I’m going to try heating it up and holding it closed to see if it helps. I’ll let you know how it goes.

 

Results are in and it appears to have worked. Blast of high heat from blow dryer to his back hinge for 30-60 seconds (hot enough to hurt your hands if you blow from the wrong angle) while squeezing the chest down then put in front of fan to cool it off while squeezing for another 30-60 seconds. Did it twice, not sure if it is permanent fix but his chest is level now.

 

Cool, glad to see it work.

 

Yup! Super easy fix with a hairdryer and thank you!  

I just pushed the protruding bumper part in, and hit it with a 1875 watt hair dryer on high for a few seconds, held it place, then put it up to a cool fan, repeated until there was no more protrusion.

After that, it was still a crooked when connected...

I then applied hairdryer heat the the entire back part that connects the chest to the abs a few seconds, little on the front, little on the back side, then I connected the chest and held it in place and hit it with a fan.

You may have to repeat a few times to get the desired results.

Boom! like defect was never there! (I regret not taking a before pic   )

 

I wish I could somehow justify this purchase but I just cant. I only buy toys for my kids and they just are not interested in a dead prime that they cant really play with much. But yeah with that table above, wow does it make a great display piece

 

Why can't they play with it though? It's a toy still and there was that one episode where Prime was a zombie

 

What part of your bumper was protruding? Just need to know if there is another area I need to check. Only thing I noticed on mine was the crooked chest when connected.

 

I don't have a pic from my figure, but @OCProwl posted it and I circled the part in his pic, it should be level with the right side.

WFC Earthrise Leader Alternate Universe Optimus Prime

 

Then I had to torch this section circled in red from this pic from @ziltama to do final adjustments.

Hope this is helping out fellow collectors.

 

Thanks. Yeah mine does have the issue on the first pic but I dont think it is effecting anything. I'll go back and check. My issue that I fixed was the 2nd pic.

 

@ziltama pink and blue arrows are correct. At least on my copy.

 

Even though I am expecting UPS to pick mine up today I decided to take him out and give this a try. I feel bad for returning it if it is such an easy fix ya know?

Well, somehow it made things worse. I think it's slightly more level, but now both the right and left don't really want to stay pegged in and his torso feels looser overall. Definitely not interested in keeping one this way for $50 so just going to hope the 2nd one is correct.

 

It was still a ymmv fix... I hope it works out on the return. It's a nice figure!

I was bummed out that @richacm220 said he got 2 (and others that got defective) and both his were sour... I got lucky i was able to fix mine.

Yeah by all means, make Amazon/Hasbro fix it.

 

It's messed up with the QC  .

 

Yeah totally agree. It was worth a try anyway! And it is a nice figure. Really an amazing Optimus Prime mold, I love the original one.

 

Mine just shipped, said it should be here tomorrow! Previously said it would be August 8th-28th.

Hopefully mine doesn't have the chest issue (My regular release does)

 

Mine had the same issue as Deathx360, with a misaligned grill pin. I punched the pin and confirmed one side was off, looked just like his pic.
Before taking the pin out, when folded together the inner chest was misaligned like the area circled in HunterGreen2005's post.
I popped the pin, used a drill and very carefully (and slowly) re-drilled to correct the alignment, then reassembled. Now that the hole is corrected, the panels fold together flush, and I no longer have the misalignment issue.
I did not have to heat/correct the back pin.
I'm wondering if there may be 3 types of AUOPs out there:
1 Correctly pinned / no problem AUOPs
2 Misaligned grill pin AUOPs (like mine and Deathx360's)
3 Misaligned back pin AUOPs

 

My replacement Prime should be here Tuesday. I still need to ship my defective one back but I may wait to see how this one looks first.

 

they think he is dead when he is gray and even when he came back alive for that one ep, Dark Awakening ( aka a zombie as you put it ) he was regular colors not gray and black when he died in the movie. So they dont want to play with a dead prime.

 

My replacement Prime has shipped. It should be here tomorrow. Hopefully everyone's ship soon too.