Surely I can't be the only one who feels really quite annoyed that they now own what is essentially a defective Combiner Wars Motormaster? Don't suppose anyone knows if there's a fix or modification for his stupid combined mode hips?
Well, there is a fixed version out there. There's also Nonnef Production's Combiner Wars Hip Ratchets that double the clicks of the internal ratchets, so those are two solutions.
Noneff you say? Do you have any idea what their shipping costs are like? That page on their site appears to be dead.
Dude. He's transferring from the old Storenvy site to his own domain. That's why it's so dead. Also, the hip ratchets are 5 dollars. And many people had good business with him.
Or you can just wait till you see the new version in your local store, buy it, open it, put your defective one in the box and return it for a refund.
Yeah I wasn't criticising the site, just mentioning that the shipping page doesn't work. Since I live in England I need to weigh up what the cost will be after delivery is taken into account.
Actually, that's both a scumbag thing to do because that's textbook toy swapping over minor shit and all you'd save in the end is $25 which is maybe enough to get you another tank top-off for your car's gas tank. Just get the $5 hip ratchets and you don't even need to drive to the store.
Another thing to note is that Hasbro's revised ratchets only seem to shift the positions of the individual teeth compared to the originals. What Nonnef is providing actually includes more teeth for improved poseability. Plus, everything I've seen shows it to be an easy piece to swap out, so that seems to be the better option to me.
Plus if you tell the store it was defective, they will send it back to Hasbro and won't put it back out for sale.
+1 You should totally buy those nonnef ratchets. I just received mine the other day. You will be far more satisfied with these than anything else. They are just 2 small circular pieces of plastic in an envelope, so it can't cost all that much to ship (even overseas).
And it's really not even defective. I've got Optimus Prime and Motormaster from the first two waves and they stand fine with a bit of fiddling in the leg joint. Is it annoying? Eh. Is it toy-breaking? Hardly. Especially not worth the trouble of ordering/buying a replacement MM, swapping the figure in packaging, and getting it back to whoever you got it from. Gas costs money. I've been factoring this into my TF budget of late when comparing figures I want in store to figures online. $16.99 is more than $14.99 until I spend three weeks driving around looking for it at the store.
I started doing this a long time ago. In addition to the gas cost, my time is valuable too. Got tired of driving around looking for stuff that never showed up in the stores around me. I love ordering online and having the exact items I want show up at my door. I'll still pick something up at a local store if I'm already there for some other reason, but I rarely go looking for TF's anymore. Also, does anyone know if the TT Motormaster in the UW-02 set has the new hip ratchets? I have yet to open mine.
Not always. I'd have to haul it out of storage, but my Universe 2.0 Inferno's box is proof positive that in rare cases, things that by all rights look broken (the box was held together with scotch tape after looking like somebody had used it as a hockey puck and the only wire tie left in the package was holding the missile - the figure was bouncing around in pieces in the tray next to the instructions) and should have been returned to Hasbro are just put back out on the retail shelf. The fact people are actually willing to exploit the retail system just to get some improved hip joints, when the nonnef option is both easier and outright better than Hasbro's to begin with, just floors me. Yes. All examples of TT Motormaster have the improved hips.
Nonnef has an ebay presence as well. Adds a small amount, I'd imagine. But should give you a better sense of shipping.
