complaints to Hasbro.

 

No.

 

So, hey, speaking of stress marks, anybody get whopping huge ones inside the hands the first time you inserted the axe's handle?

 

Yup. Got a big one on mine.  



I'm definitely going to be picking up a replacement Wreck-Gar at the first opportunity.

It sucks that such an absolutely fantastic design is suffering from these issues.

 

Those aren't jointed? I was hoping so, for the handlebars as well as the axe.

 

Nope. They're solild and have the same stressing issues as Animated Rodimus and Arcee.

 

I'm thinking this strain of brown plastic may be a little short on plasticizer, and was intended to be slightly more flexible than it is. Which would readily explain both the shoulder thing and the hands stressing at having the intended weapon put in. Cause those lines are in the exact same place on both my Wreck-Gar's hands too.

 

Well he IS made of junk technically.  

Normally the open hand molds are okay if you can slide the weapon in from the top but in cases like this where the weapon has to be snapped in from the side the stressing seems to always occur.

 

Actually, I can almost say for sure the brown plastic cured ever so slightly too small, cause the clip point on the back is quite loose for the axe.

 

Damn it you had to make me look at mine...I cringed and said to the wife he will be possed once and never to move again. Im gonna try a layer of clear nail polish or super glue to give it strength to possibly keep it from decintigrating on both shoulders. G2 laser prime has soft plastic on the arm panels/doors and also on the side windows that fold inside the chest my arm panels have stress marks

 

Yeah I just shaved some plastic off the hand to make the snapping in of the axe easier on the plastic. Hopefully that will help.

Only place my G2 Prime has stress marks is on the sword where the handle joint is.

 

I've put the axe in Wreck-Gar's hands several more times now, and I don't think the stress marks are getting any worse. It's scary but it might be okay.