This is 100% wrong. Sorry. I have had extremely well-padded packages from China sent from UT, TT, and even FT and had the same sh1t happen. I had same thing happen with rare live CDs overseas from Israel. This is a problem with overseas shipping where they throw tons of heavy crap onto everything and don't care. Sometimes, the fact that we get our packages at all is a matter of luck. You do this long enough you are going to get crapped on. XTB long ago sent my replacement parts in the same Ollie box and it is fairly rigid. You put anything heavy on it with any padding it still gets crushed after being jostled. Heavy desktop computers are a great example of an unbalanced package. If that thing gets rolled it will shear apart inside.

 

Lol! No it isn’t. I’m not talking about what poor handling you’ve gotten in the past- I’m talking about that *empty* box. No one should ever ship an empty box and expect it not to get crushed. Packages are not carried personally to their destination by butlers wearing white gloves.... they are thrown into bins, dropped, and handled by underpaid monkeys. The entire point of packaging is to PROTECT the item (otherwise it would just have a label stuck on the item itself)- it should be assumed that it will take a beating. Always overpack.

 

Your general point about packaging is not wrong but you made it about this case. You could have received a well packaged envelope with your parts and had everything smashed to bits or a less rigid well packaged box smashed to bits. The compressive force on that rigid box would have happened regardless of what was in it. It's physics. It happened from the top, look at it. It if had been empty and happened from the side that could have played a role. Unfortunately the hope a lot of times in packaging is that the lighter stuff is sorted away from the heavier stuff. It doesn't always work out. I have dealt with overseas shipping for over 30 years. It's got nothing to do with white gloves, it's got to do with the luck of the draw. I understand the frustration because I know it all too well. It infuriates the hell out of me. I got a MISB TT reissue of MP-09 and it was in an inner box and sealed with bubble layers and marked fragile and I looked in horror as I opened it to reveal the inner TT box had been smashed and torn to pieces almost. I undid all of the mangled parts and miraculously got away with just the head coming off of MP-09. I popped it back on and still don't know how it possibly survived. Hell, now I have to sell one and I will end up keeping the older box because the new one is a POS. I have been far more unfortunate at other times.

 

I too am waiting on my crappy plastic shoulder replacements for Overheat that I am sure from reading will suck to install if I don't end up breaking the thing altogether.

 

If it is about this case, I'll say the box served its purpose. It absorbed the impact and was not crushed to the extent that it affected the item inside.

 

If anyone cares, I got a notice Crackup toy colors version is being shipped from China.

 

I think you’re confused-? Yes, I was literally talking about the empty box in this case. And no one is arguing physics- I literally said this box should be protected from that. I’m not talking about the manhandling nightmares that people are citing as examples- I’m talking about *this* box being empty and easily crushed. It would be crushed regardless.

But it isn’t my box, so I don’t understand the “You could have received“. But my family and friends have worked in the post office for as long as I can remember, and my point is this is not how things should be packaged, and the blame does not fall entirely on the carrier.

It absolutely did.lol

 

another review

 

Wow, the peachyness of the original really stands out next to this guy

 

I like the toy deco alt mode way better than the toon version, but even as a kid I always hated the square head combiner pegs. I would've liked the toon version for for a g1 color set, and the toy deco for the g2 colors, rather than 3 different sets. It also would've been nice because the g2 variant of the original toys is very rare so a 3p masterpiece-style version would be cool even with the square heads. The CW version is also not very appealing to me.
 
Transformers G2 MENASOR (Motormaster, Dragstrip, Breakdown, Wildrider, Deadend) | eBay

 

The toy set almost feels like an upgrade to the normal releases.

 

Yeah it does. Extra paint apps and line work. Very cool.

 

After watching the review above,is there any major difference between the Toon version of Motor Master and the Toy version of him? I know,I know Gravestone isn't out yet but I'm just asking in general.

 

They waiting for their big bro before this Big Bird see and stomp them to death.  
XTB may need to hustle.

 

Isn't it about time that we get that after a month update on Gravestone that @ibot said last month?

 

The heads I’m not too jazzed with though. But I’m hoping someone will trade their G2 heads with my toy ones for some toy accuracy bonus.

Perhaps.

 

production is cancelled, now we are all stuck with 4 limb bots who are orphaned

 

theres tfcon in 11 days so safe to say we will see something then

Tentative Event Schedule for TFcon DC 2019

 

11 days? Soon.

 

I hope someone will raise the question about their deathsaurus. 2 years ago, they promised teasers of some kind. All we have now is an image of tiger breast. That doesn't count, guys