Right? These pants are ruined, man. On that broken shoulder, wondering if it might be prudent to pick up some silicone shock oil to apply to that plastic post / metal ring interface preemptively to help keep those parts from binding on each other. Like, you totally shouldn’t HAVE to do that on a $700 toy, but if it protects the investment, maybe some preventive medicine is worth it.
What type of battery is used on the lion arms? I've never seen that before and will it be easy to get replacements for it when it craps out? Lights on the legs aren't as bright. Toy companies should really forgo light gimmicks on these toys IMO.
I'd love to know what the price would be for this if they took out all the gimmcky stuff like the lights and the tiny pilots and the extra moving parts that let them sit in the lions, etc
the lights I could take or leave - at least in the lions. The shots we saw of the lit up combined head look quite nice and the eyes look fine even when off. The pilots though, I think add a lot at fairly minimal cost. I don’t care about them sitting in the lions (but I appreciate the effort) but the added value of them standing in front of a combined voltron for scale is worth it to me.
I would love it, LOVE...IT, if all these companies that did the light up eyes thing would make use of plugs and not batteries. There's no denying that glowing eyes add life to a figures but batteries are so temporary. Make these things plug into a wall so they could be on all the time and it would be golden!
while I think this WOULD increase the cost and wouldn’t work for every piece, something like this or the Haslab a Galactus it would be incredible in. Complete cosign on this idea.
I’ve seen a few third-party companies starting to experiment with a single USB rechargeable battery that powers the whole toy off one switch, so you can either run off the battery without needing to turn on a bazillion separate switches, or you can plug the figure in via USB and run it off the wall. I think it’s more an engineering challenge than a cost one at this point, given how dirt-cheap batteries and LEDs have gotten. No doubt it’ll become more prevalent as power routing solutions get simpler, but right now, you have to account for running a wiring harness throughout the entire figure. I can easily envision a near future where conductive paint or thin metal strips incorporated into the frame of the toy (rather than wires) becomes the norm.
How in the hell does the BW Voltron have everything articulation and not a double jointed elbow?! I was he would pull out the arm for double jointed action but nope...unless he missed that part.
well like @TenScaryMonkeys said the better situation would be plug in rechargeable these are sound awesome future ideas, possibilities are endless and i can't wait now i'm already over the Blitzway SoC comparisons, i can't wait to see him paired up with the other 15-16in Voltrons from Lego, PM, and Toynami.....I'm have to do that myself aren't i?
Oh noes. That wire getting cut is probably the worst. Again, toys like this don't really need light up functions. Based on the photos, this is just from the same owner. That sucks to have that issues from one toy.
Can you tell what that is in the yellow lion’s mouth? And…I’m assuming the yellow lion’s head is removable?? Bummer. But, we always hear more about the bad than we do about the good, so, hopefully the issues are relatively isolated.
Its true that bad QC gets reshared alot more. Hope we don't get such issues! Its the battery compartment that came loose.
Agree on the QC issues being posted more. I’d probably notice the ones in the above post, but there is tons of little stuff people post about that is never notice or go looking for. wondering if they made one big run and some of it just gets sent overseas and takes longer of if the US batch is truly a second run and might have some tweaks along the way.
Wow... That's not good. Battery is in the neck + lights is in the head + neck articulation = problems.... Need more space for thicker wires i guess? But if losing the light features will not be a huge problem for me... .... But if other QC issue like articulation or broken parts for something that cost $700 then yes... THAT IS A PROBLEM
Wow... you'd expect better QC especially considering the cost of it. Hopefully this is an isolated incident and not a wide spread issue. Though wasn't there already some issues with the prototype snapping too? That doesn't put out too much confidence in something of this magnitude. In terms of look, Blitzway Voltron combined looks awesome. Better articulation than the SoC. I agree that the head of the black lion looks phenomenally better too. However, the lion limbs are too lean looking and throws it off for me. Of course, it's a needed compromise that had to be made to have panels hide the limbs. So SoC still wins it here for me. But that's just my own personal taste and opinion. I'm hoping those that got it will not encounter these issues. That's it's just an isolated incident and nothing more.
